Big Vlad

Big Vlad Olgimsky (Влад Ольгимский старший) is the head of the Olgimsky family. He's clever, but quick-tempered and unrestrained, and terrible in anger, because of his enormous size and power. He is capricious, cruel and biased in his judgments.

The power of urban industry is concentrated in his hands. But so far, a great deal of his power has passed to his son, Vlad Olgimsky the younger. His son doesn't have the best relationship with Big Vlad because they disagree about how best to manage and subordinate the workers and the steppe: the father thinks is right to treat them almost as though half-animal, the son believes in the value of their culture and communicates with them almost on an equal footing.

Despite the seemingly obvious contempt for the nomads, he received from them the title of Bos, "like a bull." This concept of the steppe culture that expresses the essence of his power over the government of the Order, is inextricably linked with responsibility, even though from the outside it is not obvious.

His role in the Bull Project
Clan Olgimsky, led by Big Vlad, controls the meat processing plant, Termitary, and to some extent the Abattoir. In fact, the Abattoir was initially realized by the forces of all three dominant families of the city, but is now run mostly by the older and younger Olgimsky.

His role in the construction of the Polyhedron
Although the construction of Polyhedron traditionally has been credited with the Stamatin genius and their patrons, the Kains, the main force for its physical construction was offered by Big Vlad. For this project, he mobilized the Order and thus gave the architect the required number of hands, and possibly materials as well.

His fate
After that Young Vlad locked the Termitary at the beginning of the epidemic, leaving the people of the Order there to die of starvation, the steppe craves revenge on the one who is to blame. Despite his conflicts with his son, Heavy Vlad without hesitation agrees to cover it, taking the blame. The protagonist (the Bachelor or Haruspex) has a choice: to name for the nomads the true culprit, Young Vlad, or his father, ready to pay with his life for the continued existence of his business and his family, which without a successor such as Young Vlad will hardly retain any influence in the face of Big Vlad's death.

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