THE HERALD

• New Yuletide weapon skins!
• Return of the mini event to defeat the chilling evil on Ellan Vannin for Midwinter Keys!
• Help recover the lost yuletide decorations!
• Frost Gnomes hold more Midwinter Keys to collect for rewards!
• Merlof and yuletide hats return to our MTX store!
• Battleground Presents are there to be gathered!
• The Frozen Cavern instance makes its return!
• The Twelve Days of Midwinter gifts are being wrapped!

The Midwinter celebrations will start today and run until January 15th, 2026.
The 12 days of Midwinter event will begin on Sunday, December 21st!

Read on for more details!

Midwinter: Icy Dread

Venture across Ellan Vannin to where the cold now forms and shatter the icy grip that threatens to plunge the lands into eternal frost! Unite and brace yourselves, for the time has come to confront the evil that lurks in the heart of winter’s embrace.

Players can visit the following NPC’s to obtain the quest [Midwinter] Icy Dread:

• Albion: Lady Idris in Catterick Hamlet
• Hibernia: Yda Llonwy in Crair Treflan
• Midgard: Fathor in Godrborg

This is a repeatable battlegroup encounter. Defeating any one of these three mobs will complete the quest and award you with a Midwinter Key. These Midwinter Keys can then be used at the Yuletide Chest at your realm’s relic town where you can receive one of the following:

• New Yuletide weapon skin
• Blank Weapon/Shield Pattern (now trade-able!)
• Various Potions
• Jack Frost weapons: Anvil of Ice, Icewind, Snowlight, and Wintertime (Frost and Frostbreaker remain obtainable solely from Jack Frost dungeon)
• Random Anniversary and Midwinter reward

Note: the quest mobs are tough, so bring friends! Quest credit is not awarded if stealthed or within Knoc Meayll keep.

Frost Gnomes

Camps of Front Gnomes can be found throughout Ellan Vannin, there is no quest associated with these mobs.

• Slaying a Frost Gnome will award realm points and a chance drop of a Midwinter Key.
• Note realm points from Frost Gnomes are only awarded to group sizes of 5 and below.

Midwinter: Yuletide Lost

Find the lost Yuletide Bags on Ellan Vannin! This is a repeatable gather quest obtained from the below NPCs:

• Albion: Lady Idris in Catterick Hamlet
• Hibernia: Yda Llonwy in Crair Treflan
• Midgard: Fathor in Godrborg

Ellan Vannin will have a 50% realm point bonus for the duration of the event.

Get in the spirit of the season with our new Yuletide weapon skins! Available through opening the Yuletide Chests at your realm’s relic towns with Midwinter Keys.

The days grow short, a chill is in the air, and warm fires glow in our homes. The Midwinter Festival has come once again to the Realms! Visit the festival grounds to take part in the festivities and challenges.

• Vanity pets. a stylish Yuletide hat, and Consignment Merchants are available in the Event Shop in each realm’s capital city!
  • Celebrate Midwinter in style with the Yuletide hat!
  • Melt your heart with Merlof’s goofy gait!
  • Nothing can beat a trusty owl to guide you and none’s wiser than Athena!
    • Players who complete the [Daily] Roaming with Friends quest just once from now until the end of Midwinter Festival will earn this wise companion for free!
  • Three vendors have stepped up to serve as consignment merchants.
    • No longer limiting his reach to just the lands of Hibernia, Jack Frost seeks to spread his influence through the Market Boards.
    • Merlof’s ambitions have only grown, and now he wishes to help you sell your wares.
    • After years of practice, a Theurgist has successfully managed to teach one of his ice pets the basics of economics, and now is willing to lend you its services.

Olibar, the Midwinter Tomte, will be paying frequent visits to Castle Sauvage, Svasud Faste, and Druim Ligen seeking assistance. He seems to have lost some Midwinter presents throughout the battlegrounds. Speak to him if you wish to assist him. Players on Gaheris between the levels of 35 to 49 can speak to him to receive a special Frontier Gift Retrieval quest instead.

• Olibar’s Gift Retrieval quests can now be done an unlimited amount of times!

Santa Nicholas, Lucia of the Light, and Jack Frost will arrive with gifts for the people of the realms, but there’s been a bit of a crisis: their presents were hijacked and are now in the possession of dangerous enemies.  They will offer the Saving Midwinter quest to all adventurers level 48 and above. Save Midwinter and earn a Frozen Cloak of Midwinter and a Frozen Medal of Honor! Visit them at the Winter Villages outside of Ludlow, Ardee, and Vasudheim.

In Albion, Clara sets up a giant tree at the festival tents. Speak with her for information on obtaining an appropriately-sized one for your own home or yard (Note: this quest has been changed). Nearby, Sister Samantha is collecting toys for the children of Albion. She offers some fine holiday greenery as a reward to those generous souls who answer her call.

In Midgard, Kevin somehow manages to decorate a tree all for himself. Ask him about it and he may give you a few pointers regarding your own arboreal home decorating (Note: this quest has been changed). The Gythja of Frigg is taking donations of toys from passers-by and granting them wreaths and garlands in return.

In Hibernia, the rather small elf Noelle brings her tree to the festival grounds. She will help you start your own holiday tradition if you want one of your own (Note: this quest has been changed). Matron Elleweh is looking for assistance in gathering gifts for the children of Hibernia, with a promise of some festive decorations in return.

The Trinkets for Tots quest is available for all levels.

The Midwinter Tree quests start at level 35, however rumor has it that there may be a more advanced challenge to follow for those of level 48 and up.

Frozen Cavern Event

• Venture to the Frozen Cavern and test yourself against the chill… and its cunning inhabitant: Jack Frost!
• Visit Njord in the following locations to enter the instance of your choice:
  • Albion: near Merlin’s Tower in Camelot
  • Midgard: near the Burial Grounds in Jordheim
  • Hibernia: near the Chamber of Magic in Tir na Nog
• Two modes exist for this instance: Normal and Challenging
  • The Normal mode has a chance to drop 1 of the following rewards:
    • Frozen chestpieces
    • Frozen and other mythirians
    • Infernal sleeves
    • Darkness Falls jewelry
    • New Extended potions
  • The Challenging mode has a chance to drop 1 of the following rewards:
    • Frozen weapons (non bountycraft-able only)
    • Starlight Weapon Token
    • Gwynn’s Mythirian Token
    • Dark Hallowed Weapons
    • Extended potions & high tier items
• Loot does not drop directly from Jack Frost, instead a loot chest is spawned when he is defeated.
  • Players can interact with the chest and receive 1 guaranteed reward per day but can still participate in the instance as many times as desired.
  • This chest will despawn after 20 seconds, so be sure to grab your loot quickly!

On the first day of Midwinter, Broadsword gave to me…

• Login to the game and visit the following NPCs to receive a special reward each day!
  • Albion: Santa Nicholas in Castle Sauvage
  • Midgard: Kris Kringle in Svasud Faste
  • Hibernia: Daidi na Nollag in Druim Ligen
• Speak with the above NPCs to reveal your reward for each day.
  • Each day’s reward will be revealed around 5:30 AM EST / 10:30 AM GMT and last the remainder of that day.
  • If you miss a day, you will be able to catch up and receive the missed rewards by visiting the NPC on subsequent days.
    • This means if you simply login on the twelfth day, you’ll receive all 12 rewards!
      • Make sure you have room in your inventory!
• These rewards are limited to level 50, Veteran (subscribed) account characters and can only be obtained once per character.
• This event will run from Sunday, December 21st, 2025 for the next twelve days, with the last day being January 1st, 2026!

Midwinter celebrations will start today and run until January 15th, 2026.
The 12 days of Midwinter event will begin on Sunday, December 21st!

A Happy Midwinter to all from the Dark Age of Camelot team, and we’ll see you in the Frontiers!

The following updates to the Harvest Celebration Event are now live on Ywain:

• Turkey Legs and the [Harvest] Turkey Legs quest have been updated to the more visible Apple Basket item and quest.
• Breifine now has a 50% bonus to realm points in the zone.
• The abundance of apples on the Breifine coast has attracted Apple Worms!

• • Apple Worms spawn in camps of 3 around the Breifine coast. There is no quest associated with these mobs.
  • Slaying an Apple Worm will award realm points and have a chance to drop a King’s Chest.
  • Note realm points from Apple Worms are only awarded to group sizes of 5 and below.

 

It’s that time of season when the leaves have changed color and are steadily falling, when the wind arrives with a chill and the scent of chimney smoke, and the bounty of the year’s harvest is ready to be served and celebrated!

Harvest Quest

• The realms are humming with anticipation for their upcoming feasts and local festivals!
  • Help the realms’ Festival Steward recover a lost shipment of food!
    • The repeatable RvR quest ‘[Harvest] Lost Turkey‘ is now available at each realm’s strength relic town.
      • This quest now auto completes.
    • A King’s Chest will spawn randomly around the Turkey Legs in Breifine. This chest has 2 uses.
      • A note about MTX Race/Name/Gender Respecs: Please remember that accounts can only have one of each respec active at a time. If you should be awarded a Race, Name, or Gender respec, it is recommended that you use it prior to obtaining the Anniversary Gift on other characters. They do not stack!
    • There is a realm point bonus of 25% in Pennine Mountains, Jamtland Mountains, and Breifine.
• The Harvest Event will run until Tuesday, December 9th, 2025.

Farmer’s Market Festival

• The Farmer’s Market Festival makes its return to the following locations:
  • Albion: Ludlow
  • Midgard: Vasudheim
  • Hibernia: Ardee
• Visit the Festival Matron and go bobbing for apples to earn some house trophies!
• Let Captain Mack in Albion, Captain Marks in Midgard, or Captain Geddes in Hibernia regale you with their tales of a shark THIS big on the high seas.
• The Farmer’s Market Festival will run until Tuesday, December 9th, 2025.

Notes:

• The Ellan Vannin: Blood for the Key event on Ywain has now ended.
• Enemy Heads and Magic Head Orbs will still drop from player kills.

The bloodshed across Ellan Vannin has awakened the Mournful King, who has escaped the dungeon that once held him. Drawn to the chaos, he has emerged within the heart of the island, seeking vengeance on all who stand before him. Those brave enough to face the Mournful King will find great rewards, if they survive.

 

Ellan Vannin has once again become a battleground for all realms.
Players can speak to Lenore within the throne room of Ellan Vannin to obtain the event quests below.

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It’s time for the Pumpkin moon to rise again! Haunted cities, candy and costumes, pumpkin patches in the Frontiers, and the return of the Mournful King instance await you!

Mounts galore this Halloween as we introduce the new Spectral Mount, Pink Unicorn, and Enchanted Fire, Smoke, and Witchfire Brooms!

Festivities begin today, October 24th and will conclude on Wednesday, November 5th.

Pumpkin Patch rewards

• Defeat the hallowed ghost, mummy, night bat, walking dead, or gooey slime at the pumpkin patches for a rare chance to get Trick or Treat or Keep-Chest potions!
  • These rewards drop without needing to be on any quest!
  • Trick or Treat potions can be used on your realm-mates to give them randomized costumes!
    • These potions will be usable in RvR for the three days surrounding and including Halloween!

Haunt or Be Haunted

• John Tobin in Cotswold, Foa Muldisson in Mularn, and Nera in Mag Mell have studies to conduct.
  • Be rewarded handsomely with gold, realm points, and the Wings of Haunting cosmetic effect! What lengths will you go to get your hands on a free pair of the wings!?
    • NOTE: This quest can be completed again this year but characters who already have the wings will not get another pair.
• Completed [Halloween] Haunt or Be Haunted quests that are not turned in by November 5th will be forcibly removed!

Event Shop

• New Enchanted Broom options have been added to the Event Shop and Mithril General Merchants (Page4)! Zip around the frontiers with a broom alight in flames, smoke, or witchfire!
• Pumpkin Head pre-set patterns, spooky Consignment Merchant costumes, and the Wings of Haunting cosmetic spell effect are now for sale for mithril at your realm’s capital city’s Event Shop!
  • Visit the Event Shop soon because it disappears on November 5th!

 

If the witchy feeling is not your style, perhaps a Pink Unicorn is! Now available from our Mithril General Merchants!

 

A Ghostly Harvest quest

• The Ghostly Harvest Quest offers players level 45 and up a dangerous adventure in the frontiers. Speak with John Tobin on the Cotswold Bridge, Foa Muldisson outside the Jordheim North Gates, or Nera by the road in Mag Mell to begin the quest. (Note: Players who completed this quest last year will now be offered it again.)
• Treat sellers have been spotted selling sugary confections inside Meath, Erikstaad, and Caerwent.
• The consignment merchants would like to show you their Halloween spirit! Pick up the merchant and place it back down on your house porch and he will change into a Halloween outfit for you!
• Be aware adventurers! Ghosts haunt the streets of your capital cities as the pumpkin moon rises! Ghosts have also been spotted in Mag Mell, Aegirhamn, and Campacorentin Station.
• The horses you once rode have joined the spirit realm. (This affects stable and merchant horses only – not player controlled horses.)
• Something strange has happened to all of the puppies.
• The pumpkins have been carved into jack o’ lanterns!
• A trio of crazy old women have been spotted selling costume potions inside Camelot, Jordheim, and Tir na Nog.
  • The costume potions last 15 minutes each and come in a variety of flavors.
  • The costume potions work best if you remove your helm and armor.
  • You cannot digest another costume potion if you are transformed into any of the monster forms.
  • The costume potions’ magics are short-lived and the potions will be useless after the festivities end so don’t horde them.
  • Some of the costume potions allow you to take the form of the enemy, so don’t be scared if you see some in your capital city or housing zones, it’s just your realm mates playing dress up!
  • The costumes and potions only work while you are in the capital cities or housing zones. You cannot use them outside of these zones and if you leave the zone while in costume, you will lose the effect.
  • As always, the days before, during, and after Halloween these potions can be used in RvR (With exception to pixies and ghosts potions, which are not usable in the frontiers ever)
• NOTE: Players will need to logout and re-run the patcher in order to see the pumpkin moon, loot bags, and pumpkin patches

A Hallowed Lost Quest

• Level 50 players should visit the ghostly queen, Lenore, in each realm’s capital city to receive the quest ‘A Hallowed Lost’ so long as they haven’t already completed it.
  • Visit the pumpkin patches in the frontier to find the buttertoe candy pieces Lenore needs.
    • Only the pumpkin patches in Ellan Vannin, Pennine Mountains, Jamtland Mountains, and Breifine drop the five buttertoe candy pieces she needs.
      • You’ll want to get this year’s Ghostly Harvest quest to help guide you to the pumpkin patches!
      • Defeat the hallowed ghost, mummy, night bat, walking dead, or gooey slime at the pumpkin patches to get the candy pieces.
        • Buttertoe candy pieces no longer drop unless the player has the ‘A Hallowed Lost’ quest and hasn’t completed it yet.
      • Different patches have different candy pieces available.
  • Earn a new friend for your efforts!
  • Please note that this quest is only able to be completed once per character, including characters that completed it in previous years.

 

Mournful King Event

• The instance dungeon, the Castle of the Mournful King, awaits those willing to brave its powerful ruler’s fury!
  • Level 50 players should speak with Lenore to teleport to the instance.
  • This instance is meant to be extremely challenging and is therefore entirely optional and not required to complete any quest.
  • Note: Once the Mournful King is defeated, a Frozen Wind will spawn at the entrance until the rewards chest despawns.
  • Rewards include (note Otherworldly rewards have been removed):
    • • Re-skinned hallowed weapons and armor
      • Hallowed Potions
      • Book of Recall
      • Greater Revealing Potion
      • Black Lion/Wolf/Sobekite Potions
      • Supreme Draught of Invigoration
      • New Dark Hallowed Weapons!
      • New Spectral Mount!

• The Castle of the Mournful King instance uses the Loot Chest system:
  • The Mournful King and Nevermore monsters do not drop rewards directly other than the king’s remains.
  • The Mournful King spawns the Mournful King’s Loot Chest in the center of the Hallowed Ruins when defeated.
    • This chest will despawn after 20 seconds, so be sure to grab your loot quickly!
  • Characters can interact with the chest and receive 1 guaranteed reward per day but can still participate in the instance as many times as desired.
    • There is a greater than 50% chance to receive a re-skinned hallowed armor or weapon each day!

• Lenore can be found in the following locations within the capital cities:
  • Camelot: The Church of Albion
  • Jordheim: The Temple of the Aesir
  • Tir na Nog: Alainn Cuir’s courtyard

The barriers between worlds tremble once more. Deep beneath the realms, ancient seals fracture and the fiery abyss reawakens, allowing demonic entities to claw their way back into our lands. Terrifying lords of flame and shadow surge forth through unstable breaches, threatening to engulf the frontiers in chaos once again.

But this time… they test our defenses, realm by realm.

 

For the next three weeks, a powerful demonic boss will take root within a different frontier. Their arrival will shatter the skies with fire and fury – bringing danger, challenge, and opportunity to all who dare face them. Whether friend or foe, all realms may strike these monstrosities down… if they can survive the onslaught.

Week 1 begins in Albion, where the demonic presence has corrupted Hadrian’s Wall and Pennine Mountains. Prepare your forces, rally your allies, and confront the abyssal threat head-on.

Adventurers should speak with the following NPC’s to receive two quests:

• Albion: Lady Idris in Catterick Hamlet
• Hibernia: Yda Llonwy in Crair Treflan
• Midgard: Fathor in Godrborg

Harvesting Crystals

Harvest the crystals that have appeared at the ruins of the old maze of Pennine Mountains. This quest is repeatable and awards 5,000 Bounty Points and 500 Realm Points (affected by bonuses) per turn in.

[Breach] Further Breaches

The rifts have reopened, the demons have returned. Defeat these threats and put a stop to their encroachment to our world!

This is a repeatable (does not auto renew) quest and is a Battlegroup encounter. Completing the quest by defeating all three mobs awards you with 5,000 Realm Points (affected by bonuses) and a usable crate which will provide one of the following:

• Various Trophies
• Realm Point Bonus Potions
• Extended Potions
• Wares from Dungeons of Old

The demonic mobs now drop Magic Head Orbs. The rewards also have a very small chance to drop Catacombs bows.

The Breach mini event will run until Tuesday November 4th, 2025.

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Today marks 24 incredible years since the gates to Albion, Midgard, and Hibernia first opened.
From epic relic battles to friendships forged across realms, DAoC has stood the test of time – thanks entirely to you, our passionate and loyal community!

Whether you’ve been with us since day one or joined the war more recently, we want to say thank you for being part of this journey. Your dedication, creativity, and love for the game keeps Camelot’s spirit alive year after year!

Here’s to the heroes, the rivalries, the victories, and the memories — and to many more years of realm vs. realm adventure ahead!

Happy 24th Anniversary, Dark Age of Camelot!

Level 50 characters on Veteran accounts can now visit the King in their capital city’s Throne Room to receive their Anniversary Gift – a thank you to our players to mark 24 years of Dark Age of Camelot! The Anniversary Gift contains many surprises to suit the variety of players that make DAoC so special.

Some notes and reminders:

• *You will need 4 free inventory spaces – so please ensure that you have the available inventory slots prior to picking up your Anniversary Gift! *
• Gifts have been reviewed to slightly increase the chance at higher tier items, add additional items, and remove some common items.
• A note about MTX Race/Name/Gender Respecs: Please remember that accounts can only have one of each respec active at a time. If you should be awarded a Race, Name, or Gender respec, it is recommended that you use it prior to obtaining the Anniversary Gift on other characters. They do not stack!
• Albion note: the King’s Royal guard remains close to the main Camelot teleporter in order to facilitate easier port in to the Throne Room.
• Anniversary Gifts will be available until October 10th.

Additionally, in celebration of Dark Age of Camelot’s 24th anniversary, we are including a 3 charge 100% Realm Point Bonus potion on the quest turn in. 

Friends and Realm mates,

In celebration of our 24th Year Anniversary, we are pleased to start the celebrations today with the below bonuses!

Bonuses

On Ywain:

• 100% bonus to RPs gained from RvR kills
• 100% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic zones and dungeons

On Gaheris:

• 100% bonus to normal XP gain in all classic zones and dungeons
• 100% bonus to normal RP gain in the capital cities

In each Capital City:

• 40% Bonus to Crafting Speed
• 20% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain

In all Housing Zones:

• 20% Bonus to Crafting Speed
• 10% Bonus to Crafting Skill Gain

Keep your eyes here on the Herald throughout the month as we celebrate Dark Age of Camelot’s birthday with events and more!

Bonuses will be active until November 3rd, 2025.

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The following event updates are now live:

Boating

• The docks at Caer Benowyc, Bledmeer Faste, and Dun Crauchon can now be used by players from any realm.
  • Note: The Trackers have been removed, however each realm’s Prescience Node will remain.

Player Kills

• Players killed within the event areas of Hadrian’s Wall, Odin’s Gate, Emain Macha, and Ellan Vannin now have a chance to drop a Magic Head Orb. When used, this item will create a RoG item in the players inventory.
  • Magic Head Orbs stack, and can be /used from stacks.

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