Elder Scrolls novels: yay or nay?

[xoxoxlovestinksxoxox]

I'm a bit surprised I haven't spotted this mentioned around here yet. Greg Keyes, writer of three Star Wars books and the Age of Unreason Tetrology, has been chosen by Bethesda to write two Elder Scrolls books. The first is called The Infernal City and should be out this fall. Google can give more details. A lot of game-related sites have picked this up.

What do you think? Will you read them? Heard of this guy? Is he any good?

Personally, I'm curious. I plan to get the first one out of curiousity. It was pretty funny to hear about it, though, due to the amount of in-game reading material. They may not be the same as a full-length novel, but by the time you put together the longer series, suchas A Dance in Fire and up...

[The Khajiits of the nine]

I was just looking on his website and he doesn't look like a bad author actually. I think it would either be really really awesome or suck bad. I might also get the first one out of curiosity, judging by the title it sounds like it might be about an Ayleid Ruin so it should be good. Lets wait and see...

[Young Dragon]

Yay... I hope.

[DM8954]

I'm guessing that they'll be using these books as a tie-in with the release of TESV. I don't know how fast he writes or when he started but maybe the first book will come out before the game and the second will come slightly after? Dunno. Just wild speculation on my part.

I'm not much of a reader, though, so I doubt I'll get it.

Personally, I just want to see all the reference material they must have provided him about the world of Tamriel that hasn't even been introduced in-game yet. He's just been let in on many big secrets I only wish I knew!

[xoxoxlovestinksxoxox]

Khajiits, I think it's about a floating city or something. I hope he can make that work. Haha. I also hope you're right about him being good.
DM8954, I didn't think of that. Maybe he will reveal those secrets in the books? (And it would be sweet if TESV is released that soon.)

[DM8954]

Well, I figure 3-5 years to make the game (they may or may not have started already) and 1-3 years to write a book... but maybe I'm way off about how long such things take.

I doubt that all secrets will be revealed but I'm sure fans will be able to gain new insight into certain aspects of the world by the details that are revealed.

[xoxoxlovestinksxoxox]

Actually, I believe I saw that the book will be out this fall, but I could be thinking of something else. I don't see how they do mthings like this with a deadline. I hope the quality doesn't suffer. (That's what I'm really afraid of, overall. Mistakes like that have been made before, by other companies.)

[The Khajiits of the nine]

I hope the quality doesn't suffer. (That's what I'm really afraid of, overall. Mistakes like that have been made before, by other companies.)

And they suffer bad...

But has it occured to anyone that they could of already finished or be close to finishing the book, yet only just announced it. That is probably highly likely, because Bethesda are probably halfway through their next TES game (maybe) yet they haven't announced anything about it yet.

[pooshoe]

As an Elder Scrolls fan I'll have to buy it even if i dont read it, Just for the Novelty

[Platinum]

I would say yay! <- that rhymes.
Although I have no idea who the guy is........
Maybe I should read something else of his. If I dont like  him then I would say nay, like a horse.

[pooshoe]

THE books been released, Anybody read it yet? What do people think?

[pooshoe]

Ermm anyone read them... any goood... BUMP.

[DM8954]

I haven't read them but I hear good things.

It's set far in the future and sheds light on the direction(s) the next TES game might go. That's all pure speculation but I happen to find that fun by itself.

I'm not much of a reader so I probably won't be buying it.

[Igiss]

I think there's only one book right now, right?

Don't order one due to expensive international shipping, but I will as soon as I'll be able to - some good expectations on those novels since author is well-credited and shouldn't spoil the universe.

Novelizations don't usually impact "main" franchise (in this case, games). I doubt that novel storylines will affect games in any way other than mentions in books and rumors. Game designers will be interested in developing their own stories.

[DM8954]

That's a good point that I and many others haven't taken into account.

My thinking, however, was that these novels set a new foundation for a completely reimagined Tamriel set far in the future, beyond these novels. The many world-changing events described in the book already require the entire province of Morrowind to be completely changed if they ever make it into another game set after the novels. I have a feeling more changes are yet to come. Of course, the first novel happens to be set far enough into the future that they could trick us all and make the next game a prequel to the books.

I don't remember for sure, but I think Bethesda has said that the events in the book are 'canon'. It may still be as you say and the information in the books is merely mentioned, if it affects the game at all but I think there is an advantage of changing the world so completely. It would almost be like starting over and they'd be free to change the nature of countries, races, cultures, and many other things that would have been set in stone by earlier lore.

I agree that the events in the books will probably not happen at the same time as the next game(s).

[Platinum]

I have bought the Infernal City on amazon (took almost 3 weeks to  arrive) and so far it is quite good. Im not going to reveal anything though. As you probably already know most of  Morrowind has been destroyed   by the Ministry of Truth crashing into Vivec city due to Vivec's dissapearance. I learned quite a few things about Morrowind, Black Marsh and The Ministry of Truth. The book also revealed a bit about the hist, Khajiit and about what happened in Black Marsh during the Oblvion crisis,
which is something I would like the next game to be about albeit in Highrock.0

All in all I would recommend the book, though it is shorter than I expected (288 pages).

[patricia39]

Actually I just finished reading the series of this Elder Scrolls novels yesterday entitled "The Infernal City". I really enjoyed the basis of the story and how it fit in with the TES series. But I think I still need the ending of this series.