One day, a thirteen-year-old St. Petersburg schoolboy learns that his mother, who died under very strange circumstances, was an elf. And now Vlad needs to choose which of the two worlds he should live in. Finding himself in Valia - a world of magic, swords and spells, which does not greet guests very warmly, Vladislav finds new friends and new enemies. Ahead of him is training in teleportation, alchemy, combat magic and sword fights... Meanwhile, Valia is very restless. Vlad was not going to interfere in anything, but in his hands was an ancient box with a message letter and a request to find an ancient artifact that would help destroy the one before whom half of Valia trembles. And a series of mysterious and strange events began. And all around us, both old and young are dying, there is almost no hope, somewhere very close an unknown enemy is lurking and there is nowhere to retreat... “The Black Ring” is the first book in the tetralogy “On the Tablets of Fate.”