Here you will find a step-by-step “Second Era of Scribing” Tutorial Quest Guide. gives a you a step by step guidMake sure to check out the main ESO Scribing Guide, a complete guide for the Scribing system. Grimoires, Focus, Signature and Affix scripts list. Scribing quest walkthrough!
Requirements to start the Scribing quest
- Gold Road Chapter
- Level 30 character or have at least one Champion Point
Second Era of Scribing, Tutorial Quest
Quest giver: Adept Irnard Rirnil
Location: West Weald, Skingrad
1. You can activate the “Second Era of 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.
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- Sunnamere Study
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- Torn Journal Page and the Flickering Image
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- Animated Archmagus
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.
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- The Crow
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- Uncharged Focusing Crystal Location
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- Placing the new Focusing Crystal
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.
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- Choose a Grimoire
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- Scripts Explained
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- Press the “Scribe” button
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- Luminous Ink explanation
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- Your new skill
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- You can find it within the “Soul Magic” skill line
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- Scribing tab on the top right
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- You can find all your Grimoires and scribed skills here in the scribing tab
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- Continuing to talk to Nahlia will start the second part of the quest called “The Wing of the Indrik”.
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!
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