![]() These are revealed to be three of Ravka's reborn Saints Sankta Lizabeta, Sankt Grigori, and Sankt Juris. When they arrived at their destination, Nikolai, Zoya, and Yuri are taken captive by three monstrous creatures a dragon, a woman surrounded by bees, and a creature that keeps changing its form. Yuri then promised to help Nikolai get rid of the monster as a result. Nikolai points out that Saints have to be martyred, and so long as that power still exists, the Darkling cannot be a Saint. Nikolai unleashes his monster Yuri is awed by the obvious manifestation of the Darkling's power. Later on, they journey together into the Fold, seeking the place where the Darkling died.Įn route to the Fold, their convoy is attacked by Shu soldiers using jurda parem. Yuri told Zoya Nazyalensky and Nikolai tales of an ancient ritual, obisbaya, that was once used to remove monsters from men. His goal is to make the Darkling a Saint recognized by the church for this, he requested audiences with Nikolai Lantsov. ![]() Yuri is now the leader of the cult to the Darkling, and has gathered a small following. Yuri was thankful for the Shadow Fold and the Darkling for saving him and became the first of his followers. He tried to go still, knowing he was weak enough to where his uncle would kill him with a second beating, but the voice told him to not go.Īt that moment, the Shadow Fold enveloped Novokribirsk, only sparing Yuri from the volcra. Making it to the town square, he laid by the fountain when a voice told him not to go to the docks. Yuri forced himself to get up, eat breakfast, and leave for work. He was unable to rise from bed the next day from the pain, making his uncle promise to beat him if he did not come to work on the docks. He ran back to his uncle's house, who beat him mercilessly for not putting dinner on the table on time. One day, having drifted to sleep while reading in the church, he awoke to shadows moving around his feet. Tired of this, Yuri prayed to the gods to free him from his uncle and others' cruelty and devote his life to study. Many of the men who worked on the ports mocked Yuri for his wheezing and his fogged-up glasses, and his uncle physically abused him and mocked him for not working as well as others. When not working, he often read in the nearby church and lost himself to the texts. ![]() Sometime later, they sent him to live with his uncle in Novokribirsk to work on the dry docks for sandskiffs. Yuri read as many books as he could borrow since he was a young boy, which worried his parents in that he would not gain money for them.
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