Dark Souls’ Lore Is Being Released In Two Big, Glorious Books

Souls “scholar” Lokey, who is equally a scholar of the series’ lore and a fluent Japanese speaker, has been digging into the tale and themes of the primary Dark Souls for decades. Now, for the game’s impending 10th anniversary, he’s put anything he knows into two totally stunning textbooks that are up for preorder.

I’m not working with “glorious” and “gorgeous” evenly these issues are like fancy aged bibles, with no price spared in terms of their structure or manufacturing. Glance at this!

And this!

Here’s the pitch from the publishers Tune & Fairweather for the publications, whose assortment is called the Abysmal Archive:

Abyssal Archive is the fruits of decades of decided investigate and writing by veteran Souls scholar Lokey, who blended his being familiar with of Japanese and deep familiarity with Miyazaki’s oeuvre to mine exclusive insights from Darkish Souls’ supply materials. All of that finding out has been distilled in these two hardcover volumes for enthusiasts interested in deepening their knowledge of Lordran’s tumultuous history as properly as its characters’ exploits and tangled interactions.

The set also is made up of a fold-out companion map of Lordran by artist Judson Cowan. Sure individually and housed alongside the textbooks, this map rounds out the set, making Abyssal Archive the definitive reference for admirers of Miyazaki’s gothic masterpiece. Plotted out with the support of a 3D map viewer to make certain fidelity of the two amount geometry and scale, this expansive map is the most faithful representation of Lordran ever generated.

And that map? Also completely beautiful:

Now for the poor information: all this doesn’t arrive inexpensive. The basic edition of the selection will come in at €180/USD$180, with a constrained edition (that includes a clamshell box instead of a slide-out shell) costing €249/USD$249 and a benefactor edition—which is the very same as the limited version only with your title in the again of the book—costing €495/USD$495.

All editions are available now for preorder, with the publishers hoping all copies can be created and despatched out just before the conclusion of 2022.