Eternal northern mountains and ancient coniferous forests. The old world is retreating before the era of Great Geographical Discoveries, but until it reaches here, in the foothills of the Skands there secretly lives a people whom people would call Marvelous. However, the Elnarai do not need anyone else's admiration, nor curiosity, which threatens to turn into enslavement, nor the scientific revolution with its Enlightenment and mechanical perception of the world. They only want to live in the same way, like centuries after the Rain of Fire. Nalderon of the Ice Blades was born in the Dark Times, at the end of the Golden Age. A brilliant career at court awaits him. At the same time, the new status of your House will have to be strengthened, and other creatures in the neighborhood hidden from human eyes are not friendly. The threat is shrinking around the familiar world in a ring.