Appearing in "The Damned"
Featured Characters:
- Rune (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Ione (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Adversaries:
- Crusader (Lord Adrian) (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- Ultraverse
- Europe (Only in flashback)
- Marvel Universe
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Damned"
Trapped in the Negative Zone and going mad, Rune vomits out the souls of millennia of his victims. They torment him, and one man calls him out for slaughtering his own followers. Rune disdains the man so he forces Rune to remember. In 1348, Rune was ruler of a walled European city. Bored one day, he flew out of his castle and chose a female subject to kill. As he fed on her, he learned of a plague outbreak within the city walls and decided to have the entire affected quarter and all its residents burned. Miles away, the knight Crusader and his squire Ione decided to confront Rune after learning Rune’s men had attacked a group of Christian pilgrims. Back in the city, an official announced the plague-affected quarter was to be burned, and the public rebelled. Rune put out the official's eye for his failure and massacred some of the townspeople. Outside the walls, Crusader and Ione ran into a few of Rune’s men. They tried to take Ione, but Crusader scared them off and told them to warn Rune he was coming. Rune amassed a force of armored knights to defend the city and charged Crusader as he approached. In response, Crusader shifted into a metallic superhuman form, driving Rune’s forces to turn back in fear. Rune attacked Crusader alone, and Crusader revealed he was centuries old, unable to die until he drove evil from the world. When Rune tried to feed on him, he looked into Rune’s soul and saw a horrific vision of the future. Energized, Crusader eviscerated Rune with his sword.
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