Freelance author and game designer Jeff Grubb has been at the heart of a number of major settings over the years: he is one of the original co-conspirators of Dragonlance and the co-founder of the Forgotten Realms with Ed Greenwood. Together with his wife Kate Novak, he is the author of Masquerades, Finder's Bane, and Tymora's Luck. With Ed Greenwood, he wrote Cormyr: A Novel. The Brother's War was his first foray into the multiverse of Magic: The Gathering.