Halo: Epitaph
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- "The Didact returns..."
- — Alex Wakeford announcing the novel.[6]
Halo: Epitaph is an upcoming Halo novel by long-time series writer, Kelly Gay,[1] set to release on February 27, 2024. The book was formally announced during the Canon Fodder live event at the Halo World Championship on October 21, 2022, in a panel focusing on the discussion of how Halo multiplayer maps fit into canon. Appropriately, the novel's name is a reference to the Halo 3 multiplayer map Epitaph.[6]
The novel was originally set to release in late 2023 before being pushed back to January 2, 2024, before a second delay to the final release date.[4][5]
Halo: Epitaph will feature the continuation of the story of the Ur-Didact and is set after Halo: Escalation's The Next 72 Hours arc from 2013 during which he is composed following a conflict with John-117 and the rest of Blue Team.[6][7][8]
The Didact's Halo 4 voice actor, Keith Szarabajka, will narrate the audiobook for Epitaph.[9]
Official summary
“ | Stripped of armor, might, and memory, the Forerunner warrior known as the Didact was torn from the physical world following his destructive confrontation with the Master Chief and sent reeling into the mysterious depths of a seemingly endless desert wasteland. This once powerful and terrifying figure is now a shadow of his former self—gaunt, broken, desiccated, and alone. But this wasteland is not as barren as it seems. A blue light glints from a thin spire in the far distance…
Thus begins the Didact’s great journey—the final fate of one of the galaxy’s most enigmatic and pivotal figures.[10] |
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Plot summary
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Appearances
{{Featurelist|secondcolumn=title-6 |title-1=Characters|
- AI
- 031 Exuberant Witness
- 117649 Despondent Pyre
- Abaddon (Mentioned only)
- Cortana
- Mendicant Bias (Mentioned only)
- Offensive Bias
- The Weapon (Indirect mention)
- Warden Eternal
- Flood
- Forerunner
- Bitterness-of-the-Vanquished
- Catalog
- Confirmer
- Didact's father (First appearance)
- Didact's mother (First appearance)
- Faber-of-Will-and-Might
- Grammarian (First appearance)
- Growth-Through-Trial-of-Change (Mentioned only)
- IsoDidact
- Librarian
- Silence-in-the-End (First appearance)
- [[Trials
- Unnamed Haruspis (First appearance)
- Ur-Didact
- Human
- Jiralhanae
- Precursor
- Primordial (Mentioned only)
|title-2=Species|
- Flood
- Forerunner
- Human
- Jiralhanae
- Precursor (Mentioned only)
- Rangmejo
- San'Shyuum (Mentioned only)
- Xalanyn (Mentioned only)
|title-3=Organizations|
- Ancestors
- Banished
- Created
- Ecumene
- Builder
- Builder Security (Mentioned only)
- Ecumene Council (Mentioned only)
- Haruspis
- Historian (First mentioned)
- Interpreter (First mentioned)
- Juridical (Mentioned only)
- Lifeworker
- Miner (Mentioned only)
- Theoretical (Mentioned only)
- Warrior-Servant
- Weaver (First mentioned)
- Builder
- Unified Earth Government
|title-4=Locations|
- Burn
- Ephsu system
- Epoloch system
- Requiem (Mentioned only)
- Far Nomdagro
- Nomdagro (Mentioned only)
- River Dweha (First mentioned)
- River Dwoho (First mentioned)
- Nomdagro (Mentioned only)
- Intergalactic space
- Greater Ark (Mentioned only)
- Installation 00 (Mentioned only)
- Epitaph (Mentioned only)
- Omega Halo (Mentioned only)
- Sol system
- Earth (Mentioned only)
- Khaphrae system
- Installation 03 (Mentioned only)
- Kradal (Mentioned only)
- Maethrillian (Mentioned only)
- Nomos system
- Nov Thasta system
- Charum Hakkor (Mentioned only)
- Charum Hakkor arena (Mentioned only)
- Charum Hakkor (Mentioned only)
- Qom Yaekesh system
- Janjur Qom (Mentioned only)
|title-5=Events|
- Reintroduction (Mentioned only)
- War
- Kradal conflicts (Mentioned only)
- Human-Forerunner wars
- Battle of Charum Hakkor (Mentioned only)
- Forerunner-Flood war
- Fate of Maethrillian (Mentioned only)
- Great Purification (Mentioned only)
- Mission to Maethrillian (Mentioned only)
- San'Shyuum rebellion
- Battle of Janjur Qom (Mentioned only)
- Post-Covenant War conflicts
- Battle of Requiem (Mentioned only)
- Mission to Installation 03 (Mentioned only)
- New Phoenix Incident (Mentioned only)
- Created uprising
- Battle for the Domain (First appearance)
- Cortana Event
|title-6=Weapons|
- HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon (Mentioned only)
- Lightblade
- Riftblade (First appearance)
- Z-040 pulse grenade (Mentioned only)
- Z-130 Suppressor
|title-7=Vehicles|
- Audacity (Mentioned only)
- Forerunner cruiser (Mentioned only)
- Fortress-class vessel
- Deep Reverence (Mentioned only)
- Mantle's Approach
- Infinity-class supercarrier
|title-8=Technology and equipment|
- Artificial intelligence
- Composer (Mentioned only)
- Cryptum
- Domain
- Forerunner mutation (Mentioned only)
- Forerunner personal armor
- Form
- Geas (Mentioned only)
- Guardian Custode
- Halo Array
- Hard light
- Light bridge (Mentioned only)
- Janus Key (Mentioned only)
- Logic plague
- MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor
- Mind transfer
- Neural transmission (First appearance)
- Shield world
- Slipspace portal (Mentioned only)
|title-9=Miscellaneous|
- Living Time
- Mantle
- Twelve Laws of Making and Moving (Mentioned only)
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Gallery
The tower of Epitaph, as seen in Halo 3.
The Halo 5: Guardians concept art upon which the Didact's appearance on the cover is based.
Sources
- ^ a b Twitter, Kelly Gay (@KellyHGay): "Yep it’s official! Writing a Didact novel: HALO: EPITAPH. #halo #HaloWC 🤗" (Retrieved on Oct 21, 2022) [archive]
- ^ Halo Waypoint, Halo: Epitaph - Cover Reveal (Retrieved on May 15, 2023) [archive]
- ^ Halo Waypoint, Canon Fodder - Covering Fire: Interview with Chris McGrath about the cover for Epitaph (Retrieved on Jan 31, 2024) [archive]
- ^ a b Halo Waypoint, Canon Fodder - Auditory Additions (Retrieved on Dec 15, 2022) [archive]
- ^ a b c Simon & Schuster, Halo: Epitaph (Retrieved on Apr 22, 2023) [archive]
- ^ a b c YouTube - Halo, HaloWC 2022 Community Stage - Friday
- ^ Twitter, Alex Wakeford (@haruspis): "To be totally clear, this is set AFTER Halo 4 and Escalation. As I said on the panel: the Didact’s story continues!" (Retrieved on Oct 21, 2022) [archive]
- ^ Halo: Escalation, issue 10
- ^ YouTube - Halo, HaloWC 2023 Community Stage – Day 1 (Forge, Steve Downes, Jen Taylor, Keith David, Lore, Digsite +): 7:38:02 (Retrieved on Oct 14, 2023)
- ^ Halo Waypoint, Canon Fodder - Didact's Domain (Retrieved on Feb 3, 2023) [archive]
External links
- Halo: Epitaph | Audiobook Preview - The Didact Returns - an excerpt of the audiobook narrated by Keith Szarabajka.
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