5th century AD. e. The Roman legions leave their possessions on the foggy islands of old Britain. At a time when the wise Merlin was still young, and the legendary King Arthur was not yet born, their fathers are legionaries of a bygone world, on whose scales tin goes into the price of gold, and life is not worth a couple of coins. What will the struggle for the richest tin mine in the heart of the island lead to? How are the stories of the semi-mythical brothers Uther and Ambrosia and their opponent Vortigern related? And how will the war between the laws of ancient Rome and the new century of barbarian kingdoms end? The first book of the cycle "Avalon Dust" .