One weekend in June, four people in Chicago, all go to the same gift shop in The Galleria and examine an ornamental crystal wand. Rock star Marshall Storme, fantasy author Evan Stone, architect Valaura Bennet and fast-food worker Lillian Curtis all look at the wand, though only Marshall and Valaura are seriously interested in purchasing it. The four are transported to a parallel dimension, a place where the myths of earth originated, and live as real, if unusual, beings. Befriended by the Daemona, the four dimension travellers find themselves embroiled in a holy war with the savage Anjeles. Lead by the mad King Yahoo, the Anjeles are trying to wipe out the Daemona and their four brother-kings, Nicholas, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub and Lucifer. It is Lucifer, King of The Land of the Chalice and the Lightbearers, who is the nemesis of King Yahoo. But they have gone to war against the eldest brother, Nicholas, and the four travellers are caught right in the middle.