Online:Places

Tamriel divided into regions colored by alliance

There are a large variety of places in The Elder Scrolls Online spread across Tamriel and beyond. This page lists the most important places sorted by type, as well as a list of zones. See Maps for an overview of the icons used for different types of places, and for other available maps in the game.

Place List[edit]

Battlefields — Sites of ancient and contemporary battles
Beacons — Watchtowers, lighthouses, and other free-standing signal towers
Bodies of Water — Lakes, rivers and seas
Camps — Bandit camps, guard camps, and other temporary settlements
Caves — Root hollows, lava chambers, ice caves, and all other types of natural cavern
Cemeteries — Graveyards, necropoli and other places where the (un)dead dwell
Cities — Major settlements in each zone
Crypts — Tombs, barrows, and other underground burial sites
Daedric Ruins — Ancient shrines to the Daedric Princes
Docks — Harbors, boatyards and shipwreck sites
Dwemer Ruins — The ruins of ancient Dwemer cities
Elven Ruins — The ruins of ancient Ayleid and Aldmeri cities
Estates — Countryside houses, homesteads and other estates
Farms — Plantations and farmsteads
Forts — Towers, forts, keeps and other fortified locations
Gates — Milegates, passes, and other guarded thoroughfares
Great Lifts — Dwemer mechanisms connecting the surface with Blackreach
Groves — Glades, marshes, oases and other natural wildernesses
Landmarks — Other miscellaneous locations
Mines — Mining establishments and settlements
Realms — Places which exist outside of Nirn
Ruins — Nordic ruins, Yokudan ruins, and other ruins of contemporary civilization
Sewers — City sewerage systems
Ships — In-service, under construction, and scuttled ships
Strongholds — Major locations in Coldharbour visited during the Main Quest
Telvanni Towers — Wizard Towers of House Telvanni
Towns — Towns, villages, and other permanent settlements

Places by Gameplay[edit]

Arenas — Round-based challenges
Delves — Minor open-world dungeons
Dungeons — Locations with a high concentration of enemies
Explorable Locations — Major locations that lack a quest objective
Giant Camps — Locations which require you to eat mammoth cheese to mark as complete
Group Bosses — Locations of overland world bosses
Group Delves — Small, instanced dungeons designed for groups
Group Dungeons — Large, instanced dungeons designed for groups
Points of Interest — Locations which explore the lore and characters of a zone
Public Dungeons — Large open-world dungeons designed for groups
Quest Hubs — Places with an associated quest objective
Reachman Camps — Locations which require you to pray at the shrine to mark as complete
Striking Locales — Landmarks required for Exploration Achievements
Trials — Large, instanced raid dungeons designed for groups of 12
Unmarked Locations — Major overworld locations that don't have their own map marker
Worldspaces — Locations which exist outside of the main zones and can only be accessed during certain quests

Alliance War and Battlegrounds[edit]

Artifact Gates — Gates used to restrict access to Scroll Temples
Artifact Spawns — Altars where Volendrung can spawn
AvA Towns — Capturable settlements in Cyrodiil
Battlegrounds — Instanced areas for small-scale PvP
Border Keeps — The Alliance entry areas into Cyrodiil
Keeps — Strategic military fortifications in Cyrodiil
Milegates — Destructible border checkpoints in Cyrodiil
Outposts — Minor military installations in Cyrodiil
Scroll Temples — Temples built to hold the Elder Scrolls in Cyrodiil
Imperial Districts — The battle-torn residential and commercial areas of the Imperial City

Utility and Services[edit]

Ayleid Wells — Fonts of Aetherial power which grant a 10-minute health buff
Crafting Sites — Special Crafting Stations for creating item sets with specific properties
Event Hubs — Locations relating to special events
Mundus Stones — Magical stones which grant special passive abilities
Player Houses — Instanced locations that can be purchased and decorated
Services — Banks, Stores, Guildhalls, Inns, Stables, Transport and other services
Wayshrines — Access points to the fast-travel system

Minor Locations[edit]

Ancestral Tombs — Unmarked locations scattered across Vvardenfell
Border Crossings — Locations where it is possible to cross between zones on foot
Buildings — Homes, Barracks, Houses of Worship, and other important buildings
Museums — Places with special collection tasks
Trophy Vaults — Loot locations found only in Imperial City
Out-of-Bounds Locations — Unmarked locations across Tamriel that are typically inaccessible

World Events[edit]

Abyssal Geysers — Wave-based group events found only on Summerset
Dolmens — Summoning locations for Molag Bal's Dark Anchors
Dragonscours — Locations where dragon hunting group events can occur
Edifices — Points of entry for Bastion Nymic
Harrowstorms — Wave-based group events in the Reach and Western Skyrim
Volcanic Vents — Wave-based group events on High Isle and Galen

Zones[edit]

Aldmeri Dominion[edit]

Auridon — The second-largest island in the Summerset Isles and the location of Firsthold, one of the largest Aldmeri cities in the world. [1]
Grahtwood — A large region deep in the jungles of Valenwood, and the location of the Aldmeri Dominion's capital, Elden Root. [2]
Greenshade — A large region of western Valenwood, lush with life under its canopy with rivers coursing through the land. [3]
Khenarthi's Roost — A small island off the coast of Elsweyr inhabited by both Khajiit and Maormer, named for the Khajiiti goddess Khenarthi. [4]
Malabal Tor — A region deep in the jungles of northwestern Valenwood, where little light reaches the forest floor. [5]
Reaper's March — A region connecting the jungles of Valenwood and the rolling plains of Elsweyr. [6]

Daggerfall Covenant[edit]

Alik'r Desert — A region along the northern coast of Hammerfell. [7]
Bangkorai — A region connecting the northern reaches of Hammerfell with the east of High Rock. [8]
Betnikh — A small island off the southern tip of High Rock, with steep cliffs and a lush, fertile interior. [9]
Glenumbra — A region in High Rock covering the entire peninsula that separates Iliac Bay from the Eltheric Ocean. [10]
Rivenspire — The northern region of High Rock. [11]
Stormhaven — The south-central region of High Rock. [12]
Stros M'Kai — A desert island off the coast of Hammerfell. [13]

Ebonheart Pact[edit]

Bal Foyen — A small coastal zone neighboring Stonefalls in mainland Morrowind. [14]
Bleakrock Isle — A small, barren island in the sea northwest of Morrowind, just to the south of Solstheim. [15]
Deshaan — A region in southern Morrowind. [16]
Eastmarch — The easternmost hold in Skyrim. [17]
The Rift — The southeastern hold of Skyrim. [18]
Shadowfen — The northwestern region of Black Marsh. [19]
Stonefalls — A zone in central Morrowind. [20]

Neutral and Disputed[edit]

Coldharbour — Molag Bal's realm of Oblivion. [21]
Craglorn — A region situated in northeastern Hammerfell between Bangkorai and Cyrodiil. [22]
Cyrodiil — The central province of Tamriel and home of the Imperials, who stand alone in the Alliance War. [23]
Imperial City — The central city and capital of Cyrodiil and the former Empire. (map)

Chapter Zones[edit]

Apocrypha — Hermaeus Mora's realm of Oblivion. [24]
Artaeum — A mystical island, home to the Psijic Order. [25]
Blackreach: Greymoor Caverns — A cavern system located in Blackreach beneath Western Skyrim. [26]
Blackwood — A swampy southern region located along the banks of the Lower Niben. [27]
High Isle — The largest island of the Systres Archipelago. [28]
Northern Elsweyr — A tropical province in southern Tamriel that is home to the Khajiit. [29]
Summerset — A large island off the southwestern coast of mainland Tamriel. [30]
Telvanni Peninsula — A region between the Inner Sea and Padomaic Ocean in mainland Morrowind. [31]
Vvardenfell — A large island located in Morrowind's Inner Sea. [32]
Western Skyrim — A Nordic kingdom in Skyrim which was added in the Greymoor Chapter. [33]

Story DLC Zones[edit]

Blackreach: Arkthzand Cavern — The southwestern cavern of the Blackreach cave system, located beneath the Reach. [34]
Clockwork City — A mechanical realm created by Sotha Sil, one of the living gods of Morrowind. [35]
The Deadlands — Mehrunes Dagon's realm of Oblivion. [36]
Fargrave — A demiplane of Oblivion containing a city. [37]
Galen — The northernmost island of the Systres Archipelago. [38]
Gold Coast — A region situated in western Colovia, between Hammerfell and Malabal Tor. [39]
Hew's Bane — A peninsula in southern Khefrem on the south coast of Hammerfell. [40]
Murkmire — A region situated in southernmost Black Marsh, south of Shadowfen. [41]
The Reach — An area ruled by the Reachmen from their capital city of Markarth. [42]
Southern Elsweyr — A tropical region in southern Tamriel that covers the Quin'rawl Peninsula. [43]
Wrothgar — A region situated in northeastern High Rock, north of Stormhaven. [44]