About the book: 2002 / They say that the powerful Jenoins who created the world of Drageir left the world they created many millennia ago. The demiurges are gone. Drageira stayed. There remains a world in which two races call themselves PEOPLE. One of them is truly “people”. Ordinary people. People who created their own state far in the East - outside the boundaries of the great Dragaeran Empire, where other PEOPLE live. Those who are called ELVES. Those who live in the Seventeen Houses, named after... oh no, not even animals, but strange magical creatures, whose magical properties - one way or another - are transmitted to the members of the Houses. Many, many houses are closed milking “immigrants from the East” once and for all. But there are others that “people” can join. And the most powerful among them is HouseJarega, the guild of criminals of the world of Draiger. House of Jareg, to whom the young “native from the East” Vlad Taltosh begins to serve. The best of the Dryger assassins. The man who tamed and raised the once wild Jhareg. A man for whom the doors to the most closed and most powerful of the Houses – the House of the Dragon – once opened. A man who is not afraid of a blade, a spell, a curse, or betrayal...