Continuing the research he once began on the island of Phantom Moths, Osiris Ward, the royal engineer of Balaria, achieves the seemingly impossible: having built an entire air fleet from dragon bones, he subjugates all the other powers of Terra to his will. Only the province of Dain Forest remains unconquered - a thicket impassable for outsiders, where the Army of the Jaguars (the best soldiers of Terra) staunchly repulse the attacks of the mercenaries-Wildermen landed by sky-flights and the super-soldiers-acolytes created by Ward. Meanwhile, Ashlyn Malgrave, nicknamed the witch-queen, and her companion Bershad the Flawless, the best dragonman of all Terra, are trying to oppose the power of Vard with the power that is hidden in the dragon thread - the rarest nerve fiber extracted from the spine of a dragon of the ghostly moth breed... For the first time in Russian - a new sequel to "possibly the best dark fantasy debut since Sapkowski's The Witcher" (Grimdark Magazine).