and this is based off of a TTRPG... ...which CMON may or may not have the rights for the english version, but if they drop the rights, we might see Fan-Translations...
...then again...
there's This old site with an older version of the rules... ...kinda
maybe it wouldn't be so much "Soul" as it is "Design Force", akin to what happened in DivineZ.
so sum it up. Each of the participants have a mark on them that is held together via Design Force. Using that Design Force, they are able to "Ride" onto Cray as themselves, but once defeated, they...
Fer a smidge of context, this is based on the Replay series "Sword World NEXT" that lasted from '04 to '07, and had a total of 10 volumes.
Also two short story collections featured the cast.
I really wish the scanlator could just scroll back in 'is previous works and fix up some things... ...maybe once set 9 hits EN because of the one Warbeast deck.
Maybe once Farlam's Sword is translated.
Now that I think about it, this, outside of Crown of the Covenant, is the latest thing that's set in Forcelia.
Maybe after Farlam's Sword is translated.
Well, the Record of Lodoss War Wiki have been chipping away at the Forcelian Media for a good bit, they even got Vol.5 translated... ...just not uploaded to this site.