Eight years ago, I sat at my desk enthralled. Bethesda had just released the first trailer for The Elder Scrolls 6, a then mysteriously nameless, locationless sequel to one of the biggest games of all time, and I reckoned I'd just found the secrets to both. It was going to be set in the region of Hammerfell, I reckoned. And the city of Sentinel was a crucial factor in reasoning why.
Admittedly, I'm maybe a little more horrified at my level of Elder Scrolls obsession than I am chuffed at any apparent clairvoyance. Ultimately it was a bit of a punt, launched off the back of a day's worth of fanatical hyperfocus and exactly the right amount of the old Gamer Network office's weapons-grade filter coffee. "There's not really a lot to go on here", I wrote, sagely, "but, if we had to, we'd plant our flag in Hammerfell as the location of The Elder Scrolls 6."
