When the former "soldier of fortune" nicknamed the Duke by chance brought into the society of "Antiquarians" - hunters for the secrets of antiquity - he did not even guess what this would lead to. An ancient race called the Gone Ones, a cult of worshippers, in exchange for the devotion and sacrifice of hundreds of people receiving secret knowledge and artifacts on the verge of magic and technology... And the understanding that the plans of the Gone Ones are not limited to power over a handful of cultists. Will the Duke, with the help of a few associates, be able to stop the impending threat? And if not only to stop, but also to touch the power that such dangerous, but so attractive secrets of forgotten eras bear?