2 pm Eastern sounds great!

Post Writhing Fortress observations:

I took a couple of other characters to Solstice to check what happens. A character that has done the Western quest line gets the opportunity to do the Writhing Fortress while Phase 3 lasts. A character that has not done it can enter the Eastern sector, but the portal into the Fortress is not present for them until they do the western quests.

Finishing the Fortress lets you operate the lens one last time and turn it off, having done its job. Characters who have not taken that step will still see the beam (except for bugs).

I believe that the "hole in the wall" visual without the portal to the Fortress is what persists after phase 3 ends.

The seven-day period for the Fortress had 7 days and 22 hours remaining when I logged off EU! NA's period had not yet started. NA opens 5 hours after EU because of time zones. I'll want to know if the Fortress closes the same way, or at the same time on both. No way for me to check Xbox or PS, of course.

That's interesting. Jerric was able to enter the fortress having done the event quests but no zone quests. When he got out there was a blue portal to get back in, and the hole/tunnel in the wall now takes him to Eastern Solstice.

I'm going to try with a character who has not done the event quests.



EDIT: New character was able to enter Eastern Solstice through the gold tunnel and enter the fortress through the blue portal. In the fortress speaking to Keshu the Black Fin gave him the option to join the Writhing Wall event which would start the Support the Fellowship quests. So it seems prudent to do the event quests first.

This post has been edited by Grits: Nov 15 2025, 01:05 AM

On NA Jerric ended up in a bugged Western Portal (Infernium not moving) and traveled to a player who was in a working instance. His quest updated. He charged ahead hoping to find something to fight. His quest updated again. He hit the grapple points with deadly accuracy and sailed over the former battlefield, finding only bodies. Stormed the final gate – and his quest updated. He finished the event's ultimate battle without a single fight. Sigh.

Wow.

I've been ill with Covid the last few days, still not great, so I was a little sad that I was likely going to miss going through the Fortress in time.

Just seen this in the dev tracker on the official forums! As an apology for the depressing state of the event, they're giving everyone 8,000 seals of endeavour (8,000!) on day one of December, and bringing the week long event back in early 2026 hopefully bug free, for those that haven't done it.

Link: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/di...ll-event-update

Really impressed with that response!

WOO HOO!!!!!

Sorry to hear about the covid, Burnt. Hope it's not too bad and you recover fully and quickly.

That is an excellent response to the situation. Thank you for sharing it! I will certainly take NA Jerric back in for the do-over week. Because he wants a fight and because I want the lead for a vitrified soul thingy furnishing. (It looks cool.)

I hope your recovery goes swiftly, Burnt. Sorry to hear you have been ill.

Also, 8,000 Endeavors! Wow. That does ease the sting of all that blue-tinted nonsense.

Get better Burnt!

I didn't even know the event had some bad rep. That's nice that Zeni's giving out 8,000 seals.

But . . . What the hell are seals? Man, I've been gone for so long lol.

Introduced in 2021, seals of endeavor are a form of currency that you can spend in the Crown store for items there. Each day, the game offers 5 different simple tasks and you get some seals (typically 10 or 15) for each one you complete - up to 3 of the 5 so you can pick and choose among the 5 offered. Same thing on a weekly basis (resetting on Mondays) for 'weekly endeavors' except it is 1 of 3 tasks that you can complete, the tasks are more time consuming and you typically get 250 seals.

The tasks are designed to be pretty unobtrusive and I think they are. Buffy is a bit picky but she probably gets her three dailies 95% of the time, and her weekly one 99% of the time.

The other thing to note about Seals of Endeavor is that the things you can buy are all in the current Crown Crates. I.e. you don't have to gamble real money to get them if you have seals. Which is why they exist, so there isn't any item you can only get by gambling.

Ah I see. Awesome. I will indeed have to log back in. I remember having tons of furniture for my houses and left them. I want to go back and start playing again and decorating, and I think some of those gem items too I'll have to play to get. But those are incredibly rare.


I see.

Buffy was very pleasantly surprised to hear a voice line from Mirri that she's never heard before. The two elves helped kill a dragon in Southern Elsweyr (nothing new there) but after the dragon was dead and Buffy looted the corpse, Mirrie quipped, "I bet Mom would love a dragonskin rug!"

That is AWESOME!!!!!