In the city of Kecskemét, in southeastern Novoselic, the young Roman priest known as Domenico Prelati visited the grand cathedral on his tour of the Ungarn Diocese of the Hunters' Church. The bishop, one Father Aleksander, was a young man who had stepped into shoes he could never fill. The previous bishop, one Father Levente, was a model Hunter with complete devotion to the higher cause he had been assigned. Aleksander, on the other hand, was of weak blood, with a crushing need for importance. Prelati, sensing the beginning of a great story, imbued Father Aleksander with that purpose.

Aleksander renounced the Hunters' Church, and sought power that only the Old Gods once wielded. To find this power, he made a pilgrimage to Hara Berezaiti, a mountain within Ottoman lands that existed only in myth. With Prelati's guidance, Aleksander found, or perhaps made, this mythical peak, and placed himself at the very top, to rend open the axis mundi, to drink from the manna of Dead Heaven. What ascended the mountain was the man Aleksander. What descended was The Father.

When The Father returned to his diocese, the clerics of Kecskemét fell to their knees and accepted their new Lord. A small militia sprang up in the city, attempting to secede from Novoselic as a whole. The matter was settled only through military intervention. Ingfried Kriegmonte, a Hunter of some renown, was the one to wrench The Father's power away from him and eventually slay him. The casualties of this campaign were many, with as many as 4,000 Novosel soldiers buried by the end of it all, and the Chief Royal Engineer, Gromm Bruzcenzka among them.

The subsequent purge and restructuring of the Hunters' Church left its number nearly halved, and a new Archbishop, Silvonne Alicolis, led the Church into a new era.