Orsinia

Nestled among the less-traveled mountains and plains of Central Europe, perhaps a little east of Austria and north of Slovenia, lies the ancient kingdom of Orsinia. A land of forests, tranquil fields, and small towns, with its capital, Krasnoy, on the banks of the broad Molsen River, Orsinia has always been subject to forces beyond its borders. And yet, under the shadow of both Western and Eastern tyrannies, the lives and dreams of its people are no less important than the grand disputes of emperors and dictators. These are those lives: tales of love and bloodlust, of hope and fear, of freedom and oppression, of passion and despair. Stories of love, of life and death, and—at the height of 19th-century liberalism and nationalism—a story of revolution against the power of the Habsburg Empire. This is Orsinia. These are its stories.