She-Mar, Crowned Prince of Urf and Grandmaster of the Masters of Urf, casts off the shackles of his birthright and renounces the way of the sword in pursuit of another kind of mastery: mastery over the self. Thrree parts heroic fantasy, philosophical odyssey and absurdist comedy, Shidwarta follows its unlikely protagonist as he abandons the world of conquest and glory in search of meaning beyond violence.