Little did they know that they weren't really abandoned by their parents when they were kids. This was far from the truth. Instead, their mother was a powerful good white witch who refused to use her powers to harm the villagers who hanged her husband to death and burnt her to death. She sent the children away in a bid to protect them from being persecuted. In their hunt to exterminate an entire group of dark witches, the adult siblings chanced upon the truth about their parentage.
After Hansel lost his new found love in another good white witch in the battle with the dark witches, they managed to eradicate all of them and continue to live on as witch hunters.
