The 37th Dolan pleads for the Witch Queen to bestow upon him magic, but she declares that he is only a human before killing him. The Chant causes black swarms of Plague Flies to be released over the city. The 37th Dolan than proceeds to quickly aim at Kaulder and shot him, before the Queen herself rises and turns her attention to Chloe, placing her hands on the young dreamwalker's head and using her to continue the Chant. However, he is betrayed by the 37th Dolan, in retribution for Kaulder killing his parents years ago who were actually witches but he was born without magic. Kaulder arrives and engages the Queen in a battle, ultimately managing to overpower her. However, one of the witches, Ellic, is killed by the dreamwalker Chloe, severing the Chant. During the Chant, she also created a new Plague Tree in order to unleash the Black Plague. Chrysostom’s Church, the Axe and Cross' very own headquarters in New York City, as part of The Chant, an ancient psychic form of magic used on the captured witches' minds as a chain.

She then sets off to restart another plague curse and bring about the next Black Plague.Īfter she attacked and murdered both the Axe + Cross order and the Witch Council, the Witch Queen proceeded to collectively control the minds of the trapped witches in the infamous Witch Prison beneath St. The Queen is revived, and immediately strips Kaulder of his immortality, revealing that she had cursed him in order to allow herself to return. He was actually the one who tortured and cursed the 36th Dolan, and he later used Max Schlesinger, a blind merchant and former warlock, as a sacrifice to the Queen during her resurrection ritual. Belial, a rebel warlock who longed for the days of the Witch Queen, set about trying to retrieve the Queen's heart. It was suspected that a shape-shifter by the name of Ellic who attacked Kaulder, was the one who cursed him, and that this was a part of a bigger conspiracy that aspired to resurrect the Witch Queen. Kaulder was to be assisted by a priest that was known as a Dolan.Ĩ00 years later, the 36th Dolan was going to retire from the Axe and Cross, but he was found in a comatose state. Kaulder later went to work for the Axe and Cross, the same organization that was intent on maintaining a truce that was made between humans and witches. Unbeknownst to Kaulder at the time, the other witch hunters including the first Dolan found the Witch Queen's beating heart and they secretly preserved it. With his mighty iron sword known as Hexenbane (also called 'Witch-Slayer') in hand, Kaulder stabs the queen with it but the Witch Queen retaliates by shoving her hand into his chest and she curses him with eternal life. She ambushes them, and she takes Kaulder to the tree's center. Kaulder, and his team of witch hunters who are the early founders of the Axe and Cross Order, tracked the queen to her lair within a giant tree known as the Plague Tree and they tried to kill her. Prior to the main events of The Last Witch Hunter, the Witch Queen released the Black Death (also known as the Black Plague) onto England and soon half of the entire continent of Europe in the hopes of wiping out humanity and ruling Earth.

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