The Church has always fought against magicians, and in 1908 even created a special body to destroy them. People who know about it call it the Chancellery, and people who destroy magicians call it paladins. Sergei would probably never have known about this organization or that his parents were paladins of the Chancellery. He could have died along with his mother at the hands of a strong dark magician who came to their home for the artifact. But representatives of the Chancellery saved him, raised him, and as an adult he followed in the footsteps of his parents to take revenge on the magicians for their death.