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Biographies?

Hi, I'm new.

I searched for a few important characters (Nerevar, Tiber Septim, Uriel VII, Jagar Tharn) and found no pages specifically for them, so I'm guessing that there's no biographies for important characters. Would an actual, specific (and, of course, accurate) biography for important characters be appropriate or is there some decission against it? The Sload 00:06, 23 May 2006 (EDT)

History of Nerevar is in major part unknown (and gradually revealed as you progress through Morrowind, so it would be a huge spoiler). The best source of biographies are the ingame books, so rewriting these mostly misses the purpose. Of course if someone is willing to undertake this task and do it WELL...?

We could write some descriptions about the charactors. This is supposed to be a Wiki after all; source of all knowledge about Elder Scrolls. I guess I could undertake this task. --Aristeo 11:21, 23 May 2006 (EDT)

The Tamriel pages are supposed to have a "People" section but it appears it hasn't been transferred over yet (in addition to a few other sections I noted). The Old Tamriel Pages have a number of short biographies on any one of note. I'm not sure who has done, or is doing, most of the Tamriel stuff, but perhaps you could poke them to see if this omission is on purpose or not and if they are planning to add it. Either way, its a good area to add to the Wiki in the near future. Since its in the Tamriel section spoilers are much less of a concern.
-- DaveH 13:18, 23 May 2006 (EDT)

Awesome. I'd suggest handling it like the Wikipedia handlse minor characters in like Star Wars or the Matrix - that is, for well-developed characters we give them whole pages and for minor characters of no importance we put them on proper lists like "Tamriel: List of notable Iliac inhabitants" or "Tamriel: List of Second Era mages." Emperors should automatically get their own page, even if they're short. I'd gladly do some.

As to spoilers, a template could be used for a warning. The Sload 23:59, 23 May 2006 (EDT)

Hmm, I've got enough spare time to help out with this. Sounds interesting. I'll get on it...after graduation. --Azuri

Would there be any way to use the construction set to extract the text of books, which somebody could then copy/paste? It seems that would be a heck of a lot easier then asking them to load up the test cell and find a chest with every single book in it and then typing them all up by hand. But I don't know if this is possible at all, or whether it would be violating some copyright issues. I'm sure we could ask Bethesda, though.... Just a thought. --Red cactus 07:38, 7 June 2006 (EDT)

Indeed this is possible and probably what was done for most of the Morrowind books. I think we have some Oblivion books added already (see Lore:Books_A). -- DaveH 13:06, 7 June 2006 (EDT)

I've started on it ;) --Aristeo 21:25, 7 June 2006 (EDT)