The knot of fate tightens even more. The young shamaness Kayya, holding a child in her arms, sets out on the road to take revenge on the killer of her beloved. She is guided by the mysterious Blue-Eyed—an spirit living in her shaman’s crown—and her path leads to the Salt Islands.
Meanwhile, the Viking chieftain Arngrim searches for lands that will become his new home and source of true strength—and his choice also falls on the Salt Islands. Learning this, the Novgorod ushkuynik Nezhata prepares for a march: he intends to drive out the invaders and perhaps establish his own principality on the islands.
An unnamed noyd (shamanic seer) continues to help people, though his road is full of losses—he failed to protect the gift entrusted to him by the gods, and he is betrayed by those he already considered almost like a brother. In his shaman vision, a terrible thing appears: a stone sky crashing down onto the earth. But he’s not used to retreating, even if only darkness lies ahead—who knows, maybe this darkness will become the beginning of light.
It is on the Salt Islands that the fate of the world will be decided.
“Master of the Wind” is a Slavic fantasy about a girl-orphan with magical gifts who must face a god of seas and chaos. Maria Semyonova, the author of the legendary “Voldogov” (screened as “Voldogov of the Grey Hounds’ line”), together with co-authors gives the reader a strong heroine, mythology, and adventures—that’s what people value in Slavic fantasy.