Evidence hierarchy
- Primary: official product pages, announcements, patch notes, and in-game observations.
- Corroborating: reputable reporting and independently reproducible tests.
- Discovery only: wikis, community guides, social posts, and transcripts that point to facts requiring verification.
How a guide is researched
Each page begins with one player question. Official game pages, guides, patch notes, store listings, and repeatable in-game observations are reduced to individual facts. Third-party guides, community discussions, and video transcripts are used to discover questions or test ideas, not as text to reproduce.
Structured game-data pages
Database pages can use names, short in-game equipment descriptions, functional effects, World View text, internal identifiers, and entity groupings extracted from a locally installed game build. Every public dataset records the build number, extraction date, and source asset path. Missing numeric fields remain absent rather than being filled with estimates, and a demo-build record is not represented as proof of full-release availability.
The current public subset comes from the Steam demo, build 23442858. It includes 121 player weapon records, 67 armor and shield records, 147 localized item records, 64 player Sword Skill assets, 27 resolved monster names, 9 localized character records used inside an 18-profile roster, 19 named locations, and 169 World View records with resolved English names. Raw archives, encryption material, complete dialogue, audio, models, textures, and executable data are not published.
Original synthesis
Articles are organized around a new outline, then written from the verified fact set. Recommendations are labeled through their reasoning and trade-offs. Time-sensitive details such as requirements, editions, modes, patches, and numerical balance are checked again when a page is revised.
Corrections and uncertainty
When an official source does not document a detail, we identify it as walkthrough-derived or version-sensitive rather than presenting it as confirmed. If you find an error, a regional difference, or an update that changes a guide, contact the site owner with a source or reproducible in-game evidence. Editorial responsibilities and publication standards are described in the Editorial Standards.
Source register
| Source class | How it is used | Publication rule |
|---|---|---|
| Official game material | Mechanics, platforms, features, requirements, patches | Facts summarized with a direct source link |
| Structured game data | Names, effects, IDs, categories and versioned relationships | Show build scope; omit unresolved fields and raw media |
| In-game testing | Steps, behavior, comparisons, edge cases | Describe reproducible conditions |
| Video transcripts | Discover mechanics and player questions | Verify claims and write independently |
| Community material | Find recurring problems and disputed behavior | Do not present opinion as established fact |
Visual material
The public site combines official videos through YouTube's supported privacy-enhanced player with original, fact-driven diagrams for weapons, combat, partners, and progression. Videos remain hosted and controlled by YouTube. Downloaded screenshots, trailer frames, Wiki files, and creator thumbnails are not automatically copied into published pages. A local image is published only after its origin, permission basis, allowed commercial uses, and review status are recorded in the site's asset register.