Is Wolves Of Bloodmoon Based On A Book Or Novel?

This is not an adaptation of a novel. Wolves of Bloodmoon is its own unique creation, a unique story told through video game. What I love about it though, is how the environmental storytelling and clues, such as diary entries and abandoned churches, make you think of dark fantasy novels like ‘Berserk’ or ‘The Black Company’. A very clever illusion, created by Wolves of Bloodmoon, as if you are being allowed into a pre-existing world, which in reality, is entirely the creation of the developers, who most likely are bookworms of dark and strange fiction.

Wolves of Bloodmoon was something that I was not expecting when I first found out about it, it looked like a really gritty fantasy novel that was a new take on a lot of lore, kind of like a cross between The Witcher and the dark world of Bloodborne. But as it turns out, Wolves of Bloodmoon is actually an original story, not based on the fiction of any other person, and it is a really impressive work of world building, with intricate and detailed story to match. So impressive in fact that it makes me wish that it was a book, or at least a part of a larger series of novels. The way that the different factions operate, the way that the moon affects the action and the in game dialogue all have a sort of ancient, archaic quality to them, as if they were translated from some long-lost work of fiction. But no, it seems that the creators have managed to craft an entirely original story, rife with deep narrative that draws from many of the literary traditions of the fantasy genre.

Now that I mention it, I would totally be down for a companion novel or prequel to the game’s lore-rich story. Right now we’re only getting glimpses into the history behind the cursed bloodlines and fallen kingdoms of the game, in the form of lore snippets scattered throughout the items and various in-game objects. I’d be all about reading a novel that delved deeper into the Bloodmoon Prophecy or even was a prequel to the events of the game, following the origins of the Silver Order, for example. Until then, though, I’ll just have to continue piecing together the limited amount of lore that the game does supply and bemoan the fact that such a richly detailed universe was created as a standalone project to be enjoyed by all, rather than being waiting to be adapted into a novel by the developers and some talented writer.

There’s a huge and amazing fanfiction scene, which is a sort of backhanded compliment: a story so powerful and interesting that it inspires people to write their own stories, set in that world, with those characters, is a pretty novel-like thing. And when I go to the ‘Wolves of Bloodmoon’ tag on AO3, and start browsing through all the millions of words of original story there—prequels and alternate universes and stories about side characters—the sense I have is that the fandom has written a novel here, of millions and millions of words, each one a separate and individual interpretation and expansion, and the comic was the spark that set it all off.