The plot of the epic cycle is based on a war between the Fialleys and the Kwitts tribes. The daughter of a noble and powerful man, Freivida the Hearth-Spark, Hürdis, quarreled with Hrodmar, a relative of the Fialleys’ king Thorbrand, and brought a dangerous disease upon their tribe—two of Thorbrand’s sons and his wife died from it. Seeking revenge on the witch, Thorbrand begins a war.
Each of the books in the trilogy has a complete plot and can be read separately, but together they make it all work better. In each book, there are its own main characters with their own life circumstances. The main characters from earlier books appear as secondary characters in the later volumes, allowing the reader to learn about their further fate.