The winter of 1708 into 1709 — the coldest in six hundred years — and then the summer that ends it.

• Graphic surgery and battle injury; amputation without anaesthesia
• Frostbite, gangrene, death by exposure
• Occupation, requisition, and an induced famine
• An execution by hanging; a summary shooting
• Sexual coercion within an occupying army, referenced, not depicted
• Desire between adults; sex cuts away at the door
• Grief; the death of a spouse before the story begins
• No slurs written out; contempt between Swedes, Ukrainians and Russians shows in billeting, rations and burial

Text-first draft: backgrounds and character art are generated placeholders and there is no audio yet.