Rats of Ruin

Rust and Bright are rat children; human-animal hybrids created by too much exposure to magic in utero. Like all their kind, they have grown up isolated from the farms and villages and cities of normal human life. Like all their kind, their existence is tenuous. A single stroke of a pen from a king or queen and they may no longer be able to count on the sanctuaries they're currently reliant on. Hated and feared, their lives must necessarily be small.

But it only takes one disaster to start an adventure (or end it!).

Loosely based on the level one experience of many, many tabletop and video games, Rats of Ruin is a novella that combines humor and drama to describe the growth of a couple of misfits as they engage with the world and, just as often, run away from it.