The Slavic exodus to the north is over, but dangers haven’t disappeared, and peaceful life isn’t in sight for a long time yet. To the former enemies—accidents and other steppe dwellers—new ones have been added. Enemies become friends and then turn back into enemies, and battles go on without cease, reaching all the way to the future capital being built by the prince Rus—Rusgrad. But the worst of all is a threat of a split from within the Slavic Union—so that a brother goes against a brother… literally.