If sufficiently weakened, they are consumed, never to return to the ordinary world. The Twilight does not offer its gifts freely it feeds off the strength of those Others who enter it. Humans are not able (at least in the first part of the tetralogy) to become Others. However, the Others are different from humans, they are born as Others. The Others were the humans (shamans, soothsayers, and wisemen) from long ago who figured out how to step into the Twilight. The action in the novel centers around a group of people referred to as the Others-human beings who tapped into the Twilight and gained supernormal abilities. In the story's worldline there exists a magical realm beneath the surface of all things-referred to as the Twilight (or Gloom in other translations). The novel is first in a tetralogy that continues with Day Watch (Dnevnoy Dozor, Дневной дозор), Twilight Watch (Sumerechny Dozor, Сумеречный дозор) and Final Watch (Posledniy Dozor, Последний дозор) The story revolves around a confrontation between two opposing supernatural groups (known as "Others"): the Night Watch, an organisation that seeks to improve the world-but is not totally perfect and selfless either-and the Day Watch, which champions a Nietzschean "every man for himself" philosophy and attitude, and fights any Night Watch attempt to limit personal freedom. The Night Watch (Russian: Ночной дозор, Nochnoy Dozor) is a fantasy novel by a popular Russian writer Sergei Lukyanenko published in 1998 (1st ed ISBN 1-5).
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