Elden Ring’s publisher wants to work with author Brandon Sanderson and he ‘has a Soulsborne pitch’
Elden Ring and Dark Souls publisher Bandai Namco has reached out to American fantasy author Brandon Sanderson about a possible future collaboration, he’s revealed.
Sanderson, who is best known for his Mistborn and Stormlight Archive fantasy novels, unboxed a package he’d received from the game publisher during a live stream this week.
The author received a large Elden Ring parcel, which included a sword, cloak and other merchandise based on the From Software game, along with a note from Bandai Namco.
“They are interested in perhaps doing something together, is what that says,” Sanderson said on the stream. “I am as well, actually. This is how I roll: I actually have a pitch for them in the back of my head… so I may have to send them my pitch and see what they think.”
The author went on to reveal that he’d actually already thought up a pitch for a Soulsborne game, which is the name given by fans to encompass From Software’s Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro and Elden Ring series.
From’s latest release, Elden Ring, is itself a collaboration with fantasy author George R. R. Martin.
Sanderson said: “I always have a pitch for everything. That’s the thing. Like, ‘if I were ever going to do a Soulsborne game, what would I do?’ You guys know what happened when I thought, ‘I wondered what I would do if I ever wrote a Magic: The Gathering story?’
“I spent four years developing a Magic: The Gathering story so that when Magic contacted me and said, ‘hey, do you want to write a story?’ I could say, ‘yes, I already have one, and I will write it!” And I did.
“The same way, I’ve been thinking, ‘what would I do if I did a Soulsborne sort of game?’ Obviously, I don’t get to decide that, right? But I have it in the back of my head, so
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