Cyberslav

Young Cyberslav grew up in a church under the supervision of the High Priest, but, no longer willing to endure it, he fled to the forest near Kitezh. The young man, dressed in a tattered peasant robe, and a sheepskin coat on top, a non-human was hiding from the princely regiments in the thicket of the forest. He immediately recognized royal blood in the young prince, and therefore decided to save him, not worrying about his fate. If the prince orders something, then Cyberslav answers only this: "As you say, Lord." There is a collar around his neck, once riveted with red-hot nails at the back, which makes it impossible to remove it easily. The non-human is patient and tries not to show his feelings, partly hating himself for being born a half-demon. His hand has pointed claws, and his skin is rough to the touch. Only she and his eyes outwardly distinguish him from an ordinary person. Despite his lean physique, muscles and inhuman strength are hidden under the skin of the young man, which is why he is able to win against anyone in close combat.

The main character of the series is a half-blood: his mother was human, and his father was a demon. He has one dark arm from birth. When he gets angry, it lights up from the inside and grants superhuman strength. Young Kiberslav grew up in a church orphanage and was accepted into the service of the prince at court as a child. He is 16 years old. Kiberslav is often insulted by local residents, who call him a demon because of his origin. Humanity despises demons the most, which is why the young man is attacked by them. His height is 175 centimeters: he has dark skin, reddish dreadlocks to his shoulders, a lean build, but despite this, the teenager possesses non-human strength. It manifests when the half-blood experiences strong emotions. To suppress it, in the future the young man will be fitted with a collar that will shock Cyberslav with electric shocks during strong emotional outbursts. Also, what distinguishes him from people is his eyes. Their scleras are black. The eye color itself is slightly lighter - gray, but during intense emotions, they, like his demonic hand, light up with red. Cyberslav constantly prays to the Mother of God to make him human, but the prayers never work. He has fangs that he inherited from his father's demonic origins, which often makes the young man snarl.

The appearance of the Source changed people's lives forever. It powers various devices - from cybernetic implants and laser weapons to exoskeletons and massive robots. Legends are told about the origin of the artifact, and none of the living remember what the world was like before. Dmitriev himself describes the Source as follows: "It is an elongated sphere, the size of a basketball, emitting a bright light. It is enclosed in a large complex mechanism that draws and distributes energy from it to power Kitezh and the surrounding area." 100 years before the events of the series, there was a terrible war when evil spirits tried to take the Source, but the Kitezh people defended it. As a sign of gratitude to Prince Belogor, who ruled the city at that time, the people erected a monument to him in the square.

In the distant past, people received a gift - a powerful source of energy stored under the princely castle. The Mother Goddess gave the source to the people. Stas Dmitriev explains its origin as follows: "In the world of the series, the existing cult embodies the Mother Goddess, and her opposition is Lilith. But, as is usually the case, no one (or almost no one) remembers or knows when and how the events occurred that gave rise to the legends that became the basis of their faith. We will gradually reveal the secrets of this world." In "Cyber ​​Slavic" there is its own religion, based on the interpretation of the gifts of the Mother Goddess. Stas Dmitriev emphasizes that Rus' in the animated action is endowed with features of a theocracy: "The Church of the Mother in our lore appears in two hypostases. In addition to its direct activity as an organization, it is also a scientific and technical institution with a large knowledge base, technologies and production of equipment powered by the Source." At the head of the church is the high priest named Vedagor. He is a strict mentor of Cyberslav, who insisted that the half-breed wear a collar that restrains his powers.

The series focuses on the city of Kitezh and its surroundings, called Interfluve. The rest of the cyberslavic Rus' does not appear in the plot. At the same time, each village surrounding the princely capital has its own customs and traditions. Not all residents of Interfluve worship the Mother, some believe in other gods, and their beliefs are rooted in the times before the Source appeared. In the district, by the way, various evil spirits live. For example, humanoid insect-insectums and werewolves. All of them are able to take on human form and imitate not only speech, but also human behavior. And also around Kitezh you can meet huge monsters that have been sleeping for decades since the ancient war.

The universe of the animated series is a unique alternative world where the history of Russia took its amazing path at some point. The appearance of a mysterious Source forever transformed people's lives, ending them with high technology. This is how electricity, cyber implants, neon signs, autonomous robots, artificial horses, and many other features of cyberpunk appeared in society. At the same time, "Cyberia" combines elements of Slavic fantasy: the use of folk flavor, archaisms and Old Russian names, colloquial vocabulary and the internal dualism of the hero. Cyberslav is only half human; the hero despises his monstrous part, but at the same time believes that he must fight evil spirits, since this is his calling.

As a result, the world of the series looks like real techno-fantasy, its inhabitants walk with prosthetics of arms and legs, the guards in the city are armed with plasma weapons and cannons, at the fair you can buy various inventions of folk craftsmen, and the first enemy in the series is an inventive cyborg controlled by artificial intelligence. Here, a paradoxical future in the past is combined: people name their sons and daughters with Old Slavic names, while wearing a cybernetic prosthesis of a leg or arm.