Year of the Tsar 2674 AD, and bastard son of the Romanovs NIKOLAI DANTE has bonded with a cyborganic Weapons Crest, an alien combat computer, which gives him accelerated healing and allows him to extrude lethal bio-blades. Tsar Vladimir the Conqueror has made Dante his troubleshooter, and following the events in the Thieves' World relations in the royal court are strained...