{"id":1388,"date":"2025-07-23T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:06:52","slug":"julian-lefay-the-father-of-the-elder-scrolls-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/julian-lefay-the-father-of-the-elder-scrolls-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian LeFay, The &#039;Father Of The Elder Scrolls&#039;, Has Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former Bethesda dev had battled cancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julian LeFay, the man often referred to as &#8220;the father of the <strong>Elder Scrolls<\/strong>&#8221; and co-founder of the indie developer OnceLost Studio, has passed away after a years-long battle with cancer. The announcement was made by his studio earlier today on social media. He was 59 years old.<\/p>\n<p>LeFay was instrumental in the early days of Bethesda&#8217;s RPG history, back when the likes of <strong>Daggerfall<\/strong> was laying the foundations for what was to come from the studio in the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/is-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-remastered-coming-to-nintendo-switch-2\">Oblivion<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/elder_scrolls_v_skyrim_anniversary_edition\">Skyrim.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/07\/julian-lefay-the-father-of-the-elder-scrolls-has-passed-away\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bethesda dev had battled cancer. Julian LeFay, the man often referred to as &#8220;the father of the Elder Scrolls&#8221; and co-founder of the indie developer OnceLost Studio, has passed away after a years-long battle with cancer. The announcement was made by his studio earlier today on social media. He was 59 years old. LeFay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}