Chris Ahrnsbrak has influenced the lives of a number of people for the last 30 years, which is impressive because he's only 29 years old. He's currently employed by Baymont Inn in Sheboygan, WI-- which, oddly enough, feels remarkably like running the Whistling Swan Inn in Naridale without the preponderance of white grape juice. His love of fantasy sprang from a love of role-playing games, but his love of fiction was born when he was given a copy of C.S. Lewis' The Horse and His Boy. After taking a couple years to digest the ideas in that book, he bought a copy of Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb's Azure Bonds. The rest, as they say (whoever "they" are), is history.

For the last ten years, Chris has been playing around on the Internet on a number of different systems, including Prodigy, GEnie, Delphi, the ISCABBS, and a number of smaller Internet bulletin boards; currently, he's biding his time, creating havoc in any number of ways in Etherial. Along the way, he's racked up quite the list of online writing and organizing credits, from what was arguably the first major storyline involving different bulletin boards on Prodigy, involving more than 50 people in a note-posting format, to the massive Camelot room on ISCABBS, where he played moderator to stories involving nearly 300 people. He currently spends most of his time back on Prodigy, dreaming up the next major disaster to befall the various heroes of Garidon. Add in his time spent with the national gaming organization Game Base 7 (www.gb7.org) and the fact that he's now experimenting in the genre of espionage thrillers with the DEN campaign (which has just been picked up on an official basis by White Wolf Publishing) at many national gaming conventions, and his list of accomplishments grows even more impressive.

In his nearly non-existent spare time, he tries to balance the important tasks of working, sleeping, playing on the Internet, and socializing with his friends. Chris's latest accomplishments include trying to break the world's record for creating the largest Monopoly board (the next great threshold), coming up with a viable cure for leukemia involving three copper pennies and a roll of duct tape, and scoring a bit part in the third "Star Wars" movie. His favorite thing, however, is that he gets to write the "About the Author" section of this website, and can write just about anything he darn well pleases about his personal life.