V century AD e. The Roman legions leave their possessions on the misty isles of old Britain. At a time when the wise Merlin was still young, and the legendary King Arthur had not yet been born, their fathers were legionnaires of a bygone world, on the scales of which tin is worth the price of gold, and life is not worth even a couple of coins. What will the fight for the richest tin mine in the heart of the island lead to? How are the stories of the semi-mythical brothers Uther and Ambrosius and their enemy Vortigern connected? And how will the war between the laws of ancient Rome and the new age of barbarian kingdoms end? The first book in the Dust of Avalon series.