Developer Bethesda is keeping any activity on a new Elder Scrolls game very close to their chest, but a newly synopsised novel from Greg Keyes has given fans a whooping hint.

The Elder Scrolls: Infernal City, Keyes' book, "partly bridges the gap" between Oblivion and the "next game". The events in the novel itself are set 45 years after The Elder Scrolls IV.

"A novel that takes places forty-five years after the Oblivion Crisis, which is the story of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion game and the expansion pack Shivering Isles. It partly bridges the gap for the next game, which is set 200 years after the Oblivion crisis," reads the synopsis, reports TVG.

An Elder Scrolls MMO project is believed to be in the future, but the arrival of this novel is at least something tangible for fans to obsess over. Waterstones has since pulled the rather revealing synopsis from their site and replaced it with a generic blurb.

It now reads: "Four decades after the Oblivion Crisis, Tamriel is threatened anew by an ancient and all-consuming evil. It is Umbriel, a floating city that casts a terrifying shadow - for wherever it falls, people die and rise again. And it is in Umbriel's shadow that a great adventure begins, and a group of unlikely heroes meet. A legendary prince with a secret."

Are you eagerly awaiting a new Elder Scrolls adventure, videogamer? Would you settle for an MMO experience in place of the standard RPG?