???? (Many millenia ago) - Tchernobog's orginal form is somehow destroyed.
He begins taking over bodies in order to accomplish his duties. Because of
this need, Tchernobog creates the Cabal in order to furnish Him with
physical bodies to inhabit. [Blood 2 storyline]
???? - The 5th incarnation of Tchernobog takes the body of a Buddhist High
Priest. The Cabal turns to a religious doctrine. Only the pure are allowed
to remain as its members. Followers perform docile acts and rituals of
patience and control. [Blood 2 storyline]
???? - The 16th incarnation of Tchernobog takes the form of a bitter, evil,
hate-filled man, bending the Cabal's means towards evil to obtain power.
[Blood 2 storyline]
1847 - Caleb is born somewhere in western Texas. [Blood 1 storyline]
1864 - Caleb turns 17, and already has a reputation for being a
merciless gunfighter. [Blood 1 storyline]
1871 - Caleb finds a woman named Ophelia Price cowering in her
family's burnt down homestead. He takes her in and finds that her husband
and child were killed by the Cult of Tchernobog, to which her husband
belonged and had attempted to rescind his membership. Caleb falls in love
with Ophelia, and joins her in the Cabal, to which she has maintained her
loyalty. They ascend to become the Chosen, elite servants of Tchernobog,
along with two others, Gabriel and Ishmael. Eventually, Tchernobog, for
reasons unknown to them, casts them down and kills them all. [Blood 1
storyline]
1928 - Caleb is resurrected by unknown means. He makes a long journey
back to the Hall of Epiphany to find the other Chosen, and the reason for
his and their condemnation. [The events in Blood 1]. He finds that his
disavowing was by Tchernobog's plot to absorb the power Caleb would bring
back with him. Out of vengeance, Caleb destroys Tchernobog, but unbeknownst
to him, absorbs the power of Tchernobog to bind the many realities. [Year
based on Blood 2 storyline]
1928-2028 - Caleb wanders the earth, "hanging out in dive bars,
swilling cheap beer, smoking bad cigars, and starting brawls over women of
dubious moral character". In the meantime, the remnants of the Cabal
rebuild themselves and work their way to becoming a mega-corporation:
Cabalco. The person to be named the 17th incarnation of Tchernobog is
Gideon, the Cabal's "sinister genius leader", known simply as
"The Word" to his followers. [Conjecture: based on storyline of
Blood 2]
2028 - Caleb seeks out his vengeance upon Gideon, as Tchernobog's
unaccomplished duties tear down the fabric of reality between the Earth's
dimension, and another dimension breaking its way through. Caleb tracks down
Gideon to this other dimension, and destroys him and also The Ancient One,
the being responsible for the malevolent intrusions of monsters onto Earth.
[The events in Blood 2]
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