Christie Golden talks about Arthas, Rise of the Lich King

by Mike Schramm Oct 17th 2008 at 3:30PM

Our friend Medievaldragon (of Blizzplanet, who's now posting occasionally over on World of War) got a chance to talk to author Christie Golden at BlizzCon last weekend. She's working on a book about Arthas (which has a title now: "Rise of the Lich King"), and she chatted with MD about what kind of lore fun is going to be in those pages.

The book starts with Arthas as a ten-year-old prince, and then obviously follows his path through what we saw in Warcraft III, including all of that bad business at Quel'Thalas, and Arthas' past with Jaina and Kael'thas (you don't think Blizzard would bring KT back again in WotLK, do you?). Golden promises some good looks as the High Elves, too -- "two very pivotal characters are elven," she says. Including Sylvanas? We can only hope.

The book's due out in April, sounds like it'll be a good read, for Arthas fans especially.

Tags: author, blizzcon, blizzplanet, christie-golden, interview, jaina, kael-thas, novels, rise-of-the-lich-king, world-of-war

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Lore, BlizzCon, Wrath of the Lich King

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Morhos Oct 17th 2008 3:46PM

Haven't read her Warcraft stuff, but her Star Trek stuff was terrible. Writing and dialogue was out of character. Bluh...

AdmiralSnackbar Oct 17th 2008 3:54PM

Her Warcraft stories are solid gold. Lord of the Clans and Rise of the Horde are awesome.

Her StarCraft seems a bit fanfictionish but it's not too shabby.

She RPs on Shadow Council and is a genuinely nice lady. More Golden! More!

Rfonai Oct 17th 2008 4:26PM

Hopefully she will introduce us some interesting new characters too.

Baluki Oct 17th 2008 4:36PM

Papyrus? In all caps? They need to fire their cover designer.

Morhos Oct 17th 2008 5:08PM

Papyrus is a plague upon the world.

RetPallyJil Oct 17th 2008 5:42PM

First, if that's the final cover art, I like it a lot.

Second, I'm really looking forward to reading it.

Third, as many times as Blizzard wants to shock us with "You open the door and you see ... Kael'thas!!!!!!" is ok with me. I love that guy.

Taytayflan Oct 18th 2008 1:10AM

I can see Kael'thas being the 2009 WOTLK Headless Horseman.

RetPallyJil Oct 17th 2008 5:43PM

Relax. I don't think the Papyrus is the final text. That's probably a mock-up.

At least, it is to be hoped.

Sam Oct 17th 2008 7:27PM

Bah, why do we have to get novels over stuff that's already covered pretty much in the games. The books should be with characters we don't see that much in the games.

Ron Oct 18th 2008 4:37AM

Oh yes! I cannot get enough of Mary Sue Rhonin! Let's have Dick Nak write more stories about him(self)

Keyra Oct 18th 2008 4:57PM

Why did I suddenly get the urge to write a piece of fanfiction about Jhordi Lapforge? ;-)

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