9 year n. e. Jesus Christ has already been born, but few have heard of him... The Roman Empire stretches from Britain to the Black Sea Germany, a freshly baked province, serves as an arena for the clash of civilization and barbarism. Germanic tribes, mired in mutual hostility, are forced to clarify their relations not by force of arms, but in Roman courts. At the hands of unknown murderers, the legate of the Seventeenth Legion, Lucius Demetrius Celeste, the older brother of the young Roman patrician Gaius, is killed. Now Guy has to go on a dangerous journey to find and punish the murderers of Lucius, and at the same time find out why in the fingers of his brother at the time of death was clamped figurine of a small bird of silver metal ... Beware, barbarians! In the Seventeenth Legion there was a new legate .