Two souls started a rivalry on Atlantis thousands of years ago and had reincarnated and killed each other in different parts of the world through the millenniums. Their last encounter was in 1805 on the island of Haiti-Bohio, where Benepère Saint-Ange, the good soul, had attained spiritual enlightenment, which prevented him from enacting the curse against his nemesis, Sam Mauvais, the evil sorcerer. Benepère died in 1807 at ninety-nine years of age. Soon after, Sam began to exert his authority in the village and acquired notoriety by killing Biishou Naï, a young Taïno native descendent of the former Xaragua kingdom of queen Anacaona. In 1809, Sam reignited the torch of the rivalry with Leon Saint-Ange, Benepère Saint-Ange's grandson, for wrongly believing that his grandfather had not taught him the art of wizardry.