Kurt Kuhlmann in all probability is aware of what location we’ll be visiting when The Elder Scrolls 6 launches in roughly 100 years. Or at the very least, the previous Elder Scrolls loremaster is aware of the place Bethesda wished to go earlier than he left the corporate in 2023. However no, he is not telling us.
“From after we have been speaking about it approach again within the Fallout 4 timeframe,” he tells us, “there was a type of consensus amongst a number of people who have been speaking about it.”
He clarifies that he would not know if that is nonetheless the case, and that it wasn’t utterly locked in—and clearly he is been out of the loop for a few years. However he remembers it being a straightforward alternative on the time.
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Kuhlmann, whose mind is totally crammed with The Elder Scrolls data, appears to sincerely don’t know what the story of the sixth entry is. “As a result of I have not been concerned in that degree of the story aspect of issues since Skyrim,” he says.
Todd Howard initially promised Kuhlmann the lead designer position on TES6, after being co-lead on Skyrim. However then got here Fallout 4, Fallout 76 and Starfield, and someplace alongside the best way Howard modified his thoughts. Kuhlmann’s hopes have been dashed close to the top of Starfield’s improvement, years after TES6 was introduced within the teaser.
The implication is that Bethesda had barely even began to consider TES6 by the point it first teased the sport, and that it was nonetheless extraordinarily early days when Kuhlmann left the corporate.
After all, this is not fully stunning. Starfield sounds prefer it was a black gap for the developer’s sources, with everybody targeted on Bethesda’s massive interstellar gamble. But it surely does put into context simply how ridiculous that transient trailer was: getting us all hyped for a sport that, on the time, was simply this obscure concept being thrown round.
That stated, Kuhlmann did have a narrative idea, the place TES6 would have been like “The Empire Strikes Again”. Gamers might save the day in a broad sense, however the sport would have ended with the Thalmor taking on Tamriel, establishing a high-stakes, dramatic conflict in TES7.
So! We nonetheless don’t know the place the following sport might be set, although the most well-liked concept factors to Hammerfell. Excessive Rock will get thrown into the combination a bunch too. Overly-long YouTube movies and Reddit threads will fling mountains of ‘proof’ at you, however the fact is that it is all primarily based on pure guesswork and a teaser that was created eight years in the past.
We’re simply gonna should maintain guessing, then.
