Insuring Hope (Elder Scrolls Online)

Abstract

The husband of the woman featured in the previous chapter was an executive of a major life insurance corporation, and thus his main theme as an avatar was protecting and rescuing. A fundamental principle of this book is quite similar, preservation, preventing a person from being totally destroyed at death, by allowing the deceased to continue to contribute to the living. Evidence of his actual death scene suggests that he valiantly attempted to save his daughter, but failed, so the goal of role-playing here will be to locate and protect an avatar based on his wife. The life insurance company that employed him was at the time a mutual corporation, existing entirely for the policyholders and having no stockholders, thus existing at some variance with modern capitalism and representing a community more than financial interests. The MMO is the very new Elder Scrolls Online, and his avatar actually entered it before its official launch, serving as a beta tester and thus expressing a sense of urgency with saving his wife, against all odds.