Who Did What?

Videogames are a highly collaborative medium. While we are attributing contributions to specific developers, each part is often created, edited, or inspired by multiple people. Neither does this page represent an exhaustive list of everything a developer worked on. Finally, keep in mind that some of these attributions depend on human memory and may therefore not be 100% accurate.

If you have anything to add to this list, please let us know.

Adam Adamowicz

Credits:

  • Knights of the Nine - Concept Artist
  • Shivering Isles - Concept Artist
  • Skyrim - Concept Art
David Lee Anderson

Credits:

  • Elder Scrolls Arena - Art (uncredited)

Game Contributions:

  • Art for in-game location images [31]
Atomhawk

Atomhawk is an art outsourcing studio. Their roster of artists is unknown.

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art (Uncredited)
  • ES:L - Special Thanks

Game Contributions: [26]

  • Card art for "Lucien Lachance," "High King Emeric," "Barbas," "Ulfric Stormcloak," "Miraak, Dragonborn," and "Mystic Dragon"
James Audet

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
Chris Balser

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
Eric Bakutis

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Zone Lead
  • ESO:TU - Senior Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
Jason Barnes

Credits:

  • ESO:TU - Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
  • ESO:EW - Zone Lead Designer

Game Contributions:

  • Content design on Naryu in Elder Scrolls Online [1]
  • Content design for The Dagger's Edge quest in Elder Scrolls Online [1]
Jared Beaulieu

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
Randy Begel

Credits:

  • ESO:MW - Writer-Designer
  • ESO:SU - Writer-Designer
  • ESO:EW - Writer-Designer
Rayph Beisner

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Concept Artist (Uncredited)
  • ES:L - Direwolf Digital Art & Audio
Allison Berryman

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Community Team
  • ESO: TU - Community Team

Out of Game:

Joe Blackburn

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
Jason Bolte

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer

Game Contributions:

  • Mages guild and Two Moons Path in Elder Scrolls Online [1]
Guillaume Bonnet

Credits:

  • Blades - Concept Art
Kaitlin Braswell

Credits:

  • ES:L (Sparkypants) - Art Director
Mike Breault

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Writer
Dan Brennan

Credits:

  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
R. Todd Broadwater

Credits:

  • Oblivion - Concept Art (uncredited)
  • Oblivion - Dungeon Art
Bill Burcham

Credits:

  • Morrowind - Additional Writing & Quest Design

Game Contributions:

  • Testing and quest design for faction quests in TESIII: Morrowind, in particular Battle at Nchurdamz for the Fighters Guild [2]
Zach Bush

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Writer
  • SO:TU - Writer

Game Contributions:

  • Writing on Shadowfen main quest-line and Lyranth for Elder Scrolls Online [1]

Out of Game:

Erik J. Caponi

Credits:

  • Oblivion - Additional Design
  • Knights of the Nine - Designer
  • Shivering Isles - Quest Design
  • Skyrim - Special Thanks
Matthew Carofano

Credits:

  • Morrowind - Lead Artist, World Art & Building
  • Tribunal - Lead Artist
  • Oblivion - Lead Artist
  • Knights of the Nine - Lead Artist
  • Shivering Isles - Lead Artist
  • Skyrim - Lead Artist
  • Blades - Art Director

Out of Game:

Jared Carr

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Art Director
  • ESO:TU - Art Director
  • ESO:MW - Art Director
  • ESO:SU - Art Director
  • ESO:EW - Art Director
Gavin Carter

Credits:

  • Morrowind - Additional World Art & Building
  • Tribunal - Writing and Quest Design
Chris Casiano

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
Wade-Hahn Chan

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Content Designer
Brian Chapin

Credits:

  • Morrowind - Writing and Quest Design
  • Tribunal - Writing and Quest Design
  • Bloodmoon - Writing and Quest Design
  • Oblivion - Quest Design
  • Knights of the Nine - Designer
  • Shivering Isles - Quest Design
  • Skyrim - Quest Design, Writing
  • Blades - Additional Writing
Elie Charest

Credits:

  • Blades - Design
Yuriy Chemezov

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art Department Illustrators
Rob Chestney

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Senior Writer

Game Contributions:

  • Writing for “Flowers of Youth” quest in Elder Scrolls Online [1]

Out of Game:

Corentin Chevanne

Credits:

  • Blades - Art Director
David “Zeb” Cook

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Zone Lead
  • ESO:TU - Zone Lead
  • ESO:MW - Zone Lead Designer
  • ESO:SU - Zone Lead Designer
Jonathon Cournoyer

Credits:

  • Blades - Lead Designer
Chris Cowger

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
Jessica Daniels

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
Matt Daniels

Credits:

  • Skyrim - Additional Quest Design, Additional Writing
Brady Dommermuth

Credits (as Christopher Dommermuth):

  • ES:L (Bethesda Softworks)- Creative Designer

Game Contributions:

  • Card art briefs and lore backgrounds [34]
Jon Paul Duvall

Credits:

  • Oblivion - Additional Design
  • Shivering Isles - Quest Design
  • Skyrim - Quest Design. Writing
Nate Ellis

Credits:

  • Skyrim - Additional Quest Design, Additional Writing
William A. Erdman

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
Jason Felix

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art Department Senior Illustrator
Jeremy Fenske

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Concept Artist
  • ESO:TU - Senior Concept Artist
Mike Finnigan

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Senior Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Senior Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Dungeon Lead
  • ESO:SU - Dungeon Lead
  • ESO:EW - Dungeron Lead
Matt Firor

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Game Director
  • ESO:TU - Game Director
  • ESO:MW - Game Director
  • ESO:SU - Game Director
  • ESO:EW - Game Director

Out of Game: :

Taylor Fischer

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Concept Art (Uncredited)
Rory Fitz-Gerald

Credits:

  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
David Ford

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Zone Lead
Julian Futanto

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art (uncredited - part of Volta)

Game Contributions:[25]

  • Redguard monk racial illustration for ES:L
  • Card art for "Skeever," "Argonian Veteran", and "Smuggler's Haul"
  • Location image for Chamber of Lorhkan in ES:L
Morgan Gadot

Credits:

  • ES:L (Bethesda Softworks) - Art Director
Justin Goby Fields

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art Department Illustrator
Douglass Goodall

Goodall departed Bethesda after Morrowind's completion, and is best known for his work on developing the Khajiit.

Credits:

  • Morrowind - Writing & Quest Design

Books:

  • The House of Troubles (final edits on Michael Kirkbride’s work) [5]
  • Words of Clan Mother Ahnissi [5]

Game Contributions: [2]

  • Design and Writing on House Redoran, House Hlaalu, House Telvanni, Mages Guild, Fighters Guild, Thieves Guild, Imperial Legion (with Todd Howard), Tribunal Temple, and Morag Tong for TESIII: Morrowind
  • Interior building for Ald’Ruhn (with Mark Nelson)

Out of Game:

Grafit Studio

Grafit Studio is an art outsourcing house used for ES:L. Their exact staff of artists is unknown.

Game Contributions: [17]

  • Card art for "Sheogorath", "Temple Patriarch" and "Falling Wizard"
  • Card backs featuring Cauis Cosades, Divayth Fyr, and Naryu Virian
Matthew Grandstaff

Known as Gstaff, Grandstaff held various community management positions at Bethesda until leaving in 2019. While he himself did not contribute to lore, he fascilitated numberous interviews and answered questions.

Credits:

  • Skyrim - Senior Community Manager
  • ESO (Launch) - Global Community Lead
  • ESO:TU - Global Community Lead
  • ESO:MW - Assistant Director of Community
  • ESO:SU - Assistant Director of Community
  • ESO:EW - Assistant Director of Community
  • ES:L - Assistant Director of Community
  • Blades - Assistant Director of Community

Out of Game:

Michelle Graves

Credits:

  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
CJ Grebb

Credits:

  • ESO:EW - Art Director
Andrew Griffiths

Known as Cartogriffi, Griffiths is currently a Community Content Manager focusing on the Creation Club.

Credits:

  • Oblivion - Special Thanks
  • ESO (Launch)- Social Engagements Team
  • ESO:TU - Customer Service Team
  • Blades - Community

Out of Game:

Richard Guy

Credits:

  • Battlespire - Graphics/Artwork, Design and Dialogue, Level Design
  • Redguard - Additional Writing for the manual

Books:

  • Children of the Sky (with Michael Kirkbride) [5]
Lucas Hardi

Credits:

  • Blades - Additional Concept Art
Emmanuelle Hardy-Senecal

Credits:

  • Blades - Design
Jay Hartman

Credits:

  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
Rebecca Harwick

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Writer

Game Contributions:

  • Writing on the Wilderking quest line in Greenshade in Elder Scrolls Online [1]

Out of Game:

Grant Hillier

Credits:

  • Blades - Additional Concept Art
Brad Hoppenstein

Credits:

  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
Miranda Horner

Credits:

  • ESO:EW - Writer-Designer
Todd Howard

Credits:

  • Daggerfall - Additional Design
  • Redguard - Project Leader, World Art, Design and Writing
  • Morrowind - Project Leader, Additional Writing & Quest Design, Original Concept, Additional Writing & Quest Design
  • Tribunal - Project Leader
  • Oblivion - Executive Producer
  • Skyrim - Game Director

Game Contributions:

  • Imperial Legion (with Douglas Goodall) for TESIII: Morrowind [2]

Out of Game:

Emerson Huang

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Concept Artist
  • ESO:TU - Senior Concept Artist
  • ESO:MW - Concept Artist
  • ESO:SU - Lead Concept Artist
  • ESO:EW - Lead Concent Artist
Dave Inscore

Credits:

  • ES:L (Sparkypants) - Art Director
Peter Janaros

Credits:

  • ES:L (Sparkypants) - Lead Designer
Stuart Jeff

Credits:

  • ES:L (Sparkypants) - Design Director
Mark K. Jones

Credits:

  • Daggerfall - Art
  • Battlespire - Graphics/Artwork, Cover Illustration
  • Morrowind - Additional Character and Creature Art
Mark Jackson

Credits:

  • Daggerfall - Additional Art
  • Redguard - Story Paintings

Game Contributions:

  • Daggerfall character concept art [32]
  • Redguard introduction movie images [33]
Jason Kang

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art (uncredited)

Game Contributions:

  • Card art for "Nix-Hound Fabricant," "Thornwell Terror" (both Nord and Warewolf), and "Mount Anthor" [27]
Mike Kern

Credits:

  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
Greg Keyes

Keyes is the author of two tie-in Elder Scrolls novels, taking place in the early 4th era.

Books:

  • The Infernal City
  • Lord of Souls

Out of Game:

Michael Kirkbride

Kirkbride is best known for making the Elder Scrolls "weird" with his art direction on Morrowind and extensive collection of religious and esoteric texts. Despite leaving Bethesda after Morrowind, he continued to freelance and was an active contributor to the community for many years.

Credits:

  • Redguard - World Art, Design and Writing, Writing and Art for the manual, Origin of Cyrus Writing
  • Morrowind - Lead Art (uncredited), Concept Art, Additional Writing & Quest Design
  • Oblivion - Additional Writing

Books: [5]

  • Approaching Vivec / Vivec and Mephala
  • Five Songs of King Wulfharth
  • 36 Lessons of Vivec
  • Aedra and Daedra
  • Sithis
  • Spirit of Nirn
  • Arcturian Heresy
  • The House of Troubles (with edits by Ken Rolston or Douglas Goodall)
  • The Monomyth
  • The Lunar Lorkhan
  • Varieties of Faith in the Empire
  • Where Were You When the Dragon Broke
  • Commentaries on the Mysterium Xarxes
  • Adabal-A
  • Songs of Pelinal
  • The Warrior's Charge
  • The Firmament (Morrowind version)
  • Mysterious Akavir
  • Changed Ones
  • The True Nature of Orcs
  • The Anuad (with Kurt Kuhlmann)
  • Before the Ages of Man (with Ken Rolston and Kurt Kuhlmann)
  • Remanada
  • Shezarr and the Divines
  • Children of the Sky (with Richard Guy)
  • Lunar Lorkhan

Out of Game:

Bryan Korab

Credits:

  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
Kurt Kuhlmann

Credits:

  • Daggerfall - Additional Design
  • Redguard - World Art, Design and Writing, Additional Writing for the manual
  • Morrowind - Special Thanks
  • Oblivion - Quest Design
  • Knights of the Nine - Lead Designer
  • Shivering Isles - Quest Design
  • Skyrim - Co-Lead Designer
  • Blades - Additional Writing

Books: [5]

  • Dragonbreak Reexamined [???]
  • Frontier, Conquest, and Accommodation [???]
  • The Anuad (with Michael Kirkbride)
  • Before the Ages of Man (with Ken Rolston and Michael Kirkbride)
  • Dwemer History and Culture

Game Contributions:

  • Text for Calcelmo's Stone [35]
  • "Earth Bone" pre-release title for TES:L [34]

Out of Game:

Tatyana Kupriyanova

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art (Uncredited - part of Nuare Studio)

Game Contributions:

  • Card art for "Cornerclub Gambler" [23]
Vijay Lakshman

Credits:

  • Arena - Lead Design, Documentation, Producer, Director
Rich Lambert

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Lead Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Lead Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Creative Director
  • ESO:SU - Creative Director
  • ESO:EW - Creative Director
Hans Larsen

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
  • ESO:EW- Content Designer
Ray Lederer

Credits:

  • Skyrim - Concept Art
Julian Lefay

Credits:

  • Arena - Lead Programming
  • Daggerfall - Project Leader, Programing, Design
  • Battlespire - Lead Programming, Programming, Design and Dialogue
  • Redguard - Special Thanks
  • Morrowind - Special Thanks

Out of Game:

Dakota LeMaster

Credits:

  • ES:L (Sparkypants) - Designer
Ian Lemke

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
Brandon Liao

Credits:

  • ESO:SU - Concept Artist
    ESO:EW - Concept Artist
Shane Liesegang

Credits:

  • Skyrim - Quest Design, Writing

Books:

  • Songs of Return volumes 2, 7, 19, 24, and 56 [6]
  • The Black Books [7]

Game Contributions:

  • Designing/Writing Serana in Elder Scrolls V: Dawnguard [8]
  • Designing/Writing Aela the Huntress in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim [9]

Out of Game:

Jeff Lininger

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
Jose Julian London Callé

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art Department Illustrator
Corey Loving

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Concept Artist
James Owen Lowe

Credits:

  • ESO:TU - Senior Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
Stephen Mabee

Credits:

  • ESO:SU - Concept Artist
  • ESO:EW - Concept Artist
Ian McCaig

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art Department Lead Artist; Campaign Story Director
Mishi McCaig

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art Department Illustrator; Campaid Story Art Director
Tim McCracken

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
Wynne McLaughlin

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Lead Writer
  • ESO:TU - Lead Writer
  • ESO:MW - Lead Writer
  • ESO:SU - Lead Writer

Game Contributions:

  • Writing for Gavin Gavonne in Elder Scrolls Online [1]
  • Writing for Pacrooti in Elder Scrolls Online (with Jonathan To) [1]

Out of Game:

Stephan Martiniere

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art Department Senior Illustrator

Game Contributions:

  • Main quest campaign art [20]
Joseph Mason

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
Mike May

Credits:

  • ESO:TU - Concept Artist
  • ESO:MW - Concept Artist
  • ESO:SU - Concept Artist
  • ESO:EW - Concept Artist
Christiene Meister

Credits:

  • Morrowind - Lead Character Artist
  • Oblivion - Lead Character Artist
  • Shivering Isles - Lead Character Artist
  • Skyrim - Lead Character Artist
  • Blades - 3D Artist
Anna Murchison

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Zone Lead
  • ESO:TU - Zone Lead
  • ESO:MW - Zone Lead Designer
Joseph Meehan

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art (Uncredited)

Game Contributions: [24]

  • Redguard warrior, dual weilding Argonian racial portraits in ES:L
  • Card art for "Sanctuary Raid," "Savage Ashlander" (unused)
Thomas Murphy

Credits:

  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
Alan Nanes

Credits:

  • Morrowind - Special Thanks
  • Tribunal - Quality Assurance
  • Bloodmoon - Quality Assurance
  • Oblivion - Quest Design
  • Shivering Isles - Quest Design
  • Skyrim - Quest Design, Writing
  • Blades - Additional Writing

Game Contributions:

  • Game design on the Thieves Guild in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim [10]
Mark Nelson

Credits:

  • Morrowind - Writing & Quest Design
  • Tribunal -  Writing and Quest Design
  • Bloodmoon - Writing and Quest Design
  • Oblivion - Quest Design
  • Shivering Isles - Lead Designer

Books:

  • The Lusty Argonian Maid [2]

Game Contributions: [2]

  • “Non-faction” quests and Vampire quest lines for TESIII: Morrowind
  • Fargoth and Tarhiel in TESIII: Morrowind
  • Interior building for Ald Ruhn (with Douglas Goodall)

Out of Game:

Bruce Nesmith

Credits:

  • Daggerfall - Design
  • Redguard - Special Thanks
  • Morrowind - Special Thanks
  • Oblivion -  Quest Design
  • Knights of the Nine - Additional Design
  • Shivering Isles - Design Director
  • Skyrim - Lead Designer

Out of Game:

Scott Nixon

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Zone Lead
Gary L. "GT" Noonan

Although GT Noonan is a 3D artists and animator, around the time of Morrowind he frequently posted about lore matters on the official forums.

Credits:

  • Battlespire - Graphics/Artwork, Level Design
  • Redguard - Special Thanks
  • Morrowind - World Art & Building
  • Tribunal -  World Art & Building
  • Bloodmoon - Character and Creature Art
  • Oblivion - Character and Creature Art
  • Knights of the Nine - Character Artist
  • Skyrim - Animation

Out of Game:

Nuare Studio

Nuare Studio is an art outsource house, responsible for a segnificant portion of the card art in Elder Scrolls: Legends. Where avaible, individual artists are also listed separetely in this document.

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art (uncredited)
  • ES:L - Special Thanks

Game Contributions:

Card art for a variety of cards, both in the original title and its expansions. [22]

Anthony Oliver

Credits:

  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
Peter O'Sullivan

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art Department Assistant Illustrator
Emil Pagliarulo

Credits:

  • Bloodmoon - Writing and Quest Design
  • Oblivion - Quest Design
  • Knights of the Nine - Additional Design
  • Skyrim - Senior Designer, Senior Writer
  • Blades - Additional Writing
Mandi Parker

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
MJ Parker

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
John Pearson

Credits:

  • Redguard - Lead Artist, Character Art and Animation, Origin of Cyrus Cover Art and Pencils
Ted Peterson

Peterson is best known for the tons of books he's written for the series, which tend to focus on characters and story. Despite departing Bethesda after Daggerfall, he continued to write in a freelance capacity for Morrowind and Oblivion, and also frequented the official forums during that time.

Credits:

  • Arena - Design
  • Daggerfall - Design
  • Morrowind - Additional Writing & Quest Design
  • Oblivion - Additional Writing
  • ES:L - Special Thanks

Books: [11]

  • The Ancient Tales of the Dwemer
  • Fragment: On Artaeum
  • Mysticism, The Unfathomable Voyage
  • Notes on Racial Phylogeny
  • On Oblivion
  • The Old Ways
  • Origin of the Mages Guild
  • An Overview of Gods and Worship
    Response to Bero's Speech
  • The Wild Elves
  • 2920
  • Biography of the Wolf Queen
  • Brief History of the Empire
  • Dance in Fire
  • The Firsthold Revolt
  • Galerion the Mystic
  • A Game At Dinner
  • How Orsinium Passed to the Orcs
  • The Madness of Pelagius
  • The Pig Children
  • The Wolf Queen
  • The Armorers' Challenge
  • The Axe Man
  • The Black Arrow
  • Bone; Breathing Water
  • The Cake and the Diamond
  • Chance's Folly
  • Feyfolken
  • The Final Lesson
  • The Four Suitors of Benitah
  • The Gold Ribbon of Merit
  • Hallgerd's Tale
  • A Hypothetical Treachery
  • Ice and Chitin
  • Incident in Necrom
  • Last Scabbard of Akrash
  • The Locked Room
  • Marksmanship Lesson
  • Master Zoaraym's Tale
  • The Mirror
  • The Mystery of Princess Talara
  • Night Falls on Sentinel
  • Palla
  • The Poison Song
  • Realizations of Acrobacy
  • The Rear Guard
  • Silence
  • Smuggler's Island
  • Surfeit of Thieves
  • The Third Door
  • Trap
  • Vernaccus and Bourlor
  • Withershins
  • The Wraith's Wedding Dowry
  • The Death Blow of Abernanit
  • The Horror of Castle Xyr
  • A Less Rude Song
  • Lord Jornibret's Last Dance
  • Cherim's Heart of Anequina
  • Invocation of Azura
  • The Charwich-Koniinge Letters
  • The Buying Game
  • Galerion the Mystic
  • The Madness of Pelagius
  • Ius, Animal God
  • The Asylum Ball
  • A History of Daggerfall
  • Brief History of the Empire
  • The Fall of the Usurper
  • A Dubious Tale of the Crystal Tower
  • Banker's Bet
  • Healer's Tale
  • Jokes
  • Rude Song; The Arrowshot Woman
  • A Scholar's Guide to Nymphs
  • An Overview of Gods and Worship
  • Broken Diamonds; Confessions of a Thief
  • Etiquette with Rulers; Fragment: On Artaeum
  • Ghraewaj
  • Holidays of the Iliac Bay
  • Invocation of Azura
  • Legal Basics; Mysticism
  • On Oblivion
  • On Lycanthropy
  • Origin of the Mages Guild
  • Special Flora of Tamriel
  • The Alik'r
  • The Brothers of Darkness
  • The Faerie
  • The Old Ways; The Wild Elves
  • Vampires of the Iliac Bay
  • Wabbajack
  • The Pig Children
  • The War of Betony by Newgate
  • The War of Betony by Fav'te
  • Wayrest, Jewel of the Bay

Game Contributions:

  • Editing of all in-game books in Daggerfall [11]

Out of Game:

Michael Phillips

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Assistant Art Director
  • ESO:TU - Assistant Art Director
  • ESO:MW - Assistant Art Director
Benjamin Phongluangtham

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Senior Content Designer
Simon Prefontaine

Credits:

  • Blades - Design
Janet Priblo

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
  • ESO:EW - Content Designer

Game Contributions:

  • Design for Lyranth in Cold Harbour and the Tower of Lies quest [1]
Andrew Rai

Credits:

  • Morrowind - Additional Character and Creature Art

Game Contributions:

  • Art for the saint triloths, including Veloth and Vivec, for TESIII: Morrowind [12]
  • Loading screens for TESIII: Morrowind [13]
Blake Rebouche

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • Game Contributions:

Game Contributions:

  • Content design on “Flowers of Youth” in Elder Scrolls Online [1]
Hugh Riley

Credits:

  • Redguard - Character Art and Animation, 2D and Inventory Art, Maps for the manual, Origin of Cyrus Inks
  • Morrowind - Special Thanks
  • Oblivion - Character and Creature Art
Ken Rolston

Credits:

  • Battlespire - Lead Design (uncredited) [???]
  • Redguard - Editing, Additional Writing for the manual
  • Morrowind - Lead Designer, Writing & Quest Design, Original Concept
  • Tribunal - Lead Designer,  Writing and Quest Design
  • Bloodmoon - Additional Writing and Quest Design
  • Oblivion - lead Designer

Books: [5]

  • Plan to Defeat Dagoth Ur [???]
  • Dagoth Ur’s Plans [???]
  • Cantatas of Vivec
  • The House of Troubles (final edits on Michael Kirkbride’s work)

Game Contributions:

  • Main Quest and Imperial Cult for TESIII: Morrowind [2]

Out of Game:

Greg Roth

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Zone Lead
  • ESO:TU - Zone Lead
  • ESO:MW - Zone Lead Designer
  • ESO:SU - Zone Lead Designer
  • ESO:EW - Zone Lead Designer
Paul Sage

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Creative Director
  • ESO:TU - Creative Director
Louise Sandoval

Credits:

  • Daggerfall - Art, Box Cover Illustration
  • Battlespire - Graphics / Artwork
  • Redguard - Special Thanks, Origin of Cyrus Colors
Tori Schafer

Credits (as Victoria Dougherty):

  • ESO:MW - Writer-Designer
  • ESO:SU - Writer-Designer
  • ESO:EW - Writer-Designer

Game Contributions:

  • Writing Alchemy, Manacar, Tableau, and Andewen in Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset [3] [4]
  • The Sharper Tongue: A Jel Primer [18]
  • A History of Lilmoth [18]
  • Argonian songs for Murkmire [19]
Lawrence Schick

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Lead Loremaster
  • ESO:TU - Lead Loremaster
  • ESO:MW - Loremaster
  • ESO:SU - Loremaster

Out of Game:

Tracy A. Seamster

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Writer
Jeremy Sera

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Zone Lead
  • ESO:TU - Dungeon Lead
  • ESO:MW - Lead Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Lead Content Designer
  • ESO:EW - Lead Content Designer
William Shen

Credits:

  • Skyrim - Quest Design, Writing
Steve Shi

Credits:

  • ESO:SU - Concept Artist
  • ESO:EW - Concept Artist
Jeong Shin

Credits:

  • Blades - Additional Concept Art
Michael Shinde

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art (Uncredited)

Game Contributions:

  • Card art for "Caravan Enforcer," "Mage's Trick," and "Scout's Report" [28]
Shane Slama

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
Bill Slavicsek

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Writer
  • ESO:TU - Senior Writer
  • ESO:MW - Writer-Designer
  • ESO:SU - Writer-Designer
  • ESO:EW - Lead Writer

Game Contributions: [1]

  • Writing on Naryu for Elder Scrolls Online
  • Writing for Lyranth in Cold Harbour and the Tower of Lies quest
  • Writing for Valinka Stoneheaver in Elder Scrolls Online
  • Writing for The Dagger's Edge quest in Elder Scrolls Online
  • Writing and overseeing Rivenspire and Deshaan quest-lines in Elder Scrolls Online

Out of Game:

Lucas Slominski

Credits:

  • ESO:MW - Concept Artist
  • ESO:SU - Concept Artist
  • ESO:EW - Concept Artist
Duncan Smith

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art Department Assistant Illustrator
Ed Stark

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Senior Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Senior Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Zone Lead Designer
  • ESO:EW - Zone Lead Designer
Robbie Stevens

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Senior Content Designer
Stephen Stone

Credits:

  • ES:L (Sparkypants) - Artist
Ted Terranova

Credits:

  • ES:L (Sparkypants) - Art Director
Tyler Thull

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art Department Illustrator

Game Contributions:

  • ES:L card art and main quest campaign art [21]
Jonathan To

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Writer

Game Contributions:

  • Writing for Pacrooti in Elder Scrolls Online (with Wynne McLaughlin) [1]
Corrie Treadway

Credits:

ESO (Launch) - Content Designer

Leamon Tuttle

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Writer
  • ESO:MW - Writer-Designer
  • ESO:SU - Writer-Designer
  • ESO:EW - Loremaster

Game Contributions:

  • Writing Sotha Sil and Elder Scrolls Online: The Clockwork City [14]

Books:

  • Truth in Sequence – All Volumes
  • Silt Strider Caravaner’s Log
  • A Guide to Liturgical Vestments
  • Blessed Almalexia’s Fables for Morning 
  • Blessed Almalexia’s Fables for Evening 
  • Dark Elves, Dark Hearts 
  • Drunken Aphorisms 
  • Ordinator Edict: Mandate 7, 16, 21, 27, 34 
  • Testimonials on Baar Dau 
  • The Vile Truth of Barbas 
  • The Gray Passage (and all associated Pledges) 
  • Tales of Abba Arl: The Fat Mother 
  • Love Poem LT0782 
  • Proctor Luciana’s Journal – All Volumes 
  • Residential Logistics Log 
  • Security Survey
  • Imperial Architect’s Correspondence 
  • On the Xivkyn 
  • Love Letter to Aishah 
  • A Culinary Adventure – All Volumes 
  • Famia Mercius’s Journal – All Volumes 
  • From Wrothgar to Lilmoth: A Smith’s Tale – All Volumes 
  • Murky Time
  • On Playing the Frogs 
  • Teeba-Hatsei 
  • The Blackwater War – All Volumes 
  • Tribes of Murkmire – All Volumes 
  • Tribes of Blackwood – All Volumes 
  • The Factotum’s Secret Voice
  • Factotum Model Registry 
  • On Akaviri Burial Rites 
  • Origins of the Khajiiti Martial Tradition 
  • Chimes of Silver 
  • Hymn of Zenithar 
  • Legate Minutes: Concerning Goblins 
  • On Marsh Giants 
  • Lessons on Lucents
  • Epistle on the Spirits of Amun-dro – All Volumes 
  • Artaeum Lost 
  • Guide to Altmeri Culture 
  • The Ghost of the Green 
  • The Price of Praxis 
  • The Ubiquitous Sinking Isle 
  • Great Spirits of the Reach – All Volumes (co-writer, Andrew Young) 
  • On Dwarven Dynastors 
  • Red Eagle’s Song 
  • Werewolves: Long-Suffering Guardians 
  • History of the Systres – All Volumes 
  • Nix-Hounds: A Manual for New Owners 
  • Hlaalu Letter of Complaint 
  • Omaren Trial Transcript 
  • The Bright Blade of Captain Castatil: Scene VI 
  • The Tale of Three Moons 
  • Mantra of Expulsion 
  • Twilight Rites and Hymns
  • Vazshara’s Journal

Out of Game:

Josh Utter-Leyton

Credits:

  • ES:L (Sparkypants) - Designer
Brandon Van Haren

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
  • ESO:EW - Content Designer
Todd Vaughn

Credits:

  • Morrowind - Additional Writing & Quest Design, Associate Producer
Volta

Volta is an outsourcing art group, part of Keywords media. Where available, their artists are listed individually in this document.

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art (Uncredited)
  • ES:L - Special Thanks

Allen Warner

Credits:

  • ESO:EW - Writer-Designer
Marilyn Wasserman

Although she is only credited as a beta tester, Wasserman was the author of several books in Daggerfall.

Credits:

  • Daggerfall - Beta-Testers and Council of Wisdom

Books:

  • The Real Barenziah (Daggerfall version) [15]
  • Biography of Queen Barenziah (Daggerfall version) [15]
  • King Edward [16]

Out of Game:

Joseph Watmough

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Concept Artist
  • ESO:TU - Senior Concept Artist
  • ESO:MW - Concept Artist
  • ESO:SU - Concept Artist
  • ESO:EW - Concept Artist

Game Contributions:

  • Concept art for Murkmire Sithis statue [30]
Mathew Weathers

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Lead Artist
  • ESO:TU - Lead Artist
  • ESO:MW - Concept Artist
Gregory Wickham

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
Sean Wicks

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
Sydney Phoenix Wolfram

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
Andrew Young

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Content Designer
  • ESO:TU - Content Designer
  • ESO:MW - Content Designer
  • ESO:SU - Content Designer
  • ESO:EW - Content Designers

Game Contributions:

  • Game design for Sotha Sil and Elder Scrolls Online: The Clockwork City
Mathias Zamęcki

Credits:

  • ES:L - Art (Uncredited)

Game Contributions:

  • Card art for Aspect of Hircine, "Aspect of Strength," and "Aspect of Speed" [29]
Steven Zapata

Credits:

  • ESO:SU - Concept Artist
Michael Zenke

Credits:

  • ESO (Launch) - Writer

Game Contributions: [1]

  • Writing Razum-dar in Elder Scrolls Online
  • Reaper’s March and Mages Guild quest-lines in Elder Scrolls Online

Out of Game:

Sources

[1] Zenimax Online Writer’s AMA

[2] Interview with Douglas Goodall

[3] Tori Schafer on Twitter

[4] Tori Schafer on Twitter

[5] [META] Who are the real authors of in-game books?

[6] Shane Liesegang’s Posts

[7] @OptimistPanda on Twitter

[8] @OptimistPanda on Twitter

[9] @OptimistPanda on Twitter

[10] @rpggamedev on Twitter

[11] Interview with Ted Peterson

[12] Private messages with artist

[13] Private messages with artist

[14] @TESOnline on Twitter

[15] Marilyn’s comment on the The Real Barenziah

[16] Marilyn's comment on King Edward

[17] Grafitart.com

[18] Tori Schafer on Twitter

[19] Tori Schafer on Twitter

[20] Muddy Colors

[21] Tyler Thull on ArtStation

[22] nuare.com

[23] Tatyana Kupriyanova on ArtStation

[24] Joseph Meehan on Art Station

[25] Julian Futanto on Art Station

[26] Atomhawk.com

[27] Jason Kang on Art Station

[28] Michael Shinde on Art Station

[29] Mathias Zamęcki on Art Station

[30] Tim Mrozek on Art Station

[31] David Lee Anderson Gallery

[32] Mark Jackson Daggerfall Concept Art

[33] Mark Jackson Redguard Movie Images

[34] UESP TES:L Interview

[34] Translation of Calcelmo's Stone

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