As fans continue to suggest potential subtitles for The Elder Scrolls 6 based on the number of asterisks in Xbox boss Asha Sharma’s tweet, a theory that Bethesda hid the actual name in Starfield years ago has emerged — and it’s pretty compelling.
As we reported yesterday, The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel has emerged as the frontrunner for the title of the game. But it turns out that Bethesda might have teased Sentinel in the Starfield character creation screen.
As various members of the community have pointed out, the character ID number in the Starfield character creation screen spells out Sentinel perfectly if you divide the number into pairs and use the numbers as the letters of the alphabet.
“This title was at our noses for more than three years and we somehow missed it,” said one fan.
Indeed, there are posts pointing to this Sentinel Easter egg three years ago, but it never really went anywhere. This alone makes Sentinel feel like a done deal (the chances of this ID number spelling out Sentinel are… unlikely in the extreme). But we also have a former Bethesda developer, Michael Kirkbride, replying “yep” to a reddit post suggesting Sentinel as the name.
Sentinel, by the way, is a major coastal capital city of the Redguards located in the northwestern hills of Hammerfell, which some believe is the region in which The Elder Scrolls 6 is set.
So, we’re looking at The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel as the name of the next The Elder Scrolls game, and the speculation has begun. Some are even wondering if Sentinel means we could have a dual province game on our hands, one that includes Hammerfell and High Rock.
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