The mountains of Languedoc keep many secrets, and these secrets are in no hurry to be revealed to outsiders. The crusaders, who destroyed the cities and castles of the rebellious Albigensians with fire and sword, and the inquisitors, who burned them at the stake without number, stubbornly considered the Cathars not just heretics, but minions Darkness, skilled in mysterious and powerful black magic. Who was right? They or we, who consider the Albigensians to be wise philosophers, innocent victims of the ruthless “warriors of the North”? The abandoned sanctuaries of Languedoc still await the heir of forbidden knowledge, who will once again perform the dark and mysterious ancient ritual that once allowed those initiated into the mysteries to gain power inaccessible to ordinary people. And one day there will be someone who can do this...