Omar wanders along the roads, towns and villages, the Changer of Stories, and life is not enough to tell everything that he witnessed, which he later told about in stories where the lie was more similar to the truth than the truth itself. In those stories there were great cities and mighty gods, bloodthirsty barbarians and beautiful maidens, ringing swords and singing arrows. And a horde of conquerors advanced on the peaceful Interworld, the Land of Many Gods, and, it would seem, there was nowhere to wait for salvation... So it was, and so it was told in “The Hunter's Refuge”...