The Dark Souls , Bloodborne (and more) __ fan art kickstarter was fully funded in just one hour. The Irish small press, Tune & Fairweather, partnered with the kickstarter to create the physical deluxe-edition, large-format art book, Soul Arts . Tune & Fairweather previously published the acclaimed Dark Souls book You Died , a companion book to the Dark Souls video game. The final product of Soul Arts contains 256 pages of full-color illustrations, a foreword, and detailed descriptions of the game concepts and art. Within the Soul Arts book, the passion, adoration, and innovation of FromSoftware fans is on full disp

Vague and obscure lore wouldn't stop most Souls veterans, of course, and those who venture down into King's Field' s abyssal depths will be met with one of the most disturbing bosses in series history. What appears to be a pillar of tentacles adorned with an eerie white mask, Reinhardt III is a fittingly weird conclusion to an oddball

Thanks to Melina, players aren't maidenless in Elden Ring , but she also gives the player a lot of information about the Lands Between and its history, including key information about Destined Death that helps when trying to understand the Godskins and their motivations. She says that Destined Death is death indiscriminate. Since death will come to all things regardless of their status, the Godskins are maintaining the natural order of the Lands Between by killing gods and demig

Though Demon’s Souls features director Miyakazi’s favorite boss fight , it is missing artist Timothy Kelly’s sixth Archstone concept of the Twisted City. Soul Arts describes the Twisted City as a place that is warped and bent, with snow and mist shimmering across the landscape. The Twisted City was woven from pre-existing fabric by The Weaver, whose presence is all around the city. Everything there was a twisted version of the City of Giants. In the Twisted City, shadows change everything about the city. Timothy Kelly’s art, as well as the written concept by VaatiVidya, make for a very intriguing storyline that is just the beginning of the "what-ifs" introduced in Soul Ar

His most frightening aspect, of course, is the fact that he revives himself after his head is severed for a surprise second round. Now wielding a sword and capable of inflicting the incredibly lethal fear status effect, the second phase of the fight is as tough as it is creepy. Plus, defeating the monstrosity reveals that its immortality was granted by a centipede infestat

Said to be the first to die at the dawn of the Age of Fire, Gravelord Nito claimed a Lord Soul and became an embodiment of pestilence and death. Encountered beneath the Tomb of the Giants in the first Dark Souls game, Gravelord Nito is an intimidating foe capable of summoning ethereal swords from the ground and commanding a skeleton a

[Warning: This article contains spoilers for Elden Ring .] After the Night of the Black Knives, Queen Marika was driven to the brink and shattered the Elden Ring. The artifact's shards were taken by her children, in the form of Great Runes, and then began a brutal war known as The Shattering, from which no one emerged victorious. Marika's children, all of them demigods, fought for control over the Lands Between. However, Elden Ring ’s story emerged from seeds that were planted way before this conflict even be

Ten years later, Dark Souls is still important as one of the most groundbreaking and influential video games in history. Soul Arts featured some of the best concept artworks focused on the unseen lands mentioned, but never visited within the lore and gameplay of Dark Souls . Artist Brent Lecluyse’s two conceptual artworks of the land of Carim, a land praying for the end of the Undead Curse, as undeath is treated quite harshly in the city. Throughout the Roguelike Co-Op Gameplay of Dark Souls , one can encounter quite a few characters of Carim, yet never visit nor learn much more about the land for themselves. Brent Lecluyse’s imaginative rendering of what Carim could have been within Dark Souls is a powerful reminder of all the lore and secrets still kept within the three Dark Souls ga

The first of FromSoftware's pioneering lineage of PlayStation RPGs, the first King's Field never received a proper North American port, and the King's Field Western gamers know was actually a sequel that simply disregarded the original. With that in mind, though fan translations of the title do exist, in-game lore remains pretty sparse and tough to decip

The many bosses of Elden Ring __ are one of the most unique features of Elden Ring , though their notorious difficulty levels is a classic FromSoftware __ approach. Initially revealed in 2019, the astounding silence that followed for any news of Elden Ring left many FromSoftware __ fans in a worried frenzy that the game might never come. Awaiting further news and updates for Elden Ring ’s release, VaatiVidya hosted an art competition encouraging artists to conceptualize what different bosses and boss encounters might look like within the game. Many of the subsequent artworks would have fit beautifully within Elden Ring , while others could create a world of their own. The curated Elden Ring conceptual artworks in Soul Arts reveal the deep depths of imagination, creativity, and passion of FromSoftware __ fans across the gl