Skull of Caine

The Skull of Caine is the primary MacGuffin of season 2 of Radio Noir. This article is a collection of known information.
 * The Skull is believed to have belonged to the mythological Caine, the first murderer and the progenitor of vampires.
 * It is covered in potent glyphs, runes, symbols, and pictograms. These are believed to have been inscribed by the countless powerful magicians who have guarded the artefact since sometime after the Last Ice Age.
 * The oldest known reference to the Skull is in Tablet of Suppiluluma I. Suppiluluma I was the king of the Hittites in the 14th century BCE. The tablet states that: "I am Suppiluliuma, King of the Hittites. In this, the 8th year of my reign, my brother Akhenaten covets my glory and has sent a plague upon my lands. In my hand, I hold the Skull of Caine, and I have driven the Egyptian necromancy out of my lands."


 * Some time after the tablet was written, the Skull was sent east for safekeeping.
 * In 1938, fleeing the advance of the Japanese Imperial Army, Master Chiang Jiao of the Taiping Tianguo boarded the ethership Stargazer Majestic. The ship encountered an etherstorm above eastern Siberia and was attacked by a special Tetsukiko combat wing. In the attack, one of the Tetsukiko agents, the akuma known as Emon, boarded the vessel and fought his way to the Skull. When the akuma touched the Skull, it triggered a cataclysmic temporal anomaly.