Story

On Halloween, 1898, a Romani medium named Koudelka Iasant hears a mysterious voice that leads her to Nemeton Abbey in Aberystwyth, Wales. The abbey was once a monastery where religious scholars studied, but over the years it involved into a prison for those the powerful wanted forgotten, and the prisoners held captive there died horrible deaths. Now the monastery is overrun with monsters. As Koudelka explores, she discovers it was converted into a mansion by a man named Patrick Heyworth, who used it for his own nefarious purposes.

Koudelka enters Nemeton through a rooftop window, dropping her pendant in the process. She immediately encounters Edward Plunkett, a headstrong adventurer who wandered into Nemeton and got himself attacked by a monster. Koudelka intervenes, saving him and healing his wounds, and they decide to stick together.

They soon encounter the mansion's caretakers, an old couple named Ogden and Bessy Hartman, who offer them rest and food. While Edward is grateful for their hospitality, Koudelka detects poison in the food and refuses to eat.