The Press Kittake what you need, no form to fill in
Everything a writer or an editor needs to cover the saga, on one page and behind no request — every cover, both wordmark lockups, the marks as vector, two reference documents, a photograph, and boilerplate written to be quoted as it stands. The films, the interviews and the awards are on The Record.
What’s In Itcovers, marks, documents and the words
Free for press & review, with creditCovers, marks, a photograph and the boilerplate — all of it downloadable from this page, none of it behind a request. Free to use for press, review and editorial coverage of the books, with credit to Ankit Choudhury for the writing, the art and the music alike; he made all three. Any other use — merchandise, or another project carrying these marks — needs written permission first; the license page says what that covers.
Covers
every volume, every collection, and both editions of the codaThe Wordmark
the two lockups, stacked and single line — bone on dark, alpha keptThe Marks
the books, the series and the primordial tier — vector, print-ready as they standThe System, Entire
every mark above as one plate — alpha, and over the three currentsThe Documents
three references, each on its own page, each a downloadTreatments, Marks & Color
How a thing is made. The two wordmark lockups and their misuse, the badge, the core palette and the seat palette, the three faces, the nine sigil treatments, the separators, the cover system and the interior ornaments.
Identity System · PDFMarks, Tiers & Editions
What each asset is and where it ranks. The four tiers, every mark in the property and what it draws, the canon colors and where they come from, the reading order, and the cover set by phase.
World Bible · PDFThe Anatomy of Chaos
What is true. The hierarchy and the seven seats, the three realms against the three timelines, the seals and the gates and why they do not pair, the four Lines and the thirty-two, the eight rules an expansion must not break — and which names are myth’s and which are the author’s own.
Author & Boilerplate
approved copy — use it verbatim
For adaptation enquiries, the one-sheet is The Property — what is finished, what is already built, and what has been licensed to whom. The short answer is nothing: no screen, stage, audio or interactive right has been granted to anyone.
The covers above are the web cuts this site runs on. Print-resolution covers and the interior plates exist and can be sent over — as can longer extracts, the soundtrack stems and anything else a piece needs. Enquiries and permissions go to hello@balladofchaos.com. For the artwork itself, several of the wide plates are already free to download on the Artwork page. And the covers these replaced are all on the Alternative Covers page — most of them went to print, carried a title for a while, and were then taken off.
Every cover, mark and portrait in this kit was made the same way everything else here was: by one person, in whichever medium the story asked for next — none of it commissioned or outsourced, out of books he began fifteen years before anyone could read them. That is why the credit line is one name, and why it is the only condition attached.
If you want the reasoning rather than the assets — why the coda has no wings, why one book is cold and the other four burn — that is all written down, at length, in his own words. And what has already been said out loud — the launch films, the reels, the interviews and the awards — is next door.