They met at a magnificent tournament - Marvin from Fostain, a naive boy who had just earned knightly spurs, and the hardened cynic and adventurer Lucas Jaidry, known under the apt nickname of Birdcatcher. And their first meeting almost cost Marvin his life - after all, Birdcatcher immediately felt an acute hostility towards him... However, the ancient gods of Handl-Tera had their say - and from now on these two are doomed to more and more meetings, new and new rounds of confrontation. Confrontation, on the outcome of which depends the fate of an entire country burning in the fire of a merciless religious war …