Do you think being a sorcerer is easy and pleasant? Not always, oh not always! Stubborn, an undertrained student of the sorcerer, becomes convinced of this from his own experience when his mentor Naum disappears to God knows where. For troubles are approaching the Slavic lands from all sides: the hordes of Khan Baklu Bey are rampaging on the borders, the Roman kingdoms are threatening unrest, black conspiracies are being woven against the princely power, the Navi have become unruly, the ghouls are demanding a revision of the Non-Bite Treaty, foreign orcs have appeared in the capital. And then there’s the fair, the Magic Bargaining is just around the corner, and the sorcerer’s “turnover” takes up time. However, the enemies of the fatherland will have to make sure that Stubborn didn’t get his nickname for nothing!