The borders of Xanth are still calm... not like eight hundred years ago, when the possessions of the legendary King Rugna were invaded by the Ordinaries, who besieged the newly built royal castle. It was in those terrible, long-gone times that Dor, the son of Bink and Hameleoshi, leaves to get a reviving elixir for his zombie friend: after all, only this elixir can turn a zombie into a human.