We have all heard legends about great magicians, but do we know how these stories begin? Ardan Egobar, a young man living in a remote corner of the New Monarchy Empire, does not know. He doesn't know that this story is about him. He doesn’t know yet... In a world where steam locomotives puff on the railways, where huge airships are frozen in the skies; where in the cities you can meet orcs dressed in jackets, engaged in racketeering; dwarves with cigars holding large banks in their hands; or elves parading along fashionable boulevards. Where people built huge countries on the verge of a world war. In this world, perhaps, everything is possible. And maybe in such a world even an ordinary guy, the last representative of the race of mountain hunters, can one day become the greatest magician in history?