News: Bethesda's big RPG series gets the novel treatment.
Bethesda Softworks has announced that two novels are in the works based on their popular RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The novels will be published by Del Rey (the same publisher that handles the Halo and Gears of War novels), with the first set to appear in bookstores in Fall 2009.
The first novel will be written by Greg Keyes, who previously wrote the Age of Unreason tetralogy and three novels in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series. The novel, The Elder Scrolls: The Infernal City will be set after the events of The Elder Scrolls IV:
The Infernal City is set after the events of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the latest game in the video game series, and finds the citizens of Tamriel once again facing an uncertain future. Floating high above the land is a strange and mysterious city that is casting a horrifying shadow Ц wherever it falls, people die and rise again as undead. It is up to an unlikely duo Ц a seventeen-year-old girl named Annaig and the Emperor's young son, Prince Attrebus Ц to rescue the kingdom from doom. Annaig and Attrebus' quest will take them through the Elder Scrolls universe and their adventure is sure to add to the series' already magnificent mythology.