steph is one of the inhabitants of volcano manor that serves in an unofficial capacity as the mechanic who works on the abductor virgins but starts to doubt the role he plays and when he finds the secret path leading to the prison town he finds tedalgrinche and decides to make a break for it

Tedalgrinche who has never had a master anyways decides to just begrudgingly accept that steph is his master now and acts as a guard dog for him as they travel through the lands between. Slowly relearns how to use his voice because as a bloodhound knight he wasn't allowed to speak