Once upon a time there was some asthmatic kid who was totally not a reference to the mythical Lord Arthur. As he was choking to death on his school's lawn, a lazy hot guy with a super intimidating name suddenly appeared out of nowhere and stabbed him with a clock hand. The hot guy had second thoughts about it about a day later, so he sent his poor, maltreated servant (who was also a hot guy) to retrieve it. Since this is a fantasy book and the protagonist always miraculously manages to keep super important cosmic artefacts without even knowing what they are, the servant came back without it. Then, in a very predictab- uh, interesting turn of events, the asthmatic kid discovered the magical realm which the hot guy was a native of. He met two sidekicks - a frog that talked like an archetypal mad scientist, and a chavette whose parents died. All three of them kicked the lazy hot guy's ass soon after in the name of the Architect, who was basically that universe's god.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
It turned out that the frog WAS ACTUALLY an anthropomorphic personification (aka furry form) of the set of House Rules (BA DUM TSS) that the Architect instated and which everybody broke right away. It asked the asthmatic kid to do a bunch of stuff like kick the rest of the intimidatingly-named guys' asses, which he really didn't want to do. However, it breathed really deeply behind him and pressured him to the limit, so he had no choice but to follow its orders. Afterwards, he set off...