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And now, on with the show. Oh, I'm going to go. It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of Kings is to search things out.

Proverbs 252.

Western Siberia is, as you might already know, a brutal place.

Environmental extremes mark this region of the world.

A region that due to the noticeable lack of modern development already has an almost tangible feeling of mystery

and intrigue hanging in the air.

The instinct of wonder at this remote region is well warranted.

Western Siberia is a poorly drained floodplain

whose prevalent swamps and marshes create a heavy air of warm humidity in the

summers but it's the winters that are the real beasts.

The cold season in the Western Siberian plane is harsh and long.

Without the help of modern technology and utilities,

few people have the skill and grit required to weather them. The eastern side of this

inhospitable plane is guarded by the foreboding Urral Mountains. Thought by the

ancients to be the riffian boundary of the northern world or the

legendary dwelling of the hyperborean peoples. This great chain of raised earth

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