The Elder Scrolls Online Update 44 introduces the game's first non-binary companion, Tanlorin, voiced by Our Flag Means Death star Vico Ortiz.
It's a huge step for representation in the game, but a vocal subsect of the community has voiced outrage and spouted transphobic abuse, justifying their anger by saying that Tanlorin's inclusion is 'immersion breaking' and that they supposedly 'don't fit into the world of Elder Scrolls'. To that, narrative director Bill Slavicsek says, "They're wrong."
"When that came up, we were like, 'Okay, well, we gotta fix that as soon as we possibly can.'"
"We have mixed marriages and gay and lesbian characters in abundance throughout the game," Slavicsek tells TheGamer. "It just makes sense to us that all possibilities exist in Tamriel. We treat it as a real and living world. You just might not notice because we don't shout it from the rooftops or put signs proclaiming it everywhere. And you know why? Because in Tamriel, this is just the way the world is.
"No character in the world blinks an eye or thinks there's anything unusual about meeting the baker and his husband, the serving woman and her wife, or to have Naryu and...
