About the book: 2003 / Medieval Europe, a world where the mundane and the miraculous always go hand in hand, strange heroes and an invariable taste of mystery - it’s impossible to guess what awaits reader on the next page of the novel by Dmitry Skiryuk, which opens the cycle about the Wallachian magician Zhuga. The story into which the herbalist, rejected by his family, finds himself, forces him to set off on a journey, looking not for adventure, but for an answer to the question of why his fate is suddenly so closely intertwined with the fate of the world. Neither strength, nor cunning, nor the ancient gods will help on this path - it turns out that everyone has their own war and their own truth, and the gift of magic can easily turn into a curse…