Synopsis
In ice-locked, post-apocalyptic Russia, society as we know it has fractured. Radiation has caused a variety of mutations, from regular animals being turned into monsters to people gaining unusual powers. The country of Russia is no more, replaced by various kingdoms that rose up from the ashes and nuclear fallout from the nuclear holocaust that ended the world as we know it. What is left of the old Russia, centered around New Moscow, is making a power-play, invading the rest of the country in an attempt to put Russia back together to the way it was before.
Lev Sokol is a sell sword in Arkhangelsk, a small city north of the arctic circle. A social pariah with a serious chip on his shoulder, he, his sister Inna, and his niece Masha all live in the family cabin in the woods outside the city, isolated. Lev only ventures into the city if it's for his job or on market days to see the matryoshka painter, Petia Borisova. However, when the New Moscow army marches its way up to Arkhangelsk and occupies the city and the Empress of Arkhangelsk decides to employ him, he finds himself thrown into the world of politics, a world that might prove deadlier than the war-torn one he lived in, before. |