World of Warcraft Announces Exploring Azeroth: Northrend Via Amazon Listing
World of Warcraft has been no stranger to new product announcements in the last couple of weeks. Recently, World of Warcraft revealed the location of the next entry in theExploring Azeroth book series: the frozen continent of Northrend.
Exploring Azeroth: Northrend is being written by Alex Acks, award-winning science fiction and fantasy author. They have written for Blizzard in the past, with the Starcraft II short stories, One People, One Purpose and another found in the Nature of the Beast comic series. However, Exploring Azeroth: Northrend is their first time writing for World of Warcraft.
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The book itself will explore the northern continent of Northrend, subject of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Like its predecessors, Exploring Azeroth: Northrend will be narrated by beloved Warcraft characters–this time, readers will have the “expert guidance of Clan Bronzebeard” to rely on. Considering Muradin and Brann Bronzebeard have strong narrative ties to Northrend, it is more than likely they will be the main narrators, but it is possible their elder brother, Magni, could appear as well.
The first Exploring Azeroth book, written by author Christie Golden, examined the Eastern Kingdoms, and it was widely considered to be a delightful lore dive into the original continent of Warcraft. However, Exploring Azeroth: Kalimdor was not well-received. The tome, written by Blizzard’s historian supervisor Sean Copeland, was full of historical errors and inconsistencies in characterization. What’s worse, the book relied heavily on outdated, racist stereotypes that enraged and disappointed many fans.
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