In this world of endless ocean expanses and many islands, several intelligent races live: people, powerful maguses - aliens from the stars, sea inhabitants-merra and living frigates capable of entering into a mental connection with their captains. For many millennia, a seething cauldron of intrigue, internecine wars and struggles for territory has been bubbling, but now the moment is approaching when the fate of the entire world is at stake. Neither the young healer from a remote province, nor the captain of the famous pirate ship “Bride of the Wind,” nor the ruler of a huge empire suffering from a mysterious illness, has any idea about this, and yet the adventure, which began as a fun search for an ancient treasure, will eventually lead them and their friends and allies into the mouth of the monster and into the very center of the whirlpool, awakened by the formidable deity of the seas and winds, whose name is the Great Storm.