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Julian LeFay, “the father of The Elder Scrolls,” has died at 59 | LeFay spearheaded Arena and Daggerfall before passing the torch to Todd Howard.
LeFay spearheaded Arena and Daggerfall before passing the torch to Todd Howard.
"It is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that we inform our community of the passing of Julian LeFay, our beloved Technical Director and co-founder of Once Lost Games," his colleagues wrote in a Bluesky post. In the early '90s, he joined fellow Bethesda developers Ted Peterson and Vijay Lakshman on an Ultima Underworld-inspired RPG that would come to be called The Elder Scrolls: Arena. Earlier this month, The Wayward Realms studio Once Lost Games announced that LeFay had been battling cancer for years and that his doctors had concluded that he did not have much time left.
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