This world is like ours, and at the same time not very. Here, England is ruled by royal power, but the Holy Houses are very conditionally subordinate to the crown. The seas here are plowed by steel ships, but industrialists willingly hire sorcerers for production. Mortals are born, live and die, but some are born again... And in such a world lives and acts a boy named Myron. A very unusual boy from the House of Black Water.