The fall of the beast

One thousand four hundred and twenty-eight. Gabriel de Sceleus apparently achieved everything he could wish for: in vain did Borbála Cillei become a mortal enemy, enjoying the trust of King Sigismund, chancellor and chief organizer of his diplomacy. nor to win a cardinal hat. Gabriel, however, feels that all his achievements, all his efforts, have been in vain, for he has not been able to obtain from Queen Borbala what he has longed for most: the blood of St. Ladislaus. While Gabriel and Borbála are fighting their private war without retreating from the most insidious and cruel means, Sigismund is besieging Galambóc's castle, the northern part of the country, the queen's estate is being ravaged by Hussites, and Zsig's . In the midst of intrigues spanning the court and almost all of Europe, private and public interests sometimes clash with each other, forced alliances between deadly enemies, and even betrayal within a family. However, unaware of all this, a curly, red-blond-haired boy emerges in Oradea, who stands out from his contemporaries with his particularly sharp mind and the alchemical knowledge he learned from his mother, the Queen. Despite a strict maternal order, Johannes escapes from Oradea one day to Bratislava, where the eyes of the mighty and dreaded Chancellor Gabriel de Sceleus catch him and accept the orphaned son as his valet. But the secret of a talented and brave child will inevitably be revealed, and Gabriel decides to take revenge on his mother through his son ... a series presenting the Hungarian and European history of the first third of the 19th century and the "shadow history" behind it.