Other worlds can be similar to ours. However, that is only an external resemblance. Internally, they are arranged completely differently. The main character of Andrey Stoev’s book “Beyond the Last Threshold. Shadows of the North” knows this well, because he lives in one of those worlds.
Kennar Ardy has been in a world that diverged from ours roughly around the year 1000 CE for quite some time. He has adapted there quite well. Yet his number of problems hasn’t decreased. For the transplanted person, studying at the Academium is made difficult by his old enemy, Dragana. Besides, despite the fact that Ardy is a “Master/Holder,” his team lost at the tournament, and the rector of the educational institution is very displeased. That displeasure affected Ardy’s grades and his team’s, and now the young man feels guilty before them.
Trying to distract himself, Ardy visits a tavern. There, from Bolik Kopyto, he learns that the find he made in the territory of an old factory town together with Dragana has attracted the interest of not unknown, but very powerful people. They frightened Bolik so much that he decided to leave life so as not to say too much. Apparently, the find is of enormous value—though it is still unclear exactly what kind. Ardy will have to figure it all out, because otherwise all his achievements in this world could be destroyed—and that is absolutely unacceptable to him.