Welcome To Lorefield


We are a Starfield focused lore community that are super passionate about the upcoming Bethesda Game Studios title.

Who We Are

Mitch

Mitch was first introduced to Bethesda games when a family member bought him Fallout: New Vegas for his 13th birthday. It wasn’t quite love at first play as he struggled to grasp the basics in his very first open world RPG.

About a year later, his best friend gave him an extra copy of Skyrim for the Xbox 360. This time he fell in love with Bethesda’s style of games, and after completing Skyrim went back and gave Fallout: New Vegas the enjoyment it thoroughly deserves.

As the Fallout 4 hype train got rolling in 2014, Mitch learned about and slowly started to explore Bethesda’s previous catalog of games: First Oblivion, then Fallout 3, and finally Morrowind. By the time Fallout 4 was shown at E3 2015, Mitch was a full-fledged Bethesda fanatic (who was also excited for that rumored Starfield game!)

Mitch poured many, many hours into Fallout 4 and subsequently Fallout 76, but all the while was patiently excited for the new sci-fi franchise from Bethesda. It was that excitement that led him to co-found Lorefield with Lexi, which continues to this day!

Lexi

Lexi has been a passionate Bethesda gamer since first playing a newly released The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition in the Summer of 2013.

She would often find herself sneaking onto UESP.net at school, whenever on computers, to read up on Elder Scrolls lore. Mainly about the Dwarves of the universe, but also a variety of other things. Lexi discovered Fallout in 2015 with the announcement of Fallout 4, and got to play Fallout 3 on her Xbox One via the Backwards Compatibility feature that dropped that same year.

While Lexi heard the rumours of Bethesda Game Studios making a new ip throughout 2016 and 2017, she didn’t really get engaged until Starfield was revealed in 2018. Even at this point though, the reveal of The Elder Scrolls VI overshadowed Starfield for Lexi. This would only be true until 2020.

In 2020, out of curiosity for the lore of the upcoming game, Lexi started getting involved in the Starfield community, and through that she met a stranger named Mitch. Together they would co-found Lorefield.

Lorefield Origins

Lorefield is the brainchild of Mitch and Lexi, who were active in the
r/Starfield subreddit back in April of 2020. It all started when Lexi
created a post on r/Starfield asking what the lore community would be
called, and the name Lorefield was said in the comments. Mitch created
the r/Lorefield subreddit almost instantly, and Lexi reached out to join
as a moderator. Once setup, r/Lorefield became the lore subreddit for
Starfield.

While r/starfieldlore already existed, r/Lorefield became more popular
and had a unique ring to it. Lexi and Mitch could have left it here, but
they wanted to share their passion for the lore of Starfield, so early
on they decided to plan a podcast and some YouTube video content using
the Lorefield name. Despite this, the goal was always to keep
r/Lorefield semi-independent because, based on other lore subreddits, it
was better to be left as a lore subreddit and not an all-in-one
subreddit for all things Lorefield.

Progress was slow from there, until around Early 2021. Mitch managed to
contact the mod of r/starfieldlore and they gave Mitch control of the
subreddit out of the kindness of their heart. Neither Mitch nor Lexi
expected this to happen. Since then, r/starfieldlore became a redirect
to r/Lorefield, and the original mod sadly left on their own terms.
Using the subreddit as a redirect was done to not divide the community
into two parts.

A bit later, in June 2021, The Lorefield Podcast Episode 1: The Pilot
was uploaded to YouTube. This was the beginning of the content era for
Lorefield, and currently the channel now has 27 episodes of the podcast.
In late 2022, community member Red Wolf reached out to Mitch and Lexi
about doing a fun video series in the gap of official content drops. The
series would take the known lore and make basic stories using it. This
was the birth of Tales from the Settled Systems, which started with
Episode 1: The Crimson Fleet Pirate.

Trivia

  • -- Lorefield’s goal is to stay independent of any larger Starfield networks, as it prevents any sort of community monopolisation.
  • -- Mitch and Lexi share control and decisions linked to all of Lorefield. (When mods are recruited, they will become valued extra opinions in the network as well.)
  • -- The Lorefield Network will be 3 years old in April of 2023.

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