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Russian folklore tells tales of Koschei the Deathless, a cruel and vicious man who could not be killed because he kept his soul bound up in a needle, which was hidden inside an egg, which was in a duck, which was in turn in a hare, which was in an iron chest buried under an oak tree on a distant island. While Deathless Ivan might not have gone to quite those lengths to ensure his immortality, he is certainly nighimpossible to kill, and the presence of his soul is something to be disputed. The huge Ogre serves as Grandfather Thunder’s personal bodyguard, chief enforcer and, rumor has it, assassin