This book is about the emergence and destruction of Dalain - the world that was created by the Creator, the old man Tenger, tired of the centuries-old struggle with the many-armed creature of the abyss Yerool-Guy, who hates all living things. He decided to create a world specifically for the Many-Armed One - simply so that he would not interfere with his thinking about the eternal. In this world, created according to the standards of the devil and for the dwelling of the devil, man, created in the image and likeness of God, is initially doomed to be sacrificed to the devil. But by the will of Tengar, once a generation a person is born in the dalaine who is able to change it so that there will be no place in it for the Many-Armed One himself. No one succeeded until Shooran appeared...