The fourteenth century… There are no states yet; it is an era of nascent kingdoms, when across all of Europe only the right of the strongest prevails — the law of the sword. The hero of the book continues to act according to the logic of his time. Having stirred up the hornet's nest of the Golden Horde and plundered the western cities of Lithuania, he decides to lie low for a time in central Europe. Faith in his own strength and unconventional actions allow Norman to expand his holdings. Having sorted out the interests of the powerful, he begins to weave his own intrigues for the benefit of the growing Karelian principality.