Lead the way, Vilja!
A person whose influence we can feel in places still.
Places likeThe Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, a remake of which is apparently imminent.
After making the transition from Morrowind to Oblivion, Emma sought to create a companion for herself.
Pratchett gradually started to make small suggestions of his own based on his experience with Vilja.
The pair’s continued correspondence inspired Emma to work on more mods linked to Vilja.
“Terry actually named most of the ‘special items’ that you could give away,” Emma said.
“He even managed to put in a bunch of easter eggs for Snuff.”
“Terry always had a very humble and polite way of suggesting things for Vilja,” Emma said.
“I always felt that I was in charge and never that he was taking over.
I always felt inspired by his ideas and loved to venture to make them come true.”
The more involved he got, the more invested he was becoming.
“By that point Terry was already having serious trouble with his memory,” Charles told Eurogamer.
However, this wasn’t an easy task.
Once I had that insight, combining the two features at the technical level was fairly easy."
option whenever he got stuck in a dungeon, which would prompt her to lead the way out.
“And the lead-the-way-feature became very popular among other players, too.
Both Charles and Emma remember their experience with the world-renowned author fondly.
It wasn’t because of Terry’s status that they were helping him.
In fact, Emma wasn’t even sure who he was when he sent that first message.
And all the while, he played his own part in helping with Vilja’s development.
Terry Pratchett image credit Myrmi [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
