Valor and Violence is a series of short stories following different,yet all equally colourful,characters set in the same world. Birth of a Legend,the first short,follows Captain Erskine Erwell,a newly promoted Captain in the Calandorian Royal Navy,charged with protecting his people from all who would do them harm.Great news for the Calandorian citizens,bad news for the Skjar reavers that ravage the shores in search of slaves.But when a small reaver fleet slips the net and escapes to the southern jungles of Marduk,Erwell must fight a war on two fronts;one against the raiders,and a far more difficult war against the hostile landscape.If he can't find allies in this strange land,he may end up being the one in need of saving.