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Published by Firebird Productions;

HeroQuest game engine

licensed from Issaries, Inc.

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By Mark Galeotti

Original HeroQuest game

Development Assistance

Neil Smith (Lead Playtester and author of ‘Wood, Blood & Snow’), ‘Newt’ Newport (Lead

Playtester), Graham Robinson (for Chained Simple Contests), Stewart Stansfield (Teutonic

Obermeister), Rick Meints (Publishing Tsar).

Playtesting, Advice and Encouragement

Sonia Bird, Bob, Max Breeks, Nick Brooke, Jo Brown, H R Buffnstuff, Stephen Chisholm, Mark

Coler, Craig Cousins, Rob Davis, Mark Dewhurst, Scott Dorward, Bruce Ferrie, Hugo Galeotti,

Katie Galeotti, Ruben in 't Groen, Mike Holmes, Christopher Jones, Christopher Lee, Kevin

McDonald, Louisa McGuinness, Stephen Martin, Simon Phipp, Robin Poole, Brand Robbins,

Handsome Sampson, Martin Smart, Graham Spearing, Leon Sucharov, Bryan Thexton, Sam

Thompson, Jane Williams.

Artists

Cover Art by Jeremy Mohler.

Interior Art by Ivan Bilibin, Simon Bray, Mark Doherty, Nikolai Fomin, Mark Galeotti, Rick

Hershey, Kathleen Jennings, Jeremy Mohler, Alex Sheikhman, Stewart Stansfield, Peter Town.

engine and certain portions of the text are © Issaries, Inc. and are used with permission. Interior

art remains copyright to the original artists.

This edition is fundamentally unchanged from the 2006 version, but reformatted for PDF and

printondemand publication, with typographic errors corrected.

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FBP 1001 (softback), ISBN 0955322405 (9780955322402)

FBP 1002 (hardback), ISBN 0955322413 (9780955322419)

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1. Welcome to Mythic Russia! ................ 4

2. Voices of Mythic Russia ...................... 8

A Cosmography ............................................... 169

15. The Mongols ...................................... 176

Land and Peoples ............................................ 177

Life and Custom .............................................. 179

Faith and Magic .............................................. 182

Ancestors of the Mongols ............................... 185

The Great Spirits ............................................. 189

Playing Mongols.............................................. 193

16. Sibiryaks ............................................ 197

The Sibiryaks................................................... 197

Life and Custom .............................................. 200

Siberian Shamanism ....................................... 201

Spirits of Siberia ............................................. 204

Playing Sibiryaks............................................. 210

The Sleeping Land: adventures in Siberia ..... 212

3. Your Hero .......................................... 10

Character Creation ......................................... 10

Abilities ........................................................... 16

4. Keywords ........................................... 22

Homelands ..................................................... 22

Occupations .................................................... 35

Magic Keywords ............................................. 43

5. Personality Traits & Relationships ..... 44

Personality ...................................................... 44

Relationships .................................................. 45

6. Hero Points........................................ 55

Gaining Hero Points....................................... 55

Shaping Fate ................................................... 56

Character Improvement................................. 57

7. Core Rules ......................................... 61

Contests .......................................................... 62

Simple Contests .............................................. 66

Extended Contests ......................................... 67

Contest Consequences ................................... 73

Modifiers & Augmentation ............................ 75

8. Magic ................................................. 83

Magic in the World......................................... 83

Natural Magic ................................................. 85

Gods, Saints, Spirits and Other Powers ........ 85

Commitment .................................................. 86

Using Magic .................................................... 93

Ritual Magic ................................................... 96

17. Lithuania ........................................... 216

Land and Peoples ............................................ 216

Life and Custom .............................................. 220

Faith and Magic .............................................. 221

The Gods of Romuva ...................................... 224

Playing Lithuanians ........................................ 231

18. The Teutonic Ordenstaat .................... 235

Land and Peoples ............................................ 236

Life and Custom .............................................. 242

The Order and the Church.............................. 245

Playing Teutons .............................................. 247

19. Friends & Foes from the West ............ 251

Strangers in Russia ......................................... 251

The Roman Catholic Faith.............................. 252

Sample Catholic Saints ................................... 253

Playing Foreigners .......................................... 262

20. Tsargrad ............................................ 263

Land and Peoples ............................................ 263

Life and Custom .............................................. 267

Faith and Magic .............................................. 269

Saints of the Greeks ........................................ 271

Playing Greeks ................................................ 277

21. Narrating ........................................... 280

The Narrator’s Toolkit .................................... 283

22. Beasts, Heroes & Spirits ..................... 291

Heroes, Villains & PassersBy ........................ 291

Beasts .............................................................. 294

Magical Beasts & Beings ................................. 295

23. Wood, Blood & Snow .......................... 302

Appendices

Want to Know More? ...................................... 313

Sample Character Sheet ................................. 314

Index................................................................ 315

9. Sons of Ryurik ................................... 99

Born of Conquest............................................ 99

The Peasants................................................... 101

Town Life ........................................................ 104

Boyars and Princes ......................................... 106

Cossacks! ........................................................ 108

Playing Russians ............................................ 109

10. Lands of the Rus’ ................................ 111

The South: Lands of Kiev ............................... 111

The Muscovite Heartland .............................. 114

The North: Lord Novgorod ............................ 119

11. Russian Ways..................................... 121

Two Faiths – and Dvoeverie .......................... 121

Russian Orthodoxy......................................... 124

Pagan Ways .................................................... 128

The Kam ......................................................... 130

12. The Gods of the Rus’ ........................... 132

13. The Saints of the Rus’ ......................... 147

14. East of the Sun & West of the Moon .... 163

The Many Worlds ........................................... 163

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“Nothing is impossible in Russia.”

nce upon a time, not long ago but not recently, in

a land not far away, but not near…” So begin

many of the oldest folktales of Russia. A land of

icy winters and fiery passions, where the warrior who

was trying to split you in half with his axe an hour ago

may be swearing eternal friendship in an hour’s time (a

jug or two of vodka might help).

A land just now throwing off Mongol rule and

yet still not a country in its own right, in which

princes scheme and bicker as they seek to make

themselves tsar.

A land torn between the new teachings of Christianity

and the old, pagan ways of the wilds and the household

spirit.

A land where saints walk the day and mighty spirits of

the forest walk the night, where the fish you catch may

offer you three wishes for its life and the twinkle of light

in the night might be the Firebird himself, leading lost

children back home, or a stray moonbeam shining off

the iron teeth of Baba Yaga, the maneating witch.

A land of deep, dark woods, in which humanity has still

made few inroads, huddled in towns and around

campfires in clearings and along rivers.

A land of legend and folktale, history and myth, of

triumph and tragedy.

A land ready for adventure.

Alyosha Popovich is one of the bogatyrs, the great

heroes of Russian tradition. He is a cheerful and

adventurous Christian warrior, deadly with spear and

sword and always ready for action. Just don’t, some

unkind souls will say, trust him with your back or your

wife…

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It is the 1380s, and Russia is in the midst of a painful,

violent and dangerous birth. After all, ‘Russia’ as a

country does not really exist, it is more a geographic

region defined by a broadly common language and

culture. The Rus’ themselves are products of the arrival

of Viking traders, raiders and conquerors 500 years ago.

Some carved themselves their own princedoms, married

members of the scattered local Slavic tribes and over the

years rulers and ruled combined to form a common

people sharing characteristics of both cultures.

The Tatar Yoke

Some 150 years ago, the Mongols (or Tatars) swept

across the principalities of the Rus’ – an irresistible,

Mythic Russia is the first separate game licensed by

Issaries, Inc. to use the superb and infinitelyscaleable

HeroQuest game engine, originally developed by

Robin Laws for play in Greg Stafford’s richlydetailed

fantasy world of Glorantha and then expanded into a

generic game engine as HeroQuest 2 . The games are

entirely compatible, although in some cases there are

optional rules in Mythic Russia to reflect distinctive

aspects of the setting or different underlying

assumptions. Especially noteworthy changes from the

original HeroQuest are highlighted under the Other

Heroes, Other Quests rubric.

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