“The Bride of the Wind” is the first part of the trilogy “Children of the Great Gale,” telling of a world of endless ocean expanses and countless islands inhabited—in addition to humans—by amazing creatures, among them the most unusual are living ships capable of establishing a mental connection with their navigators. One day, alien magi arrived in this world—fifteen families endowed with special talents, bearing bird names—and, despite their own wishes, they remained forever. Since then, more than three thousand years have passed, but the magi’s passion for intrigues has not waned, and their love for ancient secrets has grown. Now the last descendant of the destroyed family must find the path to the greatest of those secrets: “the Morning Star,” the crashed ship of the magi. But neither he himself nor his companions even suspect how long and dangerous their odyssey will be aboard a living frigate with emerald-green sails.