Nineteen-year-old Penrik kin Yurald, the youngest son of a poor nobleman from the provincial province of the mountainous Cantons, did not have a very good idea of what awaited him in the future. So far, his mother and sisters have tried to arrange for him to marry the daughter of a wealthy cheese maker from a nearby town. Penrick was just on his way to an engagement party when he saw an elderly woman on the side of a forest road who had become ill. Wanting to help, he dismounted and came closer... So it happened that Penric, unwittingly, acquired his own demon and he had to go to the city of Martensbridge, where initiates from the Order of the Bastard could help him or give advice. Mostly, however, I had to learn to live with the demon on my own. The company turned out to be troublesome and unsafe, but interesting.