Bethesda Game Studios has officially announced the subtitle for The Elder Scrolls 6. The long-awaited follow-up to Skyrim will be called Sentinel, making its official title The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel. A logo has also been revealed. Both come as part of a video message from longtime franchise director Todd Howard as Bethesda celebrates its 40th anniversary.
The confirmation follows a report from last week that has proven to be quite correct. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma got a demo of The Elder Scrolls VI earlier this summer, and teased the subtitle in her post by replacing the name we now know to be Sentinel with eight asterisks. Turns out those asterisks were very specific then, as Sentinel is of course eight letters.
Sentinel is a city within the province of Hammerfell on the continent of Tamriel, where The Elder Scrolls is set. It sits on the northwest coast, nestled beside Iliac Bay. Hammerfell, meanwhile, is located due west of Cyrodiil, where Oblivion took place, and southwest of Skyrim (speaking of which, Bethesda notes that The Elder Scrolls 5 is “still Bethesda Game Studios’ most played game” – and we clarified with Bethesda that this is referring to total lifetime players). Its northern border is shared with the province of High Rock, and its western edge meets the Abacean Sea.
It’s been a long wait for The Elder Scrolls 6, as it was first announced way back in 2018, and fans have waited for more information on it ever since. Today’s subtitle and logo reveal are the first real bits of news on it in quite some time, though we likely have at least a couple more years to wait before playing it. On Xbox and PC, that is. With Sharma’s renewed focus on console exclusives, will The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel even see the light of day on a PlayStation console? That remains to be seen, but it’s the biggest card Microsoft has to play in order to get more people back into its ecosystem.
For now, though, at least we’ve got the Sentinel name, and we’ll have to cross our fingers that we get a proper reveal at next year’s Xbox Showcase in June. Here’s the full 40th anniversary studio walkthrough with Howard:
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