Stämingen på #Ritual Entertainment verkar inte den bästa, [n=16885 rykten] gör gällande att många har lämnat företaget och att det inte blir fler delar i #Sin Episodes: Emergence. Steven Peeler stack dock redan 2004 för att starta en egen utvecklingsstudio, #Soldak Entertainment, och för en tid sedan blev deras första titel officiell.

På Firingsquad berättar han om actionrollspelet #Depths of Peril som tycks ha en gedigen bakgrundshistoria:

The quick version of the background story is that for most of its history, Aleria was a fairly peaceful world. It has had its minor conflicts and wars, but most of the time Aleria has enjoyed peace. Then one fateful day, a group of minors delved too deep trying to find larger lifestones, unleashing dark elves and many other evil monsters back into the world. This event has basically become the downfall of Aleria. You can actually read the full story of this event on our website at http://www.soldak.com/content/blogcategory/18/51/ . The full story is called Depths of Peril part 1 and part 2. Since then there has been four Great Wars and the good races lost the fourth one. They have been decimated. A few survivors did manage to escape the genocide, but that was mostly because the evil armies started fighting over the spoils of war before crushing the remnants of the good races.