“[The Elder Scrolls 6] is in development,” Bethesda Softworks vice president Pete Hines said. “But it’s in early development.”
In June 2021, Todd Howard revealed thatthe game was in its “design phase”.This is despite the teaser from three years ago announcing TES 6, which is now five years old. In that time, Bethesda has been busy withStarfield, its gargantuan space-faring RPG, so TES 6 andFallout 5have not been the focus. But with Starfield finally releasing next week, that’s soon going to change.
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“Yes, there are people working on The Elder Scrolls 6,” Hines said in an interview withVandal(viaPCGamesN). “But [Starfield] is what the studio has focused on. We have put all of our studios focused on making this game the best it can be.”
Given that it was still in the concept and design phase three years after the teaser dropped, it’s unclear how much stock we can put in the trailer or any of the clues given since. Anything could have changed in that five-year window, just look at how differentCyberpunk 2077ended up being from its reveal trailer in 2013.
Based onthe slim evidence we have, The Elder Scrolls 6 appears to be set in Hammerfell, home of the Redguards. The teaser’s shot of a mountain range points to it being somewhere in the High Rock region (Hammerfell’s neighbour), meaning that the game could possibly span two continents. That being said, there are mountains all across Tamriel and it could simply be that this teaser was designed to be vague given how far out development proved to be.
However, in Starfield itself, fans noticed a scratching on the ship’s console reminiscent of the Iliac Bay, the water between Hammerfell and High Rock. Bethesda also dropped a map ofSkyrimin 2020 with three candles placed on top, asking fans to “transcribe the past and map the future”. Fans believed this was a puzzle teasing TES 6’s setting. The candles mark Solitude, Yngvild, and Elinhir, one of the nine kingdoms in Hammerfell, the capital of Craglorn.
We’re still likely a long way from hearing any official details about The Elder Scrolls 6, including its setting, given that Howard has expressed regret for sharing the teaser so early. The game has only recently entered the “early development” stages, so don’t expect it to launch anytime soon, either. We still have Starfield and its DLC to come. But at the very least, we know that TES 6 has finally left its concept phase.
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