An Elder Scrolls 6 Secret Hiding In Starfield For Years Was Just Discovered

An early Starfield menu might've spoiled an TES6 secret years ago Earlier this month, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shared that she watched a live playthrough of The Elder Scrolls 6, boasting that the game's "scale and grandeur" were "incredible" and that the story was "even greater." Curiously, the Xbox executive referred to Bethesda's next RPG as "The Elder Scrolls VI: ********." What do the eight asterisks stand for? Well, fans have a mighty convincing theory about the game's apparent title. Three years ago, one Starfield player noticed that during the space exploration game's character creation menu, the screen displayed a specific employee number. The number, 190514-2009140512, could've been chosen randomly — but the fan found a pattern that was hard to ignore. If you divide the numbers into pairs and assign them a letter based on their placement in the alphabet (A equals 1, and so on), a specific word is revealed: "Sentinel," the player declared. As it happens, Sentinel is an eight-letter word — just like the missing sub-title in Sharma's tease. Players further discovered that the specific number that appears on that screen was changed by Bethesda between the gameplay reveal in 2022 a