Joel Marzzarella

Joel Marzzarella is a young writer and one of the first people to come up with ideas for the original Mysteries of the Rift Story, back round and so on. He came up with the bits and parts of the Mysteries of the Rift back round stories with Darren Olah while talking at school. He is also the actor that plays Prince Raxus in the film adaptions, The Dre'kel Wars and the older Mysteries of the Rift movies. Mysteries of the Rift was also the series that got him interested in writing.

Works Involving Mysteries of the Rift:
Joel's first story that dealt with Mysteries of the Rift was ''The Prince of Anode. ''About the young Prince Raxus on a mission to Plait to sign a treaty with the theif town in order to stop them from stealing Anode's resources. The story explains the character's emotions and focuses on the building leadership skills that the prince would soon need in the next story. It also acts a prequel, in a way, to the Mysteries of the Rift story.

He also is writing Mysteries of the Rift Prodigy which takes place around one-hundred years after the destruction of the Rift. He had originally planned to follow the story of Raxus, but decided to switch gears and try involving new characters that had greater flaws and even worse problems. So that surge of passion, he created the Anti-Heroic character, Arsalan Heilen and built the expanded universe though still involving the old.

Other Works:
Joel is not just closed to Mysteries of the Rift, he makes short films and Machinimas. He often writes many of the scripts of the short films he makes with Darren Olah. He also won the 2009 Sigma Tau Delta National Writing Contest for his short story, Adrenaline. He loves the creativity of writing, and usually has four to five novels going at one time, so that he can write in accordance in harmony to his writing mood. He has recently been accepted in the pretidgious Wilhelmina Modeling Agency that that has launched the careers of Tyra Banks, Fergie and many others. We have not heard the last of this young man.