{"id":2091522,"date":"2026-08-13T12:57:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2091522"},"modified":"2026-08-13T12:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:57:59","slug":"after-this-weeks-elder-scrolls-6-tease-fans-think-theyve-figured-out-its-full-name-and-it-was-hidden-in-starfield-all-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2091522","title":{"rendered":"After this week&#8217;s Elder Scrolls 6 tease, fans think they&#8217;ve figured out its full name &#8211; and it was hidden in Starfield all along"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">After this week&#8217;s Elder Scrolls 6 tease, fans think they&#8217;ve figured out its full name &#8211; and it was hidden in Starfield all along<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Watch this space.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/TGS6.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser trailer screenshot, showing mountains and a coastline, somewhere in Tamriel.\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"TGS6.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Bethesda<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sherif Saed avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/IMG_1950_Uy1XomJ.JPG?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1638\" height=\"1346\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Sherif Saed avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"IMG_1950_Uy1XomJ.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1638\" height=\"1346\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/sherif-saed\">Sherif Saed<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Senior Contributor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\n<p>Published on   <time datetime=\"2026-08-13T12:57:59+00:00\" data-auto-time-zone=\"true\" data-year=\"numeric\" data-month=\"short\" data-day=\"numeric\" data-hour=\"numeric\" data-minute=\"numeric\">Aug. 13, 2026, 12:57 p.m.<\/time>\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"7a7ef454-39ef-4913-83d3-5bab8c0a7646\" data-name=\"Starfield\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Starfield\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Starfield\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Starfield\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Starfield\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Starfield\" title=\"Follow Starfield\"><br \/>\n  Follow Starfield<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Following Xbox CEO Asha Sharma&#8217;s recent redacted tease of a subtitle for the long-awaited Elder Scrolls 6, it&#8217;s been discovered the game&#8217;s full name might have been hiding in developer Bethesda&#8217;s most recent release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/starfield-main-story-walkthrough-9352\">Starfield<\/a>, all along.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Sharma &#8211; whose recent visit to developer Bethesda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/elder-scrolls-6-giant-inflatable-rat\">was met with a giant inflatable rat outside its offices<\/a> as protests against Xbox&#8217;s devastating layoffs continue &#8211; teased that she&#8217;d just had a &#8220;live playthrough of The Elder Scrolls 6: ******** this morning.&#8221; The eight asterisks in her post naturally inspired players to go digging for answers, sharing theories as to what the game&#8217;s subtitle could be.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the suggestions included <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UESP_net\/status\/2087376937916235944\">Dominion, Covenant, Orsinium, Starfall<\/a> and even Skyrim 2 &#8211; which has eight characters if you count the space. However, the leading theory so far appears to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ElderScrolls\/comments\/1vlre2c\/comment\/p33mfuy\/\">Sentinel<\/a>, a major city in The Elder Scrolls&#8217; region of Hammerfell. Even before Sharma&#8217;s tweet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/elder-scrolls-6-location-everything-we-know-5600\">many theorised Hammerfell is where the next game would be set<\/a>, based mostly on the single image Bethesda shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/bethesda-announces-the-elder-scrolls-6\">when The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s now emerged that Bethesda may have been hiding the game&#8217;s name &#8211; which just so happens to be the community&#8217;s current favourite subtitle candidate &#8211; in Starfield for years (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/it-looks-like-bethesda-hid-the-true-name-of-the-elder-scrolls-6-in-starfield-years-ago\">IGN<\/a>). Or, at least, that&#8217;s the latest theory.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Reddit, players have been revisiting screenshots of the Starfield character creator, which includes a 16-digit employee number at the bottom. This is typically the type of incidental detail that lends authenticity to fictional worlds, but in this case, there&#8217;s compelling evidence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TESVI\/comments\/1vmh7ze\/by_the_way_sentinel_was_already_teased_in\/\">it&#8217;s also been secretly spelling out &#8216;Sentinel&#8217; this entire time<\/a>. When the number is divided into pairs, then each is mapped to a corresponding letter in the alphabet, you get the magic word: Sentinel.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" data-embed-height=\"546\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TESVI\/comments\/1vmh7ze\/by_the_way_sentinel_was_already_teased_in\/\">By the way, Sentinel was already teased in Starfield<\/a><br \/> by<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/starfieldnovember\/\">u\/starfieldnovember<\/a> in<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TESVI\/\">TESVI<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\" style=\"display: none\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a new discovery, mind: some players picked up on it three years ago, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/starfield_lore\/comments\/166kji0\/the_customization_screen_employee_number_holds\/\">posted about it on Reddit<\/a>. But the discovery has now resurfaced as potential evidence that &#8216;Sentinel&#8217; is indeed the Elder Scrolls 6&#8217;s subtitle. What&#8217;s more, former Bethesda writer, artist, and designer Michael Kirkbride <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TESVI\/comments\/1vltv58\/comment\/p34j49v\/\">has  chimed in<\/a> to confirm the Sentinel theory, which is probably about the best we&#8217;re going to get at this point.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Bethesda&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/personas\/todd-howard\">Todd Howard<\/a> revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-elder-scrolls-6-is-still-a-long-way-off-says-todd-howard-but-development-is-his-everyday-thing\">The Elder Scrolls 6 was &#8220;still a long way off&#8221;<\/a> from release. And last month, in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/microsoft-xbox-layoffs-2026-double-fine-compulsion-ninja-theory\">Xbox&#8217;s sweeping layoffs<\/a>, Bethesda employees reportedly claimed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/elder-scrolls-6-morale-bethesda-xbox-layoffs\">the cuts would have a &#8220;substantial and cascading effect&#8221;<\/a> on the game&#8217;s development progress.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bethesda later released a statement intended to assuage concerned fans, claiming the studio&#8217;s current primary focus is on delivering the long-awaited sequel, though it did not address the reported employee claims directly. &#8220;The next chapter is on the way,&#8221; the studio said in its message. &#8220;We\u2019re where we planned to be, loving how it looks, and playing it every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eight years after its unveiling, The Elder Scrolls 6 still doesn&#8217;t have a release target.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Following Xbox CEO Asha Sharma&#8217;s recent redacted tease of a subtitle for the long-awaited Elder Scrolls 6, it&#8217;s been discovered the game&#8217;s full name might have been hiding in developer Bethesda&#8217;s most recent release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/starfield-main-story-walkthrough-9352\">Starfield<\/a>, all along.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Sharma &#8211; whose recent visit to developer Bethesda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/elder-scrolls-6-giant-inflatable-rat\">was met with a giant inflatable rat outside its offices<\/a> as protests against Xbox&#8217;s devastating layoffs continue &#8211; teased that she&#8217;d just had a &#8220;live playthrough of The Elder Scrolls 6: ******** this morning.&#8221; The eight asterisks in her post naturally inspired players to go digging for answers, sharing theories as to what the game&#8217;s subtitle could be.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the suggestions included <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UESP_net\/status\/2087376937916235944\">Dominion, Covenant, Orsinium, Starfall<\/a> and even Skyrim 2 &#8211; which has eight characters if you count the space. However, the leading theory so far appears to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ElderScrolls\/comments\/1vlre2c\/comment\/p33mfuy\/\">Sentinel<\/a>, a major city in The Elder Scrolls&#8217; region of Hammerfell. Even before Sharma&#8217;s tweet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/elder-scrolls-6-location-everything-we-know-5600\">many theorised Hammerfell is where the next game would be set<\/a>, based mostly on the single image Bethesda shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/bethesda-announces-the-elder-scrolls-6\">when The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s now emerged that Bethesda may have been hiding the game&#8217;s name &#8211; which just so happens to be the community&#8217;s current favourite subtitle candidate &#8211; in Starfield for years (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/it-looks-like-bethesda-hid-the-true-name-of-the-elder-scrolls-6-in-starfield-years-ago\">IGN<\/a>). Or, at least, that&#8217;s the latest theory.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Reddit, players have been revisiting screenshots of the Starfield character creator, which includes a 16-digit employee number at the bottom. This is typically the type of incidental detail that lends authenticity to fictional worlds, but in this case, there&#8217;s compelling evidence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TESVI\/comments\/1vmh7ze\/by_the_way_sentinel_was_already_teased_in\/\">it&#8217;s also been secretly spelling out &#8216;Sentinel&#8217; this entire time<\/a>. When the number is divided into pairs, then each is mapped to a corresponding letter in the alphabet, you get the magic word: Sentinel.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" data-embed-height=\"546\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TESVI\/comments\/1vmh7ze\/by_the_way_sentinel_was_already_teased_in\/\">By the way, Sentinel was already teased in Starfield<\/a><br \/> by<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/starfieldnovember\/\">u\/starfieldnovember<\/a> in<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TESVI\/\">TESVI<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\" style=\"display: none\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a new discovery, mind: some players picked up on it three years ago, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/starfield_lore\/comments\/166kji0\/the_customization_screen_employee_number_holds\/\">posted about it on Reddit<\/a>. But the discovery has now resurfaced as potential evidence that &#8216;Sentinel&#8217; is indeed the Elder Scrolls 6&#8217;s subtitle. What&#8217;s more, former Bethesda writer, artist, and designer Michael Kirkbride <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TESVI\/comments\/1vltv58\/comment\/p34j49v\/\">has  chimed in<\/a> to confirm the Sentinel theory, which is probably about the best we&#8217;re going to get at this point.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Bethesda&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/personas\/todd-howard\">Todd Howard<\/a> revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-elder-scrolls-6-is-still-a-long-way-off-says-todd-howard-but-development-is-his-everyday-thing\">The Elder Scrolls 6 was &#8220;still a long way off&#8221;<\/a> from release. And last month, in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/microsoft-xbox-layoffs-2026-double-fine-compulsion-ninja-theory\">Xbox&#8217;s sweeping layoffs<\/a>, Bethesda employees reportedly claimed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/elder-scrolls-6-morale-bethesda-xbox-layoffs\">the cuts would have a &#8220;substantial and cascading effect&#8221;<\/a> on the game&#8217;s development progress.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bethesda later released a statement intended to assuage concerned fans, claiming the studio&#8217;s current primary focus is on delivering the long-awaited sequel, though it did not address the reported employee claims directly. &#8220;The next chapter is on the way,&#8221; the studio said in its message. &#8220;We\u2019re where we planned to be, loving how it looks, and playing it every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eight years after its unveiling, The Elder Scrolls 6 still doesn&#8217;t have a release target.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News After this week&#8217;s Elder Scrolls 6 tease, fans think they&#8217;ve figured out its full name &#8211; and it was hidden in Starfield all along Watch this space. 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