A Splatoon lore archive

The world:drowned,inked,remembered.

Twelve thousand years after the seas took the old world, squids and octopuses built a civilization on ink. This is the archive of how they got here, told from the Sunken Scrolls outward.

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History · 12,000 years ago

The Drowning of the Old World

Roughly twelve thousand years before the first Turf War, the seas rose and swallowed human civilization. Everything in Splatoon grows out of that flood.

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Official render of Craig Cuttlefish from Splatoon 3 Return of the Mammalians

History · 100 years before Splatoon

The Great Turf War

A hundred years before the first game, Inklings and Octarians fought a war over the last dry land. Its outcome decided who lives in the sun and who lives underground.

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Culture · Present day

Turf War as Sport

The Inklings took the deadliest conflict in their history and turned it into a three-minute sport with a cat referee. That transformation is the moral center of Splatoon.

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Culture · Splatoon through Splatoon 3

The Calamari Inkantation

The Squid Sisters' signature song is more than a pop hit. It weakened DJ Octavio, reached the Octarian domes, and inspired a generation of Octolings to leave.

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Faces of the turf