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Fallen Banners DLC – Update 45
- Position: Product Owner / Senior Encounter Designer
- Team Size: 20+
- Content: 2 DLC Dungeons (4 player group size) – “Lep Seclusa” & “Exiled Redoubt”
- Development Time: 4 months
- Contributions: Overseeing and assisting with content design, quest setup and encounter design implementation; planning, scoping and scheduling alongside team producers; communicating with support teams to help manage required art resources (icons, VFX, animation, level design, world building, environment assets, character models) and SFX (audio), as well as systems and itemization needs; collaborating with writers on story and voice lines; playtesting and quality assurance; PR and in-studio presentations
- Released: March 2025
A showcase video that I prepared for an internal studio presentation that highlights all the work the team put into creating the Lep Seclusa dungeon.
Dungeon Backgrounds
- Exiled Redoubt
- The Albus family–once staunch proponents of peace and finding a diplomatic end to the Three Banners War–suddenly turned bloodthirsty. Whatever caused their change of heart sparked a movement that seeks to punish every soldier, the generals that command them, and the heads of the alliances themselves. The Albus family’s machinations started small, but their goal is total destruction.
- The Albus family–once staunch proponents of peace and finding a diplomatic end to the Three Banners War–suddenly turned bloodthirsty. Whatever caused their change of heart sparked a movement that seeks to punish every soldier, the generals that command them, and the heads of the alliances themselves. The Albus family’s machinations started small, but their goal is total destruction.
- Lep Seclusa
- The Three Banners War impacted lives all across Tamriel and perhaps no one felt that impact more than the soldiers that fought and bled on the front lines. As the war dragged on, a growing number of veterans became disillusioned with the constant fighting and sought a means to end the conflict. One such individual is Orpheon the Tactician, the former battlefield emperor of Cyrodiil. Orpheon broke from his chains of allegiance and recruited despondent deserters into a fearsome army. Orpheon’s goal is to seize an Elder Scroll said to have the power to end the bloodshed. All that stands in his way are a handful of monks and moth priests sworn to protect the Scroll.
This was a two dungeon DLC pack, and the team did a lot of new things with the content. Two highlights are the boss fight where the boss mounts and dismounts their horse to attack players, and another boss battle that heavily revolved around using line of sight to thwart the damage (both things we rarely if ever engaged with on the encounter design side).
A player’s guide to all the mechanics in the Exiled Redoubt dungeon.
A player’s guide to all the mechanics in the Lep Seclusa dungeon.
