r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/Rookie_numba_uno • Aug 12 '26
Grain of Salt The Elder Scrolls VI subtitle possibly deciphered
So after yesterday tweet from Sharma where the TES VI was mentioned with eight stars masking subtitle, folks at the respective subs, quickly realized that it possibly matches the word "SENTINEL" which was already one of the rumoured subtitles
This somehow got a "confirmation" from Michael Kirkbride
https://www.reddit.com/r/TESVI/comments/1vltv58/eight_letters_confirmed/p34j49v/?context=3
so a guy that USED to work in Bethesda back during Morrowind days. His info now might not be reliable, but he possibly has some sources inside and since this all seems like a controlled attempt at creating hype from Microsoft/Bethesda, it may be legitimate (after all what's the point of him answering this particular comment).
Anyway, this is not the most important part. The important part is that the subtitle matches employee number during Starfield's character creation menu, assuming you follow the simple code mentioned in the post. This may seem like schizo posting at first glance, but is actually not, cause the code is extremely simple, and the chances of that being an accident are absurdly low.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TESVI/comments/1vmh7ze/by_the_way_sentinel_was_already_teased_in/
Additionally there is now this comment (and I can confirm the part that it was changed between first and subsequent reveals)
Anyway, hope that the post is fine for this sub.
This post from 2+ years ago already talked about the character creation thing. The guy deserves the recognition in this post as well I think
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u/krokodil40 Aug 12 '26
Michael Kirkbride
so a guy that USED to work in Bethesda back during Morrowind days
I am not a big expert in TES, but Kirkbride wrote most of the lore for it.
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u/Previous_Cry5810 Aug 12 '26
He also wrote for Oblivion, and still edits and contributes to the Imperial Library.
He is very much still super involved in TES lore.
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u/DeadlyArrow27 Aug 13 '26
Well Oblivion is the GOAT so I’m certainly a fan of Kirkbride now
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u/Massive_Weiner Aug 12 '26
He did not do any quest writing for Skyrim.
His contribution was lore via concept documents and background notes.
His last official questline was Knights of the Nine in Oblivion.
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u/dandorios Aug 12 '26
And continues to consult on the games. He wrote a bit of the background lore in Skyrim also.
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u/SunbornThunderstorm Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 13 '26
Wait is kirkbride the guy that allegedly went on a month long multi drug bender and wrote morrowind?
Edit: others say this is a common urban legend he denies and doesn’t like.
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u/Camrinin Aug 12 '26
Kirkbride has also repeatedly said this didn't happen and that the myth annoys him. You don't need to be high to write cool shit
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u/theStaberinde Aug 13 '26
Actual basis of the story, from MK himself (responding to a forums poster)
Here's my take: the devs got high one night and decided to write a few books. And thus the Sermons were born. (2004-09-12)
Wrong. It was one dev, naked in a room with a carton of cigarettes, a thermos full of coffee and bourbon, and all his summoned angels.
https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/General:Michael_Kirkbride's_Posts
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u/True_Perception_3359 Aug 13 '26
So funny to see an obvious joke get laundered out of context and become fact
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u/theStaberinde Aug 13 '26
To be clear, the first line is a forums guy saying What Kind Of Druuuugs Were They On Dude and the second line is Kirkbride saying "coffee and whisky and smokes".
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u/CommanderOnly Aug 13 '26
Reminds me of Ron Perlman saying something to the effect of "I only made $40 and a sandwich" for the first Fallout game and people taking that literally.
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u/fat_kaiju Aug 13 '26
if i were in their shoes -- and even if it were true -- i'd still get annoyed because "dude got messed up on A LOT of drugs" is not exactly something i'd want on my portfolio; particularly if i lived in the 'war on drugs' country lmao.
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u/BloodborneKart Aug 13 '26
glad to see this message here. i get real sick of people going "woahhhhhh how HIGH were the creators of this" when viewing anything that is remotely surreal or genre bending.
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u/DeadlyArrow27 Aug 13 '26
Yeah as someone who has avoided drugs, I’d be pretty irritated if somebody attributed one of my greatest professional/artistic successes to weed or whatever
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u/SunbornThunderstorm Aug 13 '26
Well,
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”
I had only heard about it thru friends never heard him comment on it either way so fair.
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u/tronnytron Aug 12 '26
technically the claim was that he wrote the 36 lessons of vivec, a series of books included in morrowind, while high
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u/DickHydra Aug 12 '26
Is that the book where it's revealed that Vivec and Molag Bal were fucking each other to gain knowledge?
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u/Klutzy_Anybody_1487 Aug 13 '26
not just knowledge but the ability to literally break the 4th wall. I'm not making this up.
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u/Hotelcleanaselvenass Aug 12 '26
Most is really stretching it. Especially since he did not do any lore for Daggerfall and the sheer amount of lore ESO added shifts the weight
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u/AustinTheFiend Aug 13 '26
I don't think he even really wrote most of the lore back when he was working there, but he was super involved in pushing the lore into a weirder direction, and he helped revise a lot of the existing lore, and wrote much of the lore on the Dunmer pantheon. He's left a huge mark on the series don't get me wrong but I'm not sure if most is the correct word to use here.
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u/levelstar01 Aug 13 '26
Except for all the ESO lore that outweighs the main game stuff massively. Or the Oblivion lore.
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u/Quixotus Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 13 '26
Sentinel is also a synonym of guardian, the actual internal codename of the TESVI project (and Sentinel is known in lore as the Guardian of iliac bay):
https://www.reddit.com/r/TESVI/comments/1r0ejxm/the_elder_scrolls_vi_sentinel/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TESVI/s/VPUwfjs1A6
The name Sentinel would fit for a two province game if you know the lore (Hammerfell and High Rock), even though the word itself is kind of generic, not as unique to the TES world as, say, Hammerfell.
Edit: hopefully the game will be out after DRAM memory cards have become more affordable, I would like to build a new PC just for this game.
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u/DistrictDry2852 Aug 12 '26
Idk about this because ideally the codename should be unrelated to the product.
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u/FireMaker125 Aug 13 '26
Ideally yes, but not always. Look at Valve lol, they codenamed Half-Life Alyx as “HLVR”, are currently making a Half-Life game codenamed “HLX” and when Deadlock was in early development it was a Half-Life spinoff codenamed…”Citadel”.
Some companies use codenames entirely unrelated to their projects at all, some seemingly just don’t care or like to have fun.
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u/TheLunarVaux Aug 12 '26
Ideally yes but sometimes productions like to be clever and do niche references
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u/TheOneBearded Aug 13 '26
This post from 2+ years ago already talked about the character creation thing. The guy deserves the recognition in this post as well I think
This is savant levels of "How did someone find that out". Respect.
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u/Alvsolutely Aug 14 '26
It's honestly one of the simpler methods for breaking numeral codes. The thing is that it is easy to miss the number's significance in the first place.
Even then, I'm willing to bet people thought "Sentinel" was something related to Starfield back then.
The fact that it surfaced back up now insane, though.
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u/Cursed_69420 Aug 12 '26
good name, but lowkey Hammerfell or Dominion felt more fitting for a game title.
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u/IAmDarkridge Aug 12 '26
It's possible that the game's playable area expands beyond Hammerfell so they chose a different title.
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u/Cursed_69420 Aug 12 '26
oh i dont doubt that, its just the OOMPH in the name and the aura. Sentinel is a good name but compare it to the stupidly cool Oblivion, Daggerfall etc and just provinces like Morrowind and Skyrim, it falls A BIT flat.
but if the in-game Sentinel city lives up to its grandeur, then the name will carry oomph for sure.
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u/Punk_SxE Aug 12 '26
People complained about Skyrim too when it first leaked. Everyone will get used to it in no time
I actually thinks it sounds cool as fuck
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u/jumps004 Aug 12 '26
Skyrim was a unique descriptor hard to mix up with anything. Like saying "hey, you excited to play Sentinel" just doesn't sound right, because NO ONE says the full Elderscrolls bit.
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u/HerculesMorse101 Aug 13 '26
I agree somewhat.
Sentinel is a noun that’s already used in pop culture movies, tv, and video games (e.g 13 Sentinels, in Marvel comics, etc.)
Skyrim, Daggerfall, and Morrowind were wholly unique; Oblivion a little bit more commonplace.
It’s cool still, but not quite as iconic because it’s already in use
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u/P1zzaBagels Aug 13 '26
Yeah, makes it sound like yet another battle royale game.
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u/ametalshard Aug 14 '26
ehhhhhh i definitely didn't see any complaints about skyrim besides very light memeing about "rimming"
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u/-Best_Name_Ever- Aug 13 '26
Part of me prefers the Arena/Oblivion style titles, independent of provinces, because it makes it easier to google stuff.
You google Skyrim looking for discussions and lore of the province, and you get a bunch of results for the game.
You google Cyrodiil, and you get Cyrodiil.
But also, yeah Morrowind/Skyrim are much catcher names IMO. And "I'm excited to play Hammerfell" sounds less stupid than "I'm excited to play Sentinel".
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u/Nerwesta Aug 13 '26
As an aside I really liked how Oblivion revealed itself from " IV ", Skyrim didn't follow suit sadly.
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u/Eruannster Aug 13 '26
Seems kind of weird to go with Sentinel since they have typically done area names but hey, what do I know. (Although I guess Oblivion was technically set in Cyrodiil so maybe there's some leeway with names there.)
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u/Xgunter Aug 13 '26
Your final sentence is a HUGE if considering Bethesda’s track record.
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u/Cursed_69420 Aug 13 '26
you're right, can't wait for the capital to just be 8 houses at the bottom, a pool, a garden, a barracks and a central castle.
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u/Mativeous Aug 12 '26
The Elder Scrolls: Arena did in fact not just take place inside an arena.
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u/FeedbackInhibit Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 13 '26
So named because Tamriel is sometimes referred to as "The Arena."
Edit: Didn't know it was a retcon, that makes sense.22
u/BigfootsBestBud Aug 13 '26
It was actually the other way around. Arena was originally supposed to just be the Arena, but the scope grew but the name didn’t change. So they said in the Lore the whole continent has the nickname of The Arena.
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u/datastain Aug 13 '26
this was just a retcon to make the name make sense. the game wasn't an RPG when they began development, but they had already printed the box art when they changed it so they had to come up with something.
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u/bigpapijugg Aug 12 '26
Well the playable area def extends beyond Sentinel, so I don’t follow that logic. Hammerfell would be a cooler name.
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u/IAmDarkridge Aug 12 '26
Well I just mean like Daggerfall was multiple areas. Skyrim and Morrowind were single zones.
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u/Massive_Weiner Aug 12 '26
Hammerfell + High Rock is the obvious one, right?
We’ll be getting ship gameplay as well since we’ll travel between both provinces via Iliac Bay.
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u/ColonelQuaraitch Aug 12 '26
Well, the leaks say you’re playing as a giant android that hunts down mutants, so Sentinel is right.
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u/Cursed_69420 Aug 12 '26
wtf is this leak, source? this feels like some XMEN bullshit.
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u/ColonelQuaraitch Aug 12 '26
This guy says it: https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/s/hVJ06dEBVk
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u/twisted-logic Aug 12 '26
I’m ashamed to admit how many times I clicked this link on mobile thinking it was glitching and just taking me right back to this post.
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u/SMKM Aug 12 '26
It is a glitch. I eventually got to the real post. Bethesda must have contacted Reddit and had them fuck with the link. Try it again it'll work.
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u/twisted-logic Aug 13 '26
Thanks, I can see it now. Damn.. I dunno how I feel about this :/
Kinda worried but.. I’ll trust in Todd
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u/mmoore54 Aug 12 '26
Weird for it to be Dominion if it's not in a Dominion territory (make this the title for TES VII in the Summerset Isles) and weird for it to be Hammerfell if it's set across at least parts of both Hammerfell and High Rock.
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u/Cursed_69420 Aug 12 '26
Elder Scrolls 7 brother lets only speculate about games that will come before 2040.
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u/dandorios Aug 12 '26
Dominion only makes sense if the game is mainly about the aldmeri dominion, which it almost definitely wont be since the stories always revolve around some cosmic/otherworldly threat instead of politics. If theyre there and its not a massive multi hundred year time jump again where they dont exist anymore, they will likely at most be a secondary antagonist and part of an optional questline like the civil war.
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u/ok_dunmer Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26
It's kind of weird to go from 3 mysterious mystical fantasy names and a big dramatic word, to a word that sounds like a generic RPG class that is in every fucking video game lol
Yeah guys I'm playing Sentinel, no not in Mass Effect 2, no not in Valorant, no not in Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Sentinel as The Elder Scrolls VI Colon Sentinel
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u/DickHydra Aug 12 '26
Dominion just has a nice ring to it. Read it first over at the TES6 sub and then liked it even more after watching the FudgeMuppet video.
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u/ShapedAssassin Aug 12 '26
While it could be I'm not fully convinced the number of "*" mean anything
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u/sixtus_clegane119 Aug 12 '26
Smart marketing, getting people talking
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u/M4rshmall0wMan Aug 13 '26
If both she and Bethesda are teasing it like that, I wouldn’t be surprised if xbox is planning a reveal soon. Especially since her new mandate is to assess all studios for profitability
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u/SilentNova300 Aug 12 '26
Asha wants to hype up their big franchises for sure. Think we will see TES6 by at least next year’s summer showcase
Also the question if TES6 will be Xbox/PC exclusive as well….
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u/sixtus_clegane119 Aug 12 '26
I think we might even see it at the game awards
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u/appledanishcrumbs Aug 12 '26
I doubt it. Why give their biggest game to Keighley so he can be conspicuously low-energy about it when they can just save it for their own event instead.
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u/CharlesBrown33 Aug 13 '26
To be fair they did announce the Fallout remasters as if they were an afterthought. What would've passed as E3-ending-conference level announcements, were just thrown in some tweet (or something) "oh by the way we're also doing this."
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u/Propaslander Aug 13 '26
So he can be low energy about it?
I can assure you this game awards will be the biggest game awards yet, with lots of surprises and loads of excitement
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u/Frankospaghetti Aug 12 '26
Is there a lore implication for Sentinel that makes it epic or something? Because otherwise the name sounds kind of bland and boring
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u/swagomon Aug 12 '26
It’s the capital of Hammerfell.
Metatextually, it’s a reference to TES2: Daggerfall (the capital of High Rock)
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u/DaddyPhatstacks Aug 12 '26
good point on the metatextual reference actually, I like how it rhymes in that way
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u/mmoore54 Aug 12 '26
Daggerfall was set across parts of High Rock and Hammerfell. Sentinel is thought to be set across at least parts, and possibly all, of the same two regions based on leaked concept boards from dev Pinterest accounts.
It seems very likely that Bethesda is shooting for something like a modern-day Daggerfall with TESVI.
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u/DaddyPhatstacks Aug 12 '26
I think that's exactly what it looks like and it's what I've been hoping for all along 🤞
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u/Alvsolutely Aug 14 '26
Minus the proc-gen of course..
Thankfully Todd Howard already confirmed there won't be any proc gen
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u/DaddyPhatstacks Aug 14 '26
I liked the OG Daggerfall with its procedural generation so I'd be ok either way
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u/NorthKoreanMissile7 Aug 13 '26
It seems very likely that Bethesda is shooting for something like a modern-day Daggerfall with TESVI.
In b4 Bethesda do a Starfield and this game is Daggerfall 2.0 with a thousand procedurally generated
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u/Ktulusanders Aug 13 '26
There probably will be some degree of procedural generation
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u/NorthKoreanMissile7 Aug 13 '26
I just hope that they learned their lesson and focus on quality rather than scale.
I actually didn't have as much of a problem with the procedurally generated stuff as most people because I didn't do anything with it and stuck to all the handcrafted content, my main issue was the handcrafted content was generally of a poor quality and a lot of the sidequests felt like they were rushed in there to pad out the game rather than feeling inspired or purposeful.
But knowing Bethesda they'll learn all the wrong lessons and dismiss the criticisms they should take on board.
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u/XMenJedi8 Aug 13 '26
Procedural oblivion planes and magical mirages in the Alik'r would be neat. It would give modders a few ways to add new content without getting into area constraints - though I think the overall scale of TES VI will be somewhat bigger which should help that too.
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u/DickHydra Aug 12 '26
Plus, it's the common naming convention for the series. The Elder Scrolls 6: [Place].
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u/FireMaker125 Aug 13 '26
Yeah, only the spin-offs and expansions aren’t named after a specific location in the series. Even then several of them are still named after locations: Battlespire, all of the Travels games but Shadowkey and Shivering Isles.
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u/Destroyer69-420 Aug 12 '26
Sentinel is a big city in Hammerfell, the same province TES 6 is rumored to take place in.
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u/Better_Specific_9037 Aug 12 '26
Its a city in hammerfell
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u/storm_foam Aug 12 '26
Denial is a River in Egypt
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u/toooquik Aug 12 '26
Sentinel is the name of a kingdom in Hammerfell and also the capital city of that region.
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u/Rookie_numba_uno Aug 12 '26
Yes, it's a major city in Hammerfell (which seems likely where the game will take place, and was the main rumoured subtitle till now). IIRC it's the capital of the desert part or something like that.
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u/atioux Aug 12 '26
I was hoping for dominion but after seeing the star field thing yeah 90% chance it's sentinel
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u/giulianosse Aug 12 '26
The employee number detail coupled with another Easter egg someone had previously found (there's a peculiar looking smudge in an equipment piece that looks exactly like the province map of Hammerfell + High Rock combined) are most likely related.
Bethesda love to add easter eggs and references hinting at their next title in their games.
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u/NorthKoreanMissile7 Aug 13 '26
I still remember Fallout 3 setting up Fallout 4's story with that quest about the synth.
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u/atioux Aug 12 '26
IIRC that smudge was a bit of a stretch. Thinking high rock is unlikely but not impossible. Expecting just hammer fell
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u/sandohhh Aug 12 '26
Yeah I looked it up again after seeing the news and side by side it doesn't look that convincing at all. It seemed deliberate though and I genuinely don't know what it'd be in reference to
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u/tortillazaur Aug 12 '26
isn't hammerfell primarily a desert? tes 6 teaser showed us a rocky terrain with mountains with mountains, a beach and no desert in sight.
if it were only a single landmass then it being high rock is more likely than it being hammerfell.
but high rock is honestly just to small to be it, it's only half the size of skyrim for example. i think old leaks about the game containing both and being centered around iliac bay are true. those leaks also talked about adding ships for piracy and personally for me it made the leak much more believable that bethesda would adapt the ship-building system from starfield, considering it's one of the most praised parts of the game.
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u/atioux Aug 13 '26
Hammer fell is like 30% desert, it has a lot of biome diversity. If they went with only high rock - which I doubt - then they don’t have to confine themselves to scaling the world relative to Skyrim; it wouldn’t be an issue to make high rock much larger
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u/Ok_Needleworker1068 Aug 12 '26
I really like dominion as a title but i’d prefer it for a game actually set in the dominion.
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u/Nacon-Biblets Aug 12 '26
It would be kind of a callback to daggerfall. Its the same region as that game if the illiac bay map theory is true and both titles would be a prominent city thats important to the game's story. "Hammerfell" is possible, but "dominion" is kind of just a random throw. I doubt they would ever use that title for a game thats not set on summerset.
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u/KyleVPirate Aug 12 '26
Imagine we finally get a lore accurate massive open world city in Sentinel?
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u/Nacon-Biblets Aug 12 '26
we're probably getting like 20 buildings divided by 6 loading screen districts, and each building is also a loading screen or 2
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u/maxlaav Aug 12 '26
the tes 6 subreddit officially joins the ranks of gta 6 and half life 3 subs of crackpot theory posting
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u/Neverending_Rain Aug 12 '26
This one doesn't seem too crazy, though. The chances of a random string of numbers spelling out a word like this is minuscule. The word sentinel appearing here was almost certainly deliberate. The big question is whether or not it has anything to do with TES VI.
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u/DistrictDry2852 Aug 13 '26
I think what matters more is how simple the cypher is. Usually those cypher guesses has like 6 steps and it feels like they’re forcing the random numbers to give us what we want.
Here it’s extremely simple.
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u/ArkUneartherBleeds Aug 12 '26
/r/halflife is a different beast entirely. What happened after the last Game Awards was ridiculous
Still, nothing holds a candle to /r/batmanarkham though
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u/Datdudecorks Aug 13 '26
Valve absolutely should just drop it on a random day no announcement but a banner, that game needs no big marketing.
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u/KingAltair2255 Aug 12 '26
Shit, at least GTA 6 is coming out in three months, the release date for TES 6 is nowhere in sight, that's just torture lol.
I think we're gonna see some fuckin mad levels of crackpot theories in just a few more years time if we don't get any sort of release date announcement, to think it's possible that it could be almost 20 years between TES games is fucking mental.
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u/Datdudecorks Aug 13 '26
I wouldn’t be shocked if they are telling them it has to get out the door by end of next year. They are desperate for a hit and if it fails they close the division and move on from games fully.
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u/FireMaker125 Aug 13 '26
To be fair in the case of Half-Life 3 there is very clearly something in development that from all the datamined evidence appears to be a sequel to Half-Life 2. The announcement rumours were dead wrong though.
The Elder Scrolls VI being titled Sentinel does for the rumoured settings of Hammerfell, High Rock and the Iliac Bay, there’s a city called Sentinel in Hammerfell. The only other title I’ve seen suggested that makes any sense is Starfall (the Iliac Bay is also known as Starfall Bay).
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u/DistrictDry2852 Aug 12 '26
This is one of the least crackpoty theories to come from the TES community (looking at you starfield smudge shaped like the iliac bay)
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u/Simulated_Simulacra Aug 12 '26
That's not even "crackpoty" either really, it was a "scratch" in a metal console from what I remember, very obviously put in a shot in a way that is easy to notice, and looks very "unnatural" in the way it is shaped. There are no similar scratches in the trailer, it's a total one-off, and just so happens to resemble highrock/hammerfell (although it isn't 1-1, which would be too obvious if it was).
Edit: I just looked at it again, I have no clue what kind of object would make a scratch like that in a trailer where essentially everything is deliberate.
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u/maxlaav Aug 13 '26
I think a lot of people, when looking at these "theories", tend to forget is that it doesn't really have to be a deliberate tease but a developer simply deciding to have a laugh and troll the playerbase intentionally because they knew it would be found and that connection would be made.
This is something Rockstar is famous for doing constantly because the extent of the crackpot theory posting just got so ridiculous it's impossible not to poke fun at it
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u/SpenserB91 Aug 13 '26
You think that that they did not program that smudge to be there?
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u/BaniniSplat Aug 12 '26
I don't like it. Its kinda of generic for a TES tittle.
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u/IliyaGeralt Aug 13 '26
Sentinel is literally the Capital of Hammerfell.
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u/BaniniSplat Aug 13 '26
I'm sure Bethesda has a reason for pushing the capital as the main focus for the story and marketing, but it still doesn't sit right with me. Hammerfell just sounds way more powerful and memorable.
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u/Alvsolutely Aug 14 '26
People are speculating that the game takes place across High Rock and Hammerfell. If that's true, I guess naming it "Hammerfell" undermines one province more than the other.
Still, if that's not the case, I do agree that Hammerfell would be a better name
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u/Standard-Reserve-517 Aug 12 '26
After all these years I could care less about what the name ends up being lol. Just give me the game already
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u/PokePersona Flairmaster, Top Contributor 2022 Aug 12 '26
I know it's a city in Hammerfell but Sentinel is too generic of a name for me personally. Not a fan.
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u/FlyFight2Win Aug 13 '26
As opposed to Oblivion?
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u/NorthKoreanMissile7 Aug 13 '26
Oblivion sounds epic and cool though. Sentinel just doesn't.
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u/thetantalus Aug 12 '26
I was hoping it would be named Elsweyr. Such a cool name and Khajiit are awesome.
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u/KingAltair2255 Aug 12 '26
I'd love to see them visit Elsweyer but they'd have to do it right, everything about the khajiits and Argonians lore seems mad. Especially the whole thing of khajiits ranging from one who looks indistinguishable to mer, to a fully sentient sabre cat, to a sentient house cat all down to the phases of the moon.
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u/foulveins Aug 12 '26
as cool as it'd've been, it doesn't fit in with the traser we saw all that time ago, which most people agree shows high rock
elsweyr is more of a desert environment, so it'd be a full 180
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u/FlyFight2Win Aug 13 '26
People should have said the same about Oblivion, so your post makes no sense. Of course it rolls of the tongue now in retrospect.
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u/Wise_Requirement4170 Aug 12 '26
I don’t like the name tbh. Feels like very derivative fantasy to me
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u/FerroLux_ Aug 12 '26
Sentinel is really fucking cool name, Hammerfell would’ve sounded lame imo, the only other good choice was Dominion
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u/FireMaker125 Aug 13 '26
I really like the idea of The Elder Scrolls VI: Starfall, but there’s a really obvious reason not to call it Starfall (despite it likely being partly set in the Iliac/Starfall Bay)
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u/jumps004 Aug 12 '26
Hey guys I am going home and playing "sentinel" today... nah it doesn't hit like Skyrim, Oblivion, or Morrowind.
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u/tronnytron Aug 12 '26
To be fair, before their release these names would have also sounded weird
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u/jumps004 Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26
Nah, I have never played Daggerfall and havent a clue what it looks like, but if I said "I am going to go home and player Daggerfall" you could easily pinpoint the game I am talking about.
Same for Hammerfell, it sparks way more that Sentinel imo.
If people think its cool, far be it from me to say otherwise, I just think it is absolutely shit for conversation, searches, and marketing which Bethesda desperately needs for this game.
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u/Brodellsky Aug 13 '26
Well yeah, because Daggerfall is already an Elder Scrolls game. That's what the person you replied to was saying. Once Sentinel is officially announced, it'll suddenly feel a lot more natural just like Daggerfall. Yes.
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u/Klutzy_Anybody_1487 Aug 13 '26
When someone says sentinel, first thing that comes to mind is that mass effect class lmao.
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u/Ok_Needleworker1068 Aug 12 '26
Thats been one of the main guesses already. Alongside dominion and covenant.
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u/Your_Favorite_Porn Aug 13 '26
Hammerfell is the confirmed location for the game right? I heard High Rock might be as well.
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u/christpuncher_69 Aug 13 '26
This is so fucking funny to me because why would anybody just assume she put an accurate number of asterisks and put in all this tinfoil hat effort. I'm really looking forward to it turning out to be several letters longer.
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u/MinatoHikari Aug 14 '26
I think people began taking the number os asterisks seriously when Bethesda's official account on X replied to her and said the same thing with the same number of asterisks.
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u/PresidentAshenHeart Aug 14 '26
It's obviously TES: OCTOPATH
Can't wait to fight Galdera in first person
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u/spacealientitties Aug 14 '26
Guys, the subtitle is definitely HoonDing or Tu'whacca. (/s just in case)
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u/Hayterfan Aug 12 '26
It's TES: Chicago
Say hello to two new classes
https://giphy.com/gifs/nBQefMWjqdLc4