eight hundred years ago , the witch queen unleashed the black plague to wipe out humanity. a band of knights , including a widowed kaulder , whose family had died in the plague , storm her lair and in the ensuring battle , kaulder manages to defeat her. before dying , the witch queen cursed kaulder with eternal life .
in the present day , kaulder prevents a teenage witch from unintentionally destroying an airplane with weather controlling runes stored in her luggage. kaulder is revealed to be working as a witch hunter for the order of the axe and crosses , an organization which aims to keep the truce between humans and witches ( allowing witches to live freely providing they do not use magic on humans ) and either executes or imprisons the witches who break the law. he is aided by a priest called dolan a tradition carried from the first priest who fought in the battle to destroy the witch queen.
the 36th dolan tells kaulder that he is retiring from his duties and has chosen a new dolan for him. the former apparently dies in his sleep that night. kaulder and the 37th dolan deduce that 36 was murdered by a witch. while tracking down the witch, kaulder finds traces of old dark magic , not seen since before he killed the queen. it is revealed that 36 is not dead but , rather , under a dark magic spell that can only be broken if the witch that cast it is killed.
using clues that 36 left behind , kaulder goes to a witch bar , owned by chloe and miranda , to buy a memory spell to help him remember how he died and came back. chloe eventually agrees to perform the spell. during the process of reliving kaulders memory, the bar is attacked by a witch , the same one who cursed the 36th dolan. he later attacks chloe at her apartment, though kaulder saves her by pulling her through a portal into his own apartment. dolan the 37th and kaulder work together to determine the hostile witchs name - baltasar ketola, though he goes by the name belial. shortly after , kaulder convinces chloe to try to make him another memory potion , but since belial destroyed her stash at her club , she needs to visit mirandas warehouse. after it is discovered that the plant they are there for hasn't sprouted yet and the rest stolen by belial , kaulder and chloe discover mirandas body as belial taunts them through chloes phone. chloe immediately agrees to help kaulder get what he needs to kill belial.
in order to get the rare ingredient to create another memory spell , they visit another witch , danique however , danique casts an endless memory spell on kaulder, planning to entrap him in his dream forever. chloe revealed to be a dream - walker , is able to enter his trance and free his mind and the pair escape. kaulder asks chloe to enter his mind and pull out the memory. he discovers that , though the queens body burned to ash , the first dolan chose to spare the queens heart , having realised kaulders immorality is tied to the queens heart , which if destroyed , would cause kaulder to die. they deduce that the 36th dolan was attacked because he knew of where the heart was hidden and was tortured into revealing its location. they also realize that belials real plan is to revive the queen.
leaving chloe and the 37th dolan behind , kaulder goes to face belial and the queen to prevent her from returning. though he kills belial in a confrontation , belial had already revived the queen , who then steals back kaulders immorality. the 36th dolan , who is recovering , encourages kaulder to continue fighting.
the members of the witch council , who guard the witches prison , are killed and the queen plans to release another plague curse using the imprisoned witches as a coven , since even the witch queen isnt powerful enough to cast it alone. using her dream walking ability , chloe manages to kill one of the weakest prisoners , severing the connection of the queen to the prisoners and temporarily staling plan. kaulder fights the queen , and appears close to killing her , until the 37th dolan attacks him , revealing he is the non magical son of witches who kaulder killed when he was five years old. he asks the queen to give him magical powers. she states that despite her power, clay cannot be turned to gold and kills him, before turning to chloe and linking her mind to complete the connections between the witches for the plague curse to form again. kaulder manages to summon lighting to his sword ( using the weather runes he confiscated from the young witch on the plane ) and throws his sword into the queen , burning her to ash. kaulder prepares to kill both the queens heart and himself , but chloe dissuades him , stating that there were things in the darkness worse than the witch queen that he needs to continue fighting.
the 36th dolan agrees to delay his retirement and stay by kaulders side. chloe does as well , and the three form a new team, free from the axe and cross. the heartbeat of the queen is heard within kaulders weapon stash in his apartment.
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