Marios Koutsoukos is a fantasy writer, an amateur historian and antiquitarian. He has a degree of French language and literature from the University of Athens on his wall and a mess on his desk. Also, he is actively involved in the folk/Viking/epic metal music scene writing lyrics for various bands of the genre and he hosts a daily comic relief radio show. He lives in the Deep South of Greece, in a farm in the middle of nowhere, where three dogs have accepted him as the leader of their pack.