Priklyuchencheskoe geroicheskoe fentezi o cheloveke, kotoryy vynuzhden otkazatsya ot svoey uyutnoy zhizni i otpravitsya iskat schaste sredi bogov, piratov, voyn i drakonov. Student. Ostroslov. Lyubovnik. Avantyurist. Soldat ponevole. Voobscheto Kvillifer sovsem ne soldat. On slishkom obayatelen, vlyublen i izuchaet yurisprudentsiyu. No vse tragicheski menyaetsya, on teryaet semyu i rodnoy gorod. Snachala zloy rok zabrasyvaet Kvillifera v bandu razboynikov, potom intrigi privodyat ego v politiku, a zatem ego sudba okazyvaetsya v rukah prekrasnoy, no kovarnoy bogini. Razgoraetsya pozhar grazhdanskoy voyny, i Kvillifer okazyvaetsya v samom ego epitsentre. Pust on tolko soldat ponevole, v ego rukah vozmozhnost izmenit buduschee svoey strany.