About the book: 2001 / According to legend, the inhabitants of the world of Shandal (and these are people, elves, gnomes, trolls and others) descended from the god Tauron. Tauron gave them magic cards (pieces of cardboard with signs and images), and since then all magic in the country has been performed with the help of these cards. For many centuries, Great Magicians, and there are five of them in Shandal, according to the number of countries where they rule, have been trying to subjugate others, seize power, upset the balance established by the gods. The young ranger Vannet, or more simply Van, by chance found himself in the center of another intrigue, which caused a hurricane of passions and entailed a storm of events throughout this difficult world…