Melnik leaves Artyom at the station while he goes to collect reinforcements but whilst he is away, Artyom becomes involved in the search for a missing child, Oleg. Artyom and Melnik flee without the book and re-enter the metro, arriving at station Kievskaya. It is an envelope containing directions to a functioning missile silo. Daniel is mortally wounded, but before dying, gives Artyom his reward anyway. They enter the library and are attacked by the 'librarians', mutated creatures that reside there. Artyom travels to the surface with Melnik and young Brahmin called Daniel. They offer a solution to the threat of the Dark Ones in exchange for Artyom's help in recovering a sacred book, as they believe him to be psychically sensitive. He delivers his message to Melnik, commander of the military organization named Spartan Order, and the council of Polis gather to determine their course of action.Īlthough Polis do not agree to intervene, a faction known as the Brahmins (who consist of scientists and academics who collect books from the library above), contact Artyom. After escaping, he finally reaches Polis.
Artyom's passport was lost during his detention, and after a failed attempt to gain travel papers by betting on rat races, Artyom is taken into custody. Pursued by the Reich, Artyom is left at Paveletskaya station and his route to Polis is blocked by the Hansa controlled Koltsevaya Line, who operate strict border controls. Just before his execution, a band of revolutionary fighters intervene and rescue him. Artyom flees, only to be captured by the Reich who sentence him to death for killing an officer. Khan leads him to Kitai-Gorod which is controlled by criminal gangs, but they become separated during an attack by the Fourth Reich. His first companion, Bourbon, is killed by a psychic force transmitted through the pipes and Artyom is then guided by a mystic named Khan. Feeling a sense of responsibility for the Dark Ones' attacks and seeking adventure, Artyom accepts.Īrtyom begins to journey towards the centre of the Metro. Hunter tells Artyom that he intends to gather intel on the Dark Ones, and in the event that he doesn't return Artyom must carry a message to a man named Melnik at Polis with news of the threat. They were unable to seal the exit after their visit and the Dark Ones have been using this entrance to the metro ever since. Artyom confesses that 10 years earlier, he and his friend went to the surface at the neighbouring station, Botanical Gardens. Hunter leaves, but asks to speak to Artyom. VDNKh is facing increasing attacks from mysterious creatures known as "The Dark Ones", who inspire terror throughout the station. The three meet and discuss the situation in VDNKh. Artyom spends his time on patrol in the tunnels and working in the mushroom factories.Īrtyom meets a man named Hunter, who is looking for Sukhoi. Sukhoi is now one of the authorities of VDNKh, one of the stations in the Metro, and has raised Artyom as his son. He was saved from a horde of carnivorous rats that killed his mother and the inhabitants of his station as a baby by Sukhoi, a military officer. The protagonist of the novel is a 24-year-old man named Artyom who was born before the nuclear war. Within that station, the events of Metro 2033 unfold. While most of the stations were controlled by the three main factions, some stations formed independent alliances, including the station VDNKh ("Exhibition"). Other stations were outright destroyed by animals, mutated by the nuclear fallout.
As the war raged, the stations who refused to join either side were either demolished by the factions, merged into the Hanza regime, raided by criminal bandits, or formed their own independent states. Factions emerged, ranging from the independent peacekeepers the "Rangers of the Order", to the neo-Stalinist "Red Line" faction and the neo-Nazi "Fourth Reich", to the more powerful factions such as "Polis", which contained the greatest military power and the most knowledge of the past, and the "Hanza" regime, which controlled the main ring of metro stations by its sheer economic power.Īs these groups began to evolve, the Red Line and the Fourth Reich quickly entered a state of war, as both sought to destroy the other. Eventually, communities settled within the underground train stations and developed into independent states over time. In 2013, a nuclear war forced a large amount of Moscow's surviving population to relocate to the city's Metro system in search of refuge.
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