- Evil gets it's name from me.
- — Cain
Demon Knights #16 is an issue of the series Demon Knights (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 2013. It was published on January 16, 2013.
Synopsis for "The Gathering Storm"
The year is 1043 AD. It's been 30 years since the Battle of Avalon. In Saxony, during a snow storm, two travelers seek shelter at a monastery. Upon being invited in, the male traveler reveals that he is Cain, a vampire as old as God himself, and that he plans on feeding on and enslaving the entire city.
A few days later in Lustiania, Horsewoman is apprehended by bounty hunters. She is brought to Al-Wadi, a city in Spain, where she is reunited with Exoristos and Shining Knight. They soon discover the bounties they were brought in on were issued by Al Jabr, who unlike the three women is showing his age. Al Jabr enlists their help in stopping Cain, who Al Jabr believes is heading to Exoristos' homeland of Themyscira to build an army of Amazon vampires. He explains he will remain in Al-Wadi to support the team, but they must also recruit the remaining Demon Knights.
Meanwhile, at the Fortress of Gibraltar, Vandal Savage tortures Jason Blood, whose mouth has been magically sealed - making it impossible to transform into Etrigan, swearing eternal vengeance.
Appearing in "The Gathering Storm"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Council Azim (First appearance)
- Maelstrom (Horsewoman's horse) (Single appearance; dies)
Antagonists:
- Bison Riders (First appearance)
- Cain
- Vampire Army
- Fara (First appearance)
- Vampire Army
Other Characters:
- Abbot (Saxon monk) (Single appearance; dies)
- Jason Blood (Cameo)
- Duke Stanislav of Bohemia (Single appearance) (Appears only as a corpse)
- Vandal Savage (Cameo)
- Vandal Savage's Clan (Cameo)
- Amazons of Themyscira (Mentioned only)
- Devils (Mentioned only)
- God (Mentioned only)
- Madame Xanadu (Mentioned only)
- Merlin (Mentioned only)
- Herod (Mentioned only)
- Vandals (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Prime Earth
- 1043
- Europe
- Fortress Gibraltar (First appearance)
- Holy Roman Empire
- Lusitania
- Spain
- Al-Wadi (First appearance)
- Britain
- Camelot (Destroyed) (Mentioned only)
- Little Spring (Destroyed) (Mentioned only)
- Danube (Mentioned only)
- Themyscira (Mentioned only)
- Europe
- 1043
- Sphere of the Gods (Unnamed)
- The Dreaming (Unnamed)
- Faerie (Unnamed)
- Avalon (Mentioned only)
- Faerie (Unnamed)
- The Dreaming (Unnamed)
Items:
- Holy Grail (Mentioned only)
- Signet Ring of Duke Stanislav (Single appearance)
Events:
- Battle of Avalon (Mentioned only)
Concepts:
- Exorcism
- Magic (Behind the scenes)
- Mark of Cain (Mentioned only)
- Middle Ages
- The Red (Behind the scenes)
Notes
- The events of this story take place in 1043, thirty years after the events of Demon Knights #1-15.
Trivia
- The origin of Cain is shown in the Rise of the Vampires storyline.