The World of Rotmistр Toot

“Ex-officers don’t happen”—it seems like there’s no need to explain this simple truth to Attair Toot, a hereditary soldier. And yet, after a successful coup in the Capital and the fall of the regime of the Unknown Fathers, one of the youngest colonels in the history of the Metropolia—an officer with brilliant career prospects and the commander’s own brother—suddenly submits his resignation.

Together with his young wife and the faithful vampire thrall Drym Toot, he goes to teach in a small seaside town called Bella. Who could have known that this very place would soon become the stage for an invasion by the Island Fleet? Only a progressor, Rudolph Sikorsky—known on Saraksh as the Wanderer—might tell Atr an old earth saying: “If you want peace, prepare for war”…