Michael Kirkbride is a former writer and designer for Bethesda Softworks. He is known for his works on the lore that exists in The Elder Scrolls universe. Despite no longer working for Bethesda, he still writes various unlicensed texts that can be found on The Imperial Library. They are also listed below.
Credits
Michael Kirkbride's writing and design credits for The Elder Scrolls games include:[1][2]
- The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
- The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
List of Works
Licensed works
Info retrieved from here.
- Vivec and Mephala
- Five Songs of King Wulfharth
- The 36 Lessons of Vivec
- Aedra and Daedra
- Sithis
- Spirit of Nirn
- The Arcturian Heresy
- The House of Troubles
- The Monomyth
- The Lunar Lorkhan
- Varieties of Faith in the Empire
- Where Were You When the Dragon Broke?
- Commentaries on the Mysterium Xarxes
- The Adabal-a
- The Song of Pelinal
- The Warrior's Charge
- The Firmament
- Mysterious Akavir
- The Changed Ones
- The True Nature of Orcs
- The Annotated Anuad (with Kurt Kuhlmann)
- Before the Ages of Man (with Ken Rolston and Kurt Kuhlmann)
- Remanada
- Shezarr and the Divines
- Children of the Sky (with Richard Guy)
Unlicensed works
- A Type of Zero Still to Be Discovered
- C0DA
- Captain Tobias’ Sword-Meeting with Cyrus the Restless
- Cosmology
- Dominion Prism Textract
- Et'Ada, Eight Aedra, Eat the Dreamer
- Foul Murder
- Fragments from "The Adabal-a"
- From The Many-Headed Talos
- Histories of Strange Pre-Marriage
- How Beautiful You Are That You Do Not Join Us
- Imperial Census of Daedra Lords
- KINMUNE
- Lament for Pelinal
- Lord Vivec's Sword-Meeting With Cyrus the Restless
- Loveletter From the Fifth Era, The True Purpose of Tamriel
- Magne-Ge Pantheon
- Nu-Hatta of the Sphinxmoth Inquiry Tree
- Nu-Mantia Intercept, Letter 1
- Nu-Mantia Intercept, Letter 2
- Nu-Mantia Intercept, Letter 3
- Nu-Mantia Intercept, Letter 4
- Nu-Mantia Intercept, Letter 5
- Nu-Mantia Intercept, Letter 6
- Nu-Mantia Intercept, Letter 7
- Nu-Mantia Intercept, Letter 8
- On the Nords' Lack of a Creation Myth
- Shezarr and the Eight Divines
- Shor son of Shor
- Source of Chaos
- The Fall of Ald'Ruhn
- The Five Hundred Mighty Companions or Thereabouts of Ysgramor the Returned
- The Song of Return: Skyrim, a Preamble
- The Tsaesci Creation Myth And we ate it to become it
- The Water-getting Girl and the Inverse Tiger
- Tiber Septim's Sword-Meeting with Cyrus the Restless
- What My Beloved Taught Me
- Where were you when the Dragon Broke?
Gallery
Kirkbride (right) pictured with Michael Mack (center)
External links
- Michael Kirkbride's Texts
- Michael Kirkbride's Posts
- Michael Kirkbride interview
- Michael Kirkbride on Tumblr
- Michael Kirkbride on Reddit