About the book: 2014 / Autumn 1524. The Holy Roman Empire is on the verge of the Great Peasant War. An unusual troop is wandering around Saxony: retired Reitar commander Baron Wolfger von Eck, his servant and bodyguard werewolf Karl, a Catholic monk, a witch, a dwarf and an elf. They set out because the icons in the baron’s castle chapel began to cry with blood, and other signs of the approaching end of the world were also revealed. Had the predictions of the Apocalypse really begun to come true? Or maybe the Last Judgment can still be postponed? Before the heroes of the novel find out the truth, they will visit Dresden, Wittenberg, Mühlhausen and even Mount Brocken, meet the father of the Reformation Martin Luther, the rebel priest Thomas Münzer, Elector Albrecht of Brandenburg, and the artist Lucas Cranach and many other historical figures. Magic, battles, fights with gangs of robbers, the emerging love of an elderly man... And then there is a strange creature that the baron accidentally summoned while studying a manuscript purchased from a Jewish merchant…