The Elder Scrolls only started to find mainstream success between the releases of Morrowind and Oblivion, but Bethesda was keen on expanding the series into a franchise well before that point. The 1997 release of An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire is rarely discussed these days, but it's been hiding a secret for over 29 years. Today, The Strong National Museum of Play has lifted the veil on a mysterious Easter egg that's been lost for decades.

If you're not familiar with Battlespire, it's essentially a linear dungeon crawler set in the world of the Elder Scrolls. It's still a first-person game that retains much of the crunchy RPG combat that defined Arena and Daggerfall, just within a much more constrained location. Battlespire's development was led by the "father of The Elder Scrolls," Julian LeFay, who died in 2025.

As documented on the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages wiki, players have known for some time that there's an Easter egg in Battlespire involving a photo featuring a photo of some members of the development team. "It is not currently known how to get this Easter egg to display or if it actually functions in the final game," the UESP wiki laments. However, the mystery has finally been solved thanks to The Strong Museum, which has recently received a set of documents that belonged to LeFay.

On the eve of Bethesda's 40th Anniversary, a sneak peek at The Strong Museum's Julian LeFay papers looks at an Easter egg from An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire that has remained undiscovered for over 29 years.

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