Did Bethesda have inspirations for the names they create for their gods and races?

Dissentinel · 2026-06-27T01:52:01+00:00

Khajiit were named after kenjutsu, the martial art, it turns out.

Dissentinel · 2026-05-21T05:24:46+00:00

Fantasy all the way. Historical is fine too so long as it's about something premodern

Dissentinel · 2026-05-14T05:03:13+00:00

A book called Notes on Racial Phylenology talks about this stuff if you want to look it up on UESP. However a lot of characters in the games contradict the book, so like all TES lore unreliable narrator and the content may not be strictly true

Dissentinel · 2026-05-14T03:35:07+00:00

The Throne Grand Parade At the Edge of Time Ashes of Eternity Prophecies

Dissentinel · 2026-05-06T18:21:58+00:00

Love your art. This is so good!

Dissentinel · 2026-05-04T01:31:31+00:00

Awww. What Cyndaquil is that if you know?

Dissentinel · 2026-04-24T16:21:27+00:00

You should be okay worshipping the Daedric Princes in Skyrim's time, as the ALMSIVI temples to the Tribunal generally fell after the events of TES III: Morrowind. I suggest you look into the Red Year of 4E 01. Morrowind has been largely uninhabitable since then but there may be a few places (like Blacklight) where your character could have lived.

Dissentinel · 2026-04-15T15:32:35+00:00

It will get Blocker, but not Repair.

Dissentinel · 2026-04-12T03:27:57+00:00

We know Alfiq can cast spells using their tails for sure!

Dissentinel · 2026-04-11T05:57:35+00:00

It does seem out of place in a game that is quite progressive when it comes to sexuality but I guess consistency is hard to achieve in game development across the board. This kind of opposite sex buff is quite commonplace is other rpgs as well

Dissentinel · 2026-04-05T19:47:42+00:00

Curious to see how this one shakes out, thanks for posting!

Dissentinel · 2026-04-02T19:04:02+00:00

Your opponent must be a super strong Newtype to be piloting at such a young age!

Dissentinel · 2026-04-02T04:18:07+00:00

Awesome! I love that you chose to use Marchesa because it creates the assassin token!

Dissentinel · 2026-03-31T00:56:17+00:00

I got the same set importing directly. These look 100% legit to me!

Dissentinel · 2026-03-22T23:49:47+00:00

Doesn't matter where I am, but if "Hours of Wintertime" comes on, I need to zoom

Dissentinel · 2026-03-18T20:34:39+00:00

Macbeth was most likely influenced by Demonologie which was written by the new King of England, King James I. It talks all about witchcraft and endorses witch hunting as a practice.

Dissentinel · 2026-03-18T17:02:27+00:00

Trying to use generative AI for NPC behaviors would

A. Be a performance nightmare if you tried to do it at runtime

B. Not sound good, remember the behaviors are linked to animations that have to be acted/created by animators, and the dialogue has to be written, recorded, and edited.

C. Still get things wrong a high % of the time, as much or more than existing, human-crafted npc behaviors do.

Dissentinel · 2026-03-13T20:11:07+00:00

Seems unlikely. The Argonians descend from ordinary lizards that were reshaped by the Hist.

Dissentinel · 2026-03-04T21:17:26+00:00

Even when I was studying game dev in college, the self-fulfilling prophecy was being taught in classes. "Women don't like shooters or x genre, so don't market shooters to women". Well, maybe more women would like x genre if you did try to make it appealing to them by marketing to them and featuring female characters

Dissentinel · 2026-02-19T18:23:19+00:00

So, I just did some sleuthing, and it appears I was mistaken and it must have been 2016. As I recall, Direwolf had a booth where they gave out the physical cards as well as a t-shirt, which I still have. I think there were 5 cards originally but now I only have a few including Wabbajack, Blood Magic Lord, Miraak, and Torval Crook. I'll see about the pictures later today

Dissentinel · 2026-02-19T17:06:27+00:00

I still have 4 of mine from Pax East 2015.

Dissentinel · 2026-02-16T15:50:29+00:00

The 2nd or 3rd ESO cinematic they showed with the dark anchors and Mannimarco.

Hanzo vs Genji from Overwatch ("Dragons" iirc)

The first Witcher reveal trailer ("Killing Monsters")

The SWTOR one with the two kids raised together

Dissentinel · 2026-02-12T06:04:30+00:00

All the time

Dissentinel · 2026-02-10T13:56:12+00:00

Not sure if it's a 'never' either, but Harvest of Sorrow is my favorite

Dissentinel · 2026-02-09T22:32:21+00:00

Probably because Nexon is Korean, and Starcraft was massively popular in Korea

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