in service of the Silversaints to stop the vampires. During the battle, Gabe learns Laure destroyed his village and killed his family, so Gabe destroys her and creates an avalanche destroying the approaching vampire army. For this Gabe is initiated into the Order and knighted by the empress. For the next five years Gabe lives to become the greatest of the Silversaints and a hero to the people. However, he and Astrid secretly have an affair with each other over the years until she gets pregnant, so both are excommunicated and exiled from the Order. Three Years Previous After eleven years of being exiled, an older and bitter Gabe comes out of retirement. While traveling he meets the Company of the Grail led by Chloe Sauvage, who has found a young urchin named Dior Lanchance who is the only person who knowns where the Holy Grail is to end Daysdeath. Gabe quickly discovers they are being pursued by Danton Voss, the Beast of Vellene and one of the Forever King's fledglings, and a mysterious masked vampire of the fifth bloodline called Liathe, both of whom want the Holy Grail. Gabe then discovers the Holy Grail is in fact Dior, as a direct descendant of the Redeemer her blood can destroy vampires and heal injuries. Eventually, Danton catches up to them and kills the Company of the Grail, except for Chole, Gabe, and Dior who escape by jumping off a cliff and into a river. Chloe is lost, but Gabe saves Dior. Dior reveals her mother was a whore and when she died, she lived with a group of orphans who survived by stealing, when she and a friend tried to kill a bishop for molesting children, she discovered her powers, was accused as a witch, and sentenced to be tortured before Chloe saved her. Eventually, Gabe reveals to Dior that after being excommunicated, he and Astrid married and had a daughter named Patience. For over a decade they lived happily as a family, until Fabien Voss arrived at their home, where as revenge for Laure he killed Patience and turned Astrid into a vampire. Gabe is travelling to kill Fabian for what he did to his family. Meanwhile, Danton arrives with a dozen vampires to capture Dior, but Liathe arrives and disposes of the other vampires, while Dior destroys Danton with her blood. Eventually they arrive at the Silersaints' monastery