ESO Scribing Guide – All Details and Quest Walkthrough

Luminous Ink for the Scribing System

Luminous Ink is the new crafting currency introduced in the Gold Road Chapter for the Scribing System. You will need Luminous Ink to complete the ESO Scribing process, sealing the magic within your chosen Grimoire and Scripts. Each Script added or changed on a Scribed Skill consumes one Luminous Ink.

Luminous Ink is not bound to your account so you are able to sell or send it to other players.

How to get Luminous Ink in ESO

Luminous Ink will not drop in the world until you have completed the necessary Luminary Wing and earned their sigil. After completing the wing on one character, all of your alt characters will be able to get Luminous Ink from its source. Luminous Ink in ESO drops from defeated enemies, harvesting crafting materials, treasure chests and heavy sacks.

Luminous ink now drops from Heavy Sacks and Chests (added in Update 43)

• 3 Luminous Ink is awarded after completing the Indrik, Gryphon, Dragon and Netch Luminary Wing questlines (12 total).
• After completing the quest “The Wing of the Indrik“, Luminous Ink will rarely drop from defeated enemies.
• After completing the quest “The Wing of the Netch“, Luminous Ink will rarely drop from harvesting crafting materials.
• After completing “The Wing of the Dragon” quest Luminous Ink can rarely be found in treasure chests.
• After completing “The Wing of the Gryphon” quest Luminous Ink can rarely be found in heavy sacks.
• You can buy the Luminous Ink from other players directly, or through the ESO Guild Trader system.

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Best place to farm Luminous Ink from enemies

Any enemies that drop loot, can drop Luminous Ink as well. The best places to farm Luminous Ink in ESO will have loads of melee enemies that walk after you and you can kill them fast. Loot in ESO is shared with everyone who damages the enemies, but only drops for the best 12 dps so try to avoid crowded places like Alikir Dolmens. Boss monsters have a higher chance of dropping Luminous Ink

You can team up with other players to loot the same enemies within your render range without personally doing damage as long as there isn’t more than 12 players around.

In this ESO Grind Guide you can see many popular spots for grinding XP that will also work for Luminous Ink!

• Greenshade (No DLC required)
• Alik’r Desert (No DLC required)
• Coldharbour (No DLC required)
• Court of Contempt (No DLC required)
• Old Orsinium (Orsinium DLC)
• Rkindaleft (Orsinium DLC)
• Imperial City Sewers (Imperial City DLC)
• Skyreach Catacombs (Instanced, No DLC required)
• Spellscar (Craglorn, No DLC required)
• Forgotten Wastes (Vvardenfell, Morrowind)

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Best Place to farm Luminous Ink from harvesting crafting materials

Any area that spawns loads of resource nodes is also good for farming Luminous Ink in ESO. Craglorn is regarded as the best place to farm Luminous Ink due to the expensive Fortified Nirncrux and Potent Nirncrux having a chance to drop, but this also makes the zone very crowded. Remember to slot the Plentiful Harvest Champion Point as it gives you chance to get double Luminous Ink drops.

Luminous Ink drops from all sources that are considered a “material node” therefore you will find them in backpacks and urns as those can drop waters for alchemy.

Best places to farm Luminous Ink in ESO

• Beginner Zones
  • Khenarti’s Roost
  • Stros M’Kai
  • Bethnik
  • Bleakrock Isle
  • Bal Foyen
• Base Game
  • Craglorn
  • Auridon
  • The Hollow City (Mostly alchemy materials)
  • Stormhaven
  • Rivenspire
• DLC
  • Artaeum
  • Northern Elsweyr
  • Western Skyrim

Remember to slot the Master Gatherer and Plentiful Harvest Champion Points to get the most out of your farming!

List of useful speed upgrades in ESO

• Sets: Adept Rider (Craftable), Ring of the Wild Hunt (Mythic), Jailbreaker (Banished Cells 1&2), Coward’s Gear (Battleground or Guild Store)
• Skills: Race Against Time (Psijic), Path of Darkness and Concealed Weapon (Nightblade), Falcon’s Swiftness (Warden), Hurricane (Sorcerer)
• Champion Points: Steed’s Blessing, Gifted Rider, Celerity, Hasty
• Mundus: The Steed
• Passives: Athletics (Medium Armor), Swift Warrior (Orc) Hasty Retreat (Bow), Continuous Attack
• Other: Swift trait in jewelry

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Alt Characters – how it works

Alternative Character in ESO or alt character is a term for all of your characters that isn’t your main character. Your main character is usually the one you play and like the most, but some people don’t have a main character at all and instead play equally on multiple characters.

ESO Scribing System account wide unlocks – only need to complete once

Completing the Luminary Wings will unlock Sigils, that are account wide, but what does it actually mean? As an example, when you unlock Sigil of the Indrik, this means all of your characters will get Luminous Ink from monsters without doing any Scribing Quests.

You only need to do the Luminary Wing questlines once and all of your alts are able get Luminous Ink and Scripts!

Focus, Signature and Affix Scripts won’t drop from the daily quests until you complete it’s wing mentioned below. Once you’ve completed a Luminary Wing you can start grinding scripts for all of the characters you want to use the ESO Scribing System on. You will need an addon to track alt characters scripts as achievements are account wide.

You DO NOT need to complete any Scribing Quests on your alt character to be able to earn Luminous Ink and Scripts IF one of your characters has completed all of the Luminary Wings.

Account wide unlocks

• Luminous Ink rarely drops when defeating monsters for all of your characters.
  • Requires completion of Wing of the Indrik on one character
• Luminous Ink rarely drop when harvesting crafting materials on all of your characters.
  • Requires completion of Wing of the Netch on one character
• Luminous Ink can rarely found in heavy sacks.
  • Requires completion of Wing of the Gryphon on one character
• Luminous Ink can rarely found in treasure chests
  • Requires completion of Wing of the Dragon on one character
• Focus Scripts from daily Delve quests, daily Mages Guild quests, and PvP Rewards for the Worthy for all of your characters.
  • Requires completion of Wing of the Gryphon on one character
• Signature Scripts from Daily World Boss quests, daily Cyrodiil quests, and daily Fighters Guild quests for all of your characters.
  • Requires completion of Wing of the Dragon on one character
• Mages Guild Subsidized Script chase
  • Requires completion of Wing of the Dragon on one character
• Class Mastery Signature Script chase
  • Requires completion of Wing of the Dragon on one character
• Affix Scripts from daily World Event quests, daily Imperial City quests, and daily Undaunted quests for all of your characters.
  • Requires completion of Wing of the Netch on one character
• Soul Burst for your first character (no need to buy) and your other characters can buy it from the Scholarium Merchant for 10,000 Gold.
  • Requires completion of Wing of the Crow, the Final Quest on one character

ESO Scribing System character specific unlocks – need to do on all characters

You will be able to get Luminous Ink and Scripts on all characters immediately after you’ve completed the Luminary Wings mentioned above on one character. You will not be able to access the Scribing Altar to Scribe Skills until you complete the Second Era of Scribing, Tutorial Quest. The Scribing Tutorial Quest takes approximately 5-10 minutes to complete.

The biggest ESO Scribing Grind comes from acquiring all the different Scripts for your alt characters. Script drops are curated, which means when you consume a script, that character will not get the same script again. As an example; you can consume all Focus Scripts on one of your alt characters except Focus Script: Pull making it so that only the Pull Script will ever drop for that character. This way you can farm a specific Script for all of your characters.

Character Specific unlocks

• Scholarium and Infinite Archive merchants
  • Requires completion of Tutorial Quest: Second Era of Scribing on every character
• Magic Damage, Lingering Torment and Breach Scripts
  • Requires completion of Tutorial Quest: Second Era of Scribing on every character
• All Scripts
  • Need to be either farmed from dailies, picked from the ground (Mages Guild Script Chase) or bought from the Scholarium Merchants and Infinite Archive weekly rotating wares.
  • You can either complete Wing of the Indrik or buy these three scripts: Bound Focus Script: Healing, Bound Signature Script: Sage’s Remedy, Bound Affix Script: Resolve and Bound Affix Script: Off Balance from the Scholarium Merchant for 10 Gold (not 10k, just 10 gold).

Scripts are not account wide. You will need to farm or buy each script separately for each of your characters but you are able to deposit them into your bank to give them to your other characters.

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Best ESO Scribing Skill Combinations

Below is a small selection of Scribed Skill Combinations for Tanks, Healers, Damage Dealers, Solo Players, PvP and some fun stuff. None of the skill combinations use class scripts to make them more accessible. You should customize the Grimoires effects based on the sets and content you plan to do, as many of the buffs/debuffs can be acquired from multiple sources. Each Grimoire has around 300 combinations you can create and all the scripts and grimoires have over 4000 combinations total in the ESO Scribing system!

The Best ESO Scribing Skills for Tanks

Each of the skill examples can and should be modified to your groups need. Tanks in trials and dungeons might want different effects so remember to communicate with your group!

Leashing Burst

An AOE (area of effect) pull, great for trash in dungeons. Change the scripts based on your preference.

• Grimoire Soul Burst
• Focus Script Pull
• Signature Script Hunter’s Snare
• Affix Script Interrupt
• Scribing Simulator skill link

Leashing Soul

Single target magicka pull that taunts, restores resources and reduces enemy damage. You can use this when you don’t want to use Silver Leash.

• Grimoire Wield Soul
• Focus Script Pull
• Signature Script Druid’s Resurgence
• Affix Script Cowardice
• Scribing Simulator skill link

Warding Contingency

An AOE shield that also reduces the damage you and your allies take by .

• Grimoire Ulfsild’s Contingency
• Focus Script Damage Shield
• Signature Script Gladiator’s Tenacity
• Affix Script Protection
• Scribing Simulator skill link

Heroic Torch

An ultimate generation skill for an off tank in a trial as an example. Change the Affix Script if your group is using ultimate generation potions.

• Grimoire Torchbearer
• Focus Script Generate Ultimate
• Signature Script Gladiator’s Tenacity
• Affix Script Heroism
• Scribing Simulator skill link

The Best ESO Scribing Skills for Healers

Heals get to pick from two great choices in the ESO Scribing system, Mender’s Bond and Dazing Explosion. Mender’s Bond allows you to transfer damage to you and heal your allies in the beam. Dazing Explosion can be used to get AOE minor Brittle debuff.

Mender’s Bond

Transfer damage to you and heal your allies that stand in the beam. If you have an arcanist in your group, they can slot Zenas’ Empowering Disc Skill and you can change the Affix Script to Protection as an example.

• Grimoire Mender’s Bond
• Focus Script Mitigation
• Signature Script Sage’s Remedy
• Affix Script Courage
• Scribing Simulator skill link

Dazing Explosion

A good source of AOE Minor Brittle for trash in Dungeons/Trials. Change the other effects based on your groups needs.

• Grimoire Elemental Explosion
• Focus Script Stun
• Signature Script Druid’s Resurgence
• Affix Script Brittle
• Scribing Simulator skill link

The Best ESO Scribing Skills for Damage Dealers

Damage Dealers don’t have many great picks right now for group content and the grimoires will not be replacing any spammable skill. The only skill that actually improves your overall damage is Venomous Knife. However, most other skills can also deal good damage but often there are slightly better alternatives.

Venomous Knife

• Grimoire Traveling Knife
• Focus Script Poison Damage
• Signature Script Warrior’s Opportunity
• Affix Script Berserk
• Scribing Simulator skill link

In group content like Trials, the Warrior’s Opportunity script (8% increased martial damage taken) becomes very useful if the group has players that deal bleed, physical, and disease damage. Change the other Scripts based on your liking.
Fiery Explosion

• Grimoire Elemental Explosion
• Focus Script Flame Damage
• Signature Script Lingering Torment
• Affix Script Brittle
• Scribing Simulator skill link

Shocking Soul

• Grimoire Wield Soul
• Focus Script Shock Damage
• Signature Script Lingering Torment
• Affix Script Empower
• Scribing Simulator skill link

The Best ESO Scribing Skills for Solo Players

You can scribe great unique skills that fit your character in the content you play. You can add healing, stuns, roots and many other effects you need.

Warding Burst

The Scribed skill: Warding Burst gives you a shield, gives you ultimate and increases your resistances.

• Grimoire Soul Burst
• Focus Script Damage Shield
• Signature Script Anchorite’s Potency
• Affix Script Resolve
• Scribing Simulator skill link

The Best Scribing Skills for PVP

Sundering Throw

PvP player Decimus recommends using Sundering Throw as a spammable for bash builds. You can then use Reverberating Bash as your stun skill.

• Grimoire Shield Throw
• Focus Script Physical Damage
• Signature Script Knight’s Valor
• Affix Script Cowardice
• Scribing Simulator skill link

Sundering Knife

PvP player Decimus recommends the Traveling Knife Grimoire with Major Prophecy/Savagery for Arcanists or Necromancers as they don’t get this buff from their class. For example an Arcanist can use Sundering Knife instead of Camouflaged Hunter.

• Grimoire Traveling Knife
• Focus Script Physical Damage
• Signature Script Assassin’s Misery
• Affix Script Savagery and Prophecy
• Scribing Simulator skill link

Healing Soul

PvP player Decimus mentions that you can use Healing Soul as your spammable heal as it heals, restores resources and grants you Major Vitality.

• Grimoire Wield Soul
• Focus Script Healing
• Signature Script Druid’s Resurgence
• Affix Script Vitality
• Scribing Simulator skill link

Shocking Soul

PvP player Decimus recommends using Shocking Souls as your new spammable skill as it does Shocking damage in addition to Oblivion damage over time and reduces your enemies damage.

• Grimoire Wield Soul
• Focus Script Shock Damage
• Signature Script Anchorite’s Cruelty
• Affix Script Cowardice
• Scribing Simulator skill link

 

The Best ESO Scribing Skills for Fun

There are quite a variety of silly and non-optimized skills you are able to scribe!

Repelling Torch

Knock back your enemies by sweeping a torch!

• Grimoire Torchbearer
• Focus Script Knockback
• Signature Script Hunter’s Snare
• Affix Script Mangle
• Scribing Simulator skill link

Dazing Trample

Stun your enemies, slow them down and reduce their max health by 10% with a mount of your choosing!

• Grimoire Trample
• Focus Script Stun
• Signature Script Hunter’s Snare
• Affix Script Mangle
• Scribing Simulator skill link

Where can I find my old scribed skills?

All of your previously scribed skills can be found in the archive tab when using the ESO Scribing Altar.

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How do I unlock the ESO Scribing System?

Purchasing the Gold Road Chapter is required to access the ESO Scribing system. Your character must be at least level 30, or have at least one Champion Point, in order to access Scribing. You will need to complete the tutorial quest “Second Era of Scribing” to be able to access the Scribing Altar. 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. Once you’ve completed a Luminary Wing– questline and unlocked its Sigil on one character, all your other character will be able to earn scripts and Luminous Ink from the sources of that sigil.

Below you will find a full walkthrough of the questlines and how to unlock all the wings, sigils and bound scripts.

Summary of how to unlock the ESO Scribing System

• Own Gold Road Chapter.
• Level 30 character or have at least one Champion Point.
• Activate “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
• Complete “Second Era of Scribing” to access the Scribing Altar.
• Complete Luminary Wings to access Grimoires, and Scripts

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Full ESO Scribing Questline Walkthrough Guide

Requirements to start the Scribing quest

• Gold Road Chapter
• Level 30 character or have at least one Champion Point

This written ESO Scribing walkthrough guide will take you through all the six major questlines and will help you unlock the Luminary Wings and their Sigils!

You must complete the tutorial first and the Wing of the Indrik second, but you can choose in which order to complete unlock The Wing of the Gryphon, The Dragon and The Netch. Completing a Luminary Wing questline grants you its Luminary’s sigil. Each Sigil unlocks an account-wide collectible that enables your other characters to earn Scripts and Luminous Ink.

Each questline is one long quest and abandoning the quest will make you start all the way from the beginning of that quest line.

All Scribing quests and their rewards

• Second Era of Scribing, Tutorial Quest
  • Unlocks the Scribing Altar
  • Grants you a Grimoire: Wield Soul and three Scripts: Magic Damage, Lingering Torment and Breach.
  • Furnishing: How to Scribe
• Wing of the 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
• Wing of the Gryphon
  • Adds Focus Scripts as possible rewards from daily Delve quests, daily Mages Guild quests, and PvP Rewards for the Worthy.
  • Rarely causes Luminous Ink to be found in heavy sacks.
  • Unlocks a rotating selection of Focus Scripts on the Scholarium Vendor and the Infinite Archive Vendor.
  • Skill style: Low Slash, Burnt Orange
• Wing of the Dragon
  • Adds Signature Scripts as possible rewards from daily World Boss quests, daily Cyrodiil quests, and daily Fighters Guild quests.
  • Rarely causes Luminous Ink to be found in treasure chests.
  • Unlocks a rotating selection of Signature Scripts on the Scholarium Vendor and the Infinite Archive Vendor.
  • Unlocks the Mages Guild Subsidized Script chase.
  • Unlocks the Class Mastery Signature Script chase.
  • Skill style: Trap Beast, Dawnlight Orange
• Wing of the Netch
  • Adds Affix Scripts as possible rewards from daily World Event quests, daily Imperial City quests, and daily Undaunted quests.
  • Unlocks a rotating selection of Affix Scripts on the Scholarium Vendor and the Infinite Archive Vendor.
  • Allows Luminous Ink to rarely drop when harvesting crafting materials. As account-wide unlocks, these benefits are available immediately upon playing other characters.
• Wing of the Crow, the Final Quest
  • Grimoire: Soul Burst
  • Emote: True-Sight Viewing
  • Skill point

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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” 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!

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.

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The Wing of the Indrik 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 wips 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

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The Wing of the Gryphon 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.
• Rarely causes Luminous Ink to be found in heavy sacks.
• 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. Ever since ESO update 43, completing Wing of the Gryphon causes Luminous Ink to be rarely found in heavy sacks. 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

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The Wing of the Dragon Quest

Quest giver: Fable of the Dragon
Location: The Scholarium

• Account upgrade: Sigil of the Luminary Dragon
• Adds Signature Scripts as possible rewards from daily World Boss quests, daily Cyrodiil quests, and daily Fighters Guild quests.
• Rarely causes Luminous Ink to be found in treasure chests.
• Unlocks a rotating selection of Signature Scripts on the Scholarium Vendor and the Infinite Archive Vendor.
• Unlocks the Mages Guild Subsidized Script chase.
• Unlocks the Class Mastery Signature Script chase.
• Skill style: Trap Beast, Dawnlight Orange

1. Starting the Wing of the Dragon questline

You start the Wing of the Dragon quest by reading the Fable of the Dragon in front of her Wing inside the Scribing area. You will find the annotated Fable in the portal room. The Dragon loves riddles and the player only needs to solve three, or look at the solutions below in this guide. The quest takes place in Reaper’s March.

2. The First Dragon Key Fragment

You will find the The First Dragon Key Fragment in the Jode’s Light Delve in Reaper’s March.

3. The Second Dragon Key Fragment

You will find the The Second Dragon Key Fragment in Do’krin Monastery in Reaper’s March.

4. The Third Dragon Key Fragment

You will find the The Third Dragon Key Fragment in Fort Grimwatch in Reaper’s March.

5. Revealing the Door of the Dragon

Use all three fragments on the focus point and it will reveal the door to the Wing of the Dragon.

6. Solve the Riddles of the Dragon

The Dragon wants to see if you have a mind for riddles and asks you to complete the ones that appeal the most to you. You can ask your allies in the Scholarium for answers, but you’ll need to complete the tasks yourself.

Riddles of the Dragon

• Solve the Riddle of the Battle
  • Slay one world boss in Reaper’s March
• Solve the Riddle of War
  • Pick up Heartlands Mindpuzzles from either Haynote Cave, Cracked Wood Cave or Toadstool Hollow in Cyrodiil
• Solve the Riddle of the Moon 0/4
  • Pick four “Bent Dance Bloom” flowers from Moonmont
• Solve the Riddle of the Hunt 0/15
  • Kill any monsters within Reaper’s March
• Solve the Riddle of the Rich 0/2
  • Steal Ta’agran tonguetwister notes from Arenthia and Rawl’kha
• Solve the Riddle of the Game
  • Win a Tales of Tribute match (Requires High Isle DLC)

7. Craft a riddle for the Dragon

After completing the riddles, The Dragon tasks you to construct a clever, devious riddle exclusive for her. She wants a riddle that is impossible, one she cannot solve but still has an answer. You do not need to think of a riddle as the game gives you the right answer and no choices.

8. Activating the Fountain of the Dragon

The Dragon rewards you with the Sigil of the Luminary Dragon, which you will use to activate the Fountain of the Dragon. Votary Nahlia rewards you with the skill style Trap Beast, Dawnlight Orange and 3 Luminous Ink.

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

You have now unlocked Signature Scripts as possible rewards from daily World Boss quests, daily Cyrodiil quests, and daily Fighters Guild quests. The Mages Guild Subsidized Script chase and the Class Mastery Signature Script chase are unlocked as well as a rotating selection of Signature Scripts on the Scholarium Vendor and the Infinite Archive Vendor. Ever since ESO update 43, completing Wing of the Dragon causes Luminous Ink to be rarely found in treasure chests.

You can choose which of the two script types you want to unlock next:

• The Wing of the Gryphon – Focus scripts
• The Wing of the Netch – Affix Scripts

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The Wing of the Netch Quest

Quest giver: Fable of the Netch
Location: The Scholarium

• Account upgrade: Sigil of the Luminary Netch
• Adds Affix Scripts as possible rewards from daily World Event quests, daily Imperial City quests, and daily Undaunted quests.
• Unlocks a rotating selection of Affix Scripts on the Scholarium Vendor and the Infinite Archive Vendor.
• Allows Luminous Ink to rarely drop when harvesting crafting materials. As account-wide unlocks, these benefits are available immediately upon playing other characters.

1. Starting the Wing of the Netch questline

You start the Wing of the Netch quest by reading the Nable of the Fetch in front of his Wing for the ESO Scribing Guide quest. The Netch has a very distinct sense of humor which you will quickly find out. The Netch questline seems slightly shorter than the other ones. The quests takes place in Vvardenfell.

2. The First Netch Key Fragment

ou will find the The First Netch Key Fragment in Vvardenfell, Esutanamus.

3. The Second Netch Key Fragment

You will find the The Second Netch Key Fragment in Vvardenfell, Balmora.

4. The Third Netch Key Fragment

You will find the The Third Netch Key Fragment in Vvardenfell, Nchuleft Depths (Delve).

5. Revealing the Door of the Netch

The Netch spawns five keys and five doors. The correct Netch door is circled in the image below.

6. Games of the Netch

The Netch thinks tests are weighty, not good for floating so he presents you with some games to play that take the weight off the shoulders.

Games of the Netch

• Defeat Champion of Forgotten Wastes or Nchuleftingth
  • Any boss inside the Public Dungeons will do
• Gather Mementos from Daedra in Imperial City 0/3
  • Loot three “Mementos of the Fallen Soldier” from daedra in Imperial City. Any daedra/xivkyn will work.
    • You can port to Imperial City via the Alliance War Menu (L key by default on PC) by right clicking an Imperial City campaign and entering. Use the ladders if you wish to go above the sewers.
• Recover Stolen Items from Vassir-Didanat Mines 0/3
  • Loot three “Recovered Merchant Goods”. All three stolen crates can be found outside the actual mine.
• Slay Daedra Across Vvardenfell 0/15
  • Daedric Ruins have the highest chance of daedra spawning. Any ogrim, xivkyn, scamp etc. will work. Fire Atronachs will not count. (Most Daedric Ruins marked on the image below)
• Close Incursion Portal in West Weald
  • Close any of the four Incursion Portals: Sutch Mirrormoor Mosaic, Ostumir Mirrormoor Mosaic, Silorn Mirrormoor Mosaic or Colovia Mirrormoor Mosaic
• Catch Luminary-Blessed Fish Across Vvardenfell 0/3
  • Any fishing node in Vvardenfell will work. All buffs that help you catch higher quality fish will also help you here. Champion Points: Reel Technique and Angler’s Instincts, Food: Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl and the Companion Sharp-as-Night “Sharp’s Patience” passive buff.

7. Trial of the Netch

Once you’ve completed the Games of the Netch for the ESO Scribing system, he will task you with trial involving another mortal. He wants you to help a father with his regrets at a clinic in Suran. You will need to retrieve all three of his soul fragments for the trial to be complete and then you can continue with the ESO Scribing Guide.

8. Activating the Fountain of the Netch

The Netch rewards you with the Sigil of the Luminary Netch which you will use to activate the Fountain of the Netch. Votary Nahlia rewards you with 3 Luminous Ink.

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

You have now unlocked Affix Scripts for the Scribing system as possible rewards from daily World Event quests, daily Imperial City quests, and daily Undaunted quests., as well as a rotating selection of Affix 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 Gryphon – Focus scripts
• The Wing of the Dragon– Signature Scripts, Mages Guild Script Chase and Class Mastery Script Chase

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The Wing of the Crow, Final 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 one skill point.

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ESO Scribing Rewards

There are plenty of rewards that you can earn during the whole ESO Scribing quest walkthrough and more.

• Achievement: A Signature with Class Collectible: Cleave, Cinnabar Red
• Achievement: Gifts from the Archmagister Collectible: Entropy, Vibrant Yellow
• Achievement: Inheritor of the Scholarium Character title: Inheritor
• Achievement: Ink Accumulator Collectible: Force Shock, Onyx Black
• Achievement: Pen is Mightier than the Sword Dye: Scholarium Cerulean Collectible: Wall of Elements, Violet Purple
• Awarded after completing Second Era of Scribing Furnishing: How to Scribe
• Awarded after completing Wing of the Gryphon Collectible: Low Slash, Burnt Orange
• Awarded after completing Wing of the Dragon: Collectible: Trap Beast, Dawnlight Orange
• Awarded after completing Wing of the Crow: Emote: True-Sight Viewing

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Where is The Scholarium located in ESO?

The Scholarium is located beneath the island Eyevea. You can access The Scholarium in two ways to start using the ESO Scribing system:

• Zoom all the way out on your map, click on Eyevea, then click on The Scholarium map which will show you The Scholarium Wayshrine.
• You can also use Adept Irnard Rirnils portal in Skingrad.

Eyevea was founded as a sanctuary for magic by Ulfsild’s husband, Archmagus Shalidor. 

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Where is The ESO Scribing Vendor (Scholarium Merchant) Chronicler Firandil located?

Grimoire and Script Vendor Chronicler Firandil can be found inside The Scholarium on the east side of the building.

Chronicler Firandil will sell all Grimoires for 50k gold (10k for an alt).

The Scholarium Merchant will also have a weekly rotating selection of Scripts for you to purchase for the Scribing system. You need to unlock the Luminary sigils for your account to be able to access the rotating selection of scripts.

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