Antidote maker One night, before more than eight hundred and fifty years ago, a group of soldiers had come to the house of an old man from Waterford, looking urgently for his son Jakub. The old man was Darragh, an ancient knight, from an old family of Viking origins, he was born in the city which is founded by his predecessors, and he defended it since he was twelve, and that night was the turn of his youngest son. Darragh had many sons from two wives, three of them were knights as well. The youngest of his sons was Jakub, he was in his thirties, he never wanted to be a soldier, nor dreamed to be a knight as his stepbrothers. Jakub, was the only son of Darragh's second wife; he had three old sisters, two of them were non-married yet, and they were working in their father's farms, the only source of sustenance of all the big family. Jakub worked rarely in the farms, he had preferred to work with his uncle in a silver refinery, and he learnt from his mom how to make different antidotes and perfumes; so he was sacrificing most of his time gathering different herbs and flowers which he used to make his antidotes and perfumes. Darragh had a big confidence in his son, but all the town were looking to Jakub as he didn’t deserve to be the son of one of the greatest Waterford knights, as he cannot be like his stepbrothers. However, many of them changed their minds when they saw the efficiency of his antidotes against many hard diseases. And that night all the hopes were on Jakub. Joseph, the stiffest knight of Waterford, and the chief of its army, was sick; in the time when the city was prepared to fight the Normans. Joseph he had an unknown disease and he needed an antidote. The lord of Waterford gave Jakub a week to make it. And that night he should give Joseph the antidote. After seven days and eight night of hard work, Jakub went with the soldiers to Joseph's house taking with him the fruit of his hard work. It needed three days for Joseph to mostly recover and Jakub was named by the lord as the doctor of the army.