Princess Petra of Vladimir-Suzdal - Ann

Player: Princess Petra of Vladimir-Suzdal
Faction: Orthodox, Rus
Email: petra@crusade.chaosdeathfish.com

Petra is one of the less favoured of Prince Vsevolod's many daughters, perhaps due to her habit of disappearing off into the wilderness for months at a time. Since travelling to the Holy Land she has begun to build a reputation as an explorer and relic hunter.

Hit Me Harder, Heathen

Trailer for a new Russian action movie, 'Princess' (2003). Details the exploits of historical Petra of Vladimir-Suzdal.

“With the departure of the Mongol Hordes in 1193 from the Rus lands, the Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal was without a Prince, Vsevolod lying slain in battle. Though the Prince had chosen his daughter Petra to succeed him, nobody could find the adventurous Princess…”

Cut to shot of Princess Petra on the prow of a ship looking out into a sea dotted with islands

“For she had not fallen in battle like her father, she was on her way to a mysterious city buried beneath the seas…”

Cut to shots of a city rising from the seas, then Petra in darkness, fighting off strange monsters with a torch, getting trapped by a flood of water, dramatic shots of a strange orange sphere.

From a 14th century Chronicle of the the Duchy of Muscovy, written by an anonymous nun

“Summer 1195. So the Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal received a letter from Princess Petra, who was his sister, and knew that she still lived…”

“Summer 1199. This year the Prince set out to find his sister, yet wandering for a whole year, he could not find her, for she had disappeared without a trace. There remained only the strange pearl of orange that he had recovered on his travels.”

An exhibition at a Museum in St. Petersburg, 1901

Written on a collection statuettes, figures of a Babylonian influence

… recovered in the 12th century by Petra of Vladimir-Suzdal. Held in the Tsars' Treasury.

Somewhere in the middle of the Mediterranean sea, beneath the waves.

Princess Petra stands looking around a great hall filled with seats as if a Greek theatre, and upon the stage three thrones at different heights. She brushes dust off a stone beside the corridor she had just come down and nudges something - suddenly light floods in from somewhere high above, illuminating with blue light the intricate decorations on the columns and walls of the hall. Princess Petra cautiously approaches the thrones, pauses to look around and gracefully carries herself onto the highest one…