The Two Roads to Mazandaran and the Seven Labors of Rostam

Kavus's army marching north into Mazandaran and its disaster there; then the fork Rostam faces — the long safe road versus the short perilous one — and his route through the seven trials (Rakhsh and the lion, the waterless desert, the dragon, the witch, the capture of Ulad, the div Arzhang, and the White Div) to the rescue.