Born in the UK in 1901, Edwin Paine (D. 1914) was a former student at St Hilarion's School for Boys. While there, he was one of the many pupils picked on and bullied by Barrow, Skinner, and Cheeseman, three older, snobbish pupils who victimised those younger than them out of a perverse sense of pleasure and control. However, this bullying descended into outright brutishness after the three hectors, driven by their passion for the occult, kidnapped and sacrificed Paine in a failed attempt to summon the Devil to Earth.
Blamed for not being a suitable candidate, they shoved his body in a trunk to disguise the ritual, where it remained in the attic, slowly rotting away for the next seventy-five years. This fact disturbed Paine's ghost, who was horrified and outraged that not a single person had checked the attic or noticed the poor job that his three assailants had made at covering their tracks.
With the headmaster chalking up his demise as a "disappearance," Death of the Endless reached out to the recently departed spirit, guiding him on to Hell.
After he was released from Hell, thanks to Lucifer retiring from his role as ruler of the fiery abyss, Edwin's ghost returned to the attic. He assumed, wrongly, that he was destined to be forever bound to the place of his murder, tethered by his unburied bones until the day Death would return for him. However, this was not the case, and both himself and the ghost of Charles Rowland left St. Hilarion’s to make a fresh start with their second chance at an afterlife.
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