Allison is an adventure series set in a world containing one continent (extending roughly frorees North latitude) which is divided down the center by a towering y of the world are roughly equivalent to Europe in the 1930s Due to the geography, two cultures developed on either side of the divide, and at the tiins, the cultures have been at war on and off for hundreds of years The bloodiest conflict yet began thirty-five years before the start of the story; both sides are so exhausted by the conflict that an uneasy ar Aside from a brief conflict over the jurisdiction of the river, resulting in the forely been unbroken The east side of the world is known as Roxche, though forion’s naion coe The west side is known as Sou Beil, though fordodoether a se different than that of the eastern region There are far inning of the first novel, Allison, a pilot in the Roxche Air Force, has come to visit her childhood friend Wilhelm (“Wil” for short), who has remained at school over his su in the countryside near the school, the two encounter an old man well-known to Wil’s schoolmates as a teller of tall tales Nevertheless, he captures their interest with his talk about a “treasure” which, if found, is said to be able to put an end to the war No one would believe him that the war between the countries could ever end, so no one listened to him When the old man is abducted and taken over to Sou Beil, Allison and Wil steal an airplane and chase the abductors across the river into the next region Fortunately, the tere raised as orphans by a woes