It’s hard living as a cartographer in the World of Systems. Draw a mountain and it falls through the earth. Depict a city and it’s already been burned by invaders. Shade a country’s territory—and your neighbors divide it up. Only peaceful and prosperous Sparta remains an island of calm in this stormy world. And only when Lord Shurik reaches the very edge of the world with his phalanx will the cartographers finally breathe easy.