DAVID GAIDER lives in Edmonton, Alberta,and has worked for video game developer BioWare since 1999. He is the leadwriter on Dragon Age: Origins role-playing game and has previously worked on such titles as Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of AmnTM, Star Wars®:Knights of the Old RepublicTM, and Neverwinter NightsTM.
PATRICK WEEKES is a senior writer at BioWareTM and has contributed toall three of the award-winning Mass EffectTM games. His stories have appeared in Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, and Strange Horizons. He has also published a stand-alone fantasy novel.
LIANE MERCIEL, a so-called army brat, grew up in Germany, South Korea, and several different parts of the United States. She is an alumnus of Yale University and the College of William & Mary Law School. She now lives in Philadelphia, where she practices law. Liane is the author of two original fantasy novels, The River King's Road and its sequel, Heaven's Needle, and has written both novels and short works for the Pathfinder rpg.
A division of Electronic Arts, the world's leading electronic entertainment publisher, BIOWARE is the award-winning creator of some of the world's best-selling videogames, including the Baldur's GateTM and Neverwinter NightsTM series, Star Wars®:Knights of the Old RepublicTM and Mass Effect.