Please inform my brain.

(sorry for the broad topic... please inform my brain on who he is, what he does, ect.)

Basic answer: a writer of the lore of TES for Bethesda. Probably wrote most of the stuff you read at TIL.

You can do a search at TIL too.

That's cool. I don't check out TIL much but I think I'll start.

I heard he's working on the lore for TESV. Is that true?

Yes.

http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showuser=20899 is Michael Kirkbride (there are some http://tes.ag.ru/mw/articles/img/team.jpg of him around the net). He's a (freelance) writer for Bethesda, who wrote a good deal of the lore and was the primary dev in some of the former games. He goes around posting tidbits of lore for us such as http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=754609&hl= and http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=921446&hl= every now and then and really helps to liven up the forum (especially in the aftermath of Oblivion).

You can find alot of his writing http://www.imperial-library.info/obscure_text/ & in various other places at TIL - and lookie, a http://www.uesp.net/wiki/General:Michael_Kirkbride on him...

Wow, you guys are my heros. Thanks a ton. Micheal Kirkbride is my hero, too.

Wait, hold on.

I noticed that while I was looking at some of his stuff at TIL, some of them appear to have been posted as presents of sorts at certain times of the year.

Does he do something like this for every Christmas/other holidays? If so, perhaps we'll expect something from him very soon.

Does he, perhaps, know alot about the plot of TESV? Will he just be writing books (which I'm reading right now on TIL, and they're extremely engaging and well written) for the game, or does he have an influence in the storyline as well?

I'm not exactly sure, but I think he worked on the main quest for Morrowind. I believe he worked on KoTN as well, but as far as I know, he was not involved with Oblivion's main quest at all. Chances are that he is working on the main plot for TESV. From what I've seen in a few of his posts, he is unhappy with some of what happened with Oblivion (one of them being the reintroduction of Mithril armor, if I remember correctly).

As for that Christmas thing that I said earlier... Perhaps that piece of lore that he posted in there earlier today can be considered as an early Christmas present?

...Someone's going to sic the Numidium on me for saying that now, I just feel it.

Try Mankar Kamoran.

That's right. He wrote Mankar's mad ramblings, both the Commentaries, IIRC, as well his dialogue in Paradise. Right?

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...and all this time you thought "MK" stood for Michael Kirkbride

He also worked on Redguard and was largely responsible for the story and texts in Knights of the Nine.

Is there anything known about MK's work outside of the games he's worked on?

Really, if you're going to get a picture of the guy at least use the one with the pimp coat and the accordion. I've got it on my computer, I'll have to see if I can scrounge up a URL.


What's Tedders, chopped netch?


If I remember correctly MK started off as the lead designer for Morrowind, and wrote much of the backstory. I believe he left before TES III started full production after Redgaurd's release, but his work still formed the foundation of the game. I could be wrong but I also think he did some modeling and artwork for TES III.

As others have pointed out, his writing fleshed out some elements of Oblivion's main quest (including books), in addition to some of the general writing he did for the game.

http://crimegorilla.4t.com/images/_accordian.jpg

To paraphrase, God himself made that jacket.

Redguard is also largely his work.

That accordion is clearly supposed to be a typewriter!

Something I'm interested in: What do you guys mean when you say "he left" and he is a "freelancer"? Did they fire him, but then realized that his work has become too fundamental for the series that they hired him again?
Is he such a troublemaker that they couldn't stand having him in their office?

If I had to guess I'd wager the second option.

I honestly have no idea why he left, but I always assumed it was of his own volition. *shrugs* Ask him if you get a chance. If he kills you, then you know it wasn't his idea to leave the company.

Wow - Todd back when he was nerd-hot rather than hot hot.


Linky no worky.

His drawings were used for as a base for textures of Tribunal Temple iconography. The two Velothi frescoes and the http://www.imperial-library.info/gallery/mw_TAoM_p24.jpg or http://www.imperial-library.info/gallery/mw_TAoM_p23.jpg on the Temple shrines are his (I'm pretty sure).
And if you haven't played Morrowind, you can look at http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=21345.

Willard: "Could we, uh... talk to Colonel Kurtz?"

Photojournalist: "Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense."

Short term contracts and subsequent freelancing happen in many creative businesses these days, and are not usually signs of incompetence nor trouble.

Stop Google Image searching for Todd, you creeper you!

If it helps, I created the legends about the character you took your handle from. That makes me feel all warm inside.