A good story, but not really my cup of tea. ( )

If you want to tie a real place into your fantasy world, make sure to do your research. Otherwise, come up with your own fantasy world, that way you’ll get more stars and offend less people.

One star, with another half for Dima.

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So... “Chernobyl” is a name of a mugwort plant and it means “black stem”, also known in Russia as “polyn’”. There is a creepy double meaning here: black/dark space, void. You can be looking at miles and miles of illusion of black void, despite the abundance of plants: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/20121123Beifuss_Hockenheim1....

Considering that Chernobyl is an official “settlement without population” or ghost town, despite almost 500 people still living in the area, it is indeed very chilling.

Bodark is not a Russian werewolf or even a Russian word. It was introduced by Tom Clancy (as far as I know) and is now a popular English name for a volkolak or volkodlak. ( )

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