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Shirley Curry, the 82-year-old grandmother, and YouTuber known for her Skyrim videos will make an appearance in The Elder Scrolls VI. Bethesda will use photogrammetry technology to scan the legendary Skyrim enthusiast and add her to the game.

Bethesda revealed new information about the technology behind The Elder Scrolls VI today at PAX East during the Elder Scrolls 25th Anniversary Panel. In a video about the series, the company explained their planned use of photogrammetry technology, which can take scans of real-life objects and translate them into high detail 3D. This will be used for the game’s environments, and similar scanning technology will be used to add “Grandma Shirley” to the game as a character.

“This means a lot to me,” Curry says in the video. “Because I would be extremely happy to know that somebody else was playing with my character in a future Elder Scrolls game.”

Curry boasts 483,000 subscribers on YouTube, where she posts Let’s Plays of Skyrim and speaks to her viewers through vlogs. Curry confirmed her addition to The Elder Scrolls VI on Twitter, where she also showed off a tee shirt she received visiting Bethesda’s studios, saying:

“Well, since they made the announcement today about me, as a character in the next TES game ...I can show my favorite thing I brought away with me!!!”

It’s a pretty nice tee-shirt.

We don’t really know much about when The Elder Scrolls VI will release but eagle-eyed fans will have to look out for Curry, whose specific role is also unknown. She might end up as a tough bandit, but I’ll guess that she’s a friendly adventurer with sagely wisdom to impart




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Fans petitioned for this to happen after she made a statement that she may never see Elder Scrolls VI and it looks like Bethesda listened

 

[Pagusas]

so would that be the first TES6 screen shot then?

 

[DarkArterialGore]

She's as old as the Gamebryo engine.

 

[jshackles]

That's lovely!

 

[Stuart360]

She will probably be dead by the time the game comes out.

 

[Humdinger]

Fans petitioned for this to happen after she made a statement that she may never see Elder Scrolls VI and it looks like Bethesda listened

Yes, I posted about that campaign (link below). Awesome to hear that it has happened.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/help-get-shirley-curry-a-part-in-elder-scrolls-vi.1469358/

 

[Husky]

YAYYYYYY!!!
I promise not to pickpocket her.

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

Did they make her yell FUS RO DAH?

That's really nice.

 

[Airbus Jr]

Fans petitioned for this to happen after she made a statement that she may never see Elder Scrolls VI and it looks like Bethesda listened

Bravo Bethesda

Press F for respect

 

[Psajdak]

Is she gonna be the last boss, or something?

 

[Larxia]

She will probably be dead by the time the game comes out.

That's so sad but I thought about it too

 

[Airbus Jr]

She will probably be dead by the time the game comes out.

Shes 82

People can live up to 90 years and further beyond depends on your lifestyle

 

[Mistershine.]

She will probably be dead by the time the game comes out.

That's the point of this. She said she might not to be alive to see it so they put her in the game.

 

[nani17]

so would that be the first TES6 screen shot then?

I was thinking the same thing about the second screenshot.

It looks alot better than fallout 4

 

[WhiskeyDiver]

She will probably be dead by the time the game comes out.

I wouldn't doubt it if they let her be part of the in-house testing, alpha testing, and beta testing teams. It would be super nice of them to do that. Hell, she probably at least had a chance to see an early build of it while she was there, or she was at least shown concept videos of the engine in action.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

This is an unequivocally good move by Bethesda. Good on them.

 

[TLZ]

This is so cool!

 

[Hendrick's]

Skyrim Grandma is awesome.

 

[atomic moth]

This will be cool until they find her grandson’s stepdad’s childhood dog was once in a photo with the a guy that said the n word in a school play of Huckleberry Finn.

Then it’s over for Bethesda.

 

[nani17]

This will be cool until they find her grandson’s stepdad’s childhood dog was once in a photo with the a guy that said the n word in a school play of Huckleberry Finn.

Then it’s over for Bethesda.

 

[Enjay]

Thanks for ruining that.