Pantheon High is a private school in Los Angeles for the children of the world's various gods, but that does not make the high school experience much better for them than for everyone else.
Four mysterious children, raised by the powerful Gods who rule over the Land of Dhrall, are called upon for help when Dhrall comes under attack by the monstrous armies of That-Called-the-Vlagh.
Yeine Darr, an outcast from the barbarian north, becomes trapped in a dangerous power struggle when she is summoned to the city of Sky after her mother's death and named an heiress to the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.
Honus, a Sarf dedicated to the service of the goddess Karm, purchases Yim, a seer who has been cast into slavery, after his Bearer was killed by the evil god known as Devourer.
After capturing jealousy from a priestess in Crete, Pandy, her friends Alcie and Iole, and her little dog Dido, brave many obstacles as they travel to Egypt in search of the second of the seven evils--vanity.
On their way to find the third evil, laziness, Pandy and her friends, Alcie, Iole, and Homer, face many dangers after Pandy falls from Apollo's chariot and her friends are captured by pirates who intend to sell them into slavery.