Award-winning British fantasy authors Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson will write a brand new fantasy trilogy “The Vulcan Verses”. 

The title is predicated on VeChain’s forthcoming Vulcan Cast non-fungible token (NFT)-powered collectible card recreation and decentralized digital world VulcanVerse.

With greater than 100 books to their names, the authors are thought-about among the many most profitable British gamebook authors, writing the Fabled Lands, Preventing Fantasy, and The Crystal Maze gamebooks. Gamebooks are interactive tales the place the reader can select the story’s route by their very own selections.

Morris and Thomson have contributed to greater than 70 books and 30 books respectively. One among Thomson’s most profitable collection has been revealed within the UK, Japan, France, the U.S., Italy, and Sweden, with every of the six titles promoting greater than 60,000 copies within the UK alone.

Each authors are additionally recreation builders who typically write gamebooks and supporting works for fantasy and role-playing video games and have labored with some blockchain tasks earlier than.

“The Vulcan Verses” narrates the story of the Vulcan God who embraces human know-how to create a 3D digital world and restore the fading powers of the Previous Gods. Thomson stated the trilogy will probably be set within the universe, which blends Greco-Roman mythology and excessive fantasy:

“The books will probably be a prequel to the digital recreation, documenting the journey from know-how and atheism taking on to the purpose when the previous gods should select both to fade into reminiscence or to take issues into their very own fingers.”

VulcanVerse is a Massively Multiplayer On-line Function-Taking part in Sport (MMORPG) that permits customers to purchase and promote plots of digital land tied to NFTs whereas interacting with different gamers. The sport is about for launch later this yr alongside a standalone 3D builder app that permits gamers to design surroundings, customise characters, and create their very own art work.

The plots of land go on sale on Sep 30 and solely 10,000 plots of 20m x20m land will ever be created. Every plot prices $100 and is ready to be bought with Ether (ETH), Tether (USDT), VeThor (VTHO), or VeChain’s native token VET, with a 5% and 15% low cost for Financial Nodes and VeChain X-Nodes respectively.