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Physical Characteristics Height: 6'0"–6'8" Bronze, charcoal, or ash-gray skin Black, crimson, or copper hair Orange or molten-gold eyes Resistant to heat and fire Culture Strength is measured through craftsmanship rather than conquest. Every adult must master a trade. Highly respected professions include: Blacksmiths Engineers Sculptors Armorers Subcultures Iron Clans Ember Monks Forge Masters Lava Wardens Religion Creation through hardship is sacred. Fire destroys weakness to reveal excellence. Patron God Pyrakor God of Fire Creation Endurance Smithing Volcanoes Sacred Symbol A blazing hammer within a mountain. Architecture Constructed from: Black basalt Iron Bronze Volcanic glass Common features include: Massive fortress walls Lava canals Giant forges Pillared halls Fire-lit temples Monumental statues

Courtesy of ChatGPT. This is actually what I had in mind for a world map: a big city in the middle and a country with a huge volcano, like in Morrowind.

This is an angle I usually don't consider when I bash Creation Club. We don't know how much it costs to run Creation Club, but let's use Wikipedia as an example. In 2025, Wikipedia spent $3.4 million on hosting. Creation Club launched at the end of August 2017, so that's roughly nine years. If my numbers are correct, they're making $3 million a year — and that's a stretch, considering how bad the console market is currently. If their hosting expenses are similar to Wikipedia's, I doubt it's bringing in enough money right now to justify it. Other costs include curation, but they allow almost anything to be sold there, so I doubt it's much. Bug fixing? From what I've seen, they don't fix them. So the costs are probably strictly for hosting. I will concede that it is probably cheaper for them to pay 37.5% to modders than to hire someone full-time to produce Creation Club content.

Todd said modders made 10 million through Creation Club, ChatGPT says modders make 37.5% of the profits, so Bethesda roughly made 27 million with Creations. Assuming my math is correct, this whole thing is a big failure. We don't know how much they make daily. The majority of the money could have been made when Starfield was released, for all we know.

Oh, now they care about the fans? I thought they hated the fans. Now that these woke, purple-haired, activist developers are facing layoffs, they want the fans to back them up. They won't get that from me.

More than 60 senior QA testers let go. Well, it's not like Bethesda listened to their QA testers anyway. Hell, with all the bugs in their games, I'm surprised they had any.

LOL. Didn't Todd say it's good to miss things?

It looks like more layoffs are needed.

I've been watching YouTube videos about the Xbox layoffs, and I'm surprised that there hasn't been much outrage about them in the comments that I've seen. Most people are saying that this was inevitable, or going off topic and complaining about Sony killing physical games.

LOL. Microsoft might actually fix Bethesda.

According to Statcounter, the desktop operating system market share for Linux in the US is up to 9.59% so far in July. I'm not sure I buy this yet. Could it be the Steam Machine effect, or bad data from Statcounter?

Dropping some ideas for races. I generated these with the following prompt in ChatGPT. ChatGPT's suggestions.

I've been playing this game for 15 years and have never done this quest. It seems I didn't miss out on much.