Soul Chronicle

Soul Chronicle is a new story mode featured in Soulcalibur VI. It focuses on the main story while mixing in story parts of all characters.

Soul Chronicle mode tells the series’ origin story (1583 to 1590), and restructured with the addition of new episodes. The main story will be shown in 2D demos, 3D demos, 2D illustrations, conversational parts, and battles. Episodes that aren’t part of the main story will be shown in 2D illustrations, conversational parts, and battles.

Transcript

Plot

Transcending history and the world, a tale of souls and swords, eternally retold.

Soul Edge, a legendary sword, and a devourer of souls... buried in the darkest reaches of history, it was brought back to light in the 16th century.

The notorious pirate Cervantes claimed the sword as his own, setting everything into motion.

Soul Edge adapted to its owner, by splitting into two.

Possessed by the evil weapons, Cervantes began a bloody reign of terror, slaying all those seeking the swords without prejudice. However, Cervantes was eventually undone.

Under the protection of Hephaestus, the god of smithing, a female warrior named Sophitia was able to destroy one of the swords. However, shards of the blade flew and lodged into her body, causing near-mortal wounds.

Seeing his chance, Cervantes raised his sword to deliver the final blow. Suddenly, there appeared a ninja known as Taki who rescued the wounded warrior. Taki defeated Cervantes in a battle to the death before carrying the injured Sophitia away.

However... one of Soul Edge's two blades still remained. Perhaps it was fate... the blade fell into the hands of Siegfried, whose mind was twisted and unwell.

A pillar of light pierced the heavens, the product of rampant evil and the Evil Seed. No one could have predicted it would become a catalyst for catastrophe across the world...

Our story takes place in the 16th century.

Timeline

• Soul Chronicle/Timeline

Story

• The Chronicle of Souls/Transcript
• Character Episodes
  • Mitsurugi/Transcript
  • Taki/Transcript
  • Kilik/Transcript
  • Maxi/Transcript
  • Xianghua/Transcript
  • Grøh/Transcript
  • Azwel/Transcript - Complete Grøh's Story in Soul Chronicle to Unlock
  • Ivy/Transcript
  • Cervantes/Transcript - Complete Ivy's Story in Soul Chronicle to Unlock
  • Seong Mi-na/Transcript
  • Astaroth/Transcript
  • Nightmare/Transcript
  • Siegfried/Transcript- Complete Nightmare's Story in Soul Chronicle to Unlock
  • Sophitia/Transcript
  • Voldo/Transcript
  • Yoshimitsu/Transcript
  • Raphael/Transcript
  • Tira/Transcript
  • Talim/Transcript
  • Zasalamel/Transcript
  • Geralt/Transcript
  • Amy/Transcript
  • Cassandra/Transcript
  • Hilde/Transcript
  • Setsuka/Transcript
  • Hwang/Transcript

Trivia

• The fourth Soul Chronicle mission in the main story, a mysterious visitor, always features one of the player's CAS characters from Libra of Soul.
  • If the player has not yet created a character for Libra of Soul, this match will instead be against a generic hooded fighter using Mitsurugi's style.
• Special guest-character, Geralt of Rivia, from Andrzej Sapowski’s novel series The Witcher, appears as a part of the canon story.
• DLC guest characters (2B and Haohmaru) do not get their own story episodes, nor are they involved in any other characters' stories or Libra of Soul.
• The main story’s main fighters mostly consist of the main default fighters of original Soulcalibur, with Grøh replaces Voldo for this role part.
• While Soulcalibur originally took place during 1583 AD, not all characters' Soul Chronicle takes place during that time; Taki's Soul Chronicle takes place during the later half of 1583 and the first half of 1584, whereas Amy and Talim's take place during 1589 and 1590.
  • The events of Soulcalibur II, Soulcalibur III and Soulcalibur IV all take place during 1590.
• The 2D illustrations are made by Hiroaki Hashimoto.
• A character called "Lizardman Chief" appears in several scenes with Astaroth. It is not possible to defeat him like the other lizardmen, and it is speculated that this character is actually Aeon Calcos, but nothing has been confirmed.
• Raphael and Zasalamel have special cases with their Soul Chronicle. Both have a secret episode and ending that can be unlocked by playing Libra of Souls and fulfilling certain requirements.
• The DLC Soul Chronicle episodes (for the sole exception of Tira) have a few unique quirks when compared to the Soul Chronicles of the base roster characters.
  • Amy and Hilde's Soul Chronicle are considerably longer, with each having 10 episodes.
  • Cassandra, in addition to having 7 base episodes, also has 3 additional episodes referred to as Episode 0, with each episode denoted with Greek letters α, β, and γ. These episodes are unlocked by completing her base episodes and obtaining the first ending of her Soul Chronicle. Completing the 3 additional episodes unlocks her second ending and adds further context to her story.
  • Setsuka also has a long Soul Chronicle, boasting 10 episodes, which is not told in chronological order. In addition, playing through her Soul Chronicle also unlocks Mitsurugi Side Story that intersects with her story. Playing through all 6 episodes of Mitsurugi's Side Story is required to progress through her Soul Chronicle further and unlocks her ending. Setsuka's Soul Chronicle is also currently the only Soul Chronicle that featured unique pieces of background music that plays exclusively in her episodes.
• A few characters had their stories extended in later updates to the game:
  • Groh had one new Side Story added to his Soul Chronicle in update ver.2.20.
  • Nightmare and Mitsurugi received new Side Stories in update ver.2.30, with the former receiving three Side Stories and the latter receiving six.
• If counting Side Story, Mitsurugi’s character episode is the longest one.
• All of Soul Chronicle events are narrated by the announcer except for Seong Mi-na's, where she tells her own story.

Gallery

"Transcending history and the world..."

"...a tale of souls and swords eternally retold."

"Soul Edge, a legendary sword, and a devourer of souls... buried in the darkest reaches of history, it was brought back to light in the 16th century. The notorious pirate Cervantes claimed the sword as his own, setting everything into motion."

"Soul Edge adapted to its owner, by splitting into two."

"Possessed by the evil weapons, Cervantes began a bloody reign of terror, slaying all those seeking the swords without prejudice."

"However, Cervantes was eventually undone. Under the protection of Hephaestus, the god of smithing, a female warrior named Sophitia was able to destroy one of the swords."

"However, shards of the blade flew and lodged into her body, causing near-mortal wounds."

"Seeing his chance, Cervantes raised his sword to deliver the final blow."

"Suddenly, there appeared a ninja known as Taki who rescued the wounded warrior."

"Taki defeated Cervantes in a battle to the death before carrying the injured Sophitia away."

"However... one of Soul Edge's two blades still remained. Perhaps it was fate..."

"The blade fell into the hands of Siegfried, whose mind was twisted and unwell."

Siegfried grabs the Soul Edge before the sword possesses him...

...transforming him into Nightmare...

...to create the Evil Seed.