Not only will our friend and the king of Stormwind (and my heart) Varian Wrynn be getting his own novel soon, but said novel will also be released as an audiobook. Richard Knaak's
Wolfheart will not just be released as a novel, but
also as a recording with special effects, in-game sounds and narration. The novel is scheduled to be released Sept. 13, 2011, and the audiobook is expected not long after.
Are you excited? I'm excited! I'm actually looking forward to seeing how King Varian and the Worgen, especially their king Genn Greymane, interact in this book. Thanks to BlizzPlanet for the heads up!
Tags: Audiobook, books, genn, genn-greymane, Knaak, Novel, Richard-Knaak, Varian, Varian-Wrynn, wolfheart
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Sep 1st 2011 at 8:00PM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
I-R-PALADIN? Sep 1st 2011 8:01PM
oooooh i hope i can get it on amazon :)
I-R-PALADIN? Sep 1st 2011 8:03PM
wooo im on the first page of comments havent had that in like 2 years... nobody sees your coments past the 2nd page... so many times i wished i could comment but.. oh wells
Swifteye Sep 1st 2011 8:10PM
Though my heart belongs to the Horde now and forever, I've always thought Varian Wrynn was a fascinating character and was excited to hear about this book...
... for about three seconds, until I heard about who was writing it. Stab me with a freakin' melon baller... *sigh*
Amaxe Sep 1st 2011 11:26PM
Does this mean we get to hear all about Varian's orbs?
Swifteye Sep 1st 2011 11:38PM
*twitch*..... dammit people..... if you keep activating that eye tic over and over, I'm gonna look like Popeye before I hit 40.....
DeathPaladin Sep 2nd 2011 6:57AM
Don't you mean that orb tic?
Ed Sep 1st 2011 8:17PM
Varian spun around and suddenly found himself face-to-face with a vicious and hostile orc.
"Hyeh!" he said, aggroing the orc.
Murdertime Sep 1st 2011 9:17PM
Their swords clashed, as they entered into a battle from which only one of them could emerge alive
Not Enough Rage
Not Enough Rage
I can't do that yet
Not Enough Rage
I can't do that yet
totemdeath Sep 1st 2011 9:54PM
As the battle progressed, they fought furiously, muscled bodies dripping with sweat. As thier swords clashed in close quarters, their eyes locked. They looked upon each other as if they forgot why they were there to begin with. After what seem an eternity, Varian finally whispers "If I said you had a good body, would you hold it against me?'
soup of the day Sep 1st 2011 10:23PM
@Murdertime
As a warrior, I can't up-vote this enough.
Well played Sir.
Philster043 Sep 2nd 2011 4:19AM
@ Murdertime, brilliant post.
Gaurisk Sep 1st 2011 8:26PM
"I just want to study," Jaina sighed.
Then the Raptor Army ate devoured her.
Ice Sep 1st 2011 9:01PM
And Rhonin went back in time to make deal with raptor army to not eat jaina in the future by giving them cookies. Jaina is needed in future to make varian go worgen and full of fleas.
Then rhonin with hes glittering eyes was made king of stormwind.
Mike Reg Sep 1st 2011 8:42PM
Can see this now, a knaak book, yet another alliance heavy book with more demonizing of the horde as the evil lord of the rings rip off characters, which is all knaak is able to do with these characters.
To him, good guys are always humans, elves and all alliance races, well all horde are mindless savages. Now the funny thing is people say Christie golden is a horde fangirl, but she actully writes the alliance with a level of integrity in her books, well Knaak just seems to skim over anything to do with the horde. He's a boring writer and I can't stand his books.
cloudhopper013 Sep 1st 2011 8:44PM
I don't read the books, but as a lover of literacy and a (so I've been told) talented writer (I say talented instead of avid because, like it or not, I don't actually write as much as I'd like to), I absolutely ADORE hearing about Knaak's silly follies, perhaps for the same reason that I love reading blacked out comments and FMLs. However, I have yet to hear anybody cite something ridiculous from -this- book.
So can anybody tell me - what sort of ridiculous, mockery-ripe things have been written in this book, if anything? Or has Knaak cleaned up his game?
And I mean -besides- his over all writing style. That is, things such as refusing to describe eyes as just plain "eyes."
Maymer Sep 1st 2011 8:56PM
The book has yet to be released. HOWEVER, if the Stormrage novel is any indication, I am prepared to forever see of Varian as non-saveable.
Seriously, I love Varian. I think Blizz kinda dropped the ball on him when they introduced him to the game, because the comics were wonderful. I just wish they had the wonderful and always talented Christie Golden to write him. She did such a marvelous job giving Arthas some FANTASTIC character as well as Jaina in "Arthas", and don't get me even started how the latest Thrall book was so good, I practically read it for 12 hours straight before realizing I had work in three hours.
Knaak is...well...he has a KNACK for making interesting characters unappealing. His take on Malfurion made him look like a troubled Superboy, when Malfurion was alway confident and strong in game. Tyrande just seemed to take a back seat, and Rhonin was...well....Rhonin is to Knaak what Batman is to Frank Miller.
After reading an excerpt from the novel, I am concerned they are just going to show RAGEFACE VARIAN RAWR!!! instead of going into great detail about his conflicting personalities and feelings. Oh well....I'll probably buy it cause I'll pray Knaak finally got some since into him when it comes to developing characters.
Seth Sep 1st 2011 8:57PM
As much as people want to rag on Knaak, Blizzard approves of the books before they are released. So if your beef is with Mary Sue's or a ridiculous raptor army, direct your nerdrage to Blizzard.
I have to wonder as well, those who trash Knaak... do they think Tolkien was the master of all authors? If so, I have a few things to say about that :)
Drakkenfyre Sep 1st 2011 9:13PM
From someone who worked in a company that wrote books, and had dealings with Blizzard's book tie-in branch, he said that they have seriously scaled back the freedom authors have, and didn't quite like Knaak's original treatment. The only reason they went with it was to keep the "the books are canon" thing up, which had already been announced.
They apparantly didn't like it anymore than other people did.
Brutal Man Sep 1st 2011 9:39PM
@Seth
Time travel is one of the worst literary resources, next to long lost brothers and parallel dimensions (see: DC or Marvel).
@Drakkenfyre
That really contradicts the fact that they keep hiring him.
Swifteye Sep 1st 2011 9:41PM
I couldn't give two flips about Knaack's "Mary Sues" or raptor armies or what-have-you... my main beef is with the fact that the man's prose makes me want to gargle Drano.
How can I even describe his writing style? It just feels so clunky, stilted, unnatural... it's like a teenager trying to write a fanfic, with "good-ish" sentence structure but nothing to write home about, kind of rambly at times but forgivable enough, and then they go "Oh crap, I need this to sound more grown up!" so they cram in a metric assload of painfully-more-"artsy"-than-necessary words at completely bizarre intervals and it... just... doesn't... work...
Yeah... my own grammar and sentence structure in that last paragraph were fairly crap, but *I'm* not getting paid for this.