MK also wrote some of the second PGE.

Codswallop.

Really???
Out of ALL of Nirn that can be explored, you want Vvardenfell???
*Sigh*

Well, some of it could be there. The only reason I don't want all of Tamriel for TESV is technical limitations, so in a book, where the only limits are those in the minds f the writer and readers, they could have it all.

Yeah, you didn't approve it, you just leaked it.

That would be so freaking cool.

As someone who never got a chance to play Redguard, I want to see some sload!

Well, there is a flying prison.

Halo has almost a dozen novels in its expanded universe. So don't get your hopes up too high.

(Incidentally, with the exception of one or two, the Halo novels are much more excellent than you would expect. Apparently there is some really cool ideas behind the Haloverse, and they just couldn't portray them properly through an adreniline-fueled FPS)

Everyone brings up the damn jail. And they're all right, that a god, however he came to be that way, is lifting up a big rock he claims to be a third, tiner moon.

as for the halo books, they really are quite good. I do like Halo very much, and it does a very good job of fleshing out what we see in the games and gives the world more character. The difference being that Tamriel already has quite a bit.

For those unbeknowest, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345508017/ref=s9_simz_gw_s0_p14_t1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0KYPZ0A1XYHKB88TDV2F&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846 has been released. Lookes fairly sixy, the buildings atop the rock seem (to me, at least) Dwemeri in appearance.

Do they all meet in a tavern at the beginning of the book?

I'm sorry, Ted. I respect your work. What are all my errors, specifically?

I would say so. It also seems to, at least as far as the cover goes, share the melancholy aesthetic of Morrowind. But then, book by it's cover and all that.

As for the new synopsis, I'm glad we get spies and conspiracies, but as for this Umbriel city, I get worried a bit. Not that it won't be done well if the past is any indication, but I always say "TES has lore to be used." But if it winds up being well done, then cool. This is just me rambling about how there are plenty of pre-existing mysterious threats in the lore to use. But then, nothing ventured nothing gained.

Wow, it's pretty impressive. I was expecting some colorful stylized drawing of the characters like in a Warcraft novel (I just finished re-reading the original Trilogy [Last Guardian, Lord of the Clans, etc.] and forgot how good they were, much better than what the games explore), but this is very similar to the art direction of Morrowind (and some of the concept art of Daggerfall). You can't judge a book by its cover, I know, but it looks far more professional than I had expected.

Nice to know that the hysteria over the last blurb inspired the creation of a *cough* better one. Any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

And Umbriel?

Well, if you read the blurb on his own books then read them, the having Umbriel labeled as unambiguously evil in the blurb dosen't amount to much. But then, this isn't his series on the whole.

Which brings up this point: we don't know what he knows. Earlier posts have said that one of the writers of the 1st PGE is overseeing, but what does that entail? Has keyes played the games? which ones? Has he visited TIL or read the books in-game? Does he lurk around here listening to what we have to say when we dissect the lore? We don't know (although think it's safe to assume the last one dosen't happen). As such, we don't know if he thinks TES is supposed to be a bland set of total, virtuous good vs. ancient, monstrous evil with no in-betweens. I hope he figures out that TES isn't supposed to be that way.

I'm in a mean-spirited mood, so I'm going to point out that after viewing the Infernal City page, most customers bought a Gears of War novel.

All I can say is that after reading halfway through Keyes' series "The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone", he's no "Gears of War" novelization hack. The Amazon description of the Infernal City novel sounds similar to Keyes' earlier writing -- a group of mismatched adventurers who have more depth than the LOTR cliches you see.

I'd just figure that being general "gamers who read." Since fantasy and sci-fi tend to go hand-in-hand in the public eye, it's no surprise to me someone would view a page about a fantasy game book then buy a sci-fi game book.

well, shall we wait for either an online preview along the lines of a readable prologue or see if someone in the know puts up something to give some background on Umbriel?

Also, if anyone's worried about Umbriel being evil, think of it this way: In T&B

PS: 11% isn't most.

They meant plurality.

And spoiler tag me the end of the Briar King series. I never got past Charnel Prince.

Sweet. I'm hyped!

Does anyone know exactly how "Tamriel" translates to "Dawn's Beauty?" (Or "Starry Heart," whichever is more applicable.) I know it seems like an irrelevant question, but I want to be sure what the "-riel" bit means in the name "Umbriel." Unless it was just chosen for sounding appropriately TES-ish.

"Riel" is "Beauty". Bosriel, for example, is "Forest's Beauty".
So Umbriel may be something like "Shadow Beauty".

Thanks. That's what thinking, but I'm never sure of anything.

Yes, because "Umbr", taken from "Umbra", actually means shadow in Latin I believe.

I found this in the wikipedia: "Umbriel is the 'dusky melancholy sprite' in Alexander Pope's The [censored] of the Lock, and the name suggests the Latin umbra, shadow. The adjectival form of the name is Umbrielian."