King Conan leaves with a large retinue and escorts to sign the triple treaty between Zingara, Argos and Aquilonia on the division of influence on the Sunset Ocean. But a mysterious witchcraft hurricane divides the embassy... So, by the will of fate, while his friends and comrades are forced to confront the Picts and pirates; The Cimmerian ends up on the island of Nai-Branil - one of the Islands of Bliss, about which the legends and sea stories of the Sunset Ocean tell, where he learns many of its secrets and takes part in the Great Action of the Alves... The novel is the first part of A. Macduff’s “Keys of the Ocean” duology.< /p>