With it, he found a young witch, Bronwyn, who is in possession of some weather runes that started the storm.Īfter distracting the man who sat beside her, Kaulder asked her for the runes, and discovered that she has placed them carelessly in her bag. When the window shows a mystical sigil, this confirmed Kaulder's suspicion and he goes to find the witch with the aid of an ancient ring that can differentiate between a normal human and a witch. Suspicious of the storms origins, he used a sophisticated technique that appears to be magic on the storm (but in reality, he merely used one of his gadgets to sense sorcerous activities as Kaulder cannot performed magic). –Kaulder reprimanded Bronwyn for her careless means to kept her weather rune inside her bag that ended up triggered the storm.Ĩ00 years later in the present day, Kaulder is on a plane where a storm is suddenly approaching. You witches have no idea the power you got. Because they cannot destroyed the heart without also breaking the Immortality curse that would instantly killed the witch hunter, they choose to preserve it instead. The first Dolan tries to stab it, but it caused Kaulder, whose body is regenerating, to scream in pain. Whilst Kaulder himself was seemingly killed as his body burned in the flames caused by their fight, the surviving witch hunters, including the first Dolan, found the Witch Queen's still beating heart among her remains. With his mighty iron sword known as Hexenbane (also called "Witch-Slayer") in hand, Kaulder stabs the queen, however she retaliates by shoving her hand into his chest and cursing him with eternal life before succumbing to her wounds. The Witch Queen ambushed them alongside her minions and using her dark powers, and proceeds to take Kaulder to the tree's center, leaving his friends to fight for themselves.
He and his team of witch hunters managed to track the queen to her lair within a giant tree known as the Plague Tree. During the hunt, he was haunted by the thoughts of his dead wife Helena and daughter Elizabeth, though this does not hinder him in his quest.
Kaulder is one of the early founders of the Axe and Cross Order, an Order which was established as a means to combat threats from the witches, especially the Witch Queen who released the Black Death (also known as the Black Plague) onto England, and later spread onto the half of the entire continent of Europe, in the hopes of wiping out humanity and ruling Earth.