With Belial dead, the spell on Dolan 36 is broken. Following her fight with Kaulder, the Witch Queen vanishes.

The Witch Queen emerges from Max’s body and attacks. Kaulder tracks down Belial and kills him. Meanwhile, Belial uses the heart to resurrect the Witch Queen in Max’s body. Kaulder angrily confronts Dolan 37 about the council keeping the heart hidden from him. Kaulder exits the dream realizing that Belial’s plan was to take the heart from the council and resurrect the Queen. Dolan thus founded The Ax and Cross to guard the heart while retaining Kaulder as their hunter. Dolan could not destroy her still-beating heart without permanently killing Kaulder. Kaulder learns that on the day he and the Witch Queen battled, the first Dolan discovered that the Witch Queen’s curse tied her heart to Kaulder’s. While they follow leads and encounter various witches, Belial kidnaps Kaulder’s informant Max.ĭiscovering that Chloe is a dreamwalker, Kaulder has her use her dark abilities to finally recover his memory. Kaulder and Belial battle before Belial sets fire to Chloe’s bar and escapes.Ĭhloe reluctantly partners with Kaulder and Dolan 37 to hunt Belial. Chloe’s spell is interrupted by Baltasar Ketola, also known as Belial. The curse will kill Dolan 36 if Kaulder does not kill the spellcaster within two days.įollowing a clue left by Dolan 36, Kaulder coerces a witch named Chloe to help him recover a lost memory from the day he died. Kaulder discovers Dolan 36 is still alive, but under a spell keeping him comatose. Kaulder brings Ellic before the council for Dolan 36’s murder, but the council quickly passes judgment without interrogating Ellic about who he was working for. Starting with his witch contact Max Schlesinger, Kaulder follows a trail of clues to a man named Ellic. Kaulder investigates the rectory and discovers that magic was used against Dolan 36. Dolan 37 pledges himself to Kaulder, claiming that Kaulder rescued him from a witch coven when he was a child. Returning to New York after his mission’s success, Kaulder learns that Father Dolan the 36th plans to retire and pass his duties to a young successor.ĭolan 36 dies unexpectedly. On an airplane, Kaulder recovers weather runes from a young witch named Bronwyn whose carelessness with the stones nearly causes a disaster.

Kaulder serves as the enforcer while a lineage of priests who take the name Dolan serves as his handler and historian. In the present day, a truce between witches and a governing council known as The Ax and Cross allows witches to operate in secret, provided they never use magic on a human. Witch hunter Kaulder seemingly kills the Queen, but she curses him with eternal life. In the 13th century, a band of warriors battles the Witch Queen who cursed their land with a plague.

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