Of course, it had to be a TES story, so I was constrained by lore - although not, interestingly, by game mechanics. All through this process I had access to Bruce Nesmith and Kurt Kuhlman at Bethesda, so I could bounce ideas off of them, ask whether I could or couldn't do something. Once the basic idea was settled on, I wrote a longer, more detailed outline, which then went through a few changes. I wrote a number of different short proposals, which were reviewed by my editor and the guys at Bethesda. I was given a preliminary outline of history after Oblivion, but I was also told that some of it was negotiable. GK: Things were pretty wide open, in terms of the story I could tell. Michael Kirkbride & Mythopoeic Forces masterpost The Daedric Princes & Oblivion (continued further)Īrch-Curate Vyruther destroys the Chantry of Auriel calcĭebunking 'stars are just holes' and other myths Lore discrepancies and narrator reliability House Redoran & extinct wildlife of Morrowind Machines, airships and industrial capacity More Bios (Mercer Frey, Alduin, the Celestials) Summaries (Hermaeus Mora, Akatosh/The Time Dragon, Numidium, The Hist, Sithis, Sakatal) Geographical distances, for instance, are contracted in the game - in my books they aren't, so it takes days or weeks rather than hours to run from one city to another. My book represents that world in another way. We are to imagine the world of TES to be a real place, of which the games are merely representations. I was told specifically that no one wanted to 'hear the dice rolling' so to speak.

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