Volume 1 - 1st printing. "The Lion Awakes!" Written by Xavier Dorison and Alex Alice. Art and cover by Alex Alice. The 14th-century. Shortly after the discovery of an ancient relic in a secret, long-forgotten crypt, a remote monastery is burnt to the ground, and all its inhabitants slaughtered. Disgraced Inquisitor Conrad of Marburg is summoned from his exile and sent on a world-spanning quest to discover the truth behind the massacre. But is he, the church and humanity ready for the shattering revelations his journey will reveal? 48 pages, full color.