The world of Khara has lost its most precious asset — knowledge. Everything that thousands of years ago was ordinary and familiar now seems like a fairy tale. Mages wage bloody wars over pitiful scraps of the great art of the past.
The most terrible and merciless war has already lasted five centuries between those who rule the world — the Walkers and the Cursed. Darkness and light, necromancy and healing have become entwined in a deadly tight knot that destroys all who dare touch it. Ness and Laen challenge the bearers of the Gift in order to save their own lives.
What will be the stake in their game — conscience, love, money, knowledge, immortality?..