Face down the horrors of Tamriel, including Lord Hollowjack himself, for special in-game rewards during 2024’s Witches Festival in-game event!
This year’s Witches Festival begins next Thursday, October 24 and runs until Wednesday, November 6 at 10AM EST. During this spoopy seasonal event, you can claim ghoulishly good event-specific rewards including Plunder Skulls, XP boosts, Event Tickets, and more!
During the Witches Festival, all adventurers will enjoy a passive 100% boost to XP gain at all times. However, the Witchmother’s Whistle, once the source of this bonus (and a skeletal transformation!), is still available. To collect the whistle and down ladles of hag’s brew for frightful fun, simply follow the steps listed below:
- Open the Crown Store and acquire the free quest “The Witchmother's Bargain.”
- You can also pick up this quest by speaking with the Crow Caller, who you’ll find outside of each Olyve's Brewery in Stonefalls, Glenumbra, or Auridon.
- Complete the introductory quest to receive the Witchmother's Whistle tool.
- You won’t need to acquire the Witchmother’s Whistle if you finished the quest in a previous year’s event.
- Blow the whistle to summon the “Witchmother's Cauldron,” from which you can drink to polymorph yourself into a spooky scary skeleton.
- You cannot summon the Cauldron in Cyrodiil.
Drink the witches’ brew straight from the cauldron
A Wicked Harvest
During the Witches Festival event, whenever you defeat a boss monster, you’ll be offered a Plunder Skull container in addition to any regular rewards.
When you open a Plunder Skull, you have the chance to receive the following items:
- Alchemy reagents
- A festival-themed furnishing recipe
- A festival-themed provisioning recipe
- A complete festival-themed furnishing
- A festival-themed sellable treasure
- A small chance for one of the following:
- A Hollowjack style item
- A Dremora style item
- Worms, Crawlers, Guts, or Insect Parts
What’s more, whenever you fell a unique boss type for the first time each day, you’ll be rewarded instead with a special Dremora Plunder Skull that contains some of the above items in addition to a chance at one of the following:
- A Witches Festival Writ
- A Glenmoril Treasure Map
- A Glenmoril armor outfit style page
- A Crowborne Hunter outfit style page
- NEW Plunder Skull Blunder Memento Runebox
- NEW Senchal Horned Owl pet fragment
- NEW tradeable style page for the Eltheric Revenant outfit style
Both varieties of Plunder Skull are offered by arena bosses, incursion bosses (from Dark Anchors, Harrowstorms, Volcanic Vents, etc.), delve bosses, final dungeon bosses, Trial bosses, public dungeon bosses, world bosses, and Tho’at Replicanum in Infinite Archive (new for this year!).
Perilous plunder, yours for the taking
There are two additional Plunder Skulls acquirable by those brave (or foolish) enough to face the worst of the Witches Festival's horrors.
The first of these frightful fiends, the Crowborne Horror, returns to Tamriel to bedevil its denizens. To locate and slay this living nightmare, acquire the daily quest “Plucking the Crow” by speaking with Witchmother Taerma, located inside Olyve’s Brewery and at every Impresario tent found throughout Tamriel.
For your courage, the first time you overcome the Crowborne Horror and turn in your quest each day, you’ll be rewarded with a Dremora Plunder Skull. This creepy container has a small chance to grant you an incredible offering of tradeable Witches Festival valuables instead of regular Dremora Plunder Skull items, including:
- The FULL style book for the Dremora motif
- A folio of ALL Glenmoril treasure maps
- All 10 Senchal Horned Owl Pet Fragments
- Runebox: Plunder Skull Blunder
- All of the Eltheric Revenant Outfit style pages
If even the Crowborne Horror does not daunt you, you may test that fearlessness against the master of monstrosity and sovereign of spookiness, Lord Hollowjack himself. You can acquire the quest to challenge him from the Priest Maxien, located inside Olyve’s Brewery. Once you’ve completed this quest at least once on a given character, you can take it again on subsequent days and skip ahead to challenge Hollowjack directly.
Should you emerge victorious against the Daedric Lord, you’ll find the quest reward each day grants a special Dremora Plunder Skull unique to Lord Hollowjack. It has a chance to contain a jackpot like that from the Crowborne Horror, and it awards a special achievement and trophy furnishing to commemorate your victory. A matching collectible bust furnishing can sometimes be acquired from looting Lord Hollowjack.
Impresario & Event Tickets
During the Witches Festival, you can collect two Event Tickets from the first boss you defeat each day, earning up to 28 tickets by the end of the event. But don’t forget: You can only hold up to 12 Event Tickets at a time.
For this event, the Impresario will stock the following items:
- All three Molag Bal Illusion Imp pet fragments:
- Anchor Chain Fragment
- Dark Anchor Pinion
- Effigy of the Dominator
- The first two fragments for the Haven of the Five Companions house:
- Varen Aquilarios’s Key
- Lyris Titanborn’s Key
- Eltheric Revenant outfit style
- Senchal Horned Owl pet fragments
- Assorted spooky Witches Festival-themed furnishings
- Webs, Cone furnishing
- Hollowjack Lantern, Ouroboros furnishing
- Specimen Jar, Spare Brain furnishing
- Ruby Candlefly Gathering furnishing
- Vampiric Lamp, Azure Tall furnishing
- Vampiric Lightpost, Azure Single furnishing
- Vampiric Container, Yellow Liquid furnishing
- Group Repair Kit
- Companion Guild Commendations
- Witches Grab Bag (This is purchasable only if you haven’t yet collected all the items contained within)
- Skeletal Marionette memento
- Spectre Mask collectible
- There are four variations of this collectible
- Apple-Bobbing Cauldron fragment
- Throw Bones memento fragment
- Marshmallow Toasty Treat emote
- Witch's Bonfire Dust
- Ghastly Visitation memento
- Witch-Tamed Bear-Dog pet fragment
- Witchmother's Servant outfit style pages
- Tome of Forbidden Appetites memento
- Ghost Netch pet
- Grave Dancer Weapon style pages
Of note: The Witches Festival will be your first opportunity to begin gathering the fragments for the final event morphing collectible of 2024, the Haven of the Five Companions house!
Haven of the Five Companions morphing collectible
Additionally, the Impresario’s colleague, Nenulaure the Indrik Vendor, has the following items available for purchase using Event Tickets:
- Nascent Indrik Feathers
- Pure Snow Indrik Berries
- Crimson Indrik Berries
- Frost-Light Indrik pet
- Rosethorn Indrik pet
Lastly, the Impresario’s Assistant is offering the following, which you can acquire with Event Tickets:
- All three Unstable Morpholith fragments
- Deadlands Flint
- Rune-Etched Striker
- Smoldering Bloodgrass Tinder
- All three Dagonic Quasigriff fragments
- Smoke-Wreathed Gryphon Feather
- Black Iron Bit
- Bridle Black Iron Stirrups
- All three Soulfire Dragon Illusion Imp pet fragments
- Hallowed Hourglass Basin
- Illuminated Dragon Scroll
- Kvatchian Incense
- All three fragments for the Daggerfall Paladin outfit
- Blessed Rubedite Enamel
- Captured Dragonflame
- Sanctified Metalworking Tools
It’s Tamriel’s most frightful time of year, and only brave heroes can bring light to the shadows of the season. Will you step up to strike down Lord Hollowjack? You’ll be rewarded with XP boosts, collectibles, and other boons for your efforts during the 2024 Witches Festival in-game event. Share your spooky stories with us via X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook.
The Witches Festival in-game event begins Thursday, October 24 at 10AM EDT, and runs until Wednesday, November 6 at 10AM EST.