Jaina Proudmoore: The Tides of War
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 1:26 am
By Christie (the not shit one) Golden.
I read this today, took about 7 hours or so, it's not a big book, plus it's a World of Warcraft tie-in novel so really they aren't hard tomes to digest.
Usually the books from the Alliance perspective bore the tits off me, I'm and probably always will be a Horde Fan boi.
These books are always weird, because they come out before the expansion but BETA has been out for at least 6 months so ... MMO-Champ datamined the destruction of Theramore an Jaina's new white haired model, a long ass time ago. They even had the audio files of the dungeon(scenario, whatever) ages before it was even opened up for testing never mind live (which happens next week).
So the book has to live in the gaps of our knowledge and what we see in game, which sounds boring and extremely hard. I think it does a pretty good job of making it entertaining. It's always quite weird in the game why there are all these heroes that just never appear or do anything. In game in was 2 years before Thrall/Go'el even left Grommash Hold, and even that was just to dander to the Orc Homeworld, say hi and then go home.
Obviously, the books have a limited character make up too and there are several that don't appear but they do a good job of bringing together quite a lot. There is quite a large chunk that's dedicated to the moderate elements in the Horde that are increasingly disturbed by Garrosh's increasing stupidity and madness. Baine and Vo'jin get loads of 'screen time' which is awesome because they are both characters that interest me.
I think Garrosh is just a fucking retarded character, he's now and almost cartoonish badguy they had to invent a new Blackrock Clan lackey that he hacks around, that served under Rend, just so you know he's really evil. There is just massive mood whiplash from how we first saw him. Here's a rough time line;
TBC: Nagrand - Emo about never joining in the great war and being shit on by the Fel-orc's for being in a weak clan that never joined the invasion. Ashamed of his Father, who cursed all orc's by drinking the demon blood of Mannoroth.
Then Thrall comes and tells him all about his dad, Grom and how in the end he gave his life to defeat the Pit Lord and free'd all the orc's from the madness, he died a hero of the Horde. (This was cool Click here to view the YouTube video. Click here again to hide it. )
Wotlk: Ogrimmar/ Borean Tundra/ Icecrown: hot headed overconfident young orc that is headstrong but inspires his trooops.
Cata: Orgrimar? loads of places/
I read this today, took about 7 hours or so, it's not a big book, plus it's a World of Warcraft tie-in novel so really they aren't hard tomes to digest.
Usually the books from the Alliance perspective bore the tits off me, I'm and probably always will be a Horde Fan boi.
These books are always weird, because they come out before the expansion but BETA has been out for at least 6 months so ... MMO-Champ datamined the destruction of Theramore an Jaina's new white haired model, a long ass time ago. They even had the audio files of the dungeon(scenario, whatever) ages before it was even opened up for testing never mind live (which happens next week).
So the book has to live in the gaps of our knowledge and what we see in game, which sounds boring and extremely hard. I think it does a pretty good job of making it entertaining. It's always quite weird in the game why there are all these heroes that just never appear or do anything. In game in was 2 years before Thrall/Go'el even left Grommash Hold, and even that was just to dander to the Orc Homeworld, say hi and then go home.
Obviously, the books have a limited character make up too and there are several that don't appear but they do a good job of bringing together quite a lot. There is quite a large chunk that's dedicated to the moderate elements in the Horde that are increasingly disturbed by Garrosh's increasing stupidity and madness. Baine and Vo'jin get loads of 'screen time' which is awesome because they are both characters that interest me.
I think Garrosh is just a fucking retarded character, he's now and almost cartoonish badguy they had to invent a new Blackrock Clan lackey that he hacks around, that served under Rend, just so you know he's really evil. There is just massive mood whiplash from how we first saw him. Here's a rough time line;
TBC: Nagrand - Emo about never joining in the great war and being shit on by the Fel-orc's for being in a weak clan that never joined the invasion. Ashamed of his Father, who cursed all orc's by drinking the demon blood of Mannoroth.
Then Thrall comes and tells him all about his dad, Grom and how in the end he gave his life to defeat the Pit Lord and free'd all the orc's from the madness, he died a hero of the Horde. (This was cool Click here to view the YouTube video. Click here again to hide it. )
Wotlk: Ogrimmar/ Borean Tundra/ Icecrown: hot headed overconfident young orc that is headstrong but inspires his trooops.
Cata: Orgrimar? loads of places/