About the Authors

MATT FORBECK has worked full-time on games and fiction since 1989 with many top companies, including Adams Media, AEG, Atari, Boom! Studios, Atlas Games, Del Rey, Games Workshop, Green Ronin, High Voltage Studios, Human Head Studios, IDW, Image Comics, Mattel, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Playmates Toys, Simon & Schuster, Ubisoft, Wizards of the Coast, and WizKids. He has designed collectible card games, role-playing games, miniatures games, and board games, and has written short fiction, comic books, novels, nonfiction, magazine articles, and computer game scripts and stories. His work has been published in at least a dozen different languages. Projects Matt has worked on have been nominated for twenty-four Origins Awards and have won thirteen. He has also won five ENnies. He has written more than a dozen novels, including the Locus-bestselling Blood Bowl and the upcoming Amortals and Vegas Knights from Angry Robot. His novelization of the Mutant Chronicles film won a Scribe Award. He is a proud member of the Alliterates writers group, the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, the International Thriller Writers, and the International Game Developers Association. He lives in Beloit, Wisconsin, with his wife, Ann, and their children, Marty, Pat, Nick, Ken, and Helen.

JEFF GRUBB is an award-winning game designer and author. He is the co-creator of the Forgotten Realms and one of the co-founders of Dragonlance, and his novels include Forgotten Realms: Azure Bonds; Dragonlance: Lord Toede; Magic: The Gathering: The Brothers’ War; Starcraft: Liberty’s Crusade; and World of Warcraft: The Last Guardian. He builds worlds for a living, which is nice work if you can get it. He lives in Seattle with his wife and oft-times co-author, Kate Novak, and two supremely disinterested cats.