Vagabonds and Swine — James Tallett

All around them was a world broken by the power of magic and torn by the cruelty of humans. Shattered a mere century before, vast tracts of land are uninhabitable, and repression is the order of the day. And yet a few people struggle for a better life.

Kerrasi was little more than a farmer, scraping out an existence from scarred and battered lands. Until one day the Knights of the Broken Wheel came calling, sending him into places he had never dared venture.

The lesser children of petty nobles, Gavlen Ond and his friends had set out from home in search of a new beginning, a place to forge the nation of their dreams. Instead, what they found was an ending.

This is their story.

Splintered Lands: Vagabonds and Swine is a 15,500 word short story collection by Frederick Jacobs and Pat Traven, and is the third volume of the Splintered Lands.