A world surprisingly similar to the earthly one. Similar in many ways, but strikingly different in several contrasting ways. For example, it is ruled by magic and there is slavery, which you can fall into as a child, and earning freedom is oh so difficult. Vyacheslav Strelkov, a slave and the son of a slave, who has a crippled, sealed within him Gift of the elemental, really wants to find freedom: both for himself and for his younger sister, also a slave since childhood. But for this, the guy will have to go through something... which, at sixteen years old, can turn him gray in an instant.