Grand Duke Alvis's Notes

Grand Duke Alvis's Notes

...Even after His Majesty's passing, Hvergelmir remains within my control. This, perhaps, is why His Majesty entrusted everything to me while he yet walked amongst us. An alchemist who knows only to trample life into the mud, a young Snegurochka dissatisfied with her own race, and... *sigh* Aksinya, the Court Jester whom His Majesty coddled all too much... How could they possibly survive this tumultuous situation on their own? They will still have to rely on my methods, will they not? ... Yet we Domovoy were never ones to do business at a loss, Your Majesty, the late, great, Belyi Tsar... Naturally, I have the means to protect this secret chamber, sitting precariously as it does like an egg in an overturned nest. But all within it shall be mine to claim. The great sighing in my mind has grown more frequent. The person in the egg, the creature who was created... dares to lecture me? Yet "his" words are not bereft of sense. ... I will have vengeance upon [...], yet this move must not be discovered by the one who sits upon the new throne... The destruction of Kitezhgrad appears to me a perfect opportunity to avoid the cleansing directed at [...] Snezhnaya shall need a new Kitezhgrad, and that shall be my great work. Once accomplished, even the one on the new throne shall have no choice but to acknowledge me. Before that, I should... I shall get the share I deserve. It is what "he" promised to me. I must obtain that power. And after that, once Novokitezhgrad has been established, we can move Hvergelmir to that new city in secret. Everything here shall be of aid to my research... All so I can get closer... to that person within my mind...