On the shut of this yr’s EVE Fanfest, CCP Video games CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson took the stage to announce a shocking new commemoration of the long-running sci-fi MMO: An epic poem within the model of the traditional Icelandic sagas, written on real vellum in—and this is the kicker—the blood of EVE On-line followers. Did I point out they’d be giving it freely?
“We’re obsessing about this ‘foreverness,'” stated Pétursson. “It seems, to retailer data, a extremely great way is to take blood and write on calfskin. And other people in Iceland have been doing this 1,000 years in the past, and you continue to have the books.”
On the opening of the conference, CCP revealed an upcoming challenge to make a guide of epic poetry to seize among the key moments, concepts, and themes of EVE’s player-driven historical past. This “Foundational Poem” shall be edited by Icelandic author Andri Snær Magnason, who shall be pulling from “varied traditions” throughout the globe with assist from a “community of poets.”
On the closing ceremony, Pétursson elaborated on some distinctive restricted editions of the work that may very a lot not be on the market. CCP will fee a to-be-determined variety of the medieval-style manuscripts by way of an professional within the course of. “They primarily labored for the Pope and the British empire,” quipped Pétursson. “However now they work for us.”
“We’ll put one of many books in [Icelandic manuscript museum] Arnastofnun subsequent to the sagas,” Pétursson continued. “Then we’re gonna put one, I do not know, within the Pyramids, Library of Congress, one thing. We’ll determine that out.”
Followers of EVE will be capable to by a extra regular model of the epic poem for their very own houses, however CCP additionally plans on letting them make a very direct contribution to the archive copies.
“We’re gonna get the Blood Financial institution of Iceland to be right here on the subsequent Fanfest,” stated Pétursson. “You possibly can donate blood for the great of the Blood Financial institution of Iceland, however we’ll take somewhat bit at a time from each Fanfest attendee, after which we’ll combine it up, and we’ll use it to jot down the poetry.”
EVE’s subsequent Fanfest is scheduled for Could of 2026, so you have acquired a yr to remain hydrated, preserve your iron up, and keep away from any pesky bloodborne diseases if you would like your valuable humors to grace the pages of the prime time model of EVE’s Foundational Poem.
This is not the primary time CCP has made such a grand effort to commemorate the sport and its neighborhood. To rejoice ten years of EVE, the studio commissioned a monument at Reykjavik’s harbor with the names of each EVE participant engraved on it, and one other part was added with new gamers included for the twentieth anniversary.
Along with EVE On-line, whose newest enlargement, Legion, is approaching Could 27, CCP can be presently engaged on a sister FPS, Vanguard. If that idea sounds acquainted, it is as a result of Vanguard is CCP’s second try at among the ambitions of its ill-starred, PlayStation 3-exclusive shooter, Mud 514. CCP can be growing EVE Frontier, an experimental, survival-focused house recreation with an bold strategy to participant modding.
