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According to [[Death]], before there was life, the Earth, or even God and the [[archangels]], there was [[the Darkness]]. God and His archangels defeated the Darkness and locked it away rather than destroy her to maintain [[the Cosmic Balance]]. God created the Mark as the lock and key on the Darkness' cage and if it is destroyed, the Darkness will be released. God gave the Mark to his most trusted lieutenant, [[Lucifer]], but the Mark corrupted Lucifer and made him jealous of humanity which led to his imprisonment in [[Lucifer's Cage|the Cage]]. Lucifer eventually passed the Mark to [[Cain]] as part of his deal to save Abel from Lucifer's influence.
After Cain was given the Mark, he begins to realize what kind of toll bearing the Mark will take after he killed Abel, and rather than be controlled by his murderous compulsion, he attempts to kill himself with the First Blade. However the Mark would not let his soul depart to the afterlife. After Cain's soul was twisted and corrupted by the Mark's dark, influential, primal energies, he was reborn as a [[Knight of Hell]], the very first of his kind. He goes on to train and lead the Knights of Hell under Lucifer's command, as they wrecked wreacked havoc on Earth for centuries as the harbingers of chaos and darkness.<ref name="nine11">[[9.11 First Born]]</ref> .
After centuries of murder and mayhem, he fell in love with [[Colette Mullen]]. The Knights took retribution and took Colette, so Cain used the First Blade and its energy drawn from the Mark to slaughter all the Knights except for one; [[Abaddon]]. Despite Colette's death by Abaddon's hands, Cain manages to cease killing, keeping his final promise to her, after he disposed of the First Blade in the Mariana Trench.