Bethesda Game Studios has given The Elder Scrolls 6 its full name: The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. The subtitle and a new logo were revealed on November 3 in a video marking Bethesda's 40th anniversary, narrated by longtime franchise director Todd Howard, according to IGN, PC Gamer and Polygon. GameSpot reported that the announcement confirmed an earlier report about the title.
The video looked back over the company's history, starting with its first game, the American football title Gridiron, before moving on to The Elder Scrolls series, PC Gamer reported. Near the end, Howard said the studio was looking forward to its work on both Fallout and The Elder Scrolls before turning to the question fans most often ask.
You know, everybody's always asking about Elder Scrolls 6. And we thought, hey, given the moment, what a perfect time to tell you what The Elder Scrolls 6 is actually called.
The reveal came eight years, four months and 23 days after the game's title card was first shown in 2018, Eurogamer calculated, and almost exactly 15 years after the launch of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. The teaser showed little more than drifting sand before the name appeared, Eurogamer said.
After the logo, the video displayed a line attributed to Yazar, Moth Priest of High Queen Iradne of Hammerfell, dated 4E 206. Polygon and PC Gamer noted that the date places Sentinel at least five years after the events of Skyrim, with PC Gamer crediting the observation to the fan wiki UESP. Sentinel is a city on the northwest coast of the province of Hammerfell, beside Iliac Bay, IGN reported, and PC Gamer described it as one of Hammerfell's major kingdoms and the capital of the Alik'r Desert, which it said matched the teaser's sandy backdrop. Bethesda did not formally name a setting; Eurogamer said the trailer appeared consistent with a report last week that the game would take place in Hammerfell.
The name had also been hinted at by Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. IGN reported that Sharma, who played a demo of the game this summer, teased the subtitle in a post by replacing it with eight asterisks, matching the eight letters of Sentinel. Eurogamer reported that she played it in August during a visit to Bethesda's offices.
Bethesda also said in the video that The Elder Scrolls 5 remains Bethesda Game Studios' most played game, a figure the company clarified to IGN refers to total lifetime players. No release date, platforms or further details of Sentinel were announced, PC Gamer reported.
