Note how it lists names normally believed to be synonymous (such as Hjalti, Talos, Septim) as separate entities. Banned. Yagrum: In a pocket real called Plot Device. Don't trust the dragon. Was KINMUNE the "Eye of Magnus" as represented in Skyrim? That's because, if I'm not mistaken, Bethesda did not have dedicated writers as quest developer positions even until Fallout 4. Michael Kirkbride, also known as "MK" for short, is an edgelord well known in the community. Probably one of the most well-known ex-writers for Bethesda, Michael Kirkbride is known for his complex writings. Oct 26, 2017 1,240. Top. would fit better, imo. It needs a revisit. Just throwing it out there: the lizards are deceitful, the snakes were deceitful. So I've always liked how vague the lore for this series is. Offline . Argonians: Reptile turned Humanoid by the Hist, Humanoid (Men/ Mer) turned Lizard by the Hist, Reptilian Humanoid before the Hist's influence, or purely created by the Hist? Pelinal, however, is an exception, as he exhibits significant bonds to Akatosh as well, as he had the Amulet of Kingsin his chest in place of a heart. 1. Lady N wrote: It's in the same place as the excerpt I posted on reddit and Michael's tumblr. What was the last really great game you played? Until I finish the Shonni-etta, and Reman gangbangs all of their forces at Pale Pass. Congratulations to all the winners! Author: Various . "The Heart of the World" is the Altmeri creation myth presented in The Monomyth. Moreso than Talos. 6. I generally consider his writings to be canon, but canon is somewhat fuzzy in the Elder Scrolls. How much of Michael Kirkbride's work have you seen? Hopefully someone with real info can chime in. Michael Kirkbride - Reddit AMA. Was this in a movie? Are we hearing echoes of your own personal views? The best advice I can give about the lore and the creation thereof is something I learned from Uncle Ken: Tell God's story, then tell the farmer's story, then listen to what the dog has to say. Is there any piece of lore you regret writing, a piece or fact you wish you could change or revoke its canonity? It was about how Michael Kirkbride (one of the writers and designers working on Morrowind) wrote a series of in-game books called The 36 Lessons of Vivic. This is Vivec, in my eyes, starting to replace Mephala as the head of the Morag Tong. My personal belief (that is crude and unrefined) is that Vivec replaces Mephala as the head of the Morag Tong. Tureynulal, Kagrenac's Library. Mon Nov 04, 2013 4:41 am. /conjecture, This freaks me out. Posted by 2 years ago. Whats the distinction, if any, between possipoint and impossipoint? I wouldn't call it a different kalpa so much as a parallel version of Tamriel. Why did MK ever leave Bethesda? The Dragon Break Re-Examined, because Kurt's the best writer in the series and that piece is so subversive. Fortunately, most of his outside-contract work is not directly contradictive to much, and can be largely disregarded without radically changing anything. 7.3. October 15th. C0DA underwent more revisions than most, but that's because it's so fucking brilliant. I'm not really a fan of the Dark Brotherhood as it was depicted in Oblivion or Skyrim. /r/teslore is a subreddit dedicated to the discussion and creation of the vast lore of The Elder Scrolls. http://www.giantbomb.com/michael-kirkbride/72-57208/all-images/52-283752/mk/51-505654/, http://www.imperial-library.info/content/forum-archives-michael-kirkbride, http://forums.bethsoft.com/forum/16-elder-scrolls-lore/. In a way, these games happen in a different universe. Despite no longer working for Bethesda, he still writes various unlicensed texts that can be found on The Imperial Library. Whats an Impossipoint? Vivec City: 7.1. He did write a ton of the lore. Author: Various . I lucked into games. 7.2. He left during Morrowind's development as well. As Eras passed, it became a language that she could harness as Varliance+" held the secret, but now I don't know. I was the Season Lead Designer (thought I did write a bunch on all the episodes). What do you think about mixing fantasy and sci-fi? That includes Landfall, the meaning of the Numidium, the Disappearance of the Dwarves, the House of We, the Digitals, Lorkhan’s relationship to the Talos, and the birth of the next Amaranth. But I wasn't aware that he worked on it. If it appears in-game or in-book, it's canon. Posted by Michael Kirkbride for Morrowind's 10th anniversary on May 1st, 2012. Oh and you kick ass, specifically for doing this and just in general. Bargains were made with the Black Hands Mephala, the greater shade. There's just a drive. FUCK YEAH I WROTE LINES FOR DARTH VADER. Did Aka-Tusk have dragon symbology? Is there any piece of lore you regret writing, a piece or fact you wish you could change or revoke its canonity? I enjoyed the homage to Kurt Kuhlmann. Ie, each person's head canon is as canon as the last. Who exactly is Nir? The subreddit as a whole tends to skew Pro-Kirkbride from what I can see. Jobasha's Rare Books(x5). I've probably read every post that The Imperial Library has on him, but I've never remembered the dates. Lyg: it's one of the Adjacent Places. Juicy. While I finally ended up enjoying the game several years after its release, neither the tech or the development of Cyrod was capable of pulling off what the Empire really deserved. Described by Morihaus as an ada or spirit, Pelinal plays the same role as a long line of avatars sent by Shor to champion the cause of mankind and stop the Elves from destroying them. But then, why would Mephala allow the night mother to pretend to communicate with Sithis and not Mephala herself? At least, until Bethesda directly and overtly contradicts him in a subsequent writing. Has he written anything recently? According to accounts given in the Mythic Dawn's (likely biased) Commentaries on the Mysterium Xarxes, the Magna Ge created Mehrunes Dagon in the bowels of Lyg to be a prince of good, and imbued him with Oblivion's most precious asset, hope. I'd politely disagree with that, if I can. Sorry. Joined: 07/31/2012 . Credit where it’s due: James Windeler was the Season Lead Writer on TWD4. If you’ve not seen the lower case c0da stuff, you really should; the artists on them deserve some recognition and a wider audience. The u/MKirkbride community on Reddit. Well, we know that the Dark Brotherhood split from the Morag Tong for religious reasons. Probably one of the most well-known ex-writers for Bethesda, Michael Kirkbride is known for his complex writings. I would have also changed Dagoth Ur's voice, and I know I'll get flames for that one. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. I was so surprised when I saw him; I just didn't expect him to be as good looking as he was given his job and intellect. Press J to jump to the feed. Perhaps this is Mephala. The Jills have to work overtime. TESO has lots of Argonian love that I don't want to step on. Ben Linus from "Lost" is always the Sharmat's voice in my head. I can't find it, but it's okay. Trinimac is probably one of the least understood underpinnings of the whole pantheon. Originally commissioned by Flanigus.UL 2 Foul Murder is a drawing by Michael Kirkbride. That was the Dawn. Who the Dark Brotherhood's Night Mother truly is? Okie dokie. He did it with the Razor, cutting his nymix back into a versioned Dawn. It kind of birthed itself when I spun the Wheel and saw the "I", and that's when I knew where Lorkhan was going with all of this. Kirkbride wrote for both Morrowind and Oblivion, as well as for the Action-Adventure spin-off Redguard. He left Bethesda's payroll during Morrowind's development, but still did contract writing for Oblivion and many well-known writings on the Beth forums. You said that it took a week, but how much of that week was spent writing and doing other stuff? Hlaalu Records(x5). According to MK's own account of how the 36 were written: [it consisted of] "a week of bourbon, smokes, and solitude. Ghostgate, Tower of Dawn. Plus dark elf ninjas because dark elf ninjas. That's from 'The Force Unleashed', I think the second one. Eye of Magnus: I'll just say I'm a fan of that idea. So whats the significance of Nir being the first Possipoint? All questions and answers have been reformatted for easy reading. Librarian Comment: This Ask Me Anything ran on Reddit's TESLore board on Sunday, November 3rd. :(. But isn't the can't-be-understood thing the Dwemer's shtick, or are they a whole 'nother kind of inscrutability? What other universes do you like to play in? The first line of this quote caused a bit of a stir in the IRC and I'd like to note that the new "idea" of Talos as an organization is probably a semantic collision rather than new information. I would guess Skyrim and or Atmora, but I can't place a date in that case. [UL 1] C0DA's timeline officially begins with a currently unreleased text known as "Dies Irae," said to feature a catastro… 2009 Skyrim design doc. He is responsible for the lore you see in TES3:Morrowind, and is quite the figure (he's crazy). The plot begins six years after the events of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind in 3E 433. I saw that trend too, and want to see how many people actually skew toward Pro-Kirkbride. If those things happen after Morrowind (after MK left Bethesda), then his views are at the least opinions or at the most possibilities (impossibilipoints?). The fact that he goes around changing canon for shits and giggles not only pisses me off, it also makes me take him seriously when he says that TES is "open source". The Joker; D.I.C.E. What birthed concepts like CHIM and Amaranth? I think of Michael Kirkbride’s handsome face, his twenty-seven inch cock, and of course his genius-level brain. And I agree on his look. Close. I guess it's just one of those things that happen when you are Not Human. I understand its fan base, though, by which I mean I just smh. The Amaranth is a state that lies beyond all existence and the means to create a brand new universe; it was designed to present the natural "end-point" of the Elder Scrolls mythology. What's a typical routine for penning a big work like the Lessons? I'm working on a new 20-year project now, but it's too soon to really talk about that. 4. Then we have the quote you quoted where Vivec takes to bed the Night Mothers of the Morag Tong, cementing himself as the new Exarch of Sex and Death, replacing Mephala. Beth's already turned on MK's lore a few times before. “C0DA” arrives in Q1 2014, a 64-page digital comic that answers All the Things that I’ve wanted to say about Morrowind for some time now. The problem with taking everything MK says as canon is that when not under contract or currently in employ, he does a lot of his writing just 'for fun' - things like the loveletter from the 5th era (and especially anything else relating to vivec or CHIM) may actually end up being truly canonised at some point, but they currently largely serve only to make really differentiating between true canon and not more difficult. Or is there anything you wished you'd had a chance to work on lore or design-wise (outside of the stuff you're working on now)? Cookies help us deliver our Services. Anuiel, the soul of all things, t… I would have loved to properly given the same love and treatment for Almalexia and Sotha Sil that I did for Vivec. I don't think I've ever heard a character refer to the sky at night as "space." And I really wanted a magical hermaphroditic badass on the XBox. Morrowind was straight up sci-fi fantasy. What I want to ask the TESLore subreddit is this: how do each of you stand on Kirkbride's writing? Maybe he found the Heart of Lorkhan himself and made himself attractive? 0. Michael Kirkbride is a former writer and designer for Bethesda Softworks. It is said that Pelinal "emerged into Nirn like a Padomaic, carried by Sithis and all other forces of change." edit: Mah-Fah-Lah means "Fall For Magicka". Yes, Sotha Sil is dead. All of his writing is interesting, though, and you'd be missing out. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Of course. He left Bethesda's payroll during Morrowind's development, but still did contract writing for Oblivion and many well-known writings on the Beth forums. Oblivion still benefited from people like Ken Rolston or Michael Kirkbride still being on so there was an intrinsic leaning towards appropriate writing without having such dedicated positions. I was very proud of my short stint on Star Wars. Justice Offi… i looked in a book called the children of the sky, where there is something about Akaviri having something akin to dragon shouts called Kiai. The novel focuses on the end of the world, and rather than this resulting in the next Aurbic kalpa, the kalpic cycle also comes to an end.The setting for the novel is a science-fantasy evolution of the moon Masser, to which inhabitants of Nirn fled after an apocalyptic event called the Landfall. Sermon 22 speaks to the nature of the Night Mother. In … His writings are cryptic, and many focus on his pet-favorite character Vivec/Vehk. It depicts the supposed death of Hortator Indoril Nerevar at the hands of the Tribunal. Down.'. It's in the same place as the excerpt I posted on reddit and Michael's tumblr. Hell, the current feature on C0DA.es seems to indicate that the Thalmor win or are VERY strong in the future. And my New Orleans Invisibles game will finally get off the ground this month, and that's one my favorite universes to play with/study. What other universes do you like to play in? A lot of MK's ideas and concepts are still alive in Skyrim, but we kind of have to work under the assumption that the fundamental building-blocks of the world that MK discusses (the concept of CHIM, the 8-spoked wheel, etc.) Submitted by Lady N on Wed, 11/27/2013 - 12:49. Wars then were ideologies given skin. All of the akaspirits, like all of the etada, are quantum figures that shed their skin as each aspect of them becomes more and more self-aware. While I appreciate his literary skill, I find that his more extreme writings (Trial of Vivec, CHIM, possibly Landfall [although I don't mind that as much], etc) tend to muddle the concrete canon. They are also listed below. How did Mankar recreate himself? I regret not sticking around for Tribunal. Sup n’wahs, First, let me pimp some TES-related projects I’m working on, because this is my very special hour and I am filthy with power. Morvayn Manor. I simp for Michael Kirkbride and I’m not ashamed. Does anyone happen to know a reason? Their movements among the holdings of the Ra'athim were as rippled endings, heaving between times, with all fates leading to swallowed knives, murder as moaning, God's holy rape-erasure of wet death. ', 'Animal picture, rude-walker, go back to the lamp that stays lit in water and store no more messages of useless noise. The purpose of this post is to dispel certain misconceptions about Michael Kirkbride (MK) that are popularly spread around the internet, particularly by those newer to the series—in particular, that Kirkbride is no longer involved with The Elder Scrolls in an "official" capacity, and therefore his ongoing contributions to the series carry no more weight than fanfiction. Personally I think back to the doorway to the Dark Brotherhood in Oblivion and of the scene it depicts, one of a Dark Mother slaughtering her own children. Approach to Michael Kirkbride's lore. These are LIZARDS. But from what I understand of TES Lore, what we consider "Space" is actually just Oblivion, and the stars are bridges to Aetherius. When Kirkbride Likes Your Meme by slickrick0133 in TheWalkingDeadGame. Canon unless contradicted by one of the games. Perhaps the Morag Tong, as suggested by Ynir Gorming, began to worship Vivec instead of Mephala, and the Dark Brotherhood split in order to return to worshipping Mepahal? That said, is Pelinal actually a robot/cyborg? I’ve never dropped acid in my life." I would change Cyrodiil's depiction in Oblivion. Is it similar to the Jung philosophy in that he took control of his own conception and birth? The list's exclusion of Pelinal Whitestrake has led many to believe that it is only listing the Shezarrines associated with the god Talos. I thought that was obvious. Is there anyway to replicate this state without using drugs or causing harm to myself? All questions were submitted by members of that community. I am master evermore. Thoughts? But we know all of this already. If you can hit all of those marks, your worlds will seem real. What kind of inspirations and influences do you draw from, nowadays? CHIM came first, in the earliest studies of the Wheel and the structure of the Aurbis. It needs a revisit. Jan 8, 2018 #18 nib95 said: Why is a former 2K … This is getting a little too meta for my taste. I recently learned that the Elder Scrolls series's lore was invented when Michael Kirkbride locked himself in a room for a while while high off his own mental illness. The question remains: has Michael Kirkbride achieved CHIM? Fractal mindscapes escaping into Ayrenn subverting her original mythic-patterns. Could you elaborate on what useful teachings Azura provides to the Dunmer? The Arcturian Heresy was the worst thing I've ever written. #3. Sotha Sil is on the far left, holding Nerevar's severed face. January 2018. Did it help you at all? Crazytalk time: they won't let me stop, if that makes sense. If MK ever says something that is non-canon, it's because the very act of MK saying it is canon. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. The only photo of him I could find: http://www.giantbomb.com/michael-kirkbride/72-57208/all-images/52-283752/mk/51-505654/, And what The Imperial Library has for his posts: http://www.imperial-library.info/content/forum-archives-michael-kirkbride. What does the politcal structure of the An-Xileel look like? Do you have any inspirations for your writings that are especially prominent or significant? I absolutely refuse chim, it's an abomination! If you could change anything in the series, what would it be and why? Earlier in the sermon there's this quote: 'The Treasure Wood Sword will not leave our house. He is known for his works on the lore that exists in The Elder Scrolls universe. And we know that Sermon 22 speaks to that reason. C0DA's background is introduced in the text Loveletter From the Fifth Era, The True Purpose of Tamriel, which brings some insight into a few aspects of C0DA's lore, most importantly the concept of the "Amaranth." 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