Bethesda Spotlights Elder Scrolls Online Community Competition
Bethesda is continuing its recent trend of actively promoting the Elder Scrolls Online community. Following a recent expansion of its Stream Team program, and a YouTuber spotlight, the studio has published a spotlight of a new community event; Malacath Makeover.
Malacath Makeover: An Elder Scrolls Online Community Event
The purpose of this community event was to beautify the Orsinium State, Head luxury furnishing using the in-game Housing Editor. There were few rules, but participants would only receive a score if they used a head, without any attached body. Bethesda interviewed the player who came up with the event. Given that Malacath is the Daedric Prince of outsiders and patron of the Orcs, Bethesda asked whether he was concerned about risking the god’s ire by “beautifying” his head.
“Malacath is notoriously vindictive,” says Jonathan Hart Ellis, the player who organized the event; “so I wouldn’t want to receive his ire. Some of his followers don’t like ‘beautiful people,’ so beauty-ing up Malacath could be considered quite dangerous. Rest assured that no matter what Malacath might have been prettied up with, he was still quite ugly on the inside”. The community received a widespread positive response from players, who submitted numerous screenshots of their own statue heads. Entries won in a variety of categories, including “Most Terrifying” and “Least Malacathy”.
Apparently, Jonathan was planning another community competition themed around the recent Wolfhunter DLC; “The theme would be Build-A-Hircine,” he explains; “using the ‘Deer Head, Wall Mount’ furnishing as the head, and then letting people create whatever sort of body, so a different take on the challenge where it’s building the body instead of decorating the head”. Jonathan is a regular streamer who holds live quick-build contests using the game’s various luxury furnishings, among other things; “It’s a fun contest that gets the creative juices flowing,” he says; “and is intended to give people some housing inspiration.”