It's happening. Announcing THE BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE, poll results, and a couple other ways you can support Wraithmarked IF you want to!
12 months ago
– Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 06:00:37 AM
Hey all! Bryce here, with some pretty amazing news and data for you.
THE BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE
While final details are still being ironed out (meaning I can't tell you everything about the campaign just yet), I'm SO excited to announce the BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE, the first opportunity for ERAGON fans to have their name inside a WORLD OF ERAGON project.
When Wraithmarked announced what the tariffs might be costing us, so many of you across Kickstarter and Reddit asked how you could help. A lot of people asked to donate to help support, but we didn't want to take more money without giving something back.
So instead... we asked Christopher and his team for permission to license this very special project. Again, this is the first ever opportunity for INHERITANCE CYCLE fans to have their name inside a WORLD OF ERAGON project.
SOME DETAILS:
Again, a lot of stuff is still being massaged together, but THE BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE will contain canon, in-world material written by Christopher, similar to what he’s produced for various special editions. In addition to an intro and outro, he has written introductions and overviews of seven of the major battles throughout the history of Alagaësia. These essays appear as excerpts of various writings from the world itself, collected in a physical book as a project of the Arcaenist Brother Hern (the reason for which you’ll find out in the book itself). And accompanying these excerpts will be—drumroll please—a non-canon list of the names of the fallen warriors, soldiers, and officers from all seven of the battles.
And whose names exactly will be on those list?
Yours. Written both in English and in the Ullmark, the human runes of Alagaësia, and forever immortalized in this amazing artifact.
With permission from Christopher and his team, Wraithmarked has been granted the incredible opportunity to make this list of fallen combatants entirely from the names of our project Backers. There will be a simple $10 pledge to just get your name in the book, and then several pledges higher than that which will not only get your name in the book at higher and higher military ranks, but also get you the physical books as well!
The book will be bound in leatherette, with a gold foil stamping design, and feature end sheets and illustrations completely unique to this project. We've already started collecting some for the purposes of the campaign:
While the interior illustrations are still being decided on, we do know that there will be at least one illustration per battle depicting the fighting, and there will also be limited slots to have your own custom-illustrated portrait added to the book as one of the highest ranking officers on the field of each battle.
One note, y'all: it is very important for me to highlight that your names will not be canon in the world of Alagaësia. As much as we would have liked to make it happen, inserting modern names into the world would have been very problematic for any number of reasons, and "Alagaës-ifying" all of them would have been such a massive undertaking (making the changes, getting them approved, making sure we got them right in the book, etc.) that it just wouldn't be feasible. However, they will forever and always be an official part of an official WORLD OF ERAGON project, for the first and possibly only time.
Additionally, while Christopher will be signing each book and will provide lore for each of the battles, I have to highlight that this, like Saphira, is a Wraithmarked Creative endeavor, not a Christopher Paolini one. Christopher will have a hand in every part of the design, artist selection, etc., but at the end of the day final responsibility for the project and product is Wraithmarked Creative's responsibility, just like it is for the Saphira model.
WHEN DOES IT LAUNCH?
We aren't 100% sure if it will be June or July 2025, but it will be the first Tuesday of one of those two months at 9am EST.
You can sign up for a pre-launch reminder right now!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/bookofremembrance
WHAT IF YOU RAISE MORE THAN YOU NEED TO COVER TARIFFS?
With the tariff situation being a constantly shifting thing, this is a great question, and a perfectly reasonable thing to be worried about. IF we end up profiting more than we need off of this BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE campaign, those funds are going to be allocated towards an extremely cool future WORLD OF ERAGON project we wanted to start developing earlier this year, but didn't have the funds to do so due to its massive overhead cost (like... massive). Any additional profit we end up not needing would go towards developing that project, and while I can't tell you what it is, I can tell you it involves a lot (a LOT) of art and illustration. It's my favorite idea we've had so far, and I hope we get to do it one day regardless!
POLL RESULTS
This project only came about with your support and feedback. Last week, after people asked for some way to support us after we announced the toll the tariffs could be taking on Wraithmarked, I put out a poll asking Backers of the Saphira statue if they would approve of a second campaign like this, creating a product Wraithmarked was more familiar with. We said we wouldn't even consider the project if less than 67% of you approved. To tell you the truth, with the outpouring of earlier support we expected we'd hit that number.
We did NOT expect more than 95% of you to approve, which is what happened.
SEE THE RESULTS FOR YOURSELF HERE
With just shy of 4000 responses (over 40% of Backers, which is an INSANE participation rate), over 95% of you told us to do the project. Another 2.6% didn't have an opinion on it either way. We took this data to Christopher and his team, and it was a large part of them giving us the thumbs up and license to do this project.
For those of you who replied "No", we see you and we hear your concerns. Running a second project for a brand before the first is fulfilled is never something we wanted to do, nor did we plan on doing it until the community asked for some method by which to support us. Please be aware that if you don't support the BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE, your Saphira statue pledge will not be negatively effected in any way! Hell, if for some reason the BOOK doesn't fund (we don't expect it to be an issue) nothing will change. While Saphira may need to be delayed until the trade war resolves, she will and was always going to be fulfilled. She's already in production with some cool new Updates coming in the coming months!
Regardless of how you voted, thank you all so, so much for your support!
OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP:
The BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE not your thing? Interested in supporting Wraithmarked in other ways? For those curious about our Deluxe Editions (what we're best known for) we have two really cool campaigns worth checking out, one ending this week, another starting next.
There are only 2 days left to back BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, the New York Times Bestselling dark academia standalone by M.L. Wang, is one of our most successful campaigns ever! It's beautiful, with a heavy black, red, and gold design style that will look good on any shelf!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/brighthaven
Looking for more dragons? Marie Brennan's THE MEMOIRS OF LADY TRENT (often better known as A NATURAL HISTORY OF DRAGONS) Illustrated Omnibus launches this coming Tuesday! It's brightly colored cover was designed as a handsome contrast to the famous Todd Lockwood art of the originals, which we've keep as end sheets because they are too good to leave behind!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/ladytrent
THANK YOU!
Regardless of if or how you decide to support us, we are so, SO grateful to have you along for the ride! Let us know if you have any question in the comments, and we hope to see most of you over on the BOOK OR REMEMBRANCE campaign!
-Bryce
