Brutally injured while completing the Impossible Hunt, Jinjani Raza sets out to return home to Navgarod, but a violent storm forces his boat to take refuge in Daro Bay. When the commander of the Naga hunters in Daro confronts him about the rogue Naga who has attacked Stonefountain, Jinjani takes the Guardian oath, Freedom or Death, and joins the hunters in a perilous quest to find the most powerful Naga who has ever lived and stop him from conquering the world. Jinjani's hunt takes him into the dangerous heart of human lands and far beyond. This is the heart-warming story of longing for home and the inordinate cost to get there.