The Pragsburg Magier, necromancer, alchemist and mechanicus is hiding from the court of the Kaiser and the persecution of the Inquisition in the possessions of Margrave Alfred the Warlock. At the tournament, which was convened for a reason and did not accept everyone, an indestructible steel golem suddenly appears against the color of Ostlandic knighthood.

In the magiclabor halls of the Oberland Castle, where death is worse than just death, dark experiments in the forbidden arts are carried out. Prisoners of dungeons, where animal laws of survival reign, lose their human appearance out of fear and hatred. And in the castle courtyard, the executioner's work is carried out by ruthless mechanical hands.

One of the Magier's captives, Dipold the Glorious, the son of the Duke-Elector of Ostland, will have to survive where it is impossible to survive, and get out from where one cannot get out alive. But perhaps they will help him with this. Just who? And, most importantly, why?