Do you think the third novel of Blaylock's "elven" trilogy contains the denouement of events familiar to you from "The Elven Ship" and "The Vanishing Dwarf"? But no! In the late 1980s, the mature Blaylock returned to the world of his first two novels on a qualitatively new level and wrote a completely independent backstory of the same events, with the main characters not exactly different, but playing the role in “The Elven Ship” and “The Vanishing Dwarf” rather subordinate. Now you will find out where Theophilus Escargot got the elven submarine, where the sea gate to the country of Belamnia is located, and how to escape from the goblin army, having only a flintlock pistol at your disposal...