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Cal tries to hire a magician but murders him instead. He flees town and sails downriver on a raft until he arrives at a temple where he and an altar priestess meet and fall in love with each other. They flee the temple and encounter a stone troll trying to cross a river. On their way to seek shelter and help at Castle Huldra, an already weakened Cal is ambushed and killed by bandits.
Cal begins in Weshor, travels through the Zhor Mountains where he kills a wizard and hires a bunch of dwarfs. He ends up robbing the temple and while fleeing runs into the tower of the goblin king. He and his dwarfs barely escape with their lives, and then trek through the mountains and almost starve. All of the dwarfs end up abandoning him, and he almost catches his death of cold in a freezing rain storm. (His horse /does/ die of pnemonia.) At Castle Huldra he pays off the head of the house to see the Baron, who gives him a gold boon, all of which he eventually uses up as bribe money at Huldra and Castle Aeravir. Lady Aeravir supports his cause and gives him gold and a bomb. And on the seventh day of week ten, a desperate Cal robs the castle and flees into the countryside to raise his army and reclaim his throne.