Man, tell us more about the book. I was thinking and I have some questions, maybe, if you haven't thought about some of it yet, this is a good time. So I was thinking, in which order did you come up with the idea of creating Oeliviert and the idea of making a campaign? Was it like "Hey, I'm gonna invent a story. Okay, I'm done. Wow, this game is great, I'll make a campaign with my story in it", or was it like "Wow, this game is great. I should make a campaign - let's be straight, everyone knows I'm awesome at it. Now I only need my own story." Becouse if it was the first one - awesome. It was like "I wanna have bear-men and winged vampires in the basement in my story. Oh, this game has such things - good, I don't have to make my own units.". Otherwise, it was like "Hm, this game has bear-men, I should adapt them to my story, only change the name and voila." What I mean is, if you made up your own creatures and created their appereance in your mind, then the idea is yours alone and you can freely put it in the book. But if you decided, that there would be Kazas in the story only becouse you wanted to see Fulborgs in your campaign - well, it looks a little like a plagiarism.
Another thing is the climate in your world. Warcraft III was actually meant to be funny and cute. Ogres with two heads - like two separate brains and only one body, you can't not laugh. Those friendly, green skinned orcs, the grotesque dread lords and ghouls, and Doom Lords and their beards, oh my god. And Fulborgs, meant to be loved by children. Oeliviert doesn't seem anything alike. Dragons taken directly from Neverwinter Nights, enslaving men for millenias, world dying with each passing day, damn cold mountains, where no life can persist. If you thought about Oeliviert only as a setting for a campaign based on Warcraft rules, then you surely must have something else in your mind, when thinking about the book. Do Kazas still looke like Fulborgs in your mind? Do Maraudar Clansmen still have that grotesque green skin and look like Black Rock worlocks? Does Galeoth realy have that paladin head attached to Kael's body?
You surely must see what I have in mind. So which was first, the story, or the campaign? In the book, is Phodom going to finally have a face? I must admit, he is awesome, becouse he has no head. After 7 great chapters, no face would fit to that badass motherfucker. After 7 chapters he is in every of our minds only an utterly awesome walking, talking armour! If you ever describe Phodom's head in the book, you're gonna ruin it for everybody. Thinking of a first-person narration would be a good choice.
Well, we have seen a peasant, but that really isn't what we think about while thinking about Phodom - especially that his armour is twice as big at the man we see at the beginning.
Or maybe the book is going to be a totally different story? No Phodom, no Galeoth, no Balgaron? Well, the campaign story in it's present form is a no material for a book. However, when I think about Oeliviert, I only think of that walking armour. Without it, the book is gonna be nothing. We surely don't want to read about some Damanthe or some other minor looser - we only wan't Phodom. Well, at least I do.
Will there be a lot of history, culture and geography in the book? Man, I love those things in fantasy! When I play Dragon Age, I can't stop reading and listening about Minrathus, the Qunari, first plauge, Arlathan, that's the most interesting part of the game. I surely would love to read about that kind of stuff about Oeliviert. From the campaign we don't really know anything about the world.
Last one - that I remember. Do you have a publisher? I'm not gonna read it in Finnish, but I'd read it if translated to polish or english. Although it would suck, that I couldn't read the original language - many emotions and style nuances are usually lost while translating a book.
Well, I hope I haven't offended you.