Bethesda has tweeted about the Elder Scrolls. Yes, friends, we’re starting 2020 with a bang: one of the world’s most notable videogame studios has acknowledged one of its most popular videogame series. But with the Elder Scrolls 6 release date still years away, hype-starved fans have a lot to read into this message – and there might be a good reason for that.

The tweet, posted on December 31, reads “Transcribe the past and map the future. Here’s to a Happy New Year!” You could choose to read that as a slightly-cryptic New Year’s message, but it comes alongside an image of a map with just enough weird imagery to hint that ‘map the future’ is an invitation to look for clues about TES6.

The map shows Skyrim, and there are three bright lights sitting on it. One is on a box above the map, one is in Skyrim itself, and the third is below the map, in an area marked simply by the word ‘Hammerfell’. Popular speculation among the community (as noted by Game Informer) is that the Skyrim light represents the ‘past’, the Hammerfell light represents the ‘future’, and the third light… well, nobody seems to have a solid idea of what the third light represents.