According to legend, the inhabitants of the world of Shandala (that is, people, elves, dwarves, trolls, and others) descended from the god Tauron. Tauron gave them magical cards (pieces of cardboard with symbols and images), and since then all magic in the country has been performed with the help of these cards. For many centuries, the Great Magi—there are five of them in Shandala, one for each of the countries they rule—have tried to dominate the people around them, seize power, and disrupt the balance established by the gods. A young ranger Vanneth, or simply Vann, by sheer chance found himself at the center of yet another intrigue—one that unleashed a hurricane of passions and brought in its wake a storm of events across this complicated world…