Quelle: Ingmar Wein

The band - Saltatio Mortis

SALTATIO MORTIS have been impressing their fans with their hits and spectacular live shows for almost 25 years. Their curiosity has always led them off the beaten track and into cross-genre features with a wide variety of artists. As avid gamers, they conquered the gaming world of Bethesda with their cover of the mega-hit “The Dragonborn Comes” and lead singer Alea was allowed to sing the in-game songs for “The Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle” and the band releases the song ‘Pray to the Hunter’ together with the game publisher. Together with the German role-playing game classic “Das Schwarze Auge” (Ulisses Spiele) and the fantasy book authors Bernhard Hennen and Torsten Weitze, Saltatio Mortis will release their Finsterwacht Box, an unprecedented concept album, in 2024.

Quelle: Stephan Sasse

The authors - Bernhard Hennen

Bernhard Hennen is a well-known German bestselling author. Since his first novel - The Year of the Griffin from 1993 - he has published over 60 historical and fantastic novels, as well as a number of short stories and novellas. His books have been translated into ten languages, have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been on the bestseller list in Germany for more than 100 weeks.
In 2019, his book “The Chronicles of Azuhr - The Cursed One” was awarded the Seraph for best novel (fantasy) of the year at the Leipzig Book Fair.
In 2024, he won 1st prize in the official German album charts with the band Saltatio Mortis for his collaboration on the music album “Finsterwacht”.

The authors - Torsten Weitze

Torsten Weitze discovered his passion for reading at a young age and his penchant for literature eventually led him to start an apprenticeship in publishing.
Since 2017, he has been constantly imagining and writing new worlds and characters, including the Thirteenth Paladin series, the Nebula Convicto and, most recently, the stories of Daetril, the world of the Warring Gods.
To relax, he enjoys the stories of others, be it as a book, movie, series or in a story-driven video game. He devotes the rest of his time to jiu-jitsu training and training with traditional Japanese weapons such as the katana or the bo.

The game editor - Nikolai Hoch

After his dream job as a marine biologist turned out to be not-as-great-as-expected, Nikolai Hoch turned his hobby into a career in 2015 and became editor-in-chief for the best-known German pen-and-paper role-playing game Das Schwarze Auge. A few years ago, he struck up a conversation with the guys from Saltatio Mortis at a hotel bar and contributed to the elaborate fan box for Saltatio Mortis' #1 album Finsterwacht as author and editor.