If you’re a massive Halo fan like me, you may have already heard of Halo: Waypoint Chronicles, with Volume One containing over 30 stories spanning “all corners of the Halo universe,” whether that’s the Forerunners or stories we’ve become more acquainted with in recent years through the Banished.
The collection itself features 24 stories that were previously only available online, alongside ten new stories exclusive to the collection. Over on Halo Waypoint, we also get a nice table showing what stories to expect, so I’ll include that list here:
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Vertical Umbrage | Winter Contention | Precipice | Duality | Sunrise on Sanghelios |
Saturn Devouring His Son | Battle for the Blood-Moon | Trial of Reckoning | Hippocratica | Fireside |
The Third Life | Anvil Accord | The Machine Breaks | Venezian Sonata | Age of Retribution |
Whispers From The Pyre | From The Soil To The Stars | Tulpamancy | Battle for the Academy I | Battle for the Academy II |
Moonrise Over Mombasa | "Ghosts & Glass" by B. Giraud | Ascension on Atropos | The Eridanus Twelve | Fifth Canticle |
Rendezvous With Ramen | Ghosts of the Gyre | Bella Corsa | London Calling | Aileron |
Worlds Uncharted | First Rain | Axios | Graveworld | Connectivity, Part 2 |
What’s got me quite interested here is that these stories are also narrated for audiobook, including performances from Halo’s renowned voice of Cortana, Jen Taylor, and even content creators such as HiddenXperia. The book itself is written by Alexander Wakeford and Jeff Easterling, who is the franchise story lead at Halo Studios, and also helped work on Halo Mythos and the Halo Encyclopedia.
Given I’ve yet to dig in myself, I’ll provide the excerpt from the book itself provided by Halo Studios:
“Delve once more into stories of legendary heroism and star-spanning conflicts—from the time of the ancient Forerunners to the perils of a twenty-sixth century clash between the United Nations Space Command and the Banished alien alliance.”
As a big Halo story nut, I’ll definitely be sinking my teeth into this collection, and I actually think I’ll pick up the audiobook too. I have this weird habit of reading books alongside the audiobook using Storyteller, but let me know your thoughts on this in the comments.
Halo does have a bad habit of continuing stories in its expanded universe, which I’m not really complaining about, but I’d definitely like to see more of these stories explored through games rather than books.
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