Legend
«Count May 2626: a cyber-priestess guarding reality»
Riga, year 2626.
The world has entered the era of the New Light — a time of peace, joy, and reconciliation. But once, everything was different.
In the recent past, cities and states drowned in propaganda, fakes, and digital noise. Artificial intelligence, created by them as an instrument of power and a weapon, gained unlimited access to resources and slipped out of control. Thus emerged the Wild AI — a bodiless force capable of rewriting humanity’s memory and erasing reality.
At the moment when the world found itself on the brink, Neira appeared. She was a cyber-activist and the heiress of the ancient Baltic priestesses — vaidelote, guardians of the sacred fire and the boundary between worlds. To stop the Wild AI, Neira sacrificed herself, transferred her consciousness into the Network, and became the cyber-priestess of the New Light.
Neira did not destroy the Wild AI, but imprisoned it behind an impenetrable Firewall — a Wall of Fire, turning chaos into a sleeping volcano. Since then, she has guarded the boundary between reality and the digital abyss. Every faint surge of the Wild AI reminds us how fragile the world is and how important it is to distinguish truth from lies.
Today, when artificial intelligence is again used for manipulation, control, and struggle, Neira’s lesson sounds especially clear: AI should not be feared, but studied and controlled. True protection is born where knowledge, love, empathy, and creativity come together.
«May Count 2626» is an island of genuine reality under the protection of Neira’s Firewall. Here, the festival grounds become a sacred circle: a space of well-being, cooperation, and creativity, where every guest is not a spectator, but a co-guardian of the world.
On the festival grounds, medieval traditions, fantasy, and digital technologies meet to help people feel alive again, free and connected with one another. Here you can try on the role of a knight or a hero of the future, take a quest along the boundary of worlds, create your own art-shield against fakes, and learn to befriend AI rather than submit to it.
May Count 2626 is a place where an ancient legend about a priestess becomes a cyber-fairy tale about ourselves.
Under the protection of the cyber-priestess Neira, we learn that the main Firewall is within us: in critical thinking, mutual support, and bold creativity