ESO New Life Festival Event

The New Life Festival Event returns to ESO in 2025, to celebrate the coming of another new year! The Event begins on December 18th and will run until January 6th next year. While the Event is live, players can enjoy an 100% Passive EXP boost and collect several new rewards! The goal of the Event is to introduce players to the different ways ESO Races celebrate the coming of the New Year!

How to Participate in New Life Festival Event

To participate in the Event accept the free Crown Store Event Quest: “The New Life Festival”. The quest will guide you to the Event NPC Breda, in the zone of Eastmarch, South of the Capital Windhelm. You can find Breda at the Enchanted Snow Globe Home Location.

When you complete this short, introductory quest, you will unlock Event related Daily Quests. The quests will send you all around Tamriel and introduce you to the different ways each playable race is celebrating the New Year!

The first time you complete the “The New Life Festival” Quest you unlock “Breda’s Bottomless Mead Mug” Memento. While the Event is live all players earn a permanent(passive) 100% Experience Boost. There is no need to use the Mug for the Bonus anymore! The EXP Boost also stacks with other sources(non-event) of extra EXP, which makes the New Life Festival Event the perfect period to level up your characters or create new Alts!

New Life Festival Event Daily Quests in ESO

There are in several Daily Quests you can complete every day while the Event is live. Each Quest represents one of the playable ESO Races. You can accept nine from Breda, one from Petronius Galenus for the Imperial Race and eight more from Anicus Novius! You can find Petronius and Anicus near Breda. The Quests are simple and fast to complete. Their tasks vary, from fishing to jumping into frozen water to collecting cooking materials. You can accept the following Quests from Breda:

1. Castle Charm Challenge – Breton Race

Perform in and around the Alcaire Castle in Stormhaven zone, alone or with other players(optional). You can perform where Revelers are gathered with the tools given to you by the quest.

2. Fish Boon Feast – Argonian Race

You have to fish one of each Histmuck Blobfin, Shadowfen Creeping Leech, Black Marsh Cucumber. Head to the South-East Shadowfen zone and fish in New Life Fishing Holes to catch the three different types of Fish. Once you have all three, visit Gentle-Heart in Hissmir Ruins to deliver them.

3. Lava Foot Stomp – Dark Elf Race

Visit the Watch House, Fish Stink Tavern, The Ebony Flask in Davon’s Watch and the Hlaalu House in Ebonheart to dance! Then return to Breda to complete the quest.

4. Mud Ball Merriment – High Elf Race

Throw mud balls at ten NPC or Players in the Auridon zone. Get into the Skywatch Manor inside the city and throw a mud ball at one of the three Alliance Ambassadors.

5. Stonetooth Bash – Orc Race

Matron Borbuga in Stonetooth Fortress, Betnikh, will ask you to retrieve two Stonetooth Mystery Meat and one Betnikh Honeycomb. You can get the items from wolves(meat) and wasps(honeycomb) in the adjacent areas. Return the items to the NPC, eat, drink and show your “appreciation“.

6. Signal Fire Sprint – Redguard Race

Talk to Aubatha in Bergama, Alik’r Desert zone to start the challenge. Light the four signal fires before the time runs out.

7. The Trial of Five-Clawed Guile – Khajjit Race

Talk to Tumira outside Rawl’kha in Reaper’s March zone to start the challenge. Open the three locked Event chests before the time runs out.

8. Snow Bear Plunge – Nord Race

Jump into frozen water from Cub’s Tumble, Horker’s Drop and Dead Man’s Fall spots around the Windhelm city in the Eastmarch zone. After each jump you are afflicted with a Freezing Status Effect. Sit next to the fire to make it disappear faster.

9. War Orphan’s Sojourn – Wood Elf Race

Talk to Ormurrel at the Temple of the Eight in Grahtwood zone and choose between donating gold or killing encroaching wildlife. You can choose to do both.

From Petronius Galenus you can accept the Old Life Observance Daily Quest for the Imperial Race! He will ask you to light a candle at an Old Life Shrine in a random zone and write a message to one who passed on. Additionally will ask you to deliver messages from Imperial Refuges(optional). Visit the Shrine, light a candle, write your message and burn it to complete the quest. Return to Petronius for your reward.

From Anicus Novius you can accept the following Quests:

• Cold War: Deliver snowball Justice to a handful of unlucky targets in Windhelm.
• Food for New Life: Whip up some tasty meals for the esteemed elders of Auridon.
• The Dragon’s Hoard: Steal treasure from a dragon lurking in Reaper’s March.
• The Hunt for Dakoi: Help an angler in Shadowfen track down a rare fish.
• The Mudman: The Wood Elves in Grahtwood have some strange traditions, don’t they? One might think they do it just to mess with outsiders.
• Betnikh’s Boon: Orc Smash!
• The Judgment of Garth: The Rift threatens to be consumed by the hungry Lord of Bears. Can you replace the ornery ursine.
• The Desert and the Sea: Bring seawater to the distant, landlocked tombs of the ancient Yokudans to bring their spirits peace.

What are the New Life Festival Event Rewards in ESO?

Every time you complete one of the Event Daily Quests you earn a New Life Festival Box. The first time you complete an Event Daily Quest every day you also earn three(3) Event Tickets. The New Life Festival boxes can contain various rewards:

• motifs
• collectibles
• recipes
• Evergreen Outfit Style pages
• Morningstar Frostwear Style Pages
• special Holiday Writs
• furnishings
• NEW Fish Boon Pioneer style pages

What are Holiday Writs in New Life Festival?

Holiday Writs are special Deep Winter and Imperial Charity Writs that all players can complete. You can trade them with other players for gold or craft them yourself. Upon completion each type of Holiday Writ offers special rewards. They ask you to craft a simple and easy furniture. You can buy the recipes for these items from every laborer NPC(Carpenter, Blacksmith etc) around crafting zones in every city.

• Completing a Deep Winter Charity Writ will reward you with a Skaal Explorer’s Bundle, that contains a random Skaal Explorer’s Outfit style page.
• Completing an Imperial Charity Writ will reward you with a Refugee’s Gift, that contains a random Rkindaleft Dwarven Weapon style Page.

Completing twelve(12) of any writ will unlock the “Newly Charitable” achievement and the Crystallfrost Skin.

Impresario During the New Life Festival Event

The Impresario is back with every fragment from all of 2025’s quarterly event rewards. The New Life Festival this year is also the first and last chance to earn the Wildgrown Chapel of Julianos House! During the Event you can purchase from the Impresario:

• All Stonewisp of Truth and Law Pet Fragments
• All Fragments for Logical Rune Extraction Customized Action
• All Fragments for Robes of Truth and Law Costume
• All Fragments for Law of Julianos Dwarven Spider Mount
• All Fragments for the Wildgrown Chapel of Julianos House
• Group Repair Kits
• Companion Guild Commendations
• Bound Fish Boon Pioneer Style Pages
• New Life Festival Grab Bag

The Roseblood Bat Pet is the new Morphable reward of 2026, that will replace the Stonewisp of Truth and Law Pet! From the Impresario’s Assistant, Philius Dormier, you can also buy:

• All fragments for the Unstable Morpholith Pet
• All fragments for the Dagonic Quasigriff Mount
• All fragments for the Soulfire Dragon Illusion Pet
• All fragments for the Daggerfall Paladin outfit
• All fragments for the Passion Dancer’s Blossom Pet
• All fragments for the Passion Dancer Garment Costume

Indrik Vendor during the New Life Festival Event

Finally the Indrik Vendor will have available for purchase:

• Feathers for the Nascent Indrik Mount
• Berries for the Pure Snow Indrik Mount
• Berries for the Crimson Indrik mount
• Frost-Light Indrik Pet
• Rosethorn Indrik Pet

Enjoy the New Life Festival Event and Happy New Year!!