Omar wanders along the roads, towns and villages, the Changer of Stories, and life is not enough to tell everything that he witnessed, what he told his descendants about in stories where lies are more similar to the truth than the truth itself. There were in those stories there are great cities and mighty gods, bloodthirsty barbarians and beautiful maidens, ringing swords and singing arrows. And a horde of conquerors advanced on the great city of Zanadon...