On April 21, 2009 Pocket Star Books and Blizzard Entertainment will unleash one of the most awaited Warcraft novels based on the World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion.  Christie Golden has been known by fans of this franchise for her work on Lord of the Clans, Rise of the Horde and Beyond the Dark Portal. The last two with prominent development of Ner’zhul. In this new novel, she has the pleasure of fleshing out more of Ner’zhul and to fathom the inner-depths of Prince Arthas Menethil.

Something to note from this excerpt is the appearance of the boy Matthias Lehner (anagram to Arthas Menethil). This boy appears in very key quests at the Icecrown region, which makes fans strongly believe this novel will fill in the blanks and tie-in with the game’s storyline, and more importantly… the Icecrown Citadel raid dungeon. It’s highly probable the content patch releasing this dungeon might be live by the time this novel hits bookstores.

Below you may read an excerpt of World of Warcraft: Arthas, Rise of the Lich King.