Ingria. The year 1240. The gaze of western invaders fell upon the lands of Baltic-Finnish and Slavic tribes. The decision has already been made, and the assembled hordes are ready to march. Who will stop them?
He is a Byzantine— a former naval officer of a fallen power. He is a warrior, and the battlefield for him is the whole history of our Motherland. And if in the northwest of Rus’ the world grandmasters have been moving whole peoples and armies like pieces across a vast chessboard, he will offer his own gambit.