How Noggin and Olaf the Lofty meet Groont, an Omrud and Court Inventor to the King-under-the-Hill.

How Olaf the Lofty used the invention of the Omruds to make a wondrous machine and what befell it.

How the Omruds cared for Olaf the Lofty in their home under the hill and what happened to Olaf's invention.

How a black crow stole the liquid that made things grow and what happened to Graculus in the caves of Nudrug.

How Noggin rescued his Queen and how a Pretender came to challenge for the Crown of the Northlands.

How the large and the small were made equal. Where a battle was fought and how the Omruds came into their garden.