Before Batman, before the legend of the Dark Knight took shape, there was a young boy named Bruce Wayne—a boy haunted by the death of his parents and hungry for answers. Driven by a relentless curiosity, young Bruce found himself unraveling an eerie Gotham legend… a whispered tale passed down through generations: the Court of Owls.
The story was simple but chilling. Somewhere in Gotham’s shadows, a secret society watched and waited. The Court of Owls, they called themselves, an elusive cabal that claimed dominion over the city. They say the Court pulls Gotham’s strings, controlling its fate, its people, its very heartbeat.
Bruce’s young mind couldn’t let it go. The thought that someone—a hidden force—might have orchestrated the tragic night that took his parents drove him into action.
And so, for the first time, Bruce Wayne became a detective. He searched the hidden corners of Wayne Manor, roamed Gotham’s dark alleys, and chased whispers about the Court, hoping to prove they existed. But no matter how hard he looked, he found nothing—no clues, no signs, only dead ends.
In the end, Bruce dismissed it all as just another story—a nightmare Gotham told itself to feel small and helpless. The Court of Owls wasn’t real… or so he thought.
But years later, as an adult, Bruce would confront the terrifying truth. The Court of Owls was not only real—they had been there all along, hidden in Gotham’s darkest corners, watching every move. This wasn’t just a shadow Bruce had missed, it was a reckoning. A dangerous enemy, not of Gotham’s present but of its past, one that had existed since long before the Wayne family name meant anything. And now, they were coming for him.
As Batman, Bruce had faced countless threats. But nothing could prepare him for the silent fury of the Court or their deadly enforcers—the Talons. Owls, after all, are predators of the night. They hunt bats, striking silently, efficiently, without mercy. For Batman, uncovering the truth meant facing one of his greatest failures: the young boy who had missed the signs, who dismissed a myth, was now a man facing the cold reality he once denied.