Weekly Communication · Issue #020

Todd's Dispatch

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Todd Howard
Game Director & Chief Vision Officer, Bethesda Game Studios
Issue #020
Week of September 22, 2026
Marcus Has Reached the Sea

Hello. Todd. With an update that has moved the entire studio.

"We offered to send a rescue team. Marcus declined. He said, and I am quoting the transmission exactly, 'the border is a lie and I intend to prove it.' We have made him a lead designer in absentia."

Marcus, the intern dispatched east across the map in March, has reached the sea. Rather than turn back, he has lashed his reed raft together and set sail. His most recent message read: 'still grass, now entirely water.' The ocean, the map team confirms, was not supposed to be there. It has been retroactively classified as a feature.

We can, against all explanation, still see his campfire. It is now on the water. We have stopped asking the map team about it. They have stopped sleeping.

Todd Howard
Director of Marcus & Applied Cartographic Denial