You can double click on a character portrait to centre the screen focus on that character or use a hotkey to recentre on the lead character. Click and holding the left mouse button down to direct the selected characters to move will also lock the screen focus on the lead character.
There is a link to download the original Russian intro in the topic
Books are`nt readable, as well as a hotfix for the bug with books in the Russian and Polish versions of Beyond Divinity (if the updater doesn't download it automatically).
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