The Night That Barenziah Did Rifton

This fifteenth BARDS & BRAGGART'S award for a notable RPG Character or Quest from the Fallout or Elder Scrolls series is shared by Turelek of Great House Fliggerty and lobbotekka2019 from the STEAM Fallout 4 site for the Dark Elf Queen Barenziah whose long life and many lovers framed so many of the defining events and significant characters of the third era of the Elder Scrolls from Arena through Tribunal. Her biography comes in two versions, both titled "The Real Barenziah". First there is the complete, uncensored version of the Lady's life originally written for Bethesda and appearing in Daggerfall, and there is the shorter, censored version as approved by the Tribunal Temple that appears in Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. Both versions are available at the Imperial Library which is a great source of lore and canon for all things Elder Scrolls.

Parts 4 and 5 of the Library's uncensored, ribald version provided the material for the events in Rifton, while the poetry of Rudyard Kipling's "The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding House" furnished the poetic structure for the Bard to play with.