As its name reveals, The Gates of Oblivion - The Elder Scrolls Online's next year-long adventure - will bring back a location from days of Elder Scrolls gone by: Oblivion. Or, more specifically, TES IV's The Deadlands. One of many planes of Oblivion in the RPG games series' lore, the fiery hellscape will feature in the MMORPG's expansion in a big way - but it's not the only location from the Elder Scrolls' history that'll be making an appearance.
"Because this is 800 years in the past, it feels different," ESO creative director Rich Lambert tells us about The Deadlands in an interview. "It is very different than what you could expect with Oblivion, but we've still got that same sense of nostalgia that we've had in previous years. So, The Deadlands will feel iconic - it's that craggy hellscape, if you will.
"Then the Blackwood chapter," - one of the year-long adventure's four quarterly content installments - "in and of itself, has pockets of very familiar places. Leyawiin is one of the main cities that you'll get to go and explore. It feels very similar. Then, as you progress east through the zone towards Shadowfen, you're going to get to go to Gideon."
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