When day wrought night they did arrive
Not sea nor hoof but from the sky
Knight-maidens strong rode to face them
Yet not a sword was drawn

For within that night songs were cast
And we who heard them lost our past
Our virtues, love, and spirit fled
So hollow was the dawn

Now mothers send their children there
To Oden castles crowning air
Returning spies to peel our thoughts
With souls so twisted wrong

Now industry demands the earth
Our verdant fields bled grey of worth
The beasts of feast now lost to famine
Great Alca’s flesh stripped raw

While hope in us has come to rust
Strange kin remain with the Alca’s trust
Relic wolf and bear and faun

Those we plundered now we seek
For ancient ties that withered weak
To cast a bargain entwining last
And reforging honored bonds…

To the world.

Alongside the messages, a bunch of art images surfaced as well from the game’s website, which “hid” it as part of a puzzle that has since been solved.

For those trying to sign up, it’s been a rather painful affair, and Digital Extremes knows about it. Over on Twitter, studio Game Director Steve Sinclair shared details on Soulframe alongside new art. Sinclair confirmed that even if the game has “Soul” in its title, players shouldn’t expect it to be a “Soulsborne” title (akin to FromSoftware’s Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Elden Ring games), and that the trailer shown featured in-game assets and no BS stuff.