Six of the world's top players of Souls games: Demon's Souls, the Dark Souls trilogy, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring. During a Dark Souls III 3v3 death match with everything on the line, a despicable disconnect tactic and a mysterious server glitch did their work, and they (not) accidentally fell forever into the Old Wolf's hell. After their Earth Online accounts were deleted too, they awoke in a void. A being claiming to be the Creator appeared, drew a game cartridge, and demanded that each player choose one of the six characters in this story to simulate. They would enter six fragment worlds, each terribly decayed yet intimately familiar from their games: fog-shrouded Boletaria, the land of Lordran, where bells rang in dread; cursed Drangleic; Lothric, where the embers were dying; Yharnam, beneath a blood moon; and the Lands Between, where the laws had broken down... The Creator gave them eight words: "Find the source, transcend the hunt."
