While taking shelter at Lothringen from his brother's assassins, Rave meets the former master of the castle, Astarot, and his servant Silver. Both of them are already dead. Astarot's wife was killed and his castle burned by the Hapsburgs, Rave's family, a hundred years ago. When Rave blunders into the castle crypt, Rot awakes and thinks Rave is his wife. When he discovers his mistake, he decides to lend Rave his strength to make him emperor...