Lord Mawat returns to his hometown to ascend the throne after his father's self-sacrifice rite. This is the ancient ritual of the transfer of power, established by the very patron of Iraden, an ancient powerful god named Raven. In the tower of the fortress of Vastai, from the top of which God reviews his possessions, everything must already be prepared, it remains only to perform the rite. And then there's the incredible .. The father of the heir disappears, and his place is occupied by a treacherous and intransigent relative .. And he's not going to return the throne to the Lord at all . But how could this happen? After all, in Iraden it is possible only by the will of the Raven himself . What caused God to break the age-old ritual? . For the first time in Russian!