Sky Seekers: Cold Shores. Morning Approaches

The land that knows no iron. Here, people ride horses and in carriages, do not use electricity, and hardly know firearms, – while aviators lift wooden gliders into the air. There are no familiar states to us, – there is the heir of the Roman Empire, a giant state that has conquered almost all of Europe, the ruler of the entire East, the Ottoman Empire, the gigantic Russo-Tatar Russian Khanate, and China, which always stands apart.
The greatest treasure of this strange world is the mysterious magical Word, capable of transporting any object to a parallel space, where it will be kept until the owner (or someone who has tricked or forced the owner to give up the Word) needs to retrieve it. People die and kill for the secret of the Word, resorting to any treachery and betrayal. But what kind of power over the Word must the boy Marcus possess if the best agents of the State are trying to capture or destroy him? That is the question that troubles Marcus's only friend and protector – the brave "noble thief" Ilmar…