The Storywriter

Shadow-Fighter · February 2019

As you know already our Storywriter leaves ESO.
I want to know which story you liked during your journey.

My favourites are:

* The Thief quest with small leaf (Regent Cassipia)
* Silvenar (*)
* Eveli in Wrothgar
* Naryu

There also quest I liked but the top four I will never forgot. Also after 4 or 5 years later.

* If I remember correctly the Silvenar quest ends like "if one story ends, the other story will begin".

MartiniDaniels · February 2019

+ Stibbons
+ Gnisis quest

VDoom1 · February 2019

Anything involving Cadwell. Apologies, Sir Cadwell. He is just to good. xD
I also like the quests and story through the Imperial City DLC.

mxxo · February 2019

Too lazy atm to search for specific quests. But i liked Morrowind, CWC and now Murkmire the most.

HappyTheCamper · February 2019

Summerset by far for me, Dominion story as a whole, Thieves Guild is likable, and even though it’s my least favorite zone visually, Rivenspire (gyah, it’s sooo ugly!) has a pretty cool/interesting story quest. And the main quest/coldharbor stuff is wonderfully written as well!

Acrolas · February 2019

Shadow-Fighter wrote: »

As you know already our Storywriter leaves ESO.

You do realize it's an entire team, right? This is what that team looked like back in 2014, and McLaughlin is still the Lead Writer and Narrative Designer. Slavicsek is still a Lead Writer. We still have a strong writing team working on the game.

Wynne McLaughlin – Lead Writer
Lawrence Schick – Lead Loremaster
Michael Zenke – Senior Writer/Designer
Rob Chestney – Senior Writer/Designer
Bill Slavicsek – Senior Writer/Designer
Rebecca Harwick – Writer/Designer
Zach Bush – Writer/Designer
Leamon Tuttle – Content Designer
Allison Berryman – Web Content Writer
https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/2g0x5l/ama_with_the_eso_writing_team/

Schick's job revolved around the research and development of culture and character framework. Speech syntax. Background information, even things we haven't learned yet about places or people. Personalities and quirks. Making sure that all the named inhabitants of Tamriel not only had their own distinct flavor, but that those flavors were consistent with what Bethesda interprets as historically appropriate for Tamriel.

It's kind of an insane role in the game as it requires both a lot of creativity and also attention to technical details. It's a tough balance, but Lawrence definitely excelled in the role. His commitment made the jobs of every other writer and content designer in the game that much smoother to navigate, even after his departure.

We're going to keep hearing Lawrence's voice in the content yet to be seen. But the stories are many voices. Not just one.

Nerouyn · February 2019

I haven't played Morrowind or anything after it yet. Apart from the psijic quests and the Summerset main ones. I've been putting it off until my wardens have all the horrible time gated grind stuff behind them (horse feeding etc.).

But of the early stuff I'd say this, easily:

Shadow-Fighter wrote: »

* Silvenar (*)

That was such an interesting story and the Valenwood quests in general gave me that same sense I had from Morrowind (single player) of stepping into and becoming part of an alien culture. Very impressive work.

I'm looking forward to doing Valenwood again.

Varana · February 2019

Lawrence Schick was not the one writing the stories. That's a bit oo much for one man. He was the guy the writers (and others) went to in order to have an answer about lore.