"Where is my son!?"

The voice of Lord Morgenstern echoes in the desecrated chapel. Dark blood covers the beautiful tapestries. A handful corpses lie among broken benches and shattered glass. But the body of the brave Ephraim is nowhere to be found.

"My Lord ..." Brother Phineas holds his hand to the side of his head to stem the blood. "My Lord ... I am terribly sorry ... your son was not with us."

It is only slowly that Erich Morgenstern turns around to face the old monk. His expression is as cold and hard as the rock on which the castle stands. Brother Phineas, on the other hand, shivers. The fear and pain in his face is not caused by his wounds.

"My Lord, he knew not what he was doing. I pray. Forgive him, my Lord."

Erich Morgenstern drops his battlesword to the floor with a loud clang and the mosaic of a dove is broken, never to be restored.

"Ephraim ... rest his soul ... he sided with Ignatius and Pararhazes. Your son has gone to the Enemy."

This disinherited knight was one of the first to stand alongside Ignatius, as his private guard in battle. Even when Ignatius fell to the power of darkness, Lothar followed him.

"If there ever was a monk as devout in his faith as he was courageous in battle against the forces of darkness, it would be Ignatius. But his zeal overcame him, as he tried to use magic instead of faith in order to better fight the devilish foes of Castle Morgenstern. He turned to black magic and was cast out of the castle by Lord Morgenstern. However, in the process several monks and knights sided with him - even the Lord's own son, Ephraim, my father's uncle ..."

- Marten Morgenstern

"Pararhazes perhaps was the first of them all to succumb under the corruption. He was the herbal master of the chapel at Castle Morgenstern and helped Ignatius to gain praeternatural powers in battle. Pararhazes also taught the apothecary so much about herbal medicine he even can bring the dead back to life ..."

- Marten Morgenstern, steward at Castle Morgenstern.