Lucien Moussa Shukri Soulban is a Saudi Arabian

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and writer who has worked primarily on

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Personal life

Lucien Soulban was born in Saudi Arabia, where he lived for 12 years before attending school in Texas. He later moved to Montreal.

Career

Lucien Soulban wrote game material for White Wolf, Dream Pod 9, and other companies before being hired by

Guardians of Order Guardians of Order was a Canadian company founded in 1996 by Mark C. MacKinnon in Guelph, Ontario. The company's business output consisted of role-playing games (RPGs). Their first game is the anime inspired '' Big Eyes, Small Mouth''. In 2006 Gu ...

in 2000, and began work on '' Heaven & Earth'' (2001). Soulban also developed Guardians of Order's superhero role-playing game '' Silver Age Sentinels'' (2002). He subsequently went to

White Wolf Games White Wolf Entertainment AB, formerly White Wolf Publishing, was an American roleplaying game and book publisher. The company was founded in 1991 as a merger between Lion Rampant

where he wrote the ''

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'' role playing game and a tie-in novel for '' Vampire: The Requiem''. He also wrote a

Warhammer 40000 ''Warhammer 40,000'' is a miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop. It is the most popular miniature wargame in the world, and is particularly popular in the United Kingdom. The first edition of the rulebook was published in September 1987 ...

novel, ''Desert Raiders''. Soulban was a guest at

Otakuthon Otakuthon is a Canadian anime convention promoting Japanese animation (anime), Japanese graphic novels (manga), related gaming and Japanese pop-culture (music, cinema, television). It is held annually for 3 days in downtown Montreal during a ...

in 2007, and 2008. His ''D&D'' work includes the game supplement ''Children of the Night: The Created'' (1999), and

Dragonlance ''Dragonlance'' is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of fantasy novels. The Hickmans conceived ''Dragonlance'' while driving i ...

novels such as '' The Alien Sea'' (2006) and ''Renegade Wizards'' (2009). He has written the script for the games: '' Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas'', ''

Far Cry 3 ''Far Cry 3'' is a 2012 first-person shooter game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the third main installment in the '' Far Cry'' series after ''Far Cry 2''. The game takes place on the fictional Rook Islands, a t ...

'', '' Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon'', ''

Far Cry 4 ''Far Cry 4'' is a 2014 first-person shooter game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the successor to the 2012 video game '' Far Cry 3'', and the fourth main installment in the '' Far Cry'' series. Set in the fiction ...

''. and ''

Watch Dogs 2 ''Watch Dogs 2'' is a 2016 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the sequel to 2014's '' Watch Dogs'' and the second installment in the '' Watch Dogs'' series. It was released for the PlayStation 4 ...

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