About the book: 2008 / A broken jug cannot be mended. The Great Empire will no longer be reborn in its former appearance. And although peaceful life is being established in its capital, the newly independent provinces are still trying to grab each other by the throat. Numerous “armies” of robbers and marauders add fuel to the fire. And a horde of warlike drow dwarves fell on the northern borders, making human sacrifices to the Golden Boar. And somewhere there, a detachment of mercenaries, thinned in battles, is pursuing a deadly werewolf-kotolak, fleeing to the north with a stolen artifact…