About the book: 2012 / This world is beautiful and terrible, like all inhabited worlds, elves live in majestic silver forests, gnomes mine ore and jewelry in deep caves , the students of the bright magic academy are regularly trained. There is also a dark side of reality: in the mountains you can meet a hungry troll, a pack of evil cannibal goblins, and in the very heart of human kingdoms it is easy to run into a gang of bandits or a hunting vampire. The war of Light and Darkness has died down long ago, but there are no absolute winners, as is the case in almost all wars. Opponents lick their wounds, accumulate strength and prepare for new battles. And a modern Russian student finds himself in this world, accidentally triggering an ancient teleport mechanism. He must not only survive in an unfamiliar environment, but also decide what piece he is on the great game board: a pawn, a queen, or maybe a king? And it wouldn’t hurt to decide what color the figure is: white, black or something else? This is all the more difficult because Sergei not only finds himself in a fantasy world, but also changes himself, now he is no longer a university student Sergei Ilyin, but an orc of the Wild Lands Thorne.