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Joseph Edward Zieja (Born born January 16, 1985) is an American voice actor, author, and former United States Air Force captain. Zieja grew up in New Jersey and graduated from the United States Air Force Academy. He served as an intelligence officer for over a decade, attaining the rank of captain. Zieja's voice acting career spans video games, animation, and commercials. In 2013, while still in a government role, he began taking on small voiceover projects, and by 2014 had transitioned to full-time voice acting, recording from his home studio before relocating to Los Angeles. According to Zieja, he turned to voice acting after his military intelligence job burned him out, calling that work "a lot of PowerPoints." Within eight months, his client list had grown long enough that he needed to quit his day job and focus on voice acting full-time. He has voiced Fox McCloud in the animated short Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins (2016), Claude von Riegan in Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019) and related titles such as Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (2022) and Fire Emblem Heroes, Bumblebee in the Netflix series Transformers: War for Cybertron trilogy (2020–2021), Achilles in the English dub of Fate/Apocrypha, and Wriothesley in the video game Genshin Impact (2023). He plays the male version of the protagonist, Wolf, in Destiny: Rising (2025). Zieja is the author of the Epic Failure Trilogy, published by Simon & Schuster's Saga Press. The series includes: - Mechanical Failure (2016) - Communication Failure (2017) - System Failure (2019) According to Zieja, the novels satirize the bureaucracy of life in the armed forces with a comedic tone. He also narrated the audiobook editions of his works.
Five years have passed since the fateful day that the Magic Eater brought magic to Earth and the people of the planet learned of Skylands' existence, and since then, magic has become a part of everyday living, and all young portal masters train faithfully for a chance to enter the "Worldly Exchange Program"—a foreign exchange program where the most talented of Earthborn portal master apprentices get to travel to Skylands and study under the tutelage of the very heroes who saved both their worlds in order to not only grow as portal masters, but further relations between both worlds. You are one of the lucky apprentices chosen to study in Skylands, but as you arrive and deal with several strange occurrences, you find that something is amiss—and everyone around believes the cause is a mole among the students' ranks. With help from your fellow apprentices and a team of eager Skylander cadets, you must find the culprit while also exploring Skylands as part of your curriculum. ‖ Fancast for a browser game spinoff of Down to Earth and a prequel to its sequel. Professional VAs only, no celebs.
