- Key Takeaway: The Elder Scrolls: Shadows of Oblivion has been officially confirmed to ship in November 2026 as part of the Heroes of Tamriel expansion wave for Betrayal of the Second Era.
- It’s a Daedric prince-focused expansion featuring Hermaeus Mora, Sheogorath, Mehrunes Dagon, Azura, Sanguine — and Peryite as a stretch goal addition.
- The expansion introduces a brand-new hedonism mechanic with its own physical chips and tokens, plus eight skill dice and eight fatigue dice.
- Shadows of Oblivion (Volume 1) is priced at just $25 on Gamefound, separate from the $225 base game.
- It’s part of Chip Theory Games’ biggest fulfillment in company history — five expansions shipping simultaneously.
- Meanwhile, The Elder Scrolls 6 remains in development, with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma having seen a live playthrough in August 2026 and teasing an eight-letter subtitle.
If you’re an Elder Scrolls fan and the wait for The Elder Scrolls 6 is starting to feel genuinely unreasonable at this point, here’s something to keep you occupied in the meantime. The Elder Scrolls: Shadows of Oblivion, an expansion for the tabletop RPG Betrayal of the Second Era, has been officially confirmed to ship in November 2026 — and from what Chip Theory Games has put together, it looks like one of the more ambitious pieces of Elder Scrolls content we’re getting this year.
This isn’t a new video game. Let’s be clear about that upfront, because the name is eye-catching enough that it’s worth managing expectations. But if you’ve ever wanted to bring the world of Tamriel to your tabletop with proper physical components and an actual ruleset that captures the feel of the games, this one’s worth knowing about.
What Is Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era?
Before getting into Shadows of Oblivion itself, it helps to know what it’s expanding. The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era is a cooperative tabletop RPG published by Chip Theory Games — a studio known for high-quality, component-dense board game experiences. The base game supports one to four players and drops them into a story set during Tamriel’s Second Era, investigating a conspiracy connected to the Order of the Black Worm. It’s a strategy game of character-building and tactical combat, and it’s been very well received in tabletop circles — currently sitting at a 9.67 average rating on BoardGameGeek.
The game first launched on Gamefound throughout 2025, and its crowdfunding campaign funded a wave of expansions called the Heroes of Tamriel pack. That wave consists of five separate expansions, each expanding different aspects of the core game. Shadows of Oblivion is one of them, and it’s arguably the most distinct mechanically.
What Does Shadows of Oblivion Actually Add?
The expansion’s whole identity is built around the Daedric princes — those immensely powerful entities from the planes of Oblivion who play such a central role in the lore of the Elder Scrolls universe. Shadows of Oblivion introduces five of them into the tabletop experience: Hermaeus Mora, Sheogorath, Mehrunes Dagon, Azura, and Sanguine, with Peryite added as a stretch goal for backers who helped push the campaign further.
Each Daedric prince functions something like a side quest in the expansion. They come with their own blessing and a curse, creating a risk-reward system where dealing with these entities gives you power but extracts a cost. That’s extremely on-brand for how Daedric princes work in the actual games — the Oblivion quests were always at their best when bargaining with these figures felt genuinely double-edged — and it translates surprisingly well to the tabletop format.
On top of the Daedric encounters, the expansion introduces a brand-new hedonism mechanic with its own physical chips and tokens, which should add a fresh layer of strategy to existing runs. The component list also includes enemy chips, eight new skill dice, and eight fatigue dice — giving players more mechanical variety to work with from session to session.
Chip Theory promises “so many ways to adjust the gameplay experience” with this expansion, which lines up with their general design philosophy of building games where no two runs feel exactly the same.
The Other Heroes of Tamriel Expansions
Shadows of Oblivion doesn’t ship alone. The full Heroes of Tamriel expansion wave consists of five pieces of content that are all expected to fulfill in November 2026:
- Heroes of Tamriel — Adds alternate versions of every playable race with new artwork and racial abilities, new classes, new skill lines, and additional companions.
- Summerset — A new regional expansion taking players to the Summerset Isles.
- Elsweyr — Takes players to the home of the Khajiit, across vast deserts and unexplored canyons.
- Fur and Fang — A gameplay-focused add-on expanding combat and bestiary options.
- Shadows of Oblivion (Volume 1) — The Daedric prince expansion detailed above.
Each of these can be picked up individually, which is a welcome option for players who want to expand their collection piece by piece rather than going all-in at once.
Price and How to Get It
Here’s where the value proposition becomes hard to ignore. The Shadows of Oblivion expansion is priced at $25 on Gamefound, which is an extremely reasonable ask for a tabletop expansion of this scope, especially compared to how aggressively priced some board game content can get. If you don’t already own the base game, that’ll run you $225, which is a steeper entry point — but for the amount of content Chip Theory Games packs in, existing owners of Betrayal of the Second Era have consistently said it justifies the cost.
For anyone looking to jump into the full Heroes of Tamriel package, the complete bundle is also available at retail with an expected delivery of November 30, 2026.
One thing worth flagging: Chip Theory Games has acknowledged that the simultaneous fulfillment of all five expansions represents the largest shipping operation in the company’s history. They’re shipping to both individual backers and retail outlets at scale, and they’ve noted there could be logistical complexity involved. They’re committed to getting everything out on schedule, but it’s reasonable to expect that being a first wave of something this size comes with some variability. Backer orders and retail listings point to late November as the delivery window.
While You Wait for The Elder Scrolls 6…
It’s impossible to talk about a new Elder Scrolls release — even a tabletop one — without acknowledging the elephant in the room. The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced all the way back in 2018, and in the years since, substantive information has remained almost non-existent. That said, there’s been a notable uptick in activity around it lately.
In August 2026, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma visited Bethesda Game Studios’ offices in Rockville, Maryland, and watched a live playthrough of the game. In her post afterward, she described the scale and grandeur as “incredible” and the story as “even greater” — and she notably included eight asterisks in place of the subtitle, which Bethesda then mirrored in its own reply. Fans immediately started counting letters and speculating, with Sentinel — an eight-letter word and a city in the Iliac Bay region — becoming a popular fan theory. Bethesda has not confirmed anything about the subtitle, setting, or release window.
What is confirmed is that TES6 is still years away, with industry insiders pointing to 2028 or 2029 as the earliest realistic window. Until then, the world of Tamriel lives on through projects like Shadows of Oblivion — and for tabletop fans, that’s not nothing.
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