Exile

Pope Gregory XV declares war on magic, and the Heavenly Host is sent to finish what the Inquisition started.

What follows is four hundred years of running. The papal hunt across two continents. The Necropolis, and the lich Timmoneous Nagash sitting in the middle of it. A grave at Plymouth that Oxivius keeps coming back to, century after century, long after there is anyone left who remembers whose it is.

He is exiled from the earth realm. He does not stay exiled. He is not forgiven either.

Exile ends the day he steps back into the modern world. The next thing that happens to him is a girl in Portland with a mark on her soul.