The Forbidden City

6 hrs. 39 min.

Language Russian

Author Andrey Ognev

Narrator Dmitriy Staleshnikov

Description

From childhood, twelve-year-old Vlad felt like an outsider among his own. His turquoise eyes and frightening visions about the birth of the world make the villagers wary and cause them to shun the boy. When his friend disappears without a trace in the forest—and Vlad himself cannot remember what happened—everyone’s suspicions turn on him.

True terror ignites on the day of his birthday: blinded by fear, a crowd declares Vlad a sorcerer and the culprit behind the misfortunes that have befallen the district. Fleeing, he follows the mysterious call of the witch Freya and finds himself in Malefisterium—a floating city of mages, sheltered in the skies behind a wall of eternal storm.

Within the walls of the Academy of Magical Arts, Vlad faces dangerous trials, betrayal, and a meeting with the shadows of his past. Will he be able to uncover the truth about his friend’s disappearance, accept his power, and stop those who are ready to erase his new world from the face of the earth?