Second Era of Scribing, Tutorial Quest

Quest giver: Adept Irnard Rirnil
Location: West Weald, Skingrad

  • Unlocks the Scribing Altar
  • Grants you a Grimoire: Wield Soul and three Scripts: Magic Damage, Lingering Torment and Breach.
  • Furnishing: How to Scribe

1. You can activate the “Second Era of Scribing” quest from the Scribing collectible in the Upgrades section of the Collections menu or you can locate Adept Irnard Rirnil in Skingrad near the Mages Guild. He will ask you to explore some kind of magical anomaly in the Sunnamere Study and find Votary Nahlia. He will then create a portal for you.

 

2. Votary Nahlia and you will enter Sunnamere Study to find a portal flowing with raw magical energy. She will try to stabilize the portal as you interact with the Unstable Voids, The Flickering Image and a Torn note on the ground. After traveling through The “Unstable Portal To a Distant Place” you will fight your way through a corridor and you can either kill or skip the “Animated Archmagus” miniboss at the end.

 

3. As you enter The Scholarium Main Hall you find unstable magic flowing from the doors to the Altar. Your task is to close the doors as Nahlia tries to stabilize the Crystal at the Altar. As you close the unmarked door, you will hear a bird flying out of it. Onto the next step in the Scribing questline!

4. Votary Nahlia accidentally smashes the Focusing Crystal, causing The Crow to fly down and tell you to quickly find a new one. You will find a new crystal in the east wing behind three animated enemies. The crow asks you to place the new focusing crystal into the empty locus.

 

5. After placing the crystal, you will unlock your first Grimoire: Wield Soul skill alongside three scripts: Magic Damage, Lingering Torment and Breach. The Crow now asks you to attune the altar which means this is where the actual ESO Scribing Tutorial starts.

6. Once you have completed the tutorial on how to use the Scribing Altar, you are told that Scribing was created by the Archmage Ulfsild in collaboration with powerful beings called Luminaries of Magic and you shall inherit Ulfsild’s legacy. Votary Nahlia let’s you know that are now the resident expert of Scribing and need to learn everything about it and the Luminaries. You will also receive a book called “How to Scribe” which will be added to your Collections menu as a furnishing.