Fantasy elements include occasional magical feats, artifacts, and non-human characters.

[2] Reinmar from Bielawa, known as Reynevan, lives in Lower Silesia in 1425 in the middle of the Hussite Wars.

When Reinmar reaches Powojowice, where his brother was overseeing the dyeing of dresses in a fulling mill, he learns that Peterlin has been murdered.

Reynevan moves on, seeking revenge on the Stercz family and heading to Ziębice, where Adela is being held, in the desire to regain his beloved.

Szarlej and Samson had made deal with robber knights to rescue Reinmar for helping them rob the tax collector.

To avenge the people who died Reinmar helps the group to rob the robbers, but it turned out the carriage to contain two maidens, one of them Nikoletta instead of the money they were after.

After that, he meets with the others but are captured by the inquisition when a friend betrays Reinmar, and imprisons him in the Narrenturm, The Tower of Fools.

The inquirer turns out to be a friend from college who reveals that his brother was working for Hussites and tries to recruit him as a spy under threat of torture.