Eighteen months after Henry Zhang returns to America to form the foundations of a new Companion Circle, Western Europe ignites in the flames of a violent insurgency that the governments of France, Germany, and Italy are compliant towards. The leaders of this insurgency have decimated European militaries thanks to arcane powers and seek to destroy what remains of Western culture in those nations. Marion discovers that the leaders of the insurgents are none other than her own parents and the Swabian Cathars of her hometown. The Companions join together again to stop the Cathars from acquiring seven gilded scriptures belonging each to an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire and hidden away by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. If they fail, the Cathars plan to use those scriptures to unearth the Holy Lance that stabbed Jesus upon the cross and use it to destroy the Caspian Gates, unleashing an apocalypse of Megawgs onto the world.