The Malazan book of the fallen. Book 5. Midnight tide. Erickson S.

The warlike kingdom of the moon, expanding its limits, captured almost the entire continent, one of the six on the planet, fenced off from the Malazan Empire and the rest of the world with a deaf wall and preserving the customs and magical rituals of antiquity. Only Tistaste Edur, once a great, and now in decline, the tribal union, remains unconquered on the continent.

Hannan Mosag, the King of the Coldun, the ruler of the Commonwealth of the tribes of Tista Edur, wanting to revive the former glory of the people, concludes an agreement with the corrupted god to get a sword in his own hands, the owner of which is made invincible. But the sword falls into the hands of the ambitious rude of Sengar, a simple warrior, and he, declaring himself an emperor, challenges the Litherian kingdom. Meanwhile, the day is approaching when the ancient prophecy should be fulfilled about the revival of the first empire.

But is it possible? After all, the first empire was destroyed many millennia ago and also on another continent...