ESO Season One Brings the Thieves Guild to Glenumbra on July 8
A new questline relocates the criminal fraternity from Hew's Bane to High Rock, with returning characters and a new cartel threat — available to all players at Season One launch.
The Elder Scrolls Online's Season One, launching July 8, introduces a new Thieves Guild storyline set in Glenumbra rather than the guild's previous home of Hew's Bane. The narrative premise: the Abah's Landing chapter sees an opportunity to establish a new foothold in High Rock, one of the Daggerfall Covenant's main trading hubs.
What changed
- A new story questline featuring the Thieves Guild is included with Season One and available to all ESO players
- The guild relocates from Hew's Bane to Glenumbra, described as a lucrative trading region
- Quen — a character from the original Thieves Guild DLC — returns as a central figure, now a senior guild member pursued by a Lion Guard captain for a crime she didn't commit
- The questline involves uniting three distinct Daggerfall gangs: the Streethawks, House Menant, and the Roadsworn
- The common antagonist is a newly introduced faction called the Koldane Cartel
- The narrative was shaped by Lead Narrative Designer Richard Baker and Zone Lead Ed Stark
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For returning players, the hook is continuity — Quen and the Abah's Landing guild carry forward from prior content — while the Glenumbra setting and the Koldane Cartel give the arc a fresh stage.
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