New Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr DLC Trailer Highlights the Dragons
On the 4th of June, ZeniMax Online Studios will release the next major Chapter DLC for The Elder Scrolls: Online; Elsweyr. Following the format of the previous Chapter DLCs Morrowind and Summerset, Elsweyr introduces a whole new region to the game. In this case, that region is the Khajiit homeland, which has never before featured in an Elder Scrolls game in such detail. However, the new land is just one draw of the upcoming DLC. Another is that dragons are coming to the game for the first time, and these dragons are the focus of the latest Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr trailer.
Kaalgrontiid and the Other Dragons in The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr DLC
The new Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr trailer doesn’t give fans their first in-game look at the new dragons; that came in a previous trailer. However, it does show much more of the dragons than in any previous video. Indeed, it also gives players an insight into the mind of the DLC’s terrifying new villain. That monstrous antagonist is the dragon Kaalgrontiid, freed from an ancient vault along with his fellows by Abnur Tharn in the DLC’s first trailer. (Seemingly by accident, in fairness to the High Chancellor.)
Unfortunately for the Khajiit of Elsweyr, Kaalgrontiid seems to be a very different dragon villain than Alduin was in Skyrim. While Alduin mainly concerned himself with flying around resurrecting dead dragons with the goal of attacking the Nord heaven of Sovngarde, Kaalgrontiid’s goals seem to be much more simplistic; devastate everything and everyone he can. “We are free, my brothers,” he says, in the trailer; “free to ravage this realm, to finish what we started so long ago.”
It seems as though Kaalgrontiid may be planning to lay waste to Elsweyr in order to reestablish dragon rule over the other races, as was the case in Skyrim’s past (and presumably elsewhere in Tamriel.) Indeed, he states; “now is the beginning of our fury and the beginning of our reign.” Interestingly, Kaalgrontiid also does his part for lexicography by establishing proper nomenclature for a grouping of dragons. It’s a “rage,” apparently. Unfortunately for the people of Elsweyr, it seems like that’s exactly what is heading their way on June 4th…