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The Tales of Faustus Kain, the first son of Adam and the man who would later be known as the bounty hunter, Jeremiah “Tombstone” Graves, spans lifetimes and centuries of the world’s own history. He’d wandered the earth for quite some time before he’d known his purpose, and even now, many aren’t even sure if he’d found it at all; or matter-of-fact, if Faustus Kain ever had died at all. But regardless of those impending questions, this tale starts in a time after he’d been awoken from his deathly slumber (the first one, that is), and was still being called by his given name of “Kain.”
At the time, Kain was actually a crusader—a knight for hire—during the time of wars in Jerusalem. It should be noted that before he wore the armor and the tunic of a Templar, he was being trained by a reluctant fallen angel by the name of Merlyn, to be a hunter and seeker of monsters, human being or otherwise. Back then and in secret, Kain had been known to work for both Heaven and Hell—until either party found out about the other. By then the Holy Wars had started, and either side, both heaven and hell, did not really care for anything but to keep the order of the world at an undying peace. (Relatively in their own twisted way, as they saw fit.) Till this day, this modern day in which where the story of The Shadow of Saint Nicholas takes place, Kain waits for the day that either side will approach him on the matter. And from there, our story begins—far prior to that, but still with this question on his mind: will Heaven or Hell ever catch-up to me?