This is a saga about sorcerers and heroes, living people - and people returning from the dead. About wise and cynical dragons who either take the side of Evil or, on the contrary, with all their might resist the Lords of Evil who are looking for a way into this world. This is a chronicle of lands where magic, once united, is split into schools at war with each other. Lands where cruel barons, mired in endless internecine wars, are ready to pay dearly to hired blades that promise them victory. The best of the best mercenaries are the Raven Squad. Only they are able to clash with all the might of the hordes of nomads who serve, without knowing it, the Lords of Evil. Only they are willing to risk themselves in order to put together three ancient talismans that point the way to the all-powerful magical amulet, nicknamed the Dawn Thief. An amulet, the struggle for which unites all the schools of magicians of this world - for the difference of faiths and arts recedes before the danger of the invasion of Darkness...