Old, old, original Villainyverse opening.
(All voice over)
Steel City.
Everyone here knows their heroes and their villains.
Everyone knows who's who and what's what...
Some of them even write about the cape and cowl phenomenon that's exploded here over the past twenty years.
But they don't always get their facts straight.
It's a pity, really. The true stories that accompany the tapestry of lives in Steel are absolutely fascinating.
My own included.
I go by many names, more than I can count...but today, I go by the name Scribe.
I'm a historian of sorts, I suppose.
Unlike the 'scholars' with million dollar book deals, I can write it because I've lived it.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. The stage was set and the players in their proper places long before I ever came on the scene.
As much as I'd like to skip ahead and get to all the juicier "Me" bits, I realize:
Sometimes you have to tell one story in order to tell another.
Let me introduce you to Steel's premiere guardian.
The Sentinel.
No one knows who he is.
No one.
Trust me, I've spent enough time trying to figure it out since I got here.
There are plenty of theories about him...
It's been suggested that he's not a man, but a machine.
He's the shadow that dogs every criminal in the city, but there isn't anyone alive that knows his true name.
His partner, the Cardinal, is just as much of a mystery.