Comment on This Week's Episode by NicklausofKrieg

yeah i've seen SuckerPunch it's a pretty cool flick though the story is kinda confusing like Inception or something hehe

there's ain't no easterners and or central asians in Tolkien so i guess it figures

yep there are tsarist stragglers all over russia and eastern europe, the story is back in that days of the tzars russian society was pretty much split into two classes, magic users and non-magic users, magic being a very demanding skill to learn, was only practiced by the elites, those who could afford to be schooled in such subjects, while the majority of russians lived in poor living condition in their menial jobs in the factories and fields where they slaved away, and of course none of them knew of the arcane arts which the elite used as a trump card over them, but there was a catch, since the tsarists were too inclined on magic they couldn't dabble at all with technology so that meant that they had to leave all of the technological research and development to their serfs in the factories (if one is too inclined to magic the result of them trying to use technology will be horrendous)

it was then that the revolution started when the workers started to master the art of technology in which they took up arms against the tsarists, the factories no longer served the tzar, and instead produced arms and armor for the communists, even with the most skilled arcane soldiers the tsarists had they couldn't stop the massed technological march of the revolution

when the tzar was finally finished off and the soviets took over, every form of magic was banned because they saw it as an elitist creation and practice, and they carried on to rebuilding russia into an industrial powerhouse trusting only in science and technology

now with all of the skilled magi of the tsarist's time either executed or in the gulags, the rest of the stragglers such as distant relatives of the tzar or other elite families who survived, now must rely on other means if they wish to plot vengeance, they've now turned to the many hidden cults that dotted eastern europe during the times of old, cults that were once deemed illegal by the tsarists due to their heavy use of dark necromancy now make up the bulk of their underground force (the tsarists made an agreement with the russian orthodox church that they'll allow them to practice magic only if they'd help the church's efforts against practitioners of dark and demonic magics)

so that's pretty much Russia's story so far