Wake up and slap your traditional caps, Elder Scrolls fans. Elder Scrolls VI may still be quite far away, but that has never stopped anyone from trying to divulge details about where and when it could be set. The game starts again thanks to a map that Bethesda posted with a message that seems to be definitely an indication that ES6 will be heading to Hammerfell. May be.
Here is the full map below, which He posted Bethesda with the message “Transcribe the past and map the future. Here is a Happy New Year! “It could just be a simple New Year’s wish with a map of Skyrim or maybe it’s a cryptic hint about Next → Elder Scrolls game.
People online speculate that placing candles on the image is an indication of the future of the series. “Transcribe the past” could refer to the candle next to Solitude, an important location in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. By this logic, certainly the candle placed very clearly just below the empty, unfilled space labeled “Hammerfell” is what we will map in the future, right?
Hammerfell, in Tamriel’s world, hosts the Redguard people. It is a mostly arid place, with the great Alik’r desert. It certainly seems solid, maybe the original teaser trailer below and this new map sings the same tone.
How about the third candle, then? It sits next to a set of coins that were included in the collector’s physical edition for The Elder Scrolls Online’s Greymoor expansion last year. Maybe it’s a thing of the past, present, future? Heck, maybe it’s all an ESO teaser. Or, indeed, it may just be a fun post meant to drive fans crazy.
Bethesda announced the next Elder Scrolls game in 2018 and has said very little about it since. It’s years away, behind the Starfield RPG space in their production schedule and far enough away that they said we should probably ask for details in years to come. Sure, they would be naughty if they turned out to be some kind of TES6 clue.
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