Paizo Pathfinder Fiction Line Blazes Trails to Sales

Paizo Publishing’s bestselling Pathfinder RPG is a portal through which gamers can experience spectacular tabletop adventure. Now, several of the fantasy genre’s top authors enable those customers to expand their Pathfinder horizons – and help retailers expand their Pathfinder-related sales -- with Paizo’s line of Pathfinder Tales Novels, the first two of which are available now!

Written by former Dragon Magazine and Amazing Stories editor Dave Gross, Prince of Wolves (FEB108339F, $9.99) follows the notorious crime-solving duo of half-elven Pathfinder Varian Jeggare and his devil-blooded assistant Radovan. Things are rarely as they seem for the duo, but even they aren’t prepared for what they find when a search for a missing Pathfinder takes them into the mist-shrouded mountains of gothic Ustalav. Beset on all sides by noble intrigue, mysterious locals, and the deadly creatures of the night, Varian and Radovan must use both sword and spell to track the strange rumors to their source and uncover a secret of unimaginable proportions. But it’ll take more than merely solving the mystery to finish this job, for a shadowy figure has taken note of the pair’s investigations, and is set on making sure neither man gets out of Ustalav alive...

“One of the big attractions of writing for Paizo is that I know these guys and how much they care about creating a vivid, exciting world for their game. You can see that passion reflected in the enthusiasm of the fans. I’ve never seen a more devoted, creative group,” said author Dave Gross. “It’s a big thrill to be a part of the Pathfinder novel line so early. The Pathfinder Campaign Setting is still a pretty comprehensive bible, but with so little carved into stone there’s enormous freedom to expand and detail the world. It’s a great place to tell new stories.”

Written by New York Times bestselling author Elaine Cunningham and set in a village of the frozen north, Winter Witch (AUG101840F, $9.99) begins as a child born possessed by a strange and alien spirit is cast out by her tribe and taken in by the mysterious winter witches of Irrisen, a land locked in permanent magical winter. Farther south, a young mapmaker with a penchant for forgery discovers that his sham treasure maps have begun striking gold. This is the story of Ellasif, a barbarian shield maiden who will stop at nothing to recover her missing sister, and Decclan, the ne’er-do-well young spellcaster-turned-forger who wants only to prove himself to the woman he loves. Together they’ll face monsters, magic, and the fury of Ellasif’s own cold-hearted warriors in their quest to rescue the lost child. Yet when they finally reach the ice-walled city of Whitethrone, where trolls hold court and wolves roam the streets as men, will it be too late to save the girl from the forces of darkness?

“I’ve been waiting a very long time to write a story like Winter Witch—an adult version of a Slavic fairytale, set in a land that’s both sinister and beautiful,” said Elaine Cunningham. “The folks at Paizo are a joy to work with.”

Both 300-page paperbacks are in stock for immediate delivery.

The action continues in 2011 with Plague of Shadows (DEC101700F, $9.99), written by Black Gate Magazine Fiction Editor Howard Andrew Jones and offered in the December PREVIEWS. The race is on to free Lord Stelan from the grip of a wasting curse, and only his old half-elf mercenary companion Elyana has the wisdom—and swordcraft—to solve the mystery of his tormentor and free her old friend before three days have passed and the illness takes its course. When the villain turns out to be another of their former companions, the half-elf sets out with a team of adventurers across the Revolution-wracked nation of Galt and the treacherous Five Kings Mountains to discover the key to Stelan’s salvation in a lost valley warped by weird magical energies and inhabited by terrible nightmare beasts. The title is scheduled to ship in March.

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