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Vijay "V." Lakshman is a video-game developer, fantasy-novelist and one of the original creators of The Elder Scrolls series.
Background[]
Vijay Lakshman was born July 20th, 1967 in Ottawa, Canada and spent his early years in Bangkok, Thailand. In 1982, V. joined Bethesda Softworks as head director, lead designer, and executive producer of The Elder Scrolls: Arena. Vijay also contributed to The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, deciding to leave the company afterwards in search of new projects to helm.
Lakshman has since worked in senior executive positions for FASA Interactive, Bootprint Entertainment, and Vivendi/Universal Games. He served at the latter as Vice President of Development for six years.
Lakshman served as a judge for The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship's Youth Entrepreneurs Semifinal Business Plan Competition, and is a featured speaker on The Business Destiny show. He has also been a speaker for the 2001 Game Developers Conference on "Managing Mega-Franchises", and again in 2002 for "What Hot Publishers are Looking For in Game Development".
His most recent work has been author of the dark-fantasy Mythborn series.
Lakshman is a graduate of George Washington University and Harvard Business School.
In 2019, it was announced that Lakshman and two other original creators of The Elder Scrolls, Ted Peterson and Julian LeFay, in an independent studio called OnceLost Games, were creating an open-world RPG called The Wayward Realms. They are also joined by the composer of Arena and Daggerfall, Eric Heberling.[UL 1] They have said that the project is the spiritual successor to Daggerfall.[citation needed]
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- Vijay is currently married and has two children.