Zanzoken
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Michael Kirkbride.
If you don't know who Kirkbride is, he is responsible for creating a lot of the lore around the Elder Scrolls series. He wrote most of the gods and creation myths, pretty much everything Vivec-related in Morrowind, and also the Commentaries on the Mysterium Xarxes. Plus lots more.
Now as derpy as the games themselves can be, if you really start digging into the lore, there's a lot of deep world design and interesting storytelling going on behind the scenes. The Bethesda devs fail to effectively utilize most of it but it's there.
Nobody else in games really writes the way Kirkbride does (maybe Avellone is close when he is on his game). Kirkbride's stuff is usually hard to grasp, very esoteric and kind of a mindfuck, but once you start to wrap your head around it then it's really cool. And even though it will never happen, I would love to see a TES game where he is given free reign over the story and narrative design.
Thoughts?
If you don't know who Kirkbride is, he is responsible for creating a lot of the lore around the Elder Scrolls series. He wrote most of the gods and creation myths, pretty much everything Vivec-related in Morrowind, and also the Commentaries on the Mysterium Xarxes. Plus lots more.
Now as derpy as the games themselves can be, if you really start digging into the lore, there's a lot of deep world design and interesting storytelling going on behind the scenes. The Bethesda devs fail to effectively utilize most of it but it's there.
Nobody else in games really writes the way Kirkbride does (maybe Avellone is close when he is on his game). Kirkbride's stuff is usually hard to grasp, very esoteric and kind of a mindfuck, but once you start to wrap your head around it then it's really cool. And even though it will never happen, I would love to see a TES game where he is given free reign over the story and narrative design.
Thoughts?