Grombelard is a land of eternal rains and inaccessible mountains. These lands are forever cursed and poisoned by powerful forces - Shernyu and Alsr - incompatible, like light and darkness, ice and fire, and waging an endless war among themselves. Only the queen of the mountains, nicknamed the Huntress, feels like a mistress here. She hunts the vultures who control the sky, she is equally respected by robbers and subjects of the empire, and the prince himself - the emperor's representative - bows his head before her. The reason is that this half-wild woman is fraught with the greatest of mysteries - the secret of the forces that keep the world in balance, the forces that can either destroy this world or save it from destruction.