David Nordahl Madsen

My name is David Nordahl Madsen (although some may know me as Zardilann or Bhaerau) and I’m a librarian living in Denmark together with my lovely wife and our three cats. This is my site where you can find my portfolio containing creations within the areas of writing and game design. If you want to read about the creation of my site, check out the zardilann.com post.

I got a Bachelor in Library and Information Science and a Master of Science in Information Technology. In 10^th grade (before college) we were tasked with making a project outlining what we intended for the future, and some of the areas I touched upon was fiction and libraries, which determined my further road forward. I decided to attend business college, and after that I went to the Royal School of Library and Information Science. After my bachelor was complete I pursued my master at the IT University, focusing on Media Technology and Games, after which I started a career as a librarian, keeping game design and writing on the side.

I spend my leisure time primarily writing and gaming and am a big fan of fantasy, horror and science fiction. Being quite a few years back, I don’t recall all of the events pawing my road towards gaming and fantasy as prime interests. Some of the ones that stand out though:

• Super Nintendo and Sega Master System, most prominently the game Alex the Kid
• Sword & Sorcery and similar “You choose your own adventure” books
• My brother’s interest in miniatures, followed by my own ups and down as a Warhammer Bretonnia general and my undying love for Hero Quest
• Dungeons and Dragons, my time at the Herlev Youth School roleplaying once a week and later my Dungeons and Dragons adventures with my wife
• Live Action Role-Playing, walking around the forest swinging swords and flinging flour, first with Ayaz and at the end with the members of the Atanea LARP’ing group
• Borrowing my brother’s PC extensively, until I met my wife and I got my own, following an installation of the recently released Baldur’s Gate and later an introduction to online gaming through City of Heroes and World of Warcraft
• Dragonlance novels, as well as others from TSR Wizards of the Coat, first translated to Danish but later in their original language
• And last and most importantly, meeting my wife, a fellow gamer, friend and soul mate

Welcome to the site.