D&D: Critical Role Announces The Nine Eyes Of Lucien – A New Novel With All Eyes On Campaign 2
Critical Role and Del Rey’s next novel, The Nine Eyes of Lucien will take readers inside the mind of Campaign 2’s friend…and foe.
Campaign 2 might be over, but the hits keep coming. Critical Role announced the next novel in their partnership with Del Rey publishing earlier this week. Titled Critical Role: The Mighty Nein – The Nine Eyes of Lucien which, admittedly, is a mouthful, will focus on the party member turned corpse turned villain of Campaign 2.
The Nine Eyes of Lucien will be written by NYT bestselling author Madeleine Roux, whose work you might know from the Asylum Series or from Eclipse out of the Star Wars anthology From a Certain Point of View.
As for the book itself? it will dive into the mysterious origins of the man known as Lucien. His fateful encounter with the dreamlike groupmind known as the Somnovem changed him forever. But before he was an eldritch horror, who was he?
Critical Role: The Mighty Nein – The Nine Eyes Of Lucien
Lucien has always been able to spin a bad situation to his advantage. From his childhood on the dangerous streets of Shadycreek Run to his years living off the grid and learning blood magic from the Claret Orders, the charismatic blood hunter will find a way to get the upper hand.
When Lucien is on a job in the frozen wastelands of Eiselcross with his fellow mercenaries, a rough-and-tumble crew called the Tombtakers, fate leads him to a mysterious journal in the ruins of an ancient city. The book speaks of the Somnovem, nine beings who can grant Lucien power beyond imagining—if he is able to find them and free them from captivity.
Intrigued by this opportunity, Lucien pores over the journal—but the more he reads, the stranger things become. The nine whisper to him in dreams and waking visions. Time slips away, along with Lucien’s grasp on reality. And tattoos of red eyes begin appearing on his skin…
With the ability to reshape the world within his grasp, Lucien ignores all warning signs. He has always bent fortune to his will, and nothing—not even death—will stop him now.
Keep an eye out for the new book later this fall
