Between Reality and the Beyond

“Terrible times are coming—the prophecy of Boyanovo is coming true: the Border of Worlds will thin, and Darkness will fall on the Russian land.” That’s what the great prince of Kyiv, Mstislav Vladimirovich—the last of his line and the last of the great Black Sea sorcerers—was told. The time of the impossible has come. A time when, on one side, there will be Christian priests and pagan gods’ priests. When the goddess of Life and the goddess of Death will forget their quarrels. Darkness is approaching. Galloping across uneasy, tormented by internecine wars Rus, messengers of the great prince carry sealed sacks with sacred amulets. Many will hunger to get such things, but only true heroes will have them. And not by the strength of their arms they will be chosen, but by the strength of their true and ancient—power of the Spirit. No other will manage when the Border of the Real and the Not-Real falls and a mortal shadow of Naglfar—the Ship of the Dead—hangs over the world of the living.