I see him mentioned a lot, but have no idea who he is.

Michael Kirkbridge

He's an x-dev who did alot of the deeper lore that we so enjoy speculating over.

Some people often consider him to be arrogant and pretentious, but thats just their opinion

While I'm a bit "younger" than some other forum members, I don't recall too many instances he's been called pretentious. Looking through old posts, I've only seen a handful of people call him that, and I've only seen 1 of them still post.

MK is a dev who went freelance but has still contributed to some lore both in and outside of the games; he's been contracted by Bethesda to do some writing for TES V, so he's still technically a dev. I recall hearing he wrote lore for KotN as well, but I don't know about SI.

You see this cat MK is a bad mother--
(Shut your mouth)
But I'm talkin' about MK
(Then we can dig it)

He's a complicated man
But no one understands him but his woman
(Michael Kirkbride)





There fixed.



While others see him as a very fine artist of the written word...............and I find him to be very funny. He amuses the hell out of me. (Please don't go all Joe Pesci on me MK.) Then again I have a sick sense of humor.

Oh wow i thought i posted it like that to begin with
fixed
i personally like his writing

Who is...MK?

BLASPHEMY!He must be burned!


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This is the first time but from now on i'm putting this in all my posts(that are whimsical of nature).

Anything but ex. He did the Commentaries, Mankar Kamoran's dialog , Knights of the Nine and last time I was checking http://www.imperial-library.info/obscure_text/aldudagga.shtml for Skyrim.

Ahhh.... The infamous Dagon-Berry pie.......



Really, they need to have madshaper pastry chefs in the next game.

"the Creme-horn of bitter ending"

Oh-- Or perhaps, the players would prefer some Black http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_(pastry) of Boethiah....

Well he is kind of arrogant. And a little pretentious.
But does it matter? Not to me it doesn't.

edit: Well, not really pretentious in what I guess would be the words right sense. Whatever.

He killed the Hortator.

MK is blasphemy and must be burned?

Well clearly. Nobody here doubts that. It's why we love him.

No! It's Kirkblade Kirkbride.

Yes. He reckons guar(s) are lizards, apparently.

Anyway, he never finished writing The Water Getting Girl, so he ought to be taken from this place and his gaskin slit, his moules shown to the four winds, his welchet torn asunder with many hooks and his figgin placed upon a spike.

Writers cannot be dismembered by the vocabularies of their inferiors. :flamethrower: :gun: :

I don't think that even MK would suggest that he is a superior writer to Terry Pratchett

(Just teasing about the 'even' :hehe: )

Totally different writers - not that MK does nothave a sense of humour - the second of his fights has a gem.

MK seems to be the guy who has a powerful talent for presenting Dunmer craziness and Imperial nonsensical-uber/number-logic - but he does not have the heart of Norse poet.

However if he could find the right wordsmith to work with then his logic and rounded and smoothed by someone with real Norse / scandinavian rhythmic saga-feel in their writing could make a very powerful Skyrim mod.

Loki was a crazy fellow so that's good - and Thor was the Thunderer - but the one thing the ancient Viking / Odin-worshippers loved was repetitions, alliteration and cycles - included in their songs/sagas was their interminable listing and measurement of exactly who owned which knuckle-length of which side of what tree/river/rock etc.

Remember the Normans? Read Northmen. They were Vikings if you will and look at the Doomsday Book. That was high craft as Viking record-keeping went. Most Ancient Scandinavian records were a lot simpler and if possible even more tedious - but they had their high-points - guess why they required such a rich mythology and a powerful desire to go to sea? Anything to get away from the village recordkeepers.

MK is Massive Kaleidoscope.

Massively Kalculated
Miguel Kirkvantes

There are times I wonder if MK shows up here and tells us stuff so that he can sit back and watch us argue over what he meant.

And it may also be worth pointing out here that one of the great works of Old Icelandic literature (essentially Viking in every way, although slightly newer) was the First Grammatical Treatise. No other civilization on earth would have done that, but the norse poeple loved poetry in every way. To read theirworks in english is nice and interesting, but if you ever get ahold of the real thing, in the original language (pronounced old style, modern Icelandic doesnt have quite the same feel or the same flow) the old works are truly amazing works of poetry. I suggest anyone tolook at the works of Egill Skallagrimson, one of the greatest of the great Icelandic Skalds (essentially poets, similar to the medieval bard only better -traveled around, sand and told stories, and actually DID things like raid and fight and such)

?at m?lti m?n m??ir,
at m?r skyldi kaupa
fley ok fagrar ?rar,
fara ? brott me? v?kingum,
standa upp ? stafni,
st?ra d?rum knerri,
halda sv? til hafnar
h?ggva mann ok annan.

Thus spake my mother
That for me should they buy
A barque and beauteous oars
To go forth with vikings.
Stand in the stern,
Steer a dear vessel,
Hold course for a haven,
Hew down many foemen.

or, the myth poems (eddas) great examples of literature

V?lusp?

Hlj??s bi? ek allar
helgar kindir,
meiri ok minni
m?gu Heimdallar;
viltu, at ek, Valf??r!
vel framtelja
forn spj?ll f?ra,
?au er fremst um man.

Ek man j?tna
?r um borna,
?? er for?um
mik f?dda h?f?u;
n?u man ek heima,
n?u ?vi?i,
mj?tvi? m?ran
fyr mold ne?an.

?r var alda
?ar er ?mir byg?i,
vara sandr n? s?r
n? svalar unnir,
j?r? fannsk ?va
n? upphiminn,
gap var ginnunga,
en gras hvergi.

This is the heart and soul of the viking world, poetry and literature. I see in the nords an attempt to get at this, but it seems as if the devs were not in fact scholars of norse culture. They can annoy me at times with their wannabe norse, who come off as protatypical brutes at time (which in reality was not the vikings, well maybe the danes but not the others, they were actually the most advanced civilization as far as literature, scholarship, and literacy of their day, ideed of most of the middle ages! not to mention the greatest sailors in the world at that time [they knew stuff we still havent figured out as far as navigation and such, some evidence even suggests they may have had some sort of compass!])

sorry for my ramble, but I really wish the nord culture was more like the Skaldic world of the vikings, with their great literature and laguage, interesting legal system, unique way of governing themselves, and so on.

This post originally started out as an elaboration on 1999's!

Hah, probably. Perhaps not for malicious intent, though.

He's just this guy, you know?

Although I haven't read Kerouac, MK reminds me a little of the Beat writers. MK is also apparently widely read in comparative religion and philosophy. He has an original mind and, along with Ted Peterson, is among the few devs who still try to stay current with the forums.

Hah, that's great :wub:, also get out of my head!!!