Philip Wittebane is the towns nerd and loser everyone see him as a troublemaker who drove his brother away Samuel is one the the men in town that does everything to make Philip look bad even saying he will find and court a woman before Philip since no woman wants a man with nothing to offer he gets scoulded by sister Helen and he’s all alone only thing that keeps him company is his journal and the horses stable he is also trying and training to be a witch hunter