Steve Meister is a programmer, designer, and producer at Bethesda Game Studios. He joined the R&D Group for Zenimax Media in the summer of 1999 before working as a programmer for Morrowind starting in spring 2001. Since then, Meister has been credited on Oblivion and Skyrim. Steve is responsible for the Scourge easter egg in Morrowind. Outside of The Elder Scrolls, Meister was the Lead Programmer for Fallout 3 and served as a Gameplay Programmer on subsequent Bethesda titles, with credits as recent as Starfield. In the past, he would occasionally visit the IRC channel, #elderscrolls on Chatspike. Steve is married to fellow longtime Bethesda employee, Christiane Meister.