They say that a monster lives in the Princely Mountains - a man turned into a dragon a thousand years ago. Sarmat is cunning and greedy, his palaces are full of treasures and prisoners, each of whom will not live to see the next year. The stone horde, led by his brother, the formidable Yarkho-traitor, carries out raids and awes people from the southern lowlands to the ice of the north. The armed detachment brings the Sarmatian ransom: riches and a dragon bride, the blind Ratslava. And the girl has neither beauty nor a special gift - only a pipe that cuts her hands. Mountain ranges, snowy wastelands, bandits and werewolf sorceresses - this path will be long...