What to Expect
Tropes & Content
What this series is, what it contains, and what to expect before you open the first page.
Content Warnings
Graphic Violence and Death
Captivity and coercion
Psychological horror
On-page death of named characters
Mature sexual themes
Grief, loss, and the aftermath of both
This series is intended for adult readers and contains graphic violence, political violence, mature sexual content, coercion, exploitation, human trafficking, religious fanaticism, death, loss of memory and identity, and mature themes. Some characters cannot feel what they should. Some characters feel everything, and it is not enough. The youngest people in these pages are not protected from what happens in them.
Tropes
Morally complex characters
Strong Dominant Male Protagonist
Brotherhood and loyalty
Found family
Immortality as a cage, not a gift
Slavic mythology treated as real
Compelling Female Protagonist
Power imbalance
Competent characters solving real problems
Villains with a point
Dual POV
Atmospheric world-building
Loyalty tested past the breaking point
The monster turns out to be a man. The man turns out to be complicated.
Folklore treated as horror
Consequences that stick
Anti-hero protagonist
Literary prose
Quiet horror
Earned battles
Monsters that were people
The weight of command
Evil that isn't malicious
Good intentions, terrible costs
Domesticity in dark places
Silence as characterization
Prose that trusts the reader
Duty against desire
War without glory