Die Höhlenwelt Saga: Der Leuchtende Kristall

Novels

Die Höhlenwelt Saga accelerated designer Harald Evers' transition from game designer to novel writer. He had already created and published a novelization of one of his former games, Die Kathedrale. In 1995, he began preparations to repeat the feat with a novel based on the Höhlenwelt scenario. The book, Die Bruderschaft von Yoor, was finished in 1997 and initially self-published, until Evers found a publisher (Heyne) in 1998. By then, Evers had taken up writing as a profession, and continued to develop the Höhlenwelt into a fantasy cycle. As of today, the saga has grown to eight volumes, making it one of the biggest and most consistent German fantasy epics.

The novels have little to do with the game, though. Evers shifted the focus of his world considerably, mostly towards magic. The novels' heroine is Leandra, a young sorceress who stumbles into intrigues of enormous scope. The novels are set on an entirely different continent (Akrania), in a different time and have a very different cast; neither Eric nor Maomi or even Cal play a part. A girl named Hellami appears in both the game and the books, though. And the dragons, of course.