A former pharmaceutical poisoner at the court of Fernando of Castile becomes a zealous monk. A funny teenager from the village of Zaprudy - first a tramp, and then the heir to the crown. The daughter of the Hammel Prophetess is the talisman of the Hening Bottom. The influential Guild of Murderers performs Rituals, without which the powers that be will have a bad time. Noble knights are unarmed, but commoners are armed to the teeth, according to government regulations. And, floor by floor, a new Pillar of Babylon is being erected, replacing the one destroyed once. And all because the Iranian doctor Burzoi, nicknamed the Snake King, six centuries ago decided to change the world for the better...