Brian Naslund

Brian Naslund is an American author from Baltimore, Maryland, known for the Dragons of Terra trilogy, beginning with Blood of an Exile (2019) and continuing through Sorcery of a Queen (2020) and Fury of a Demon (2021). The series follows a disgraced dragonslayer drawn back into a war between rival dragon-riding queens and the empire that exiled him, blending grimdark court politics with large-scale dragon warfare fought atop living, weaponized beasts. Naslund's fiction is known for morally compromised protagonists, political intrigue among scheming nobles and mercenaries, and worldbuilding that treats dragons as both weapons of war and creatures with their own uneasy loyalties, layered over classic epic-fantasy spectacle.