General:Leamon Tuttle's Posts

2018

'''I know ESO writers are on twitter and I hope I'll get to meet the people who worked on CWC to tell them how much I love it and how much I love Luciana (11/03/18)'''

So glad you guys enjoyed hanging out with her, and exploring CWC. She's one of my favorites too. 

The Duke will give your pleas due consideration, featherless!

2019

'''Leamon Tuttle is ESO's New Loremaster (03/07/19)

Hey gang,

Thank you for the votes of confidence and well-wishes! Lawrence left a pair of Frankenstein-scale boots to fill, but I’ll do my best to keep the lore we all love at the quality-level you’ve come to expect from ZOS.

See you in Tamriel!

PS – I like turtles!

Hogithum safety tip: (03/21/19)'''

Important Hogithum safety tip: check your weather app before calling on Azura today!

Just remember this easy rhyme: "Sunny day? Summon away! Looks like rain? You'll go INSANE!"

Daedric workout equipment: (03/22/19)

Had this great idea for a Peryite-themed workout machine called the Taskmaster. You tie canvas bags full of wet rats to a series of pullies, then lift till you barf.

Damn it. I should have called it the Taskblaster. That's way more metal.

What is the correct pronunciation of the word "Chimer"? (03/25/19)

KEYE-mer. Like the eye you see with.

Mehrunes Dagon infomercial: (03/27/19)

Had another idea for a Daedric infomercial, selling Mehrunes' Razor like a Slap-Chop. Starts with smiling salesman talking about slicing carrots. Ends with the studio devastated by fire and earthquakes--salesman laughing, his head wreathed in flame.

Carrots remain unsliced.

Who wrote Sotha Sil and the Scribe? (03/28/19)

Weren't me. :)

Which Prince has the Snuggly realm of Oblivion? (03/29/19)

I gotta believe that Sanguine has some comfy couches. I just wouldn't shine a black light on them.

'''Does Ysgramor's Soup Spoon rank as spoon? (4/4/19)'''

If Ysgramor says something's a spoon, it's a spoon. :P

'''All this talk of giant milk got me thinking: what TES creature's milk would you be super jazzed to try out? (4/20/19)

My personal list of most intriguing milks (in no particular order):
Psijic Domino Pig
Echatere
Vvardvark? Maybe? Someone find me a Telvanni experimental anatomy book.
The amount of people suggesting "Goblin Milk" is a little unnerving.

Do Argonians have mammaries? Because it looks like they do but they’re… reptiles? (4/23/19)'''

You know there's no way I'm answering that! The puzzle of Argonian breasts is as old as time itself.

Pronunciation of Nchuleftingth: (05/15/19)

nuh-CHOO-lehf-TINGTH

nih-CHOO-lehf-TINGTH  (pretty sure someone else asked me about this a couple months ago. 😋) (08/02/19)

Would cutting a Dragon’s wing like this really hurt it? (06/09/19)

You ever get a paper cut on that bit of skin between your fingers? It ain't pleasant!

Will ESO will ever correct the dialogue from Ayleid to Aldmer as suggested by Lawrence Shick and previous lore (06/11/19)

The text that identified Bewan as an Ayleid ruin was corrected months ago, but the audio remained out of sync. The corrected voiceover should be in-game before long.

If you could be any Daedra, what would you be? (06/14/19)

For me, it depends on the year.

11 year-old me would be a Clannfear because they give zero f's and Jurassic Park is rad.
17 year-old me would be a Xivilai, because they're ripped but never work out or eat responsibly.
22 year-old me would be a Seeker because I desperately needed to graduate from college.
27 year-old me would still be a Seeker because I desperately needed to graduate from college again.
29 year-old me would be a Frost Atronach because I needed to chill out and pursue my dreams with icy, relentless determination.
31 year-old me would be a Watcher because they never sleep, and there's no way a baby will eat a marble without them noticing.
Now year-old me would be an Ogrim because they can make a million mistakes but no one blames them because they're both super dumb and super strong.

The Pronunciation Guide (08/01/19)

One of the duties of a Loremaster is to record the "Pronunciation Guide" -- a catalog of wavs that actors can reference when confronted by difficult lore-words. It's a crazy internal database. But every word in the Pronunciation Guide exists in the game somewhere, so take a stroll in Tamriel and see what you can find!

I always respected our voice actors, but after saying some of this stuff myself. Holy shit. Our actors are amazing.

I still have trouble pronouncing "CHIM" Is it "kim"? "cha im?" (08/01/19)

People in the second era commonly pronounce it "CHIM" as in chimney. But CHIM's an ancient and powerful word, and pronunciations often change over time.
  Clockwork City > Summerset)

Yup. We can't control your brains. 😋 If you formulate a personal narrative that takes you through content in a certain order, you should feel free to make whatever connections feel appropriate for your character.
But as of right now, we're staying in 582.

Could we get the intact Reman banners on Lake Rumare as furnishings? (09/08/20)

I will forward your request to the Grand Housing Council. I'll be abducted by math-grabbers and tortured by the ghosts of Loremasters Past if I say more.

'''What's your favourite culture on Tamriel? (09/08/20)

Argonians.

Fun facts about Dagon (12/10/20)'''

Now that the trailer is out, Leamon's stanning of Dagon can begin in earnest. Have I ever told you guys how much I love Dagon?

Other Princes hate Dagon cuz he always wins push-up contests.

Dagon is GREAT at parties! (As long as the party is at someone else's house.)

On the spelling "Molag Ball" (12/14/20)

Molag Ball is the official sport of the Worm Cult. First necromancer to kick a human head through a dark anchor chain-link wins the honor of not being sacrificed by Mannimarco.

Not a dig at fandoms but a genuine question - Why are people so deadset to police others when writing characters as to how a certain character would act based on organization/race? (12/29/20)

I don't often throw my weight around like this, but for those reading this who don't know me, I am the Loremaster for Elder Scrolls Online.

Hear me on this, TES fans: Gatekeeping SUCKS. It's not your job to stamp out perceived dissent, or preserve the sanctity of the franchise.

You can totally hold our feet to the fire If we screw up at the studio, but fans can express themselves however they want. Creativity is a GOOD thing. Letting people play inside the franchise and push the boundaries of the fiction enriches some people's experience in Tamriel.

We confront this issue during development constantly. "Would an Altmer do thus?" In a world as vast and complicated as Tamriel, we cut against type a lot, because a world peopled entirely by snooty egotists is boring.

Character like Revus Demnevanni (slavery hating Telvanni) or Amalien (disabled Altmer who wasn't treated as a hulkynd) exist in the lore. They are not the norm, but they exist.

There's ABSOLUTELY a place for people who love the lore and want to debate the hard specifics (I am one of them). But policing other people's expression with their own characters on their own time is lame.

On how socially acceptable Amalien is: (12/29/20)

Amalien's parents rejected the cultural notion of perfection and raised her with love and support regardless of the social hazards. Like many other normal people would.

I know the hulkynd thing has been grinding gears. Cultural practices (even zealously enforced ones) aren't completely inescapable. People willing to take risks can resist this stuff - often at a price, of course.

2021

On the name/spelling of the group of Argonians that worship Dagon in Blackwood (01/26/21)

Sul-Xan

Do you have the real Mysterium Xarxes be honest (01/26/21)

If I start blabbering about nymic shenanigans, you'll know what's up.

Those robes and masques in the Blackwood Trailer look very Mythic Dawnish. Do Dagonic cults always share the same fashion sense? (01/26/21)

Cultist chic transcends eras.

The Knight of Marrow may be one of my favorite ESO characters. Well done! (03/22/21)

Thanks! Michelle Graves did the quest design for that one. It was a ton of fun! Clockwork trivia: the serial number of the Factotum love poem is my initials/birthday, showing once again that the most satisfying Easter eggs are the ones no one will ever notice or care about.

'''On Revus' quest in Gnisis with Jason Barnes: (04/01/21)'''

Yeah! That's definitely one of my faves. :D

For the record, the lyrical genius of  "Kwama, Kwama, don't you wanna be a mama" was all Jason!

'''Would Lyris Titanborn and Sai Sahan's child be a Redguard Half-Giant? (04/09/21)'''

Their child would have giant ancestry, so it's possible they would carry the "really big" trait, just like Lyris.

'''Are there exceptions to children of two different races not being the mother's race, outside of Bretons? (04/09/21)'''

Yes, when people of two different human races have children, those children bear features of both races. See Aeliah Renmus.