Когда обнаружил Явьмир(через поиск карт Дарксана), заинтересовался тем, как на западе в целом видят понятие «славянского сеттинга». И вот, просмотрев кучу форумов, наткнулся на форуме Пайзо на такой вот список, который, как мне показалось, отображает всё что я видел в большей или меньшей степени:
1. Baba Yaga. An epic level NPC witch out in the east somewhere.

2. Eastward Ho! As nobles have kids, and perhaps a law that says that only the eldest son inherits the property, this means that the younger songs have to seek out new property in the wilderness to settle. The barbarians and monsters who live in the eastern wilderness do not like that, and raids against these settlements are almost constant. Thus, there is a steady demand for adventurers to go out east and slay monsters.

3. Pessimism. I've heard that the «Russian Anthropological Principle» goes like this: The Anthropological Principle says that the world has to be able to support life. But it does not say life has to be comfortable. There are many more ways for life to be uncomfortable than for it to be comfortable. Therefore life is probably uncomfortable.

4. Vodka. Lots of vodka.

5. Fiddler on the Roof. It sounds, crazy, no? But every one of us is like a fiddler on the roof, trying to eek out a pleasant tune, without breaking his neck. Seriously, there could be a religious minority living in communities among the majority, with occasional outbreaks of violence.

6. Powerful rulers. Peter the Great! Ivan the Terrible! Catherine the Great! You never hear of Vladimir the Mediocre, or Manya the So-so. The Czar has great plans, and nobody is allowed to question her authority, except maybe the mad monk who can't be killed.

7. Russian nesting dolls. Thinking about it, it is possible to see these as perhaps one-shot magic items, where opening each doll releases a spell. Or perhaps there is a puzzle based on this concept, where each layer incorporates a riddle that has to be solved to open it and get to the next layer.(К этому пункту можно было бы добавить еще балалайки и шашки(которые оружие))