An epic tale of sibling rivalry which traverses from two brothers humble origins to the very depths of hell itself Christonian and Sammasticous are two brothers from the fishing village of Karp. They travel northward through the country of Gannala, to Brockshire Manner. When the lady A'mythrial, queen of Brockshire, gives her love to Christonian rather than Sammasticous, it sets off a chain of agony, despair and triumph. Christonian desperately tries to repair the rift which has come between the two brothers, even if that means journeying into the underworld to do so