Where legends reawaken and destinies collide.

The Creator

J Leonard Costner

J Leonard Costner never set out to be a writer. He is an artist who found a different medium.

Born in America and raised across Europe, he grew up between languages, cultures and the ruins of the empires his stories would later bring back to life. Basketball came first, and it took him to Division I.

Then, in the middle of his senior season, came the injury and the surgery. Bedridden afterward, he started typing. He sees a story as image and color before it becomes words, so he wrote the way he paints, one scene at a time. Those nights became Legacy, first published in 2012.

He also had to find it in himself to face the setback and keep going. He did. He came back, turned professional, and achieved what he had set out to do in the sport. Along the way he came to understand that his purpose was meant to be somewhere else.

Since then he has completed all seven books of the saga, illustrated them himself, and built the world around them: eight Sects, seventeen centuries of hidden history, and a hero who carries Spartacus in his blood. A feature film and a graphic novel are now in development.

He calls himself a creator and a translator. The story was already there. His job was to get it onto the page.