About the book: 2007 / The inhabited world is great - and there is no end to wars in it. The knights of the kingdom of the West, the nomadic steppes - warriors of the kingdoms and principalities of the hot East, warriors of the cities of the North, heroes of the city-states of the South... They are not alike in anything - and consider each other to be ruthless monsters. But one day, an all-powerful fate brought together five people - people from different parts of the Inhabited World... Berest from Dargorod - a knight, escaped from captivity, and his best friend is a warrior from the East, Hassem. A beautiful fairy from the forests of the West, whom Berest nicknamed Iritsa, a poor orphan from the South, Illesia - and the cynical mercenary Zoran, who has no homeland at all. They have to go through the world from end to end and fight with people, monsters and gods - for only by winning will they find promised refuge…