I have heard that St. James, Eurekan is a vampire hunter who can be called upon to intercede on your behalf with the living dead.
I have it on pretty good information that the Time Travel Jesuits play a large role in the miracles of St. James, Eurekan.
It is also an interesting line of speculation as to what it the technical difference between an alchemical conversion and a sacrifice. When lead is transmuted to gold is the lead itself sacrificed. What does die in the Negredo or Blackening phase of the work.
And pertaining to the whole Chris Titan mystery...we assume that he has moved on and is using another face, his time with the previous host having ended. Much the way like the black Spiderman symbiote suit was only removed with Church Bells did the host we all encountered in these past few years shed identity. That and the old obsidian blade.
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