Beloved YouTuber Shirley "Skyrim Grandma" Curry Will Be an NPC in The Elder Scrolls 6 -

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Beloved YouTuber Shirley "Skyrim Grandma" Curry Will Be an NPC in The Elder Scrolls 6

Fans wanted it, and Bethesda delivered.

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If you saw Shirley Curry on the street, you would not assume she is a YouTuber who has amassed nearly 500,000 subscribers. She's 82-years-old, has four sons and nine grandchildren (according to her YouTube bio, she is also sadly a widow), and in her free time loves to play and record video games. One of her favorites: The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, of course.

Lovingly called "Skyrim Grandma," Curry has a massive following. In 2018, fans started a petition to render her as an NPC in The Elder Scrolls 6, which was announced at E3 2018.

The great demand from fans did not go unheard by the team at Bethesda Softworks. During a The Elder Scrolls 25th anniversary stream today, Bethesda announced that it will indeed be making Curry as an NPC in the upcoming The Elder Scrolls 6. A video looking back on the series' fandom briefly shows her character model being made. (You can see the process at 8:40 in the video above.)

"That petition for Skyrim Grandma we did hear, and she will be immortalized in the game," Todd Howard said during today's livestreamed panel. "This means a lot to me because I would be extremely happy to know that somebody else was playing with my character in a future Elder Scrolls game," Curry herself said during a special video celebrating the series.

Technically, the model of Curry is just the second glimpse we've seen of Elder Scrolls 6, aside from the simple pan of its landscape and the rough title back at E3 2018. It's a sweet sentiment to see footage of Bethesda inviting Curry to its studio to capture her likeness for the game. (It's unknown if she will be voicing her cameo too.) Unfortunately, we won't be seeing Skyrim Grandma in The Elder Scrolls 6 anytime soon, due to it being in early development.

For more on The Elder Scrolls 6, check out our everything we know guide for additional coverage.

This is really cool of Bethesda to do. Skyrim Grandma sounds like a cool lady and it’s nice that they’re honoring her.

 

[MakingAmericaGreat]

Skyrim grandma is a lot of fun. Good to see her in the upcoming Elder Scrolls. She has earned her spot. Now to optimistically hope that there are no nude mods of her.

 

[Jeanne d'Arc]

I'm happy they're honoring her, she's really wholesome, but Elder Scrolls 6 could really end up being a turd with how Bethesda games have been recently. We'll have to see.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Make her the final boss or no balls.

 

[VIVIIXI]

Now to optimistically hope that there are no nude mods of her.

From your lips to God's ears.

Unfortunately God is a sadist, and this is Kiwi Farms. There is bound to be a thread dedicated purely to her rule 34 that will reach over 1.5k pages, at least 10 of which will be mods, by next Tuesday.

 

[Judge Holden]

From your lips to God's ears.

Unfortunately God is a sadist, and this is Kiwi Farms. There is bound to be a thread dedicated purely to her rule 34 that will reach over 1.5k pages, at least 10 of which will be mods, by next Tuesday.

Im sorry to say that it has already begun...
https://rule34.paheal.net/post/list/Shirley_Curry/1

 

[garakfan69]

I got nothing against a youtubing granny but this is gonna be awful.
Bethesda being Bethesda will probably not just leave it at just an generic NPC that looks like her, it's going to make dumb out-of-place references and be tagged essential.

 

[SmileyTimeDayCare]

Beloved YouTuber Shirley "Skyrim Grandma" Curry Will Be an NPC in The Elder Scrolls 6

Fans wanted it, and Bethesda delivered.

www.usgamer.net

This is really cool of Bethesda to do. Skyrim Grandma sounds like a cool lady and it’s nice that they’re honoring her.

Cool...Cool...Now can they use a better engine, make the gameplay fun instead of easy and repetitive, and maybe make the world more dynamic than keeping slave children in your preform house?

 

[KingofNothing]

This reminds me to add a sub to granny. Makes me happy to see someone her age can enjoy the modern stuff.

 

[UE 558]

That’s real sweet of Bethesda. Game’ll probably be mediocre, but it’s still sweet. Reminds me of when Nintendo snuck Iwata and Robin Williams references into BOTW

 

[Graffiti canvas]

Aww. This reminds me of how cool game dev's used to be before bullshit and politics got in the way. Good on Bethesda for remembering they have a heart.

Spoiler: Tangentially related feels story

I once spent a lot of time in an MMO from Turbine Games doing 24v24 PvP. Back in the day before it went to shit and was invaded by Chinese gold farmers and boxers, it was a pretty tight community. Opposing sides with lots of loyalty to the groups you ran in, talked a lot of trash but still mostly respected everyone. Mostly older crowd so that's probably why. PvP had a specific, static map with tons of landmark features.

There was a girl who played a hunter character who was both pretty good and really nice to everyone. Always helpful. Was in the group I ran with. Everyone liked her, even the opposing side's leaders and regulars. She would stealth a specific rock formation as a lookout for incoming raids all the time. Everyone knew. Both sides called it "her" rock by name as a landmark. This went on for years.

She got sick. Needed a heart transplant. By some miracle a heart became available. She died during the operation, went to sleep and never woke up. Everyone was gutted.

Both sides called a truce and spent the day being nice to each other. No kills except for trolling kids ganking and running away. Near the end of the day, several hundred players gathered online and held a memorial. Lagged the fuck out of the server there were so many of us. Both sides being cool. Talked with a lot of people who you spent most of the time being frustrated with and talking shit to. Made new friends.

A week later an update came out.

The rock she would always stealth now has a new mesh with a broken hunter's bow laying on top of it. No announcement, no credit, no "We did this". They just did it quietly and we all knew exactly what it was.

Turbine gave us all feels that day.

 

[Billy_Sama]

Just wait for disgusting adult mods to ruin things.

 

[Vault Boy]

She might not live long enough to see TES VI released, but good on Bethesda for immortalizing her.

Be even sweeter if her character is a companion, perhaps an old mage or something.

 

[GentlemanFaggot]

She might not live long enough to see TES VI released, but good on Bethesda for immortalizing her.

Be even sweeter if her character is a companion, perhaps an old mage or something.

Funny enough, the last time Bethesda did this to a fan he did, in fact, die before the game was released:

Erik the Slayer

Erik the Slayer, initially referred to as Erik, is a Nord who lives in the Frostfruit Inn of Rorikstead. Erik is the son of Rorikstead's innkeeper, Mralki, and works as a farmer around the small community, although he secretly dreams of a life of adventure. Erik admits he is an aspiring...

elderscrolls.fandom.com

 

[nonnewtonian]

Shirley is such a sweet lady. If you like watching Bob Ross, her videos are right up your alley.

I have no hopes TES VI will be any good, but if they treat her cameo with the same care and respect they gave Erik West (Erik the Slayer) she might be the one good thing to come out of it.

 

[Vault Boy]

Funny enough, the last time Bethesda did this to a fan he did, in fact, die before the game was released:

Erik the Slayer

Erik the Slayer, initially referred to as Erik, is a Nord who lives in the Frostfruit Inn of Rorikstead. Erik is the son of Rorikstead's innkeeper, Mralki, and works as a farmer around the small community, although he secretly dreams of a life of adventure. Erik admits he is an aspiring...

elderscrolls.fandom.com

All my playthroughs of that game, and I had no idea that companion was based off of an Elder Scrolls fan.

These aren't the only times a fan was immortalized, another was an NPC for the Nuka World expansion for Fallout 4.

 

[Qi Meng Dealer]

If she does live long enough to see TES6 released, I hope Bethesda gets her into fun, live action ads for the game.

 

[frozenrunner]

Why are you guys being so negative about the quality of TESVI?

You know the fans will fix it eventually

 

[Tanner Glass]

Why are you guys being so negative about the quality of TESVI?

You know the fans will fix it eventually

Because there's a tremendous gap in the ability of the modding community to fix a fun game with some bugs (Skyrim, FO3, FO:NV), which they can do, eventually; compared to the amount of work they would need to do to fix a game who's core issue is a lack of fun (FO4, FO76, ESO-Online, ESO:Blades) or games without actual mod support (FO76, FOShelter, ESO:Blades) or both.

Modders can fix the bugs, but we're not certain that Bethesda can produce anything worth fixing/playing anymore. This is also a much bigger ask after Bethesda's numerous fiascoes with mods (Twice with the creation club, Skyrim:SE not having Steam Workshop support, ESO6 potentially being Bethesda Launcher only on PC) and I'm sure some modders have left for greener pastures already after each of those missteps.

 

[BALLZ-BROKEN]

Come on now, it's gonna have 16 times the detail but NPC's are still gonna sleep on top of their bedsheets.

And since ES6 is going to take place in Hammerfell, does that mean there's gonna be a black woman on the box cover? (And by black woman I mean frizzy-haired mulatto with European facial features)