Shad M. Brooks grew up in the country of Victoria Australia where he was free to make wooden Shad M. Brooks grew up in the country of Victoria Australia where he was free to make wooden swords and play in imaginary fantasy worlds to his heart's content. This love of fantasy and swords has been with him his whole life where he's brought the worlds of his imagination into greater reality through illustration and writing. Shad decided to be a novelist in 2007 and learnt from some of the most successful fantasy writers in the world. Over the course of twelve years Shad married, had four children, launched a highly successful YouTube career and wrote the equivalent of nine novels. Most of these books were preparatory works before writing the story he would release to the world, Chronicles of Everfall, Shadow of the Conqueror.