The principality strives for power and greatness, burning pagan tribes in its path—the price of success is high, and triumph will inevitably be paid for with blood.
But in Rus, they do not yet know that darkness is already rising from the East, and there are only eight years until the coming of the Mongols.
Will the internecine conflicts temper the state—or, on the contrary, weaken it before the real threat?
1229. North-Eastern Rus wages war against pagan tribes. The ruler needs new lands and new people to strengthen his power and assemble a state that will become the strongest among the Russian principalities—one whose might no one will dare to challenge.
The stakes are, as always, extremely high. For victory, one will have to pay with blood. But will the goal justify such a price…
In Rus, they still do not know of the terrible danger approaching from the East. Only eight years remain until the Mongol invasion.