Julian LeFay, the male typically credited as “the father of The Elder Scrolls,” has actually passed away at the age of 59, his innovative partners revealed today.

“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 coworkers composed in a Bluesky post.

LeFay invested the majority of the 1990s at Bethesda Softworks, culminating in his deal with The Elder Scrolls series into the late ’90s.

His profession didn’t begin with The Elder Scrolls. Starting in 1988, LeFay made music for the Amiga hack-and-slash video game Sword of Sodan As the NES video game Where’s Waldoand he did style and shows deal with titles likeWayne Gretzky Hockeythe DOS variation of Dragon’s Lairand 2 DOS video games based upon the Terminator film franchise.

In the early ’90s, he signed up with fellow Bethesda designers Ted Peterson and Vijay Lakshman on an Ultima Underworld-inspired RPG that would happen called The Elder Scrolls: ArenaRenowned innovative director Todd Howard has actually helmed the franchise considering that its 3rd entry, The Elder Scrolls: Arena and The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall were primarily led by LeFay. Among the gods of The Elder Scrolls universe was called after LeFay, and the setting was influenced by the literature and tabletop role-playing video games LeFay and Peterson took pleasure in.