Bethesda has finally given The Elder Scrolls 6 a full name: The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. The title arrived on 3 November in a short teaser, more than eight years after the game was first announced, and it still has no release date. Gamebonk's release tracker lists it as TBA.
The reveal closed out a video, under 10 minutes long according to The Verge, celebrating 40 years of Bethesda Game Studios. Studio head Todd Howard spent most of it walking through the studio's back catalogue, starting with 1986's Gridiron, before turning to the game fans keep asking about. "And we thought, hey, given the moment, what a perfect time to tell you what The Elder Scrolls 6 is actually called," Howard said.
What the teaser showed
The clip itself is brief. It shows an elder scroll half buried in sand, with Eurogamer pointing to some showy sand physics, before the Sentinel logo appears. A quote follows, credited to Yazar, a Moth Priest serving High Queen Iradne of Hammerfell: "The scroll offered only a shimmer, a veil thinly lifted to my eyes. A future lost. A victory undone. Sands of time scattered by fate."
Bethesda did not name a setting outright, but the clues line up. Sentinel is the name of both a kingdom and a city in Hammerfell, the desert province of the Redguards, as Rock Paper Shotgun notes. A Verge report published shortly before the reveal correctly predicted the subtitle and claimed the game would be set in Hammerfell and dig into the origins of the elder scrolls themselves. Eurogamer and Rock Paper Shotgun both say the teaser backs that up.
That is all Bethesda is offering for now. The Verge reports that the Xbox Wire post announcing the name consists of nothing more than an image of the logo.
“And we thought, hey, given the moment, what a perfect time to tell you what The Elder Scrolls 6 is actually called.”Todd Howard
A long road from 2018
The original 2018 announcement, little more than a title card over a landscape, came eight years, four months and 23 days before this one, by Eurogamer's count. The new reveal also lands almost exactly 15 years after The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim launched.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said she played the game in August during a visit to Bethesda's offices, according to Eurogamer. The reveal comes less than six months after Bethesda was hit by job cuts as part of wider layoffs across Microsoft-owned studios. Eurogamer suggests The Game Awards on 10 December is the most likely stage for any further look at the game.
