Draft:Michael Kirkbride
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Comment: Please read the guidelines. The subject's name appearing at some point in a list of credits is hardly significant coverage. Greenman (talk) 11:11, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Michael Kirkbride is a writer, artist, and game-designer who worked for most importantly, Bethesda Softworks but also other companies. Kirkbride has worked on numerous games in The Elder Scrolls game series, most prominently The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.[1][2] and Redguard[3]. Kirkbride's work is notable as he established a large chunk of the lore of the Elder Scrolls. Especially in early days, as he provided numerous books, articles, and pieces of lore for Morrowind. Kirkbride's work on "The Pocket Guide to the Empire, 1st Edition" is also important as it became a large part of lore for the different regions of Tamriel.
Kirkbride has also worked on the tabletop role-playing games Elric! and Fading Suns.
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[edit]- ^ Michael Kirkbrides name appears at 0:56 in this clip of Morrowind's Credits, under the section Concept Art, and reappears again under Additional Quest and Writing Design, also visible in the same time stamp (his name is the 3rd one down). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyuAbbERYks Recorded and published by The Tenth Art on September 10th 2020, another video, by Simon S, published on September 9th of 2009, also shows Kirkbride's name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wBJdOUP4i0 , for those who own a copy of Morrowind and wish to see for themselves the .bik file for the credits is located in the Videos section of the game's Data Files.
- ^ This article by Polygon also lists him as the "Concept Artist and Writer" of Morrowind under his entry, https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/27/18281082/elder-scrolls-morrowind-oral-history-bethesda
- ^ Kirkbride's name appears twice in the first cutscene (intro credits) shown in this video of the all of the game's cutscenes published by Ja'keel Jyba on March 2nd 2024. His is the 5th name to appear, showing under 'World Art' directly at the top of the list(1:07), and then appears again at the timestamp 1:37, under the Design and Writing segment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbPIazHjXrk