The Elder Scrolls 6 Fans Don't Want The Next Game To Be All About The Scrolls

The Elder Scrolls 6 Will Reportedly Focus On The Scrolls Themselves, And Fans Aren't Happy Published Oct 30, 2026, 6:52 AM EDT Josh Coulson is an editor at TheGamer covering breaking news on everything from colorful platformers to the latest Lego sets. Primarily a news writer since 2018, Josh has covered just about every major game from the past decade. Now an editor, their focus has shifted to being the leading affiliate expert at the site, building relationships between TheGamer and global brands including Mattel, Funko, and The Pokemon Company. Sign in to your TheGamer account Apparently we’re only a month away from Bethesda finally revealing a little more about The Elder Scrolls 6. Unfortunately, it sounds like that reveal will be little more than a name fans already figured out themselves, and additional information about the game, its themes, and its potential location doesn’t have fans all that excited either. Heading To Hammerfell According to The Verge, The Elder Scrolls 6 could get its official name reveal as soon as November, and it will be called Sentinel. Not only are fans bemoaning the fact that they’ve been made to wait eight years for that, but they already figured it out themselves after Asha Sharma teased the name earlier this year. Although not expected to be a part of the name reveal, The Verge adds that it believes the events of The Elder Scrolls 6 will take place in Hammerfell. In addition to that, the game’s story will revolve around the history of the Elder Scrolls themselves and perhaps dive deeper into how they came to be. Reactions online reveal that, for a lot of fans of the series, both those new pieces of information have gone down like a lead balloon. Although some might want their next new TES experience to take place in Hammerfell, others aren’t so enamored with the idea. Hammerfell was one of the frontrunners when it comes to theories about The Elder Scrolls 6’s potential backdrop, but many were hoping High Rock would be where the next game takes place. While a game that potentially reveals more about the creation and existence of the scrolls after which the series is named might sound interesting to some, other fans remain skeptical. The whole point of the games, and the reason the series is named The Elder Scrolls, is because each installment details the events dictated by the scrolls, each new installment taking place during a different period on the wider timeline. The idea that the next game might be based on the scrolls themselves sounds like it might be starting to get a little too meta for some fans. It’s likely particularly hard to hear anything less than something that doesn’t excite you after not just eight years between TES6’s reveal and now, but 15 years after Skyrim’s release, the last new installment in the Elder Scrolls series. The worst part of all this is that if we’re really getting nothing more than a name reveal next month, that almost certainly means, even after eight years, The Elder Scrolls 6 is still a long way off from being released. That’s despite Sharma claiming she was shown a working build of the game and was blown away by its scale. Systems Released 2026 ESRB m Developer(s) Bethesda Game Studios Publisher(s) Bethesda Softworks Franchise The Elder Scrolls