The inhabited world is great - and there is no end to wars in it. The knights of the kingdom of the West, the nomadic steppes - warriors of the kingdoms and principalities of the hot East, the warriors of the cities of the North, the heroes of the city-states of the South - fight among themselves... They are not alike in anything - and They consider each other ruthless monsters. But one day, an all-powerful fate brought together five people - people from different parts of the Inhabited World... Berest from Dargorod - a knight who escaped from captivity, and his best friend - a warrior from the East, Hassem. A beautiful fairy from the forests of the West, whom Berest nicknamed Iritsa, a poor orphan from the South, Illesia - and the cynical mercenary Zoran, who has no homeland at all. They have to go through the world from end to end and fight with people, monsters and gods - for only by winning will they find promised refuge...