About the book: year / A world where nobles are proud of their magical Talent, princes are served by detachments of guardsmen, and serf orcs obediently work out their corvee. A world where carriages are pulled by magomechanical horses, guns are made by sorcerers, and masons study genetics. A world where the 18th century is coming to an end, instead of the Bering Strait there is the Bering Isthmus, and Peter III still sits on the Russian throne.