It was more a hyperbole to be perfectly honest, but yet my point still stands. When I read the novels everything always feels so compressed, so small. It reads like it was solely written for WoW-players without any imagination. I mean let’s take a look at some official artwork:
Just look at the island of Quel’danas. It looks like an entire palace and city was build around the Sunwell. The harbor, the waterfalls, the giant monuments for heroes or important persons. The scale is absolutely monumental.
Or Stormwind. We can clearly recognize the Cathedral Square, hell even the shop looks exactly like it does ingame including the masonry. And yet behind the cathedral we have this entire housing area and it’s actually quite a walk to reach the harbor.
And Teldrassil…yeah…I don’t think I have to say something about Teldrassil.
However Blizzard never reaches this type of scaling in the novels (I gave some examples already) or in other media. The Burning of Teldrassil is probably a good example with demolishers shooting across the sea…even though even ingame with maxed graphics I can barely see the tree so it doesn’t even add up ingame.
(Although to be fair: The Battle for Azeroth cinematics do capture the monumental scale quite well. Lordaeron or the scene in the Stormwind Harbor.)
ah okay I get what you mean. But yes she does condense the events to be more character focused that the broader conflicts. Its why the writing of the tides of Darkness felt better as it gave a far better scope of battles.
I loved this novel as well. the dragons are my favorite part of the lore of Warcraft. most fantasy novels cast dragons as greedy, gold hording, violent and evil. the idea of most dragons being the exact opposite is something i find very intriguing. i have also read the other dragon novels: Night of the Dragon, Day of the Dragon, Twilight of the Aspects, and the War of the Ancients. i loved them all, some more then others obviously.
when i found out that the warcraft writers had decided that the dragons can no longer reproduce it bothered me so much. someone else on the forum asked for a “breather” expansion sort of like MoP. you know, not a Main Storyline expansion. i hope that the next expac is about saving the dragons. i would love to see more of their lore, past, present and future.
not to shamelessly plug my own not very good writing but i have an idea on how to save them that i have started as fanfiction in the worlds end tavern forum. its called The Orc and the Dragon.
anyway its good to see that other people like the Dawn of the Aspects too.
EDIT: oops, didn’t check the dates. sorry for the topic necro. totally not intentional.
I really liked Illidan because the characters were written like people instead of plot pieces. I also really enjoyed how they fleshed out magic in the novel; ritual magic is way cooler in the Illidan novel than it is anywhere else in Warcraft.
Its really nice written. And ifc I love Kael and Vashj… Outland it’s described really good … and the Book answers many questions wich I had after playing for first time TBC.
War Crimes because of the interview Christie Golden did where she proudly announced that she deep dived into the Nuremburg Trials to write it.
She did in depth study, according to her, on the Trials of the N*zi Generals from WW2 and her take away from it was that the Allied Forces were just as guilty as the Unrepent War Criminals and a higher power should have intervened to teach them this lesson.
Really ties together well with Before the Storm painting Sylvanas as a parallel to Hillary Clinton, given it came out during the 2016 election, with her pride in being the First Female Warchief (President) while also partaking in book burning to erase the forskaen’s past and then going off to become an Unrepentant War Criminal herself.
