The Templar Grand Master's curse comes true. France was left without a king. Louis X Grumpy, having reigned for only eighteen months, died, leaving Queen Clementia four months pregnant. The life of an unborn baby, the future monarch, becomes a stake in the struggle for power and the crown between the most powerful representatives of the French nobility. They are eager for the throne, not realizing that they are pushing the country into the abyss of a fratricidal civil war...