Brannon Boren
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Template:Realworld Brannon Boren is a video game writer who has worked with and for Bungie Studios in the past. His only credit with Bungie is as one of the writers of the Halo: Combat Evolved storyline and script. He then moved on to write for the video game Quantum Redshift in 2002. Later, in 2005, he was one of the promotional writers for The Matrix Online, where he used the abbreviation MxO.
It is possible that he is the namesake for Boren's Syndrome, but this cannot be confirmed.