Lightning crackled down from the sky, straight into the smoldering remains of downtown manhattan. A ring of blue energy blazed around a statue in the manhattan museum of art. The ring emitted a strange but powerful energy pulse, spreading outward extinguishing flames in a fifty foot radius. Slowly flesh tones spread over the statue, and then the energy was gone. Standing alone was a mystrious stranger. Though the blue light was gone the man seemed to pulse with power. Wearing a black leather overcoat, pants and boots, he stood there. The only identifying mark on his body was a large diagonal scar along his bare chest. As his hand tightened around the hilt of Daemon's Bane, a sword cursed with the soul of the demon Astrandel, banished into the blades by the god's to do it's masters bidding, the stranger's eyes slowly opened. He spoke five words, "The Dark Prophesy has begun."