But they say you can’t buy friends... Jorgen von Rauch bought his friend on the slave market of the Ehrenmark capital, for only twenty crowns in silver! For what? He didn't know himself. Was it a simple accident or the will of the gods who control the destinies of mortals - can you guess? But if the Lanztraeger Erzholm and the Silonian Calpurtius Tiill had not met that day, the fate of their world would have been completely different, swallowed up by Darkness, which comes to earth once every thousand years and threatens to remain forever. But it does not come on its own. One of the mortals, consciously or not, becomes the Incarnation of Darkness and opens the way for it into his world. Defeating him is the task for noble heroes seeking to stop Evil, and Jorgen and Calpurtius take it upon themselves. The only trouble is that Jorgen has every reason to suspect that he is the one who should become that very Incarnation...