The Elder Scrolls Online will soon receive the new expansion chapter Greymoor. There you will face vampires. But the bloodsuckers are not just pale, long-toothed shadow creepers. A new trailer and a statement from the developers bring more information to light about your enemies.
What are the enemies in Greymoor? At the latest since the impressive cinematic trailer for Greymoor, we know that vampires will haunt Skyrim in the upcoming expansion. Therefore, there have also been adjustments to the vampires and gameplay if you are a vampire yourself. Since these adjustments seem to contradict the established vampire lore, some fans even took to the barricades.
However, the developers seem to have put a lot of work into the “new” concepts of vampires and explained this further in a blog post. There was also another trailer, in which the vampires hint at their sinister plans.
New details about the story in the trailer
How well (or poorly) the developer has succeeded in revamping the bloodsuckers can be seen here in a new trailer. In it, no one is actually safe from the bloodsuckers.
In the trailer, you will see among other things:
- a horde of lesser vampires tearing apart an Argonian in the depths of the Blackreach.
- a voice announcing the return of vampires from millennia of exile
- vampires conducting creepy experiments in dark laboratories.
- a kind of machine that somehow “changes” living beings with blood-red energy.
- a “legion” of creepy, faceless constructs that seem to be just waiting to be unleashed.
- in another scene, you see a particularly large construct smashing through a massive door. These things are probably boss enemies
- large beings are generally trending. A gigantic dark elf is strangling a warrior and an even larger giant is mowing down weak people with an axe.
- the trailer ends with an impressive parade of heavily armored vampire warriors standing in formation before their leader, the fearsome vampire lord.
These were the challenges for the designers: Vampires are among the most well-known fantasy monsters and have been present in the Elder Scrolls games for years. Therefore, one quickly has an image in mind when hearing the word “vampire”, namely a pale fiend with fangs.
However, as a player, you do not want to keep fighting the same bloodsuckers again and again. Therefore, the designers and writers at Zenimax have come up with a few ideas on the topic. This was especially a challenge for senior writer Randy Begel:
“I think I’ve now written at least five different pieces of vampire-themed content for ESO. So I’m quite experienced, but I’m slowly running out of synonyms for ‘blood’.”
Randy Begel, Senior Writer at ZeniMax
With Greymoor, the developers primarily wanted to present the vampires as unique new enemies while still keeping the vampire theme. The entire expansion is meant to feel darker and more ominous due to the vampires. This is especially true for the massive areas in the depths.
But whatever the vampires are planning: For our author Jürgen Horn, they are mainly there to die on the blades of his Khajiit nightblade. Because everyone knows that there is no room for both Khajiit and vampires in the shadows!
