About the Author

Mark Mazzone started his love of fantasy after picking up the book The Crystal Shard by R.A. Salvatore when he was young. Since then, he picked up every novel of the genre set in the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons he could find. His dad, a marine at the time, introduced him to the game and set the stage for building worlds and characters. After he joined the United States Army following graduation, his worldbuilding continued, interrupted by a yearlong combat tour in Iraq. He continued his writing well into his time in college, eventually earning a Bachelor of Arts in English, but not before his time in school was interrupted by yet another Iraq tour through his continued military service. 

His military service is reflected in parts in his debut novel Inquisition, which was taken from an original manuscript completely rewritten after a hiatus of two decades set in his world the Fourth Land – his creation since before joining the military all those years ago.