Each of the Warhammer lines are accompanied by a series of fiction. When a line ends, so do the novels and short stories that flesh it out. Alongside Warhammer: The Old World is the first novel in the revived line’s range: Lords of the Lance, a novel by Graham McNeill.
McNeill has written for Warhammer since the 2000s, with a particular relish for Warhammer’s fantasy world. Every time he’s written for that line was “a joy to write.”
What is this novel about?
The son of Baron Lothar Aquilena of the Border Princes has been taken hostage. Despite their bitter relationship, the Baron has called the debt of honour owed to him by Duke Carrard of Quenelles, and their uneasy alliance of warrior knights is forced to mount a treacherous expedition into the Land of the Dead, where kings and queens of old rest uneasy in their tombs, and life struggles to find purchase.
Warhammer Community
In an interview with Warhammer Community, McNeill described his excitement to return to writing this world.
The Old World has always held a special place in my heart, and I loved telling stories set in its grim and perilous landscapes. I’d always held out hope that I might one day go back there, so to write this inaugural novel of the setting’s return is pretty special. I have the rare privilege of introducing a whole new swathe of readers to the Old World, how cool is that?
…It’s been a hot minute since we saw the last novel set in the Old World, so the first challenge was getting back into the groove of what the setting was, the tone and tenor of it. Then it was all about reflecting that setting in a time that’s several centuries before we previously wrote in; so the lands are in various new states of war, kings and queens are not the same, what people know of the world is different, and more pertinently, magic is not codified as it will later become. This is in a time before the elves taught humans the various disciplines, so, while magic is still very present in the world, how it manifests and how people understand it is very different. And while Chaos is still very much a threat to the world, it’s not the immediate, it’s-on-your-doorstep threat it will become in later years. The threats in this age are very different but no less dangerous.
Graham McNeill
He is also full of ideas for more novels set in this world, exploring more elvish factions or continuing his series about the life and legends of Sigmar, founder of the Empire.
Graham McNeill
Like I said, I love the Old World as a setting for stories, and I’d love to do more novels. Lords of the Lance is potentially just the beginning of what some of these characters might have to face in their immediate future, and, yeah, there are loads of places I’d love to visit in future novels. I did three novels about the Elves, but never got around to the Dark Elves, and I’ve always hankered after a full-bore novel set in the Empire, since the stories I told of that realm were those concerning its legendary founder, Sigmar…
Lord of the Lance will be available in a variety of formats at launch: hardback, ebook, audiobook, and a limited edition faux-leather hardback. The latter features an in-universe appendix, The Journal of Ebardus Evotarum, screen-printed art and a blue-ribbon bookmark, as well as full-color artwork and a map. Each copy is signed by the author.
The release date will be announced in the future.
Source: Warhammer Community
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