The story begins somewhere east of the Ural Mountains of Central Asia in the dawn of prehistory, when the game deserts the ancestral hunting grounds of the Hun-Magyar tribes. The tribes are forced to migrate westward in search of better hunting grounds. The people leave the headlands and snowcapped mountains of the Altain-Ula and slowly wend their way westward, following the mythical White Stag to. the promised land foretold to them by their god Hadur.

For fifteen years the tribe camps alongside a beautiful mountain lake, until the game disappears and a drought forces them to move once again. The people's wanderings take them steadily away from Asu (Asia), the Land of the Rising Sun, and into Ereb (Europe), the Land of the Setting Sun. They constantly wage war with other tribes that stand in their way, as they sweep across the plains of Scythia, into the land...