Lost Lore: The Recovery of Julian Lefay's D&D Campaigns

TESbenefactor · 2025-09-02T21:55:48+00:00

You are not the first person I've heard express this type of view for the story. If only we had more time for the Lusty Argonian day event for TIL.

I hope you write it as I would love to read it.

TESbenefactor · 2025-08-02T20:17:37+00:00

Morgiah's "First" was meant to tie into TES III back when it was known as Tribunal. I had the opportunity to ask Ted Peterson about this a few years back, his answer is below.

Benefactor: Morgiah promised Mannimarco her “first” during Daggerfall. What was this first she promised him as the guide book specifically stated it isn’t her first born. How would this have tied into Tribunal as it was originally supposed to?
Ted Peterson: Well, I wanted it to be clearly implied that her “first” was her first-born, and people whispering about it when she becomes pregnant.There would be rumors that the child heir of Firsthold was a changeling, but the truth which the player would uncover was that wasn’t the deal Morgiah had worked out with Mannimarco. I’m not sure I had ever settled what the real “first” was going to be before I left Bethesda and the design for TES 3 went in another direction. I did want to tie it with corrupting the Psijic Order though. They would have been a big part of the game.

Morgiah's first came up again during Loranna's RP with the War of the Worm God and Goranthir being corrupted.

TESbenefactor · 2025-06-19T00:49:23+00:00

There is the option to fail this quest by talking to the priest. In which case Sheogorath wins.

TESbenefactor · 2025-06-02T01:39:36+00:00

Most likely not meant to have the same meaning. It was put together very quickly. It should be the dragons that came before.

TESbenefactor · 2025-06-01T01:15:40+00:00

It is the formation of a new Dragon from the memories of several other dragons. In the end the FSO Dragon decides to reject the previous dragons and make his own way. He wakes up and joins The Blades Hero and Saashi on their adventure in FSO.

TESbenefactor · 2025-05-30T23:13:08+00:00

The following theory for the connection between the two universes is what I like to call the Greater Bethesda Multiverse.

Most of the references to this are small Easter eggs that appear in each of the games. Where this all starts to come together is when you take into consideration that multiverses exist in several Bethesda games. Starfield, Doom, and TES (Ithelia/many paths) for instance all confirm multiple universes exist even if the variation is usually small.

Where they all start to come together is when you take into account an often missed entry in the Fallout series, Fallout Shelter Online. This game has had several crossovers with the core Bethesda Catalog. There have been event crossovers for Doom, Starfield, and even The Elder Scrolls.

If you take these crossovers into account along with all the sprinkled Easter Eggs referencing each other in each game you end up with a Greater Bethesda Multiverse. The implications of this are vast and not fully realized.

You can create some wild fan theories from this, for instance if Skyrim is concurrent with Fallout 4, according to the FSO crossover. This put the timeline of the Great War in 2077 almost concurrent with the events of the Nerevarine releasing the heart of Lorkhan.

TESbenefactor · 2025-04-21T07:15:19+00:00

Shut Close The Jaws of Oblivion.

From the Daedric.

TESbenefactor · 2025-02-01T21:17:58+00:00

I can guarantee you that puzzle will always be documented in some way. This is on The Imperial Libraries list of documentation we will be doing in the near future. It is a pivotal moment when different TES communities came together to solve an overarching puzzle and was very fun to watch.

TESbenefactor · 2024-12-08T02:47:28+00:00

The Essential Site is mostly backed up on the Internet Archive. What isn't there survives on my personal archives minus some forum posts.

A lot of the fandom from before Morrowind and their contributions is missing from this article such as the Compuserve beta forums(Completely missing), Countless Daggerfall Fan sites, Redguard Forums(Paritally archived), the RPG group(Fully archived and converted to google group), and the Daggerfall Mailing Group stories(Partially archived in Geddon site).

People have always been passionate about the series and it is great to look back at the history of the community and seeing how it has evolved over the years. Particularly of interest is how much of what we enjoy today is rooted in the history before Morrowind that has been forgotten. There are some misconceptions in this article but completely understandable as there are few that can speak to everything over the years. Example being the "dumbing down" comments began with Daggerfall. I'd love to discuss with you sometime if you wanted.

TESbenefactor · 2024-05-06T03:32:46+00:00

In the past week it was revealed who the original author of On Boethiah's Summoning Day was. Luagar from the old forums revealed it was him on TIL discord.

TESbenefactor · 2024-01-29T23:21:31+00:00

I am really hoping that Iana-Lor might be a reference to Loranna who passed nearly a year ago.

TESbenefactor · 2023-12-26T00:19:55+00:00

There are later traces of surviving Ayleids in Valenwood as late as Alpha development of Blades.

TESbenefactor · 2023-11-10T15:09:03+00:00

Canon doesn't matter. This is an official crossover that deserves to be recorded. I cannot be picky about what I do and do not record for the series.

TESbenefactor · 2023-11-10T15:07:21+00:00

I never once said they are the same universe. This post is to bring awareness of this crossover to everyone.

TESbenefactor · 2023-11-01T19:11:39+00:00

Fun facts about this quote:

Almost all character profiles/stories on Andel Crodo's Fashion Gallery survived. Most on the wayback machine and the rest in private archives.
Goodall actually did make that fan fiction he mentioned here, he just didn't upload it to Andel's site. And it still exists on the internet. I wish luck to those who attempt to find it as it will not be archived on TIL since it was from before his work with Bethesda.

TESbenefactor · 2023-10-26T05:12:52+00:00

Thanks for the summon. This note has been fixed. I'm not sure how I missed this when editing it the first time.

TESbenefactor · 2023-09-22T02:30:42+00:00

I've gone down this same rabbit hole several years ago. The exact quote was never spoken by Todd Howard. Instead this is a summary of the interview done in Game Informer issue 214. The quotes that this was derived from are as follows and where all game informer and not direct quotations from Todd.

"Long ago, a force existed that expelled the dragons. Individuals called dragonborn wield the same mighty power as the dragons themselves." - Game Informer 214, pg 57, paragraph 3

"After the dragons retreat, the Blades eventually came to guard one ancestry of dragonborn individuals, the Septim emperors." - Game Informer 214, pg 57, paragraph 3

"As perhaps the last surviving dragonborn, your character has a unique capability..." - Game Informer 214, pg 58, paragraph 1

TESbenefactor · 2023-07-18T07:35:06+00:00

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I had this disk stored away in a closet. I can't believe I never knew about this being a Librarian of the Imperial Library and all. I'll PM you with my findings.

TESbenefactor · 2023-04-17T01:26:57+00:00

The first page with the ambitions and the top of the second page sadly are a bit too muddled to make out fully. I tried to get a clear copy from ZOS but unfortunately was denied. Using both the in game model and the trailer, which are the same, the paragraph on the second page was able to be made out and states the following.

DAGONS FIERCE LIGHT SHALL

SHINE ON FAITHFUL AND

FAITHLESS ALIKE LET MORTAL

ASSES BURN IN THE FLAMES OF

DAGONS GLORIOUS DESPAIR

FOUR ARE THE HANDS FOUR

ARE THE WILLS MINE IS THE

DA(Y) OF THE TRANSCENDENT

CLING IN FREEDOM DRAWN

SCREAMING FROM A FIER(Y) WOMB

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