Overwatch is including a younger grownup novel to its big selection of extra-curricular lore. The Hero Of Numbani will comply with little one prodigy Efi Oladele as she engineers the tank hero Orisa to guard her metropolis from assault, and it’s scheduled to launch subsequent 12 months.
Speaking to Polygon, Blizzard confirmed that an Amazon listing that went up earlier this week is right. The novel is described as following alongside carefully with the lore we already learn about Doomfist’s assault on Numbani, and Efi’s tinkering with safety robots to make the cute Orisa.
In the technologically superior African metropolis of Numbani, within the not-so-distant future, people reside in concord with humanoid robots often known as omnics. But when a terrorist tries to shatter that unity, a hero named Efi Oladele rises!
Efi has been making robots since she was little – machines to higher her group and enhance individuals’s lives. But after she witnesses Doomfist’s catastrophic assault on town’s OR15 safety bots, Efi feels the decision to construct one thing better: a real guardian of Numbani.
While Doomfist sows discord between people and omnics, Efi engineers an clever and compassionate robotic, Orisa, named after the highly effective spirits who information her individuals. Orisa has so much to be taught earlier than she’s able to defeat Doomfist, however Efi has some studying to do, too, particularly relating to constructing – and being – a hero. With Doomfist rallying his forces, and the army powerless to cease him, can Efi mould Orisa into the hero of Numbani earlier than it’s too late?
The story is outwardly a collaboration between the Overwatch builders and creator Nicky Drayden, whose Afrofuturist novels definitely appear match for tackling the lore round Numbani in a extra in-depth method than game snippets, animated shorts, and comics have allowed.
It additionally feels promising to have Drayden on board contemplating Blizzard’s observe document on race and gender. It’ll be nice to dig into Efi’s story, and since they have been by no means going to let a younger woman exit onto the game’s battlefields, it is a nice solution to see extra of her. But that doesn’t erase the truth that Overwatch nonetheless doesn’t have a playable black woman or the bizarre jumble of stereotypes that make up Doomfist.
I’m trying ahead to extra Lúcio lore, nonetheless, as he’s on the town for a live performance on the time of the assault and the musician-slash-freedom-fighter has been criminally underused since Overwatch’s launch. Plus, we already know he’s nice with children.
Amazon says The Hero Of Numbani will probably be launched on May fifth, 2020.
