The City is a state without a name, just a City, but as soon as any mortal mentions its name out loud, people are seized with fear. For many decades now, the city of Areon has been ruled by a warrior emperor who, apart from war and death, recognizes nothing in this world. Endless battles with the “blue-skins”—as Areon’s minions contemptuously call their neighbors—brought the city’s residents to the last degree of poverty. Many of them went into the dungeons, popularly called the Halls, which from ancient times were located under the City. Fell, the son of a neighboring king, and the warrior Indaro, in alliance with the “blue-skins,” are making a plan to overthrow the cruel emperor. But the whole difficulty lies in the fact that Areon and the Highest, his entourage, are not people - they are immortal and capable of subordinating the will of everyone who encroaches on their power in the City... The novel has been translated into Russian for the first time. The author of the translation is Maria Semyonova, the creator of the famous series about the Wolfhound and other famous books in the historical fantasy genre.