Sword and citadel. Wolf J.

“Sword and Citadel” - the second half of the glorified magical tetralogy of the “Book of the New Sun.

“ The sword of the lictor ”

Severian, which became the lord of the city of Trax, again violates his debt of the executioner And it arranges an escape to the woman who was supposed to kill. He is forced to flee to the north of the Commonwealth, to the mountains pursued by the guards of the trax and the monsters saturated with his old enemies. A war blazes in the north: Autarch’s troops fight Asian army.

“Citadel Autarch”

Severian's history is approaching the final. He will discover the source of the forces of the claw of the peacekeeper and learns the nature of Autarch. Severian will return to Ness, to the citadel, to his teachers, but already in a new quality. Will the former executioner become new sun?