Richard Long Arms, a noble knight—and now also a middle-ranking feudal lord—hurries to a tournament. As a modest man, he avoids conflicts, quarrels, debates, and skirmishes. But the world is such that whoever avoids trouble finds it by itself. And it comes in the form of traveling knights, mountain giants, witches, mages, dragons, magicians, enchanters, werewolves, ghosts, kobolds, missionary monks, and all sorts of other interesting characters. And about the greatest danger—women—we won’t even talk.