Blood, unclean spirits, reanimated corpses, and ancient burial mounds with treasure—here, it’s not a scare story, but the most ordinary Tuesday in 17th-century Novgorod land. If you want epic, grim, and deranged fantasy where a thoroughly vile villain is at the heart of the story—you’re in the right place.
All of Rukh Buchila’s exploits—in one bundle!
Novgorod land, the 17th century: a wild, uncharted region where the most terrifying legends and tales easily become reality, and the End of the World is awaited like long-awaited deliverance. Here demons bargain for souls, werewolves lift gates, sorcerers fashion monsters out of human remains, whisper about an impending war, and human life is worth not a broken kopeck. The forests are teeming with unclean spirits, on abandoned graveyards the dead rise, ancient burial sites conceal untold riches, roads run with blood, and above it all hangs a grotesque, mocking moon that brings plague and ruin.
Such a world needs a hero to match. Meet Rukh Buchila—a killer, a scoundrel, a rogue, and a little bit of a saint. A champion of the strong over the weak, a defender of monsters, a hunter of dashing widows with the motto “Anyone, anyone but me.” The last hope before the coming darkness. A wretch cursed by both God and people.