On Mannheim, Phocas became Emperor of Constantinople. The East, caught in the ice of the great winter, resists famine and the countless hordes coming from the east... To the west, the children grow up in a relative carelessness, Liftrasir to the Bishop of Rome and Lif to Queen Brunhaut. Yet the winter will eventually find them and reunite them... Their destiny is at Asgard, at the foot of Yggdrasil. For everything must end where it all began.