The most important question facing the reader is: which side are you on in the world of the Living and the Dead?
Unlike their northern neighbors, the United Territories of the Consortium chose the path of scientific development and practically abandoned magic. Most rituals are forbidden here. Other small everyday magic is carried out only under license. Magicians who break the ban are put on trial and exiled to islands.
But not everyone has accepted this situation. A conspiracy is ripening within the U.T.C.
The mage’s apprentice Pantor flees North to escape the law. He is being pursued by an enforcer of magical oversight. The young mage is to be sentenced for a crime he hasn’t committed.
Unexpectedly, both the fugitive and the pursuer find themselves drawn into the coming coup. Without even understanding it, they become nearly key figures in the conspiracy.