The portal, built by a powerful ancient race of magicians called the Departed, throws a young graduate student-archaeologist, a quiet intellectual, into a harsh semblance of the Middle Ages, where after the general Great War on the ruins of a destroyed state, the survivors continue to fight among themselves with sword, fire and magic for the right to the final victory that gives power over the world. These battles are no longer as large-scale as the defunct war, but no less cruel and bloody. What fate is in store for yesterday’s young scientist, and now just a magician’s student, in this merciless and endless battle?..