http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Souls-Elder-Scrolls-Novel/dp/0345508025

Were you guys aware of this? It's a buy for me. I enjoyed the last book, The Elder Scrolls: The Infernal City.

http://www.amazon.com/Elder-Scrolls-Infernal-City/dp/0345508017/ref=pd_sim_b_2

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Nice, the first novel was pretty good, with the exception of the ending (in my opinion).

Excellent, I loved reading about one of my favorite fictional series and curious about the situation in Tamriel after 200 years for Oblivion.

Oh wow I hope this is true. What the heck is it going to be about.

Hmmm I liked the first one but..

It was not great, and certainly not that great as to take that long to knock out another one.
I'll buy it but I don't know, so much seemed to be Beth designed to fill in the gaps between the games.
Rather than a original novel, written by someone free to write without heavy editing and guide lines imo.
I can't put this in a nice way sorry to say ( really I am ), but it was forced and really short in the most part.

Releasing this second book as a second book, and so long after the other just feels wrong to me somehow.

I just cant get into fantasy novels anymore. If Im going to read something the furthest I'd go is a book like The Road; otherwise I'd rather read something that pertains to the real world. Especially non-fiction or autobiographies.

Cool story bro.

OK what part of TES is destroyed now?

better finish the first one got 3/4 through then I forgot about it

I'm not really a book guy but I read the first one and it wasn't bad. I'll definitely get this one as well.

I really wasn't fussed about buying the first one (not a massive fantasy reader), but I might get them both just to tide me over until the actual game comes out.

lol, I'm the opposite, unless it's about something completely out-there and wonderfully weird I can't get into it. Find it immensly boring reading about the real world for the most part (unless its non fiction).

As for the novel, I haven't read the first one yet, but I get the impression unless I'm very good with the lore, I might be a bit lost. Is that a fair assumption?

I think that's a very accurate assumption. The first book was a very specific story that was simply "to be continued...". It would be a bad idea to pick up a story in the middle.

There are a few threads about this in TES General discussion, but on the whole, I liked the first one, I'll buy this one. I also like the author as a whole, he's very talented.

I might be getting it, but I hope another province doesn't get destroyed. :tongue:

cool. they're releasing the title on my birthday.

All those with teh weirdnz n alleeyunness. Black Marsh, Elsewyr, Valenwood, Summerset Isle, Pyandonea, Akavir...

Ya no, all teh kewl onez; them must be gone 4 the sake of conformity and convenience for them gaem designerz.

edit: oh you said TES, I thought t'was Tamriel.

Then all dem Daedric Princes be ded 4 good also. Sweetrolls yall.

I wouldn't say anything was destroyed by the first book, can't see why the second one would do so. As for Morrowind going boom, they said that would happen way back in Morrowind the Game.

I just love the titles. "Lord of Souls." Seriously, cranked out of a machine in some gygaxian publishing house.

Next up: Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings.

I like the titles from actual Elderscrolls books, like, Mixed Infantry Tactics; Vol III, or A Brief History of the Empire, The 36 Lessons of Vivec. Okay, so maybe the Mixed Infantry Tactics is a little dry, but something not as overblown as "Lord of Souls."

Gosh I know that Greg Keyes somewhere around but don't really know thats are you.
I really must purchase new book seems thats really new Age begin with such destructions caused.
Does Alduin already eat all, even heroes of past and future cant stop him?

You went back and edit this? Spelling corrections?

Alduin had no mention in the first book at least. But generally new Ages in TES start with big events. The fall of the Septims and destruction of Morrowind seems a fitting way to go about it.

As I would say it in trollspeak (just like in my previous post): lern 2 read comprhensun tard lol
I kid. T'was a jest

By the way I'm wondering if any implications from the whole Umbriel ordeal would have more direct impact to the back story of Skyrim. Other than the weakening of the Empire, of course.

Already got my copy pre-ordered on Amazon, too. Keyes is one of the better writers working today, and I wasn't disappointed with the first novel one scintilla.



The main reason for the almost-two-year-long gap between books is largely because J. Gregory Keyes also has his own original fiction to concentrate upon; the occasional shared-universe tie-in series is something that he does only occasionally, and only when he feels absolutely passionate about the material. The second novel will be arriving just in time to tie into the upcoming game release, in November.



Keep in mind too that these novels are also being written with the notion of attracting non-gamers in mind -- someone who's never even played an Elder Scrolls game before, who sees it on the bookstore shelf, and is "grabbed" by either the title, the author's reputation, and/or second-hand knowledge of the actual game franchise proper.

In which case, a title like "Lord of Souls" is just the thing to hook and reel them in.



Very likely, for the first book, Keyes was given information concerning the Titus Mede ascension, the fracturing of the Empire, and stuff like the destruction of Morrowind, but at that point TES V itself was still in the design stages, and the Alduin-stuff not yet relevant to that particular novel.

The next one, though? Perhaps.