The narrator explains in ancient Egypt, before the time of the Pharaohs, King Memtep made a covenant with Anubis, lord of the underworld to create a cursed sword so powerful that whosoever possessed it, could rule the world. The sword was fueled by taking souls of those its enemies, the sword itself was forged in the fires of Hell#Ancient Egypt by Anubis, the names of those killed by the sword where forever written in the Book of Souls.