For two thousand years, since the First Armageddon, the monastic sect of the Dunyans has been living, separated from the world, in the secret citadel of the high kings. One of the exiled brothers appears to him in a dream and demands that his son be sent to him, in Shaym, the Holy City, where he lives. Young Kellhus undertakes a difficult journey through lands long abandoned by people, and joins the Holy Army, which set out on a campaign against the pagans who captured Shaime. Kellhus is not an ordinary warrior, everyone in the army calls him the Warrior-Prophet, he is the only one who is able to read people’s faces and see under the human mask the true face of werewolves, spies of the Dark Lord...