The Story
por Becka Hollander
1. Pavel's funeral
2. Leaving Russia
3. The start of the war
3.1. Nikolai's amputation
3.2. Evgenia and Alyona compare notes on the Aphidrites and the Alkhern before Nikolai loses his hand and Evgenia uses her power as a councilwoman to retaliate.
4. Return to Russia
4.1. Revelation of Ambrus*
5. Introduction of the immortals
6. Introduction of Ix / Piri Kidnapped (twice)
7. Pavel's death
8. The hunt for the Renascentia Stone
8.1. Turns out Nikolai had it the whole time
8.1.1. Pavel gave Nikolai the stone in a nondescript package at the time of his death
9. The characters meet
9.1. Several times, and end up on the same train to Moscow
10. Before the start of the story
10.1. Ipati and Ambrus
10.2. Ipati's father's death
10.3. Marriage of Ipati and Evgenia
10.4. Pavel born
10.5. Aleksei's exile
10.6. Ipati's bequeathing of the Gold Staff
10.6.1. Kostya's Staff usurpation
10.7. Mercier family death
10.7.1. Kostya and Piri's journey starts