Songs of the Dead

Brandon Sanderson is the #1 New York Times bestselling, Hugo Award-winning fantasy and science fiction author of the Cosmere Universe, including the Stormlight Archive series, both Mistborn series, Elantris, Warbreaker, Skyward, and various novellas including The Emperor's Soul, which won a Hugo Award in 2013. His books have hit the New York Times bestseller list 25 times and have been published in 40 languages. At the end of each year, thousands of Sanderson's fans gather at his Dragonsteel Nexus convention to celebrate his stories and to get a first glimpse of what he will be writing next.

Peter Orullian is an American fantasy author, composer and performer. As a musician, he has toured internationally –fronting various rock and metal bands – written and released multiple albums, and recently founded his own symphonic rock group, Symphony North, which focuses on building trans-media properties to combine music and narrative. The first of these, entitled The Bell Ringer, was recently released as a full concept album, and will embark on a US tour in holiday of 2026. The novelization of The Bell Ringer will release in tandem with the tour. As an author, Orullian has also novelized chart-topping concept albums for Grammy Award–winning metal giant Dream Theater. In 2012, he was shortlisted for the David Gemmell Morningstar Award. He has written numerous short stories as well as several other novels, including The Vault of Heaven, all of which use music as a driving force for worldbuilding and magical systems. Since 2018, he has been collaborating with Brandon Sanderson on developing and writing The Strata Wars series.

Jack Ayres is a Welsh voice actor best known for his diverse range of character work across media. As of 2026, he has voiced in over 100 video games including Black Myth Wukong, Baldurs Gate 3, Diablo, Final Fantasy and more. He features regularly in the series Transformers Cyberworld and can be heard in national commercials. As a narrator, Jack has voiced titles like Fruit Fly by Josh Silver and Dare Devil by Lisa Williamson.