It has been seventeen years since the peaceful and joyful Ansul was conquered by barbarian foreigners. Its palaces are destroyed, its libraries are destroyed, the altars of the gods and spirits that the inhabitants revered are in disrepair. But the heart of the city—the House of the Oracle, where Sulter Galva lives, crippled by torture but never broken by the Guardian Lord of Ansul—is alive. How alive is the memory of past greatness and the love of freedom. For seventeen years now, having left his homeland, the poet and storyteller Orrek Caspro has been traveling the earth, who with words is able to ignite the souls of people. They will meet. And from this moment a new countdown of time will begin for Ansul and everyone now living in it...