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Timeoin wrote: whereas MK left and then went on to continue as a RPer for some time. MK doesnt RP......... I think you are misusing that word.

Also, MK wrote Knights of the Nine, the Remanada, The Song of Pelinal, The Commentaries on the Mysterium Xarxes, The White-Gold Concordant, came up with the ideas of The Towers, Kalpas, and giants/ancient Nords swirl patterns, all of which were used in Skyrim, and he wrote Heimskr's and Mankar Camoran's dialog..... after he had left Bethesda.

Kirkbride is only "gone" in the sense that he doesn't official work for Bethesda, however, Bethesda regularly acknowledges his ideas, and re-hires him to write new content for their games, and is still good friends wit the Bethesda development team, to the point of knowing what they are going to do before they announce it.

Hell, Kirkbride was even asked to take down his work SHOR SON OF SHOR for a time because it contained spoilers about Skyrim.

the "he doesn't work at Bethesda" excuse is a fallacy, and a rather poor one.