The second-largest country in Europe, Ukraine is a place of breath-taking landscapes, lush meadows, cherry orchards, and extremely fertile agricultural land. In the Soviet days it was commonly referred to as ‘the granary of the country’. Perhaps that explains why, over the centuries, Ukraine frequently looked like a lucrative gain for a horde of invaders: from the Ottoman to the Russian Empires, from Austro Hungary to the Soviet state. They ravished the land and suppressed the people.

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A world ravaged by the Shadow Blight is crumbling before our eyes.

City after city is swallowed, their very stones twisted into wastelands, while the survivors slip into madness. In this dying realm only one Spark remains—Elara.

Gifted with the rare Life-Giving Spark, she alone can cleanse the Blight. Hope clings to her—hope to be rescued, or used. When Elara is seized by the armies of the Dark Overlord, she is taken to Nocturne, the enemy’s citadel. There rules Lord Caeden, a ruthless ...