The official The Elder Scrolls Twitter account has tweeted something.
Is it a tease? Is it a clue? Is it a reference to another mobile game and/or Elder Scrolls Online expansion? Who can really say. Anybody who tells you they know for sure is probably lying, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a bit of fun going down the rabbit hole, does it?
And we certainly wouldn’t be the only ones, because what a rabbit hole this one’s turned out to be.
Let’s start at the beginning. The tweet in question is this, posted at 4pm on New Year’s Eve:
Transcribe the past and map the future. 📖
Here’s to a Happy New Year!🕯 pic.twitter.com/bL44CzLDIE— The Elder Scrolls (@ElderScrolls) December 31, 2020
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It reads: The image attached is a picture of the seemingly standard map of Skyrim, with three conspicuously-positioned candles, some wood, some rock, some fern branches, and a cluster of curious-looking coins on top of what appears to be a leather-bound book.