Imperial Russia kills her heroes quickly- and she does not show mercy.

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Arkady Bessmertny's destiny has already been decided.
Banished to the caucasus for his liberal beliefs, he is fated to die in the bloodbath of a cruel war and sacrifice himself in the name of the tsar.
His punishment is as devastating as it is simple.

But soon Arkady has to realise that there are far more terrible things than the blazing guns of the Circassians and the wrath of his tyrannical superior.
For ghosts creep in the old walls of his fortress and blood soaks its mortar as wailing shakes its stones.
They are all signs of a terrible truth.

Old, long forgotten darkness is rising, ready to swallow the entire empire.
But it is the same darkness that flows in Arkady's blood.
After all, he is much more than a miserable officer and the illegitimate son of a count.

Arkady Felixovich Bessmertny
The heir

Bela
The Mistress of Dagestan

Nikolai Alexandrovich Krassotkin
The tyrant

Petrizki
The friend

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Hello and welcome to The Saint of Frost and Death!

A story where history and folklore collide, where the shadows swallow the light, where our hero does not only have to face magic but also a complicated ancestry and where humanity shows its bloody teeth, proving that humans can be far more cruel than any creature they can imagine in their tales.

This story is based on prompt 3:
"Your greatest fear is monsters in the dark.
The last thing you expect is to become the monster in the dark"

And prompt 36:
"Fairytales are real", and there couldn't be anything worse.

This is not only my first time participating in the ONC, but also publishing something in a foreign language. So please be merciful with me :'D

I hope you'll enjoy reading !