Vasiliev's Book of Saints

**Vasiliev's Book of Saints** is a Kalyazin book that recounts the histories of the saints of Kalyazin.

## Description

Male saints are *Svoyatovi*, and female saints are known as *Svoyatova*. More than one saint is *Svoyatovy*. Most are killed by the Tranavian blood mages or Vultures. Many are also clerics.

## Known Saints

### Marzenya

* **Evgenia Dyrbova:** The last known cleric, until Nadya. Her last words were considered a prophecy of doom, stating that if nothing changed and the war continued, Kalyazin would be doomed.
* **Violetta Zhestakova:** When she was thirteen she led a Kalyazi army in the Battle of Relics in 1510. She was a ruthless on the battlefield until she was killed by the blood mage Apolonia Sroka.
* **Alevtina Polacheva:** She was a cleric and an assassin skilled at the art of death. She was killed on a mission in Tranavia.
* **Lizavieta Zhilova:** She was a cleric who killed the blood mage Pyotr Syslo who burned her village as a child.
* **Valentina Benediktova:** A cleric whose path became clouded when it crossed with the blood mage Urszula Klimowska. At twelve she defended the city of Tolbirnya. There is no record of her death, and her body was never found.
* **Serafima Zyomina:** A cleric blessed with strange magic that never seemed to work the same way twice. Enemies seeing her on the battlefield knew she meant a slow and agonizing death for she was like Marzenya in her cruelty.

### Vaclav

* **Radmilla Martyvsheva:** Killed the Tranavian who murdered her sisters.
* **Nymphadora Martyvsheva:** Lived peacefully in a forest until she was killed by a Tranavian.
* **Agrippa Martyvsheva:** Lived peacefully in a forest until she was killed by a Tranavian.
* **Nedelya Ojdanic:** She heard the voice of Vaclav as a young girl and entered the dark woods near her village. She never returned, but when her village was attacked by Tranavia, a *leshy* moved the woods and consumed them.
* **Kseniya Pushnaya:** Named Svoyatova of Thorns, she lived in the deep forests and granted gifts of power to those who sought her out and survived the trials that her god set before them.
* **Zakhar Astakhov:** He communed with the voices of the forest, some say with Vaclav, others say with something much older. Still others say he spoke with nothing more than the *leshy* who took his mind and killed him in the Tachlivnik Forest.

### Zbyhneuska

* **Ilya Golubkin:** Single-handedly protected the city of Korovgrod against invasion.
* **Stefania Belomestnova:** When her head was cut off during battle, Zbyhneuska healed her completely.

### Bozidarka

* **Alisha Varushkina:** She was a seer who protected western Kalyazin until she was killed by a low prince from the west Dimitri Zyuganow.
* **Evgenia Zotova:** She hid disguised as a man and lived prophesying from a cave at the base of the Baikkle Mountains.
* **Maksim Belousov:** He and his brother prophesied Tranavia’s ultimate downfall and Kalyazin’s victory. Their prophesies were considered apocryphal and discounted when Maksim blinded and murdered his brother Tsezar.
* **Tsezar Belousov:** He and his brother prophesied Tranavia’s ultimate downfall and Kalyazin’s victory. Their prophesies were considered apocryphal and discounted when Maksim blinded and murdered his brother Tsezar.

### Omunitsa

* **Nyura Zlobina:** She molded water to drown an army.
* **Valeriya Zolotova:** A cleric who drowned in a flood sent by her goddess to wipe out the ancient city of Tokhvoloshnik.

### Myesta

* **Valentin Rostov:** A cleric who used his goddess' powers of deception to infiltrate Tranavia at the beginning of the war until he was killed by a Tranavian prince.

### Horz

* **Leonid Barentsev:** He lived as an academic teaching the *Codex of the Divine*. Believed to have been poisoned, but his body was never recovered or found.

### Zlatek

* **Vlastimil Zykin:** His mind was unable to handle the rigors of silence his god required. His failure is remembered as a lesson to those chosen by the gods that they are mortal, and the gods are not to be trifled with.

### Bozetjeh

* **Klavdiy Guin:** A cleric who was a master of time until he disappeared and was never heard from again and his body was never found.

### Devonya

* **Ivan Moroshkin:** A cleric known for where his arrows fell, fire consumed.
* **Aleksasha Ushakova:** Stricken by Devonya, she was stripped of all power. Her bones are cursed and rest in the vault underneath the Baikkle Monastery. Those who touch them are ruined.

### Krsnik

* **Nikita Lisov:** A cleric who abandoned his life as a holy man to use his power to entertain. The use of one of his finger bones in a battle in 625 turned the tide against Tranavian when it burst into flames and wiped out a full Tranavian company.

### Veceslav

* **Konstantin Nemtsev:** A cleric during a rare time of peace. He was captured by Tranavian blood mages and drawn and quartered, ending the peace.
* **Nikolay Ostaltsev:** He is spoken of only in whispers, he was ruined by the Vultures.

### Unknown Association

* **Roman Luski:** A bishop, he was betrayed by a fellow Kalyazin, Dobromir Teskhanovetsky.
* **Dimitry Teterev:** His ears, eyes, and tongue were removed but he still brought down the city of Kowat single-handedly.
* **Lukyan Starodubtsev:** The only cleric ever to be taken to the Salt Mines and survive, but his eyes never stopped bleeding.
* **Yulka Lokteva:** She was taken into the Salt Mines and never seen again.
* **Evgenia Grafova:** When she sang, stars fell from her eyes and lips.
* **Yeremey Meledin:** Out of his mouth came twelve hundred snakes, afterwards he died.
* **Kliment Ylechukov:** He was abandoned at a monastery deep in the forests with his sister. He infiltrated the Tranavian army with her until they were martyred.
* **Frosya Ylechukov:** She was abandoned at a monastery deep in the forests with her brother. She infiltrated the Tranavian army with him until they were martyred.
* **Viktoria Kholodova:** When she was killed, a pomegranate tree burst forth from where her body fell.
* **Aleksandra Mozhayeva:** *Unknown*
* **Yakov Luzhkov:** The founder of the Selortevnsky monastery in Ghelovkhin where clerics were trained in secret to fight in the war. He died when his monastery was burned in 1520.
* **Malgorzata Dana:** A Tranavian who fled to Kalyazin and lived in a monastery in Tobalsk until her death at the hands of her brother.
* **Milan Khalturin:** A holy man, blessed by no god but a worshiper of them all who wandered across Kalyazin. His bones are said to have healing properties.
* **Dobromir Pirozhkov:** As a child his sister fell into a frozen river, and he brought her back to life. His sister’s life was odd and full of strange mishaps until her death in a bizarre accident where she was trampled by her own horse. He wasn’t a cleric and was chased by terrible luck. He died in the same lake his sister did.
* **Raya Astafyeva:** It’s said stars trailed her wherever she went, and she was a path of “flickering light amidst the darkness of war.”
* **Elzbieta Pientka:** A Tranavia who burned in the cleric Evdokiya Solodnikova’s place. Where her body was buried, the dead are said to speak with the living.
* **Aleksander Rosovsky:** Born under the double moons of Myesta but not taken by her as a cleric. When he and his twin were killed by blood mages, their mirrored souls split the ground in two and killed the mages.
* **Polina Rozovsky:** Born under the double moons of Myesta but not taken by her as a cleric. When she and her twin were killed by blood mages, their mirrored souls split the ground in two and killed the mages.
* **Arkadiy Karandashov:** *Tsarevich* of Kalyazin who united the east and west. Many miracles have been performed over his grave.
* **Maruska Obukhova:** As a young girl she prophesied the death of *Tsaritsa* Milyena and was burned at the stake. *Tsaritsa* Milyena died of a snake bite an hour after Maruska.
* **Inessa Besfamilny:** A cleric with no record of which god touched her. Her lover, Marya Telkinova, was corrupted by a *kashyvhes*, forcing Inessa to kill her and the entire village Marya corrupted. It is said the Govanitsy River was created by Inessa’s tears.
* **Sergei Volkakov:** His hands and tongue were cut off by Tranavians, but he still brought down a mountain on the heretics.
* **Orya Gorelova:** *Unknown*

## Wicked Saints

"Svoyatovi Ilya Golubkin: Born a farmer's son. Ilya was struck with a disease that prevented him from walking. Healed by a cleric of Zbyhneuska, he was imbued with superhuman strength and went on to become a warrier monk. Ilya single-handedly protected the city of Korcgrod against invaders from across the sea" - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatovo Radmila, Nymphadora, and Agrippa Martysheva: Triplets blessed by the god Valcav, the Martyvshevas lived the cernet of the dark Chernayevsky Frorest in quiet communion with their patron until the heretic Serciusz Konicki invaded. When he tried to force the Martyshecas to renounce their patron, they resisted. Konicki killed Nymphadora and Agrippa, burning them an dhalf in the Chernayevsky Forest. Radmila fled to saftey, spent seven years in contemplation with Valcav, then hunted Konicki down and burned him alive like he had her sisters." **- Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatova Alisha Varushkina: A cleric of Bozidarka and a seer, Alisha's visions protected Kalyazin from an uprising in the western provinces. This protection did not extend to her. Years later, a low prince from the west, Dmitri Zyuganov, would burn out her eyes with a flaming poker for interfering with his plans." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatovi Roman Luski: Appointed as a bishop in secret by half of the Council of 1213, Luski fought to maintain the Klayazi control of the eastern provinces. It was a losing battle, as Dobromir Tsekanoversky gained the votes of the other half and betrayed his country's trust by handing their the provinces to the Tranavian king." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatovi Valentin Rostov: A cleric of Myesta, Rostov infiltrated Tranavia at the begninning of the holy war, utilizing his goddess's powers for deception. For years, Rostov fed information back to Kalyazin, until the Tranavian prince who suspected him of using magic other than heretical blood magic poisoned him." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatova Evgenia Zotova: Zotova hid herself in the guise of a man and lived for most of her life prophesying from a cave at the base of the Baikkle Mountains" - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatova Viktoria Kholodova: When Svoyatova Viktoria Kholodova was killed, a pomegranate tree burst forth from where her body fell." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatova Violetta Zhestakova: "When she was thirteen, Svoyatova Violetta Zhestakova led a Kalyazi army in the battle of Relics in 1510, A cleric of Marzenya, Violetta was a ruthless killer who ultimately fell in battle, killed by blood mage Apolonia Sroka." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatovi Leonid Barentsev: A cleric of Horz, he lived in Komyazalov as an academia who taught Codex of the Divine. It is believed Tranavian assassins poisoned him, but his body was never recovered nor found." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatovi Yakov Luzhkov: The founder of the Selortevnsky monastery in Ghelovkhin, a place where clerics trained in secret to fight in the holy war. When the monastery was destroyed in 1520, Yakov burned with it." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatova Małgorzata Dana: A Tranavian who fled her family of heritics for a life in the monastery in Toblask. Her courage, and death at the hands of her brother, canonized her as a saint." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatovi Vlastimil Zykin: A cleric of Zlatek. Vlastimil's mind was weak, unable to handle the rigors of the silence his god required of him. Instead of striking him from memory, his failure is remembered as a lesson to those chosen by the gods that they are mortal and the gods are not to be trifled with." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatovi Klavdiy Gusin: A cleric of Bozetjeh, Svoyatovi Klavdiy Gusin was a master of time, bending it to his will. Until one day he dissapered and was never to be heard from again, his body was never found." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatova Alevtina Polacheva: A cleric of Marzenya, she was an assassin who seemed to be more skilled at the art of death than the art of magic. She lost her life on a mission to Tranavia, killed by heretic blood mages." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatovi Milan Kahturin: Svoyatovi Milan Kahturin was a holy man, blessed by no god, yet a worshiper of them all, who wandered across Kalyazin. There are miracles attributed not to his life, but to his death, as his bones are said to have healing properties." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatovi Konstantin Nemtsev: A cleric of Veceslav during a rare time of peace between Klayazin and its neighbours. That did not protect Konstantin from meeting an unfortunate end. He was captured by Tranavian blood mages and drawn and quatered. The peace did not last long." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatovi Dobromir Pirohkov: When Svoyatovi Dobromir Pirohkov was a child, his sister fell into a frozen river and he miraculously returned her to life. Hers was an odd life, full of strange mishaps until she was finally killed in a bizarr accident, trampled by her own horse. Dobromir, who was not a cleric, was also chased by terrible luck throughout his life until ultimately he drowned in the same river he saved his sister from years prior." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatova Serafima Zyomina: Little is known about Svoyatova Serafima Zyomina. Though as a cleric, she was blessed with strange magic that never seemed to work the same way twice. If one was an enemy, seeing her on a battle field meant a slow and agonizing death, for she was a cleric of Marzenya and both were cruel." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatovi Nikita Lisov: A cleric of Krsnik who chose to abandon his life as a holy man and instead use the god-given power to entertain. While the church fought against his canonization, the use of one of his finger bones turned the tide of a battle in 625 when it burst into flames and wiped out a full Tranavian company." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatova Raya Astafyeva: It was said that stars trailed Svoyatova Raya Astafyeva wherever she went. A path of flickering light amidst the darkness of war." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatova Valentina Benediktova: A cleric of Marzenya whose path became clouded when it crossed that of the Tranavian blood mage, Urzula Klimkowska. All records of Valentina end there. No one knows whether Valentina killed Urzula or vice versa. Her canonization was due to the miracle she preformed when she was twelve of defending the city of Tolbirnya. There is no record of her death; her body was never found." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**

"Svoyatova Evgina Dyrbova: The last known cleric, Svoyatova Evgina Dyrbova, a cleric of Marzenya, fell on the battlefield. Her last words were considered the phrophecy of doom - the good would recide, their touch would lessen, clerics would be even more of a rarety. Kalyazin would be doomed, if nothing changed, if the war continued." - **Vasiliev's Book of Saints**