About the book: 2004 / This is a world of rain and fog, high castles and mysterious semi-monastic orders, in which the ability to capture other people's magic is passed on from generation to generation. This is a world where warriors take the names of Blades and become blades that protect those with whom they are connected by magical bonds... Nowadays, loyalty, the best quality of the Blade, has turned into disgrace and exile for the brave Sir Beaumont - after all, the now reigning king is completely subordinate to the power of his father-in-law, the half-mad king of the barbarian Skirria, and he will stop at nothing to destroy the power of the Blades - and take possession of the secret of the Bonds that bind them…