Star with the Broken Rope

Many years after a catastrophic landslide has swept a whole civilization away, a family of survivors are living as exiles among the shepherds of the grassland, their whole world now only fragile memories of the things that were. A chance encounter rekindles hope that others may have come alive through the cataclysm and so begins a journey far beyond the sanctuary of the tribe to find answers to old questions. Travelling across the roof of the world, from the rolling hills to the barren wastes of a rocky desert, their search will take them through the tents of the merchants and alongside the towering striders that cross the scorched sand in slow, steady caravans, spotter kites strung from their backs and map makers measuring the land as they pass. Somewhere beyond the endless waste is a city, and the rumour of others like them that passed that way before, heading deeper into the unknown interior of the uncharted world.