The Xandrian Quarters

The Xandrian Quarters are a lawless archipelago of small islands. Following a chance meeting in the heat of the Xandrian City State, The Collector finds himself on the open sea headed for the island of Bretha Yenglesh to deliver a document. He has to find a man known as Malice although to his friends, if he had any, he would be called Billy. Malice was once a surgeon and scholar but as a result of an inherited condition has had to abandon this calling. He has become a mercenary soldier and is a berserker in the medieval sense of the word. He carries about him an aura of latent danger. Through him the Collector is drawn into a world of increasing threat and violence as the tales that he gathers develop a more sinister twist. The Collector’s experiences offer a fly-on-the-wall view of some of the nuances and in certain cases the extremes, of the human condition as he wanders across a landscape of increasing absurdity and complexity.