So it was in the Ancient World, so it is as well in the Banoric Age, some 800 years in the future. And unto this realm of ziggurats and chariots has come Sagrim, incomparable hero of his time, where he, like fabled King Gilgamesh, must meet many challenges, including the incomparably beautiful and incomparably deadly woman known as the Eunuch Maker, a Predatory Sphinx and the Minions of an Alien Pantheon - and that's just for starters.