Record dated September 10, 1005. My name is Metropolitan Christophius. I am the successor of the leaders of the Order of Holy Ruthenia. It has been many years since the last states disappeared from this land. Or as we call it, the Dead Lands. Our land used to be called by another name. Fristimica. It was so until the Maar heretics made a rite of death. After that rite began, the apocalypse began all around. Everywhere skeletons or corpses of the dead rose from the dead, killing any creature they saw before them. At that time, the Order of Saint Ruthenia was a simple monastic order called the Order of the 4 Peaks, which had a small influence in the monasteries that were in the northern mountains. Our life was serene and peaceful until the undead army arrived. By uniting against a single enemy we fought off the first armies of the undead, but it didn't end there. Refugees. There were many. So many that our temples and monasteries could no longer cope. And then, our Order decided to create a state out of all the monasteries that were on friendly terms with us. And with God's help, we raised an army, built walls and cities, for as long as we are there, there is God's light and the last chance for life in this cursed place.