Birthday Landscapes

Cavallan Kee, queer, disabled, and a legendary hero, faces an important task. Home on leave just in time to celebrate his twin children's birthday, he has little to offer other than this: "For today," he tells them, "I'm yours to command..." E H Timms won the BBC Wildlife Young Poet of the Year award, hasn't managed to stop writing since, and now lives in South West England with a computer tethered to one elbow and far too many books. Life doesn't stop just because Big Events might be on the horizon. There will still be birthdays to celebrate and errands to run, routine assessments to get through and passing bandits to deal with.The Guildverse follows members of the larger Guilds - Warriors, Weavers, Merchants, and more - through these quieter moments as they find ways to balance Guild against country, family against duty, past against future, and truth against perception...