He’s more like the guy who yells loudest and they just generally agree they’ll listen”, Sera laughs. He’s “King of the Reachmen, though they wouldn’t say they have a king because they all argue too much. The city’s recently been taken by The Reachmen, Sera tells me as we approach – these are a collective of clans led by Ard Caddach, the so-called ‘Despot’. Though its battlements are more primitive, with logs and tattered banners flanking its walls, Markarth is unmistakable. Be warned, though – as Sera jokes, and I discover later at a river crossing, “If you have an incompetent driver, you might end up swimming”. The buggy is the perfect ride for exploring the Reach’s rocky terrain: it can scutter up Skyrim’s byways like a clanking metallic spider.
I saddle up with lead content designer Jeremy Sera on an insectoid Dwemer buggy – the new group mount – with lead gameplay designer Rob Garrett alongside on a boring old horse. The Reach, Skyrim’s westernmost hold, is instantly familiar from The Elder Scrolls V even though ESO is set a millennium earlier in time. If a whistle-stop tour of the DLC with the RPG game’s devs is anything to go by, there’s plenty to sink your fangs into. Markarth, the fourth and final portion of the MMORPG’s voyage into Tamriel’s frostiest region, takes us into the “untamed Reach” – one of Skyrim’s nine holds, the capital of which is the titular Dwemer City of Stone – and brings an “epic conclusion” to its vampire-riddled storyline. As the days grow chillier and 2020 draws to a close, so too does The Elder Scrolls Online’s year-long adventure, The Dark Heart of Skyrim.
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