I've Seen A Question Going Around About When Exactly The Boys Decided To Start The Agency/what Caused

I've seen a question going around about when exactly the boys decided to start the agency/what caused them to do it on the first place.

We know it was somewhere in 1990, so it's safe to assume just a few months after Charles' death.

During that time, they found out what happened to Edwin's case, which definitely took a lot of research. And they saw the non-investigation about Charles in real time, which probably meant following people around and checking records.

Not only the injustice about their deaths is what prompted them to help others, the way they went about it showed that they could, in fact, be detectives. They were good at it.

If we consider that, we already know the first two cases they worked on - the Case of Edwin Payne and the Case of Charles Rowland.

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I have another thought about the “Edwin not knowing stuff because he was in hell for decades” thing

Charles tells him about the guy he saved being from Pakistan and how he’s half Indian, and Edwin tells him they were the same country during his lifetime, so when did Edwin find out about Pakistan?

How long was he out of hell for before he met Charles? How much time did he have to catch up on everything? Did he study everything at the school or did he somehow find out while in hell?

I need to know so much more about the 30 years between Edwin escaping hell and the events of the series