ESO Scribing Quest Walkthrough Guide

Second Era of Scribing, Tutorial Quest

Quest giver: Adept Irnard Rirnil
Location: West Weald, Skingrad

• Unlocks the Scribing Altar
• Grants you a Grimoire: Wield Soul and three Scripts: Magic Damage, Lingering Torment and Breach.
• Furnishing: How to Scribe

1. You can activate the “Second Era of Scribing” scribing quest from the Scribing collectible in the Upgrades section of the Collections menu or you can locate Adept Irnard Rirnil in Skingrad near the Mages Guild. He will ask you to explore some kind of magical anomaly in the Sunnamere Study and find Votary Nahlia. He will then create a portal for you.

2. Votary Nahlia and you will enter Sunnamere Study to find a portal flowing with raw magical energy. She will try to stabilize the portal as you interact with the Unstable Voids, The Flickering Image and a Torn note on the ground. After traveling through The “Unstable Portal To a Distant Place” you will fight your way through a corridor and you can either kill or skip the “Animated Archmagus” miniboss at the end.

3. As you enter The Scholarium Main Hall you find unstable magic flowing from the doors to the Altar. Your task is to close the doors as Nahlia tries to stabilize the Crystal at the Altar. As you close the unmarked door, you will hear a bird flying out of it. Onto the next step in the ESO Scribing questline!

You need to close all The Scholarium doors

4. Votary Nahlia accidentally smashes the Focusing Crystal, causing The Crow to fly down and tell you to quickly find a new one. You will find a new crystal in the east wing behind three animated enemies. The crow asks you to place the new focusing crystal into the empty locus.

5. After placing the crystal, you will unlock your first Grimoire: Wield Soul skill alongside three scripts: Magic Damage, Lingering Torment and Breach. The Crow now asks you to attune the altar which means this is where the actual ESO Scribing Tutorial starts.

6. Once you have completed the tutorial on how to use the ESO Scribing Altar, you are told that Scribing was created by the Archmage Ulfsild in collaboration with powerful beings called Luminaries of Magic and you shall inherit Ulfsild’s legacy. Votary Nahlia let’s you know that are now the resident expert of Scribing and need to learn everything about it and the Luminaries. You will also receive a book called “How to Scribe” which will be added to your Collections menu as a furnishing.

You can now continue to the Wing of the Indrik Scribing questline!

The Wing of the Indrik Scribing Quest

Quest giver: Votary Nahlia
Location: The Scholarium

• Account upgrade: Sigil of the Luminary Indrik
• Unlocks the Scholarium Vendor, Chronicler Firandil.
• Stocks Chronicler Firandil with all of the Gold Road launch Grimoires.
• Allows Luminous Ink to rarely drop when defeating monsters.
• Unlocks Bound Focus Script: Healing, Bound Signature Script: Sage’s Remedy, Bound Affix Script: Resolve, Bound Affix Script: Off Balance and 3 Luminous Ink

1. True-Sight Lens and Focal Points

Talk to Votary Nahlia to start “The Wing of the Indrik” quest. The Crow will now take you under her wing and teach you how to use the True-Sight Lens as well as; how to break Luminary Wards and retrieve key fragments to enter the Luminary beings domains.

To open the sealed Indrik door you will need a key, which has been split into three fragments and those fragments are guarded by Luminary Wards in Auridon.

The quest takes place in Auridon.

2. Dispelling The Wards and The First Indrik Key Fragment

The First Indrik Key Fragment is near The Lady Mundus Stone in Auridon for the ESO Scribing system. Using the Focal Point will give you a 30 second “True-Sight Lens”-buff which reveals all the wards. As you dispel a ward, “True-Sight Lens”-buff is removed and you must use another focal point.

3. The Second Indrik Key Fragment

The Second Indrik Key Fragment is located in the Ondil (Delve) in Auridon. Dispel all three wards to collect the Key Fragment.

4. The Third Indrik Key Fragment

The Third Indrik Key Fragment is located on the Buraniim Isle in Auridon. Dispel all three wards to collect the Key Fragment.

5. Revealing the Door of the Indrik

Once you reach the top of the South Beacon you use all three fragments to reveal the door to the Wing of the Indrik in the ESO Scribing Scholarium.

6. Challenges of the Indrik

After placing the Fable on the Dais, the Indrik wants to learn what power means to you, the player. He presents you with four challenges and asks you to choose two that feel right for you.

• Challenge of the Anchor
  • Destroy A Dark Anchor in Auridon
• Challenge of Teamwork
  • Participate in a Battleground Match
• Challenge of Strength
  • Slay 15 Undead in Auridon
• Challenge of Cleansing
  • Defeat a Delve Boss in Auridon

7. A Wrong Righted

The Indrik tells that there is one final task before he lends you his power. To help a fawn against a hunter, he imbued the fawn with a wisps of his power which has made the chase unending. You must release the hunter and the fawn from their eternal chase before The Indrik lends you his strength.

8. Activating the Fountain of the Indrik

The Indrik now rewards you with the Sigil of the Luminary Indrik which you will use to activate the Fountain of the Indrik. Votary Nahlia introduces you to the Grimoire and Script Vendor Chronicler Firandil. She then rewards you with: Bound Focus Script: Healing, Bound Signature Script: Sage’s Remedy, Bound Affix Script: Resolve, Bound Affix Script: Off Balance and 3 Luminous Ink for the ESO Scribing system.

9. What to do after completing the Wing of the Indrik?

You have now unlocked the Scholarium Vendors, all Grimoires can be bought and Luminous Ink will start dropping when defeating monsters for the ESO Scribing system. Now you can choose which of the three script types you want to unlock first by deciding which wing to complete next:

• The Wing of the Gryphon – Focus scripts
• The Wing of the Dragon– Signature Scripts, Mages Guild Script Chase and Class Mastery Script Chase
• The Wing of the Netch – Affix Scripts

The Wing of the Gryphon Scribing Quest

Quest giver: Fable of the Gryphon
Location: The Scholarium

• Account upgrade: Sigil of the Luminary Gryphon
• Adds Focus Scripts as possible rewards from daily Delve quests, daily Mages Guild quests, and PvP Rewards for the Worthy.
• Unlocks a rotating selection of Focus Scripts on the Scholarium Vendor and the Infinite Archive Vendor.
• Skill style: Low Slash, Burnt Orange

1. Starting the Wing of the Gryphon questline

You start the Wing of the Gryphon quest by reading the Fable of the Gryphon in front of his Wing in the ESO Scribing area. Votary Llaren informs you that a snarling and yipping thief has stolen the pages from the Fable. On this questline you will get annotated pages one by one from the Gryphons companion The Fox. The quest takes place in The Rift.

2. The First Gryphon Key Fragment

You will find the The First Gryphon Key Fragment in The Rift, around Honric Tower. You also find out that the Fox was trying to protect his friend the Gryphon and has hidden the next pages near other wards.

3. The Second Gryphon Key Fragment

You will find the The Second Gryphon Key Fragment in Riften for the ESO Scribing quest.

4. The Third Gryphon Key Fragment

You will find the The Third Gryphon Key Fragment in the Broken Helm Hollow Delve in The Rift.

5. Revealing the Door of the Gryphon

Use all three fragments on the focus point and it will reveal the door to the Wing of the Gryphon. Note that the door is above ground, not inside the delve. Ulfsild has frozen the Gryphon and you must dispel the ward to release him from the spell.

6. Safeguards of the Gryphon

The Gryphon does not like challenges, riddles as the other Luminaries do and instead asks you to learn what it takes to shield those that do not have the strength to defend themselves. The Gryphon wants you to be a bulwark against the hordes and summons a list of six safeguard tasks for you to choose three from. You can talk to your companions in the Scholarium for tips.

Safeguard tasks

• Collect Aetherial Shards in Cyrodiil
  • Sarvarad Leed next to Alessia
• Collect Foxroot in the Rift
  • East of Riften
• Slay a Delve Boss in the Rift
  • The Rift Map
• Claim a phylactery Shard from a Lich in a Dungeon
  • Caluurion, Fang Lair
  • Mad Architect, Vaults of Madness
  • Nerien’eth, Crypt of Hearts II
  • Garron the Returned, Wayrest Sewers II
  • (Unconfirmed: Zelvraak the Unbreathing,  Graven Deep and Ondagore the Mad, Unhallowed Grave)
• Complete Thieves Guild Heists
  • Hew’s Bane, Abah’s Landing inside Thieves Den (Requires Rank 3 in Thieves Guild and completed the “Master of Heists” quest)
• Pickpocket from a Corrupt Merchant in the Rift
  • Riften, Shor’s Stone and Nimalten in The Rift.

7. Stealing creatia from Daedric Princes

The Gryphon and the Fox have devised a plan to protect the Scholarium in the ESO Scribing quest and you must steal magic from Hermaeus Mora, Mehrunes Dagon and Nocturnal to create guards. You will meet with the Fox in this journey. You can choose the order in which to complete the thievery:

• Greenshade – Hermaeus Mora
• Auridon – Mehrunes Dagon
• The Rift – Nocturnal

8. Activating the Fountain of the Gryphon

The Gryphon now rewards you with the Sigil of the Luminary Gryphon which you will use to activate the Fountain of the Gryphon. Votary Nahlia rewards you with the skill style Low Slash, Burnt Orange and 3 Luminous Ink.

9. What to do after completing the Wing of the Gryphon?

You have now unlocked Focus Scripts for the Scribing system as possible rewards from daily Delve quests, daily Mages Guild quests, and PvP Rewards for the Worthy, as well as a rotating selection of Focus Scripts on the Scholarium Vendor and the Infinite Archive Vendor. You can choose which of the two script types you want to unlock next:

• The Wing of the Dragon– Signature Scripts, Mages Guild Script Chase and Class Mastery Script Chase
• The Wing of the Netch – Affix Scripts

The Wing of the Crow, Final Scribing Quest

Quest giver: The Crow
Location: The Scholarium

Completing the Wing of the Crow Unlocks:

• Grimoire: Soul Burst
• Emote: True-Sight Viewing
• A skill point

1. Learning the truth about The Crow

Major story spoilers ahead!

Once you’ve completed all the other Luminary Wings, the Crow will perch in front of the previously unmarked door and let you know that she is the last Luminary and will lend you her power. You will invite Votary Nahlia to this trial as Ulfsild’s Echo of the Final Trial instructs.

2. Taking the vows

You must complete a ritual by taking a vow of Loyalty, Charity and Mystery. You will find the answers in the Fable of the Crow and below:

• Loyalty I vow to protect those I care about.
• Charity I vow to be compassionate to others to the end of my days.
• Mystery I vow to be curious about what lies ahead.

Dispelling the last ward, will reveal the door to the Wing of the Crows domain, which is shaped after Shalidor’s Labyrinthian.

3. The Final Trial: Labyrinthian

In the Final, You will need to navigate through the Labyrinthian. Below you can find the answers to the puzzles.

1. First room: First Light the Flame of the Indrik, then light the Flame of the Gryphon.
2. Second Room: Use focus points and keep dispelling wards while moving on the patch the Fox makes.
3. Third Room: Navigate through the maze. Dispel the ward to continue through the middle.

4. The Last trial and the Crows Sigil

The Crow now wants you to demonstrate your power by killing the Chimera: Aut’arioth, Inheritor’s Bane. During the fight the chimera will disappear and you will have to use focus points to dispel wards for it to come back.

You find out that Ulfsild used all her power to create another Luminary, The Crow. The Scribing rite flashed the Archmage’s mind and so The Crow is Ulfsild. The Crow says Votary Nahlia should look after the Scholarium and become its librarian, it’s scribing master.

The Sigil of the Crow can be found in Eastmarch, along the waters edge. You will find an echo of a much older Ulfsild and found out she took years to recover from creating the Luminary.

5. Empowering the altar

After completely restoring the altar, Votary Nahlia will reward you with Grimoire: Soul Burst, True-Sight Viewing -emote and a skill point.