There have been Warcraft games, comics, novels, artbooks and soon a live-action movie. Now, Blizzard has announced yet another way for fans to experience the world of Azeroth: in a new youth book series.
Called World of Warcraft: Traveler, the series features a young cast of characters discovering the mysteries of the world around them. The star of the book will be a new character of Eren, the son of one of Azeroth's most famous explorers. After a shipwreck leaves Eren stranded, he will have to find his way home with the help of his magic compass and his trusty sketchbook.
It's an exciting premise for a youth book series, but even more exciting is the talent behind it. Comic book writer and producer Greg Weisman (famous for his work on Young Justice and The Spectacular Spider-Man) will be writing the novels, while full-page sketches and illustrations in the book will be provided by Blizzard artist Samwise Didier.
"One of the things that's great about World of Warcraft in general and one of the things that attracted me to the project without a doubt is that there's so much there, it's so large, the world is so rich," Weisman says. "There may be some big expansion going on in the game over here, but our story starts out much smaller than that."
Blizzard is teaming up with Scholastic for the project, which relied on the publisher's history and expertise in the youth fiction field to help make World of Warcraft: Traveler a reality.
"You don't have to know what a Tauren is, because you're going to learn it with Eren," Weisman says. "That allows a newcomer to also learn about this. So it reaches both the hardcore fan and the noobie. I want this to be a book that someone who has been playing World of Warcraft for 10 years will go 'that is the book I've been waiting for. This is a story set in this world that really gets what World of Warcraft is.
The first hardcover book in the series is expected to arrive in November of 2016.
