Voldya Starinov, a former orphan and street kid in his homeland, here, in a foreign world, displayed miracles of kindness and courage and became a duke. It was as if he had been sent here by the local All-Highest gods: in the wild forest he saved a little girl from a pack of wolves—she became his adopted sister; he restored life to a terminally ill princess of Ortinia; to her brother, the young King Arton—he helped deal with a band of conspirators and traitors.
Earthly knowledge and technologies that Starinov introduced into the kingdom’s daily life helped repel the invasion of Erikh Rozedsky’s army. And the castle given to Voldemar, with its wonderful inhabitants whom he protected from death, becomes for him a home./align]