A PROVISIONAL ARKNIGHTS READING ORDER
act 1: between your love and mine ("Shatter of a Vision")
1.
Main Theme chs 0-3: "Evil Time" thru "Stinging Shock"2. Shining Operator Record: "
On A Rainy Night", Nightingale Operator Record: "
A Song and a Blue Feather", Nearl Operator Module: "
Improved Knight's Shield"
3.
Main Theme chs 4-7: "Burning Run" thru "The Birth of Tragedy"4.
Darknights Memoir + Operational Intelligence story: "
The Anonymous One's War"
5. Vigilo stories 1-3: "
Spes", "
Memoria", "
Valorem", Blaze Operator Record: "
Will You?", operator profiles:
Touch,
Pith,
Sharp,
Stormeye6.
Main Theme ch 8: "Roaring Flare" (+ "Burnt Fragments" EG-1 thru EG-5)7. postscript:
Twilight of Wolumonde/
A Light Spark in Darknessact 2 prelude: all my ribbons
8. Vigilo stories 4-6: "
Cogitatio", "
Anterior", "
Pignus" +
A Walk in the Dust, Folinic Operator Module: "
Mother's Cravat"
9: Rewinding Breeze stories: "
Homecoming", "
Recollection" + Beyond Here story: "
Sword and Scale"
10.
Operations Preparation Detachment: A111. Kazimierz Major Trilogy:
Part 1:
Maria Nearl Part 2:
Pinus Sylvestris Part 3:
Near Light: Cinematic Teaser PV,
Near Light, in that order
Postscript: Nearl the Radiant Knight Operator Record: "
Starting Point",
An Obscure Wandererentr'acte: that's how the light gets in
12. La Morte di Texas: Overture (
Code of Brawl, To Be Continued story: "
Wolf and Wolfpack")
13.
Children of Ursus 14. To the Sea, Prelude:
Grani and the Knight's Treasure +
Heart of Surging Flame, Skadi Operator Record: "
Endless Journey"
15. Operator profile:
Phantom, Phantom Operator Modules: "
Miss.Christine's Felt" and "
Think of Me",
Prelude Suite: Blood Diamond, Integrated Strategies 2:
"Phantom and Crimson Solitaire", all endings, Phantom Operator Record: "
Cooperation"
16.
Break the Iceact 2: a million candles burning ("Shadow of a Dying Sun")
17.
Main Theme ch 9-10: "County Hillock" + "Stormwatch"18.
Main Theme ch 11: "Return to Mist" +
What the Firelight Casts19.
Main Theme ch 12: "All Quiet Under the Thunder", Amiya (Caster Form) Operator Module: "
DWDB-221E"
20.
Main Theme ch 13: "The Whirlpool That Is Passion"21.
Babel, operator profiles: "
Ascalon", "
Kal'tsit"
22.
To the Grinning Valley23.
Main Theme ch 14: "Absolved Will Be the Seekers" (+ EG-6 "Lingering Mercy")24. postscript:
Ending a Grand Overture/
See You Soonact 3 prelude: half the perfect world
25. To the Sea:
Part 1: Gladiia Operator Module: "
Consul's Handmirror",
Under Tides, Gladiia Operator Record: "
Dehydration"
Part 2:
Stultifera Navis, Specter Operator Record: "
I, Namely I", Specter the Unchained Operator Record: "
Selfhood"
Part 3:
Path of Life Postscript: Thorns Operator Record: "
Anniversary"
26. Hymns and Recitations (Lateran and Leithanian):
Part 1:
Lingering Echoes Part 2:
Guide Ahead Part 3:
Hortus de Escapismo Part 4:
Zwillingstürme im Herbst27. Rhine Labs Trilogy:
Part 1:
Mansfield Break Interlude: operator profiles:
Rosmontis,
Ifrit, Ifrit Operator Module: "
Team Captain"
Part 2:
Dorothy's Vision Part 3:
LONETRAILentr'acte: a blaze of light in every word
28.
When Elegies Are Ashes29.
The Rides to Lake Silberneherze30. La Morte di Texas, Act I (
Il Siracusano)
31. To the North (Operational Intelligence story: "
Polaris",
The Black Forest Wills A Dream, Integrated Strategies 4:
"Expeditioner's Jǫklumarkar", all endings, in that order)
32.
Come Catastrophes or Wakes of Vultures33.
Exodus from the Pale Sea34.
A Kazdelian Rescue + Integrated Strategies 5:
"Sarkaz Furnaceside Fables", all endings35. La Morte di Texas, Act II (
I Portatori del Velluti)
36.
Act or Die37. Beyond Here story: "
No Sequel",
Atoact 3: the only engine of survival ("Nexus Point of [the] Future")
38. Main Theme, Chapter 15: "
Dissociation Complex"
39. Operator Profile:
Crownslayer, Crownslayer Operator Module: "
рисунок углем"
40. Hymns and Recitations, Part 5:
The Masses' Travels41. Main Theme, Chapter 16: "
Abnormal Spectrum"
fugue: to live beside you (Through the Ages)
??. Sui & Yan
Prelude:
Nian's Ancient Forge Part 1:
Who Is Real Part 2:
Invitation to Wine Part 3:
Where Vernal Winds Will Never Blow Interlude:
A Death in Chunfen Part 4:
Here A People Sows Interlude: Leizi Operator Record: "
One Who Controls Lightning", operator profile:
Leizi, Blaze Operator Module: "
Overloaded Weapons, Overheated Heart"
Part 5:
Such Is the Joy of Our Reunion Part 6:
Fantasy in the Mirage, Integrated Strategies 6:
"Sui's Garden of Grotesqueries", all endings Part 7:
First of a Thousand Autumnscoda: leaving the table
???. To the Sea, denouement(?): (Mizuki Operator Record: "
The Fifth Contact", Integrated Strategies 3,
"Mizuki and Caerula Arbor", all endings)
further reading
canonical, but ultimately optional:
Dossoles Holiday +
So Long, Adele: Home Away from Home (in that order);
Inudi Harek, Horakhet: Adventure That Cannot Wait for the Sun;
The Great Chief Returns +
Ideal City: Endless Carnival! (in that order)
noncanonical but good worldbuilding details worth picking over once you're in deep: Operations
Originium Dust and
Lucent Arrowhead (a crossover with
Rainbow Six: Siege),
A Flurry to the Flame (a crossover with
Monster Hunter),
Delicious in Terra (a crossover with
Delicious in Dungeon),
Somniloquium Serenum (a crossover with
BanG Dream! Ave Mujica),
Pilgrimage of Compassion (a crossover with
Limbus Company, unique among all crossovers to date for occurring in a game other than
Arknights itself, and entirely from a perspective that doesn't belong to a single one of Rhodes Island's own operators)
and you may pick at the rest (operator records, operator
modules, vignette collections, side stories, &c) at your leisure, but that's not the remit of this endeavor, so go have fun with that yourselves already!
AND DON'T ASK ME WHAT I'M GOING TO DO ABOUT ENDFIELD. I DON'T HAVE A PRIESTESS' CLUE
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