CURIOSITY STREAM ➤ Go see the FULL VERSION of this video! Sign up for a year of Curiosity Stream and get a free year of access to our new creator-run streaming platform, Nebula! All for less than $15 PER YEAR! Not per month, PER YEAR! — Some villains are absolute geniuses, able to engineer the world around them to their benefit. Some… not so much. Koschei the Deathless, a famous wizard from Slavic Folklore, is one such figure. In trying to escape the thing he fears most in the world, he actually brought himself closer to it than ever. And he’s not alone. You’d be surprised how many villains are foolhardy enough to follow the same path. ▬▬▬▬ Credit/Attributions ▬▬▬▬ For a complete list of all sources used in all videos, please visit our Comprehensive Content Sources document: #bookmark= Additional Music by Epidemic Sound: ▬▬▬▬ What is Tale Foundry? ▬▬▬▬ If fiction were a material, we would be its manufacturing plant. We make: ➤ Tale Foundry Episodes — Where we take apart stories to see what makes them tick, then recycle what we find to create our own. ➤ Tale Bits — Where we pluck interesting ideas from stories and try to draw inspiration from them. ➤ Writing Group — Where we run a weekly writing group stream on Twitch where we read stories from all of you, the community! We post the highlights here on the main channel once a month. ➤ TF Discord — Come join our community! ▬▬▬▬ Support Us▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬ Tale Foundry Team ▬▬▬▬ • Talebot — the talent • The Taleoids — the talent's helpers • Benjamin Cook — writer/channel founder • Abbie Norton — artist () • Alexander Cuenin — Animator & Editor () • Bazz Bartlett — audio editor
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