Why not come inside my den and let me regale you with some speculations?

The red stains on the wall?

Yeah, that’s blood.

Concept artwork for Arkane’s Blade game, showing the title character standing on a roof high above a street in Paris full of burning cars

There’s a big hotel sign on the left, and hoverships with searchlights overhead.

The architecture is a mixture of older-looking chimney stacks, and glassy modern skyscrapers.

On the horizon, we see plumes of smoke and the Eiffel Tower catching the sunset.

Concept artwork for Arkane’s Blade game, showing Blade hunkered down in an alleyway watching the entrance to a nightclub with crowds of people outside

It could be the preamble to something likethe legendary dancefloor slaughter scenefrom the very first Blade movie.

Perhaps the club is a secret vampire den.

The third concept art shows us Blade through the window of a metro train car.

Concept artwork for Arkane’s Blade game, showing Blade battling stylised bats through the window of a metro train full of sleepy vampires

He’s waving his sword at a bunch of angry triangles, which I’m guessing are stylised bats.

Will Blade get to fight vamps armed with top-tier Dracula abilities, then?

Will he get to transform into a bat himself?

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It’s all very in keeping with Dishonored’s enemies and toolset.

Are they sleepy after drinking too much blood, or just jaded commuters?

It could be both.

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Here’s the trailer, if you missed it.