Their land ranges from permafrost to the warm Black Sea. Centuries later, this land will be called Russia, but now Rus' is those who follow the great Varangian prince. Tribal leaders, leaders of squads and hirds. On their swords stands a power, the main artery of which was the path from the Varangians to the Greeks. And the best of swords are forged in the lands of the Franks. Rich lands that have been plundered by the people of the North for a hundred years now. It is there that the path of young Wartislav the Daring and his squad will lie in the year when the future fate of the main power of Europe - the kingdom of the Franks - will finally be decided.