The gods, the high Ases, descended on the lands of the Vikings who did not fear death, the sons of one-eyed Odin and the mighty Thor. They went to help the heroes in their great achievements. They went and fought and fought among themselves. They went and loved mortal beauties, and then warriors were born, who had no equal under the sky of Midgard, the Middle World... The formidable Slavic gods descended on the lands of the Russians. They came and then Perun’s thunderstorms thundered, and Moran and Chernobog sneaked treacherously in the darkness, and the clear Yarila came to human villages. And the great Blacksmith Kiy forged in his forge a weapon, not a simple one, but a magical one, so that with it he could go out into a battle of life and death - for the last duel with the Serpent...