"Chronicles of Orthen". An ordinary online game that overnight became a trap for millions of its fans all over the Earth. One of them is thirty-year-old artist Ivan Sokolov. In an unknown way, he is transported from a Moscow apartment to a digital monitor. Waking up in a damp dungeon from the crunching of bones of a living and, as it soon turned out, aggressive skeleton, Ivan realizes with horror that from now on he will have to exist in the body of his own character. Now his name is Walder Weber and he a subject of the Dareya Empire, where the inhabitants have tamed the power of steam, but magic and the sword still rule the show. The new reality is unkind to all former players. Many adventures await them, promising mortal danger, but the main one is Orthen himself. The mysterious and unpredictable virtual world is an illusion that strives with all its might to become a full-fledged reality, gradually redrawing its own rules and entangling its victims with the mysterious Threads of Fate.