Blood Ties by Golden will be dropping the 18th. A fun family adventure killing demons and patching a family back together while discovering more about themselves.
Place your bets now! What are the worst Goldenisms can we expect from this one? Can we beat Light undead and brittle hands? Will Arator out Anduin Anduin? Did the Blood Elves betray the Alliance? Tune in next time for the release of the next Golden novel!
well, we know that Metzen is definitely back in charge, full stop.
cause we’re getting Christie Golden novels before the expansion again.
I thought she had gotten fired or something?
She is no longer formally employed by Blizzard/was fired. Instead, it seems has gone back to her previous relationship to them as a contracted author.
Arator sporting a mullet now, with white lightning tattoos? Is he a walking euphemism for moonshiner now, haha?
according to that one short story we got about Alleria before TWW, they are supposed to be Dragons. one Light, one Void.
Oh. Oh no. Oh no!
Eh, I’ll just read the cliff notes. I haven’t been interested in reading any of the novels since War Crimes. I’m especially just not interested in any of the main characters being featured in this one.
Arator is He Who Comes With The Dawn.
or something.
I wonder who this former lieutenant of the Burning Legion will be and if this could be a sign of demon activity in Midnight.
Knowing the author, Arator is just going to be a copy of Anduin, just with more references to the shape of his ears.
“…Arator turned his head at once, his sharpened ears listening carefully…”
“…he bowed his head to Jaina, and his hair fell loose, exposing his pointed ears and half-elven heritage…”
“…Arator flinched as his mother swiftly grabbed him by the tip of his ear, keeping him in place while she scolded him…”
But otherwise, it’s going to be Half-Elf Anduin with a troubled Windrunner mother. Expect him to be soft on the subject of his Aunt Sylvanas, and completely ignore his other Aunt Vereesa’s past actions.
That Arator piece just screams “expansion hero” and good lord is that not what Midnight needs. I guess his armor is appreciably more Thalassian than the blue and argent crusader cosplay I figured he’d be rocking.
Blood elves being ignored again. Even in an expansion set in their lands they don’t Matter.
lol
Even when the expansion is based around a Horde capital city it’s still all about Alliance.
That’s not News Blizzard refuses to write Horde Stories
He sees both of his parents in himself: his father’s high standards, his mother’s intellect,
This is also hilarious. Didn’t his dad help torture a troll? And his mom is one of the dumbest characters in the franchise.
The cover makes it look like we’ll get a peek at modern Outland. Other than the draenei heritage quest, we really haven’t revisited that setting at all.
That’s kind of exciting
I got the same impression, and it was not a happy revelation. Half expecting the stupid Child of Light and Shadow thread from Illidan/Legion to rear its groan inducing head again.
The Light/naaru will pick literally anyone but draenei to be leaders. Anduin, Turalyon, Illidan, possibly Arator.
Guess I should just accept draenei will be irrelevant in Midnight since the Arathi are taking over the void fighting prophecy storyline.
That would be cool and it would fit the location of an old Legion base.
I think Draenei will make a good showing due to the Sunwell, but doubtful as an A-lister like Alleria or Anduin. And to be brutally honest, that is a good thing for Draenei. “A-Lister” is shorthand for “We are going to ignore the character as written and reimagine them as another hokey, bland, copy-paste.”