The Elder Scrolls 6 release date is years and years away, and we’ve been over this. But that doesn’t mean it’s a complete mystery. Just like, despite the heavy veil of secrecy about Fallout 4, we know at least a few things about it, The Elder Scrolls 6 has a few secrets to give up to the watchful. And somebody seems to have found one.
Why Elder Scrolls 6 Is Called Redguard
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Let’s hop back a couple years. The big Skyrim DLC had just come out, and everyone was clamoring for more. Indeed, we were expecting more: Skyrim ultimately had probably slightly less DLC than Oblivion, and we knew it would be years before another big Bethesda game came out, so it seemed likely that the company would milk Skyrim a little harder. Especially when they trademarked the name “Redguard.”
Of course that turned out to be nothing. “Redguard” never appeared. But Bethesda still holds that trademark. In fact, they’ve renewed it more than once. Whatever mystery existed behind the “Redguard” name in 2013… still exists. A commenter on Kotaku, -Silver-, dug up this fact, and he put it very well:
If it interests you, TES:6 is called Redguard too. They’ve always trademarked the name of the next TES game the same year they release one. “Oblivion” was first trademarked in 2002, “Skyrim” was first trademarked in 2006, “Redguard” was first trademarked in 2011. This is not an old trademark from the Elder Scrolls Adventures game of the same name—it is an active and constantly renewed trademark. All other older TES game trademarks are inactive (Arena, Daggerfall, Battlespire).
“Redguard” is the only TES-related trademark Zenimax own that isn’t either dead or in use with a released game. Remember when so many video game websites noticed the trademark and assumed it was future Skyrim DLC? The core fans among us knew it was TES:6 =P
As far as wild rumors go… this actually sounds pretty solid. The reasoning makes sense. The trademark certainly wasn’t associated with Skyrim and doesn’t seem to have any association with TES Online. But that “Redguard” trademark is still out there. That alone is pretty compelling. I'm not saying it's gospel—it's an anonymous Internet comment, after all—but the story resonates.
Bethesda won’t release The Elder Scrolls 6 for many years. This year is all about Fallout 4, of course, and then the studio will spend years more creating the new game. But at least we have a pretty darn good idea of what it’ll be about.
