Who will find the Silvern Seas and awaken our Ancestors?
Who will learn the melodies of soul unbinding,
And break the gaunting spellsong?
Who will hold in their heart the wanderers,
the wild, the world?
You will, Envoy.
Who will learn the melodies of soul unbinding,
And break the gaunting spellsong?
Who will hold in their heart the wanderers,
the wild, the world?
You will, Envoy.
Soulframe is an upcoming High Fantasy Massively Multiplayer Online action game from Digital Extremes, the creators of Warframe. Yes, the name similarity is intentional. No, Soulframe is not a Spin-Off.
In the world of Alca, the gods in the sky have cast a spell over the people, making them forget their history, their culture, their past. You play as an Envoy, capable of communing with spirits of your ancestors. It is up to you to reconnect with the past and stop the sky's servants, the Ode, from destroying your people's land.
The game's reveal trailer
was released at Tennocon 2022. At Tennocon 2023, the gameplay trailer, titled Soulframe Preludes, was showcased.
This video game provides examples of:
- Artificial Limbs: The Envoy's right arm is artificial; per the gameplay trailer, it will look different depending on what pact the player choses.
- Canis Major: In the reveal trailer, the Envoy is shown rescuing a giant wolf creature. The gameplay trailer shows that it lives in the player's hub area, and can be summoned to both attack enemies and ferry the player around.
- Defeat Means Friendship: At the end of the gameplay trailer, Lady Deora and Garren Rood both go from bosses to allies once defeated.
- Defector from Decadence: Both the reveal and gameplay trailer hint that the Envoy was once a member of the Ode before switching sides and fighting against them.
- The Empire: The Ode, an industrial civilization of flying cities that has destroyed all cultural memory except humanity's rule by them, hunts sacred Omen Beasts, and spreads The Corruption to cement their rule.
- Friend to All Living Things: The Envoy seems to have a particular connection to animals; they ride a Canis Major, have a bird familiar that helps them in battle, their goal in the gameplay trailer is to free a magical deer, and the trailer itself opens with the Envoy sleeping in a pile of small woodland creatures. The developers even stated that Disney movies were one of the inspirations for the game.
- Heel Realization: Whatever the Envoy does to Lady Deora after defeating her at the end of the gameplay trailer makes her realize just what she has done in service of the Ode.
- Help Mistaken for Attack: At the end of the gameplay demo, Garren Rood mistakes the Envoy who just cleansed him of The Corruption for one of the people who have harmed him and his herd, and nearly attacks them on the spot. Fortunately, Lady Deora is able to make him pause long enough to recognize an Envoy.
- Magic Knight: The Envoy is shown to be capable of using both their sword and spellwork to battle their enemies throughout the gameplay trailer.
- Magic Music: The Envoy seems to possess some manner of musical magic, as in the gameplay trailer they use music to see a Flashback of Deora and Garren Rood, and later use a song to pull Deora's soul out of the Silvern Sea and facilitate her Heel–Face Turn.
- The Marvellous Deer: The gameplay trailer is all about saving a mystical deer from the clutches of the Ode. The deer in question can talk, and grants Envoy a gift.
- Naked First Impression: The Envoy spends most of the reveal trailer in the nude, save for a mask over their face.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast:
- The boss version of Garren Rood fought at the end of the gameplay trailer is titled the "Torment Stag".
- The background chatter overheard during the gameplay trailer mentions someone (or something) called "the Collector", which is never a good thing to hear, especially after sacrifices have been mentioned but minutes earlier.
- Repressive, but Efficient: During the boss fight against Lady Deora in the gameplay trailer, she angrily tells the player that for all their faults, the Ode have eradicated famine and war, and brought warmth to every home. This being said, they are still destroying the world with The Corruption, and after being cleansed of it herself, she suddenly seems far less eager to serve them.
- Spirit World: In the gameplay trailer, the Silvern Seas serve as the home to the various ancestral spirits the Envoy collects on their journey. For the player, it also serves as the space where they can switch out their gear and alter the pacts they've made.
- Taken for Granite: One of the spells showcased in the first two trailers allows the Envoy to turn all surrounding enemies into easily-smashed stone.
- Talking Animal: Garren Rood, the stag the Envoy pursues during the gameplay trailer, is a talking deer.
