General:Andrew Young's Posts

Andrew Young's Posts
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These are a few notable comments from Andrew Young on The Elder Scrolls setting. Young is known as @myrix on Twitter and Vagabond and Relic on various other platforms.

2019

Screenshot of the ocean (2019-04-18)

ⁱ ˢᵃʷ ᴴᵉʳᵐᵒʳᵃʰ ⁱⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ᵗⁱᵈᵉ
ⁱ ᵃˢᵏᵉᵈ ʰⁱᵐ ʷʰᵉʳᵉ ᵗᵒ ᵍᵒ
ʰᵉ ˢᵃⁱᵈ ᵘᵖ ᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒᵒⁿˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵇᵃᶜᵏ
ᵘⁿᵗⁱˡ ʸᵒᵘ ˡᵒⁿᵍ ᶠᵒʳ ᵐᵒʳᵉ

2021

On the cat in Markarth making bread (2021-05-17)

Young's cat, Beans

He is a good boy and a key developer of Markarth! He was there every step of the way.

2024

Anniversary AmA (2024-04-02)

The anniversary of ESO feels strange to me somehow. I started on the project in 2012, implementing no more than simple side quests and populating areas with NPCs I hoped would be more interesting than they had any reason to be. The journey from there to here is probably a story I should save for a memoir.

Regardless, I find myself wishing I could engage with the community on something to celebrate this game together. Some of you have played it for a decade. I gave it a decade of my life… and more.

I wonder, are there any questions you would ask of me?

What zone story is your fave/most proud of?

Markarth because it’s the only zone story I ever got to fully plot out myself. Not saying it’s perfect. I know the resurrection is divisive. I’m proud of the end result though, especially considering the pandemic sent everyone home as we began dev on it.

I was usually put in charge of endings. Which is interesting to think back on. Constantly trying to wrap up stories—often other people’s stories—can be exhausting.

That said, I feel like I wrapped up CWC, Murkmire, and Deadlands well enough.

CWC ending is the perfect coda to the entire story which for me elevated it to being my fav expansion bar Elsweyr

Thanks. Fun fact: directors hated the ending I pitched at first and wanted a big “ewok party” in the Brass Fortress. I was so adamant that we end it with an intimate solo conversation with Sotha Sil that I think they thought I’d quit if I didn’t get my way. I still stand by it.

That's amazing! The relaxed intimacy of it really made it much more thought provoking. I don't know if you'd intended this but the way Sotha Sil addresses the Vestige made me feel like he could see through the illusion of the game and was coyly talking to me directly, the player.

Thanks. It was definitely intentional.

That will always be a special conversation for different reasons to me than the players. I’d crafted the time and place and tone. I had a blank box ready to begin writing the conversation. And all I could see was 17yo me crushed that Seht was already dead when I reached him in Tribunal. I had wanted to talk to him so badly. Anyway, Leamon did a fine job. And I wrote a book instead.