Continuation of the story of Al, the last of the necromancers of the Great War. His journey through the Wasteland continues, for the pursuit of the Artist of Death is not over. This time, Al arrives in a city closed to strangers, standing on an island in the center of the Dead Lake. The Artist has already been there, but the necromancer will have to not only find his traces, but also take an order from the Chapter of the Church of Eternal Children, because people have been disappearing in Altakhir for the third week now. Not completely without a trace, and yet...