Age: 45
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Vasiliy Stepanov (born January 14, 1986) is a Russian actor who became an overnight sensation and a symbol of "the new Russian cinema" following his iconic debut in Fyodor Bondarchuk’s sci-fi epic The Inhabited Island (2008). A graduate of the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, he was handpicked for the lead role of Maxim Kammerer due to his striking physical appearance and "alien" blue eyes, which made him one of the most recognizable faces in Russia during the late 2000s. Despite this meteoric rise, his career was subsequently marked by a long hiatus due to personal health challenges and the heavy psychological toll of sudden fame, though he made brief returns to the screen in projects like About Love (2017) and the film Who is Next, Dreamers? (2018).
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret. Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die
