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Skyrim's world began on a restaurant napkin

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Todd Howard casually sketched the massive frozen province while sitting in a restaurant waiting for his food. That flimsy piece of stained paper ultimately served as the exact blueprint for one of the most relentlessly re-released fantasy worlds in human history.

Skyrim's world began on a restaurant napkin
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