Lower Tartar… appalling heat lives there side by side with hellish cold, and the torments of those trapped there never end. From the beginning of the centuries, they have been banished there—those dark guards who are too dangerous, uncontrollable, and cruel even for their own kind—for the darkness.
The mystical Skeleton of Vobla has been lost in the world of humans. The keeper of the skeleton is Tarlanthur. A “artifact-talker,” a trickster artifact, is now a desired prize for both the light and the dark side.
And Dafna and Mephodius are trying to find the Depresnyak—the hellish kitty from Eden. Racing to destroy Mephodius and Arey, Ligul secretly releases the most dangerous prisoners from Lower Tartar. The prisoners are immortal. Their bodies are invulnerable to any dark weapon, and only light magic can drive them away—just for a while. But Ligul planned even for that: Dafna loses her connection to the flute. Now her magi-abilities don’t work.
Essiorch is being hunted by killers. And the young valkyrie Irka faces a terrible choice: to seize Arey’s darh—or lose her own spear and her legs…