Troubled times have arrived in Guandelonne. Yankhel, wandering across the continent, burns everything in his path, at the head of the Temple of the Three, two Forthcoming appeared at once, grappling in a fierce battle for power, the steppes, united for the first time in the last three hundred years, flooded the expanses of the dilapidated empire. And in this chaos, Veld needs not only survive, but also somehow get to Huraki, the former capital of the great Isidore. After all, only there does the young magician have a ghostly chance to escape from the curses hanging over him.