About the book: 2008 / In this world, the power of the great Empire is growing every day, subjugating more and more lands. Every step of the subjects of the Empire is cruelly controlled by the ruling Church - and woe to the heretics who dared, wittingly or unwittingly, to violate its laws. Three times woe to those in whom the magical Gift, revered by the clergy as a great crime, is manifested. They are threatened with either a shameful death or exile to the ruined border lands, where hunger, poverty and disease await the “criminals”. That was how it was. But now everything has changed. For a group of paranormal heretics led by the young man Alexander, the bearer of enormous magical Power, managed to escape from imprisonment in the lands of the Empire's long-time enemies - nomads who call themselves warriors. They intend to stand at the head of the warriors, unite hitherto scattered tribes and fight on equal terms with all the might of the Empire…