The land of Erdai, the accursed Transylvanian lands. A breached ore vein, a shattered border between worlds. And then— the Raid. Untold hordes of dark blood-sucking creatures come out of the waters of the Dead Lake every night.
Only the Silver Gates can oppose the ravenous vampires of Sholomonaria—the Teutonic fortress of the Warden, built in the Hungarian possessions. From the walls of the fortress, furious assaults by unclean beings are repelled by the order’s knights—masters of Bernhard—who arrived to help them, along with the Russian druzhinas of Voivode Vsevolod and the Tatars under the command of the uzbashi Sagaalayi. But not everything is well inside the Warden itself. Rumors spread through the garrison about a mysterious “castle vampire”—a night-thing (nachtzerrer). And it seems that this is not the worst of it…
The book is published in a new edition.