The Art of the Mass Effect Universe EDI and Prothean images leaked

A fan has already gotten his copy of The Art of the Mass Effect Universe and scanned pages showing concept art for EDI and The Prothean.

[ColdAssassin]

We are told every single prothean is dead for 2 games and now there is one alive?

[reznik_zerosum]

making up as they go,that how it works,bioware.
It looks so random lol

[Megaton]

ME1: Protheans are dead.
ME2: Protheans are Collectors!
ME3: Protheans are still alive!

[markbob]

It looks like we will be finding a Prothean in deep status on some random world

[markbob]

i meant deep stasis

[MidnightSpecial]

Cool. The final part is going to be awesome - there are bound to be some shocks and surprises lined up

[DarkBlood]

its going to be funny to see joker and edi interaction lol and

i can sort of tell some similiarity between the prothean and what they were turned into which name escapes me

[ASDK1230]

Collectors :)

[OmegaSlayer]

Pre ordered the book :)

[ASDK1230]

I really like the drastic change they made with EDI.
The version in the scan just reminded me of an Asari.

Much better being a little floaty holographic octopus

[AntiProton]

Even if someone did get their copy of the book this early by some fluke in a shipping process somewhere which have probably lead to multiple articles being written up on the content of the book already.

I just find it interesting these art books and the information contained in them are slated to be released before the actual game.(Have seen various release dates on these books) So the knowledge of a possible prothean crew member or other minor / major spoilers would have been mostly common knowledge even before people play the game, like bioware did with Ashley and Kaidan on a certain topic.

As a small sidenote. Probably over thinking this one!!!

The blurbs in the pictures do not specifically state that EDI nor the Prothean are in ME3 in those shapes or forms (If at all in the Prothean case) and the article is just assuming that they are. Yes, the wording on the blurbs do strongly suggest it if you look at it from that angle. Those pictures could easily have been some original concept art and things were changed around during development. Since no one actually knows what the Protheans looked like before their unfortunate demise, maybe Bioware decided to include some of their original art into the book for interests sake.

At the end of the day, perhaps it is just another marketing ploy by Bioware to get more people to buy the game. For the sake of argument and the article is right right in their assumptions, i am certainly looking forward to seeing EDI new form! Did not really like her holographic form all that much.