ESO: Healing Hearts/Into the Mouth of Madness/Motive for Heresy/The Judgment of Veloth

These quests are from the original 2014 launch, and you can feel it. In this run, the Hoarding Hero works through “Healing Hearts,” “Into the Mouth of Madness,” “Motive for Heresy,” and “The Judgment of Veloth.” They’re routine, fairly vanilla base-game quests without the cinematic polish ESO adopted later. The bosses along the way are pitiful by modern standards — they melt almost instantly.

Things start with “Healing Hearts,” where Acolyte Eldri hands over the Daedra Hearts she collected and asks you to deliver them to Healer Dalen. “Into the Mouth of Madness” sets up the final push by sending you to break the three wards around Magistrix Vox’s sanctuary. “Motive for Heresy” walks through Vox’s past via Anima Crystals, but the presentation shows its age: the memory characters look like ordinary NPCs instead of ghostlike figures, and the waypoint for “Use the Anima Crystal and Witness Vox’s Memory” points you to a highlighted spot even though you actually need to speak to Aspera the Forgotten to advance.

“The Judgment of Veloth” closes this section of the arc. Almalexia’s appearances give the storyline some presence, but there are no standout personalities here — after meeting someone as memorable as Naryu Virian earlier in the zone, her absence is noticeable. Gameplay mechanics also feel dated. The requirement to “Free the Spirit of Priest Malvari” is especially unclear: the real task is to hit the drifting orbs to slow them until they line up at the same moment. It’s a timing puzzle disguised as combat, and it completely eluded me during the run — I eventually got lucky and progressed without fully understanding what the encounter wanted.

Online impressions line up with this experience: solid enough quests, but simple, functional, and unmistakably products of ESO’s 2014 design era.

Watch the Previous Installment in this Deshaan Arc Here:    • ESO: A Saint Asunder  

0:00 Talk to Acolyte Eldri
0:52 Started: Healing Hearts
1:05 Find Healer Dalen at Eidolon’s Hollow
3:37 Deshaan Ambience
5:00 Find Healer Dalen at Eidolon’s Hollow
6:25 Talk to Ordinator Muron
6:54 Started: Into the Mouth of Madness
7:05 Talk to Healer Dalen
7:34 Completed: Healing Hearts
7:43 Observe the Vision of Almalexia
8:21 Talk to Ordinator Muron
8:35 Destroy the Wards
12:17 Soul of Irthari
13:35 Destroy the Wards
16:42 Ahzuom
17:04 Find the Entrance to Vox’s Lair
18:16 Enter the Hollow Cave
18:29 Talk to Aspera the Forgotten
19:26 Completed: Into the Mouth of Madness
20:19 Started: Motive for Heresy
20:27 Find the Western Anima Archive
22:58 Use the Anima Crystal and Witness Vox’s Memory
25:40 Find the Eastern Anima Archive
26:06 Use the Anima Crystal and Witness Vox’s Memory
27:55 Find the Central Anima Archive
28:20 Use the Anima Crystal and Witness Vox’s Memory
30:32 Talk to Aspera the Forgotten
31:57 Completed: Motive for Heresy
32:58 Started: The Judgment of Veloth
33:04 Enter the Hollow
33:34 Confront Vox
35:00 Talk to Meram Vox
36:19 Talk to Priest Malvari
38:00 Talk to Ordinator Da’ravis
39:00 Free the Spirit of Priest Malvari
41:00 Free the Spirit of Ordinator Da’ravis
41:10 The Keeper
41:39 Free the Spirit of Priest Malvari
42:11 Convince Meram to Join You
43:32 Enter the Reservoir of Souls
43:58 Release the Captured Souls
45:39 Defeat Vox
45:58 Talk to Almalexia
46:59 Completed: The Judgment of Veloth

This Elder Scrolls Online gameplay is presented in native 4K/60 HDR, directly uploaded from PlayStation 5 Pro with no edits or post-processing.