The Iron Forest. A scarred, immovable defender built for utility over beauty, whose hypervigilance is matched only by his physical durability.

Dmitri Volkov is a paradox: a Snezhnayan soldier named for the harvest goddess, a man of war wielding the element of growth. Born into a lineage of military defenders, he spent his early adult life as a human siege engine, pointing his claymore at whatever Snezhnaya's military apparatus deemed worthy of breaking. That certainty snapped when the system he served demanded an unconscionable price — the abandonment of innocent civilians.

In a rare act of radical mercy, Dmitri chose to protect the refugees instead of following orders, branding himself a deserter and a lone wolf driven from his pack. It was in this precise moment of rebellion that a Dendro Vision manifested: a quiet acknowledgment from the gods that the bloodied soil of a battlefield could still nurture life.

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