Riot Games has announced the cast for the audiobook version of its upcoming novel, Ruination, featuring numerous voice actors from League of Legends.
Acclaimed voice actors Misty Lee (from the USA), Mark Oliver (Canada), and Sean J. Teale (UK) will reprise their roles of Kalista, Thresh, and Viego respectively, characters from League of Legends. They will lend their voices to the dramatised English version of the upcoming audiobook production for Ruination, to be published by Hachette Audio.
Yet to be revealed are a number of other familiar League of Legends voice actors returning to Camavor, whose work results in a full cast of characters who will bring the world to life.
Riot has promised listeners ‘an epic tale of magic, revenge, and an empire on the verge of ruin’ in the first ever novel set in the blockbuster universe.
The book follows the launch of the console game Ruined King: A League of Legends Story, which launched last year.
Ruination is available for pre-order now, launching in print and ebook wherever books are sold. It will arrive on September 6th 2022 and will be released as a full cast digital audiobook on September 13th.
Ruination synopsis
“Camavor is a brutal land with a bloody legacy. Where the empire’s knights go, slaughter follows.
“Kalista seeks to change that. When her young and narcissistic uncle, Viego, becomes king she vows to temper his destructive instincts as his loyal confidant, advisor, and military general. But her plans are thwarted when an assassin’s poisoned blade strikes Viego’s wife, Isolde, afflicting her with a malady for which there is no cure.
“As Isolde’s condition worsens, Viego descends into madness and grief, threatening to drag Camavor down with him. Kalista makes a desperate gambit to save the kingdom: She searches for the long-lost Blessed Isles, rumored to hold the queen’s salvation if only Kalista can find them.
“But corruption grows in the Blessed Isle’s capital, where a vengeful warden seeks to ensnare Kalista in his cruel machinations. She will be forced to choose between her loyalty to Viego and doing what she knows is right–for even in the face of utter darkness, one noble act can shine a light that saves the world.”
Riot also recently announced the King Viego skin to mark the arrival of Ruination.
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