If one wanted to make a brief summary of this book, one could speak of the history of the Roman Empire with the addition of magic. Apart from this skeleton, the story encompasses a bit of all human feelings, from friendship to filial piety, from ambition to betrayal, from pride to a sense of duty. The protagonists are Bordan, a general of the empire, and his nephew Kyron, a magician's apprentice, united by what can only be called extreme trust in their fellow man, something that will ultimately lose them both, although Kyron will somehow find salvation by distancing himself from everything he knows.
All in all, a good book, with some long-windedness, and the particularly irritating detail of passages of past history at the beginning of each chapter.