Missionary hides in the church and prays to find salvation from the winged terror and claiming that "We're not alone" to the God. But the prayers were heard and materialized into a winged monstrosity that attacked the missionary during the nights.
Later when missionary arrives, pagans are secretly performing their rituals, which he doesn't take notice of. Some missionary is sent to Mordva to finally resolve the situation with clear instruction to use whatever means, no matter how violent. But that didn't help and response was to severely punish Mordva, who undersigned the letter to Empress, to make sure nobody follows their example - and that's where the track starts its story: Later in 1744 prominent Mordva elders wrote a letter to Empress Anna asking to stop forceful baptizing and remove the bishop from the area, who promoted violent acts. Though pagans found this idea quite offensive. Later this section utilized an idea of monetary and item reimbursement for people, who willingly decided to baptize. And there were numerous violent clashes between pagans and official and clergy rule, namely in 1656 - murder of Ryazan Archbishop, which sparked a new cycle of violence and served a reason for instatement of "Section of Newly Baptized Affairs", which was brought up for a purpose of speeding up baptizing of Kazan, Nizhegorodsk, Voronezh and Astrakhan regions. One of the main goals of the clergy in this region was to baptize Mordva people. Starting from XVI century there were orthodox churches built on territories inhabited by Mordva (indigenous finno-ugoric people) and tsar rule willingly assigned them farming, forestry and water resources and also assigned unchristianized villages to certain churches.
The track is far from metal community fantasies based on popular neopaganism ideas and based on real facts of the past, which closely intertwine with classic horror literature ideas. In the basis of "We Are Not Alone" track there are harsh facts of these cruel times of Povolzhye region people Christianization and internal missionary work in Russia.
Generally Russia's Christianization is usually depicted in heavy music as a brave foray of great Slavs, which are strangely dressed as Vikings and battle some devious foes with axes.
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