On Akbar's land, several murders of children of Princes Sorcerers intangle the relative quietness of the region. Disturbing detail, each victim bears a sign on his body: would the mysterious cult of the Order of Signs be responsible for these assassinations? For his part, since Javin's death, Bragon has hardened himself to the contact of Frange who has taught him how to handle arms. On the advice of the latter, Bragon decides to leave the city of Vaguamare in order to participate in the fights that will allow him to fight even more. And, perhaps, to attract the attention of the formidable Rige even if some say that this character never existed and that it would be only a legend. It is also for him a way to get away from the troubling Princess Mara of which he is secretly in love. But how, he, a rottor, could seduce a lady of his rank? Worry of events, Mara's father thinks that the Order of Signs prepares for a precious conspiration and decides to send out a grudge a god who could not even the darker to the god.