# I’m Excited For Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel To Be Nothing Like Skyrim

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/im-excited-for-elder-scrolls-6-sentinel-to-be-nothing-like-skyrim/
- Published: 2026-11-05T15:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T22:12:54+00:00
- Original publisher: IGN
- Original article: https://www.ign.com/articles/im-excited-for-elder-scrolls-6-sentinel-to-be-nothing-like-skyrim
- Topics: Gaming

## Key points

- Sentinel is expected to take players to Hammerfell.
- Brinkhof hopes the setting restores the series’ stranger world-building.
- The story may involve time travel and is set five years after Skyrim.

## Summary

In this opinion piece, Tim Brinkhof argues that the next Elder Scrolls game, titled Sentinel, could benefit from being very different from Skyrim. A move to Hammerfell, a warmer and culturally distinct region, may help the series recover some of the unusual, otherworldly world-building that Brinkhof feels was more prominent in Morrowind and Oblivion.

Brinkhof still values Skyrim’s atmosphere, music and characters, but says its Viking-inspired setting can feel too familiar beside other fantasy worlds, including Game of Thrones. The reported in-game quotation is attributed to Yazar, a Moth Priest, and dated 4E 206; the article says this places Sentinel five years after Skyrim and points to a story involving time travel. The author’s central question is whether Bethesda will make Hammerfell distinctive or simply give Skyrim a sandy setting.

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