Six guests at the hotel “Shelter of Heroes” disappeared without a trace as the result of a night raid by mysterious criminals. The investigation is assigned to two rival services, but Baron von Schmuck, the chief inquisitor of the Vigilant Order, and Henrietta Kukol, a magic specialist of the highest qualification, a watcher of the Quiet Tribunal, have not yet realized where their investigation will lead. Perhaps it will lead to the sinister Churich, a nest of necromancers—or to the citadel of the Black-and-White Majorate, where in ancient times the master of the most ridiculous knightly orders stepped from a balcony into eternity…