A charity auction to add your own custom character to The Elder Scrolls 6 is already up to the $10,000 mark.
It has been nearly seven years since The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced and fans know as much about the game now as they did back in 2018… which is almost nothing.
With Starfield mostly in the rear view mirror (aside from planned annual expansions), The Elder Scrolls 6 is finally Bethesda’s next priority. Playable early builds were mentioned in an update last year, but we’ve yet to see anything tangible.
In the meantime, Bethesda is drumming up interest in The Elder Scrolls 6 by holding a charity auction, allowing one lucky (and wealthy) player to add their own non-playable character to the game.
Announced via the Bethesda Game Studios X account, the studio has partnered with the Make-A-Wish foundation, which is an American non-profit organisation that supports seriously ill children (mostly by helping them meet John Cena).
The winning bid will go directly to Make-A-Wish so it can ‘keep granting wishes,’ while the winner gets to work with Bethesda on creating their own character. Although there’s no mention of whether this character will have any story significance.
‘With this exclusive experience, you’ll work with the developers to create a custom character that will appear in the game, leaving your mark on the legendary franchise,’ reads the description on the website.
There’s no mention of a closing date for the auction but, at the time of writing, the highest bid is at $10,450 (about £8,293). We’re curious to see how much higher it could get though.
Getting to add your own character to a beloved franchise like The Elder Scrolls is certainly a dream come true for fans and we’re sure there are plenty of them with enough cash to raise that asking price even further.
It is a silent auction, so we don’t know who the highest bid belongs to, but we imagine they’ll probably want to brag about it on social media as soon as it’s confirmed.
As for the game itself, it’s been suggested by Xbox boss Phil Spencer that The Elder Scrolls 6 won’t launch until 2028, and that’s at the absolute earliest. New Xbox hardware could be out by the time the game’s ready, and perhaps the PlayStation 6 too.
Despite once being described as an Xbox exclusive, Microsoft’s new multiplatform strategy all but guarantees The Elder Scrolls 6 will come to PlayStation, and possibly Nintendo Switch 2 as well.
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