Tarshana

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Tarshana (Sometimes Tarsh) is a modder for the Elder Scrolls series, an alleged pharmacist, and author from Ireland. Not to be confused with Giskard she first rose to prominence after a major display of USI that resulted in her suing a youtuber for creating a video in which he reviewed her mod "The Floating Market." In a supreme example of irony it would later turn out that none of the content featured in The Floating Market was actually Tarshana's original work, but was instead a compilation of several other authors. This would ignite several debates on the r/SkyrimMods subreddit with the main focus being whether or not youtubers should have the right to profit off of Modder IP

Tarshana Goes to Washington

By all accounts Tarshana had uploaded her mod and sometime between February and May, youtube sensation MxR uploaded a video showcasing The Floating Market along with several other mods. What followed can only be described as kangaroo court. Tarshana made several ludicrous claims during the entire escapade which Reddit eagerly gobbled up:

	“	Tarshana received 6 death threats presumably from MxR fans after she filed a DMCA and forced MxR to take down his video She claims that MxR spoke under oath. This may refer to the quote from the email ("I swear under pain of perjury"), rather than, y'know. actually speaking under oath in front of a judge. This amuses me because in the GMAD forums she attempted to portray MxR as not understanding the process/what is going on, yet makes this mistake. She claims the case went before a judge in that time and was "settled out of court". I'm not sure what she means by this. In a comment in this thread she stated that some of the things she stated as fact in the mod author forums were just "typical numbers". In addition she stated that her lawyers had a pre-existing court date which is what allowed them to get in front of a judge so quickly. Those later points seem very very dubious to me. That means that the filings for a civil case went through, in California, in just over a week's time. The courts just aren't that fast! Apollodown pointed this out to me, and given that apollo is, y'know, an actual lawyer in California, I agree with his suggestion that... this never appeared before a judge. What I think really happened is that MxR realized that a court fight would be a massive mistake for him, even though he would most likely win, and agreed to not fight the DMCA. That's not a "settlement", it's a "we decided we didn't need to go to court before a judge got around to signing the the documents to start that process." (It's only a settlement if it was signed by a judge)	„
	—-Thalassa, Reddit

From Humble Beginnings

After setting the modding world ablaze Tarshana would go on to release several lackluster mods. Eventually she found a new safe space in the form of Bethesda's official forum where she re-branded herself as a console modder for the emerging console mod scene. She immediately found wild success with the denizens of her new kingdom, complete with her own off-brand attempt to appeal to its members. (whiskey and cookies) Her platform was one of simplicity: she had taken up modding after she lost a friend to the purple people eater and was going to give back to the community to honor her friends memory.

An Empire Built

Tarshana quickly became a common name on the Bethesda forums with what she began to call her "Divine" series of mods. Like all great works of art there would be many copycats who were swiftly sent cease and desist PM's in the form of hypothetical legal action. In a classic case of the internet is serious business Tarshana would drag the entire Bethesda community into her petty power struggles.

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And when Tarshana saw the breadth of her domain she wept, for there were no more trolls to be banned

The Queen is Dead, Long Live the Queen

As with all great empires the sun soon began to set on Tarshana. Stories of theft and losing her cushy job as a pharmacist amidst a pending divorce meant she must resort to the one thing she promised to never do: charge for her mods under the thinly veiled mask of donations via Patreon

To this day Tarshana commands legions of the faithful who follow her every command. Any and all naysayers are completely wrong and are only trying to slander m'lady's good name.

	“	I love Modding for the community!	„