Lord Gnarl receives information that might lead him to find the man who assassinated his Grandfather, the Lord Genet. He determines to track the alleged assassin down and bring him to justice. Adricart, the palace portrait painter, and Kyler the palace baker, are recruited to help. So, begins a series of journeys, both by land and sea, across half the known world from Lord Gnarl's City State in the north to King Francis's Great Ocean City in the west...