VaranisArano wrote: »I think that Michael Kirkbride might still have his old influence on the Elder Scrolls if he were slightly more coherent than Vivec on a power trip.
Besides, ZOS confirmed Kinmune...
http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Easter_Eggs
Karifa al-Tahud, a Tel Var Armorer found in the Daggerfall Covenant base in the Imperial Sewers, can be heard spreading several conspiracy theories. One of them is: "Queen Ayrenn is a miniature Dwemer construct from the next era. Everybody knows it". This is a humorous reference to KINMUNE, a synthetic sentient being from the future featured in Michael Kirkbride's short story by the same name. In an expansion of the story entitled "Ayrenn", Queen Ayrenn is said to be an identity assumed by KINMUNE.
When ZOS hands a conspiracy theory to an NPC specifically spouting conspiracy theories, you know its really:
I don't know what kind of jibber- jabber I just read, but someone should contact the SCP Foundation.
I read it and I still don't get it. What is the context? Where did this come from?
I tend to love Kirbride's writings for various reasons but I always felt this "KINMUNE" thing was just a passive-aggressive raging over someone not only making a woman a faction leader, but also writing her better than any of his own female characters ever turned out. Calling her a synthetic mining bot felt like a Kirkbridian metaphor for saying that she was the product of a writing panel made to pander to an audience to increase cash flow. I might just be reading too much into it, though.
Thevampirenight wrote: »I read it and I still don't get it. What is the context? Where did this come from?
Michael Kirkblade: He wrote a lot of the lore in the elder scrolls. Including the stuff in Morrowind, Oblvion, Skyrim. and basically the elder scrolls would not be as it is without him. It says Michael KIrkblade, Eyrn Fong Darya Makarava and Sean Self. . If you look at the names in the names of the first page below the title.