This is a world where everything is in the hands of the haughty Day and Night Rulers - long-lived elves. Jack Pointer, nicknamed Dog Eye, a war veteran, is a mere mortal by birth, and an elven Night Lord by status, does not even hope that he will spend the rest of his days in love and peace... The fourth book of the cycle. It is customary for gnomes under the mountain in the glorious city of Anarissa to swear, but it is time to find out what they really are. But intrigues, conspiracies, riots are the same both on the earth's surface and in the depths of the mountains, forcing them to fight to the end.