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## About This Content
Trials of Fire is a world rich with character and style, despite the ravaged
state of Ashe that players encounter it in. Within this Art Book, the concepts
and early designs are paired with the final stunning pieces that bring that
world to life in-game, whether they be landscapes, pieces of equipment, random
items or character models.

Ashe is realised with a hand-drawn aesthetic that imbues everything with a
true sword-and-sorcery feeling, but more importantly it complements the
overall concept of a game-come-adventure tale all contained within a heavy
tome. The landscapes are sketched onto the yellowing pages the player
explores, the characters stood like full-body portraits that wouldn’t be out
of place framed and hung on a wall. The world comes to life through the brush
strokes and rough edges that imbue each adventure with the feeling of
narrative illustration, as though the player themselves is telling the story
to an artist hurriedly realising their words on the page.

The ideas at the core of Trials of Fire have been the same from the first
playable prototype right through to the final game. Adventure, tactical
combat, an evolving and self-authored narrative on every run and on every
quest. The experience of playing the early versions of the game felt like the
sturdy, sun-bleached bones of the game we were wanting to make, but it wasn’t
until Artists Jody, Sandra and Max joined the team that these bones were
knitted together and given form. Through Sandra’s conceptual direction, Jody’s
immensely technical modelling and Max’s exquisite illustration, their artwork
stood these bones up and we were able to see Trials of Fire given life and
rendered in full for the first time.

The body of work in this book is an attempt to give gamers an insight into
that experience – of only seeing the rough sketches and vague outlines of a
game. Then having those outlines filled with colour, shape and form to finally
become the game that looks and plays the way we and hoped, but not dared to
imagine.

The Art of Ashe – Digital Artbook and Map