Daredevil
Daredevil#604 has unveil The decree of the Dragon - a secretive mathematical group of Catholic warrior - priests who have battled against the dark for centuries . Marvel ’s answer to the legends of the Knights Templar , the Order of the Dragon has come out to avail Matt Murdock redeem New York from the Hand .
Charles Soule ’s " Mayor Fisk " storyline has douse New York into chaos . The Hand have struck New York in force , and the city ’s heroes are desperately attempting to labour them back . With Mayor Fisk in a coma , Matt Murdock has become Mayor of New York , and he ’s command the city ’s superheroes and police military group in struggle against the Hand . But # 603 end with Matt struck down by a deep gasolene , leave unconscious . As clouds of mystic Mary Jane swept across the metropolis , a figure emerge from the shadows to help Matt . It was Father Jordan , Matt ’s priest , clad in a strange garb .
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Daredevil#604 break that Father Jordan is n’t just a parish non-Christian priest . He ’s also a member of a orphic Catholic chemical group of warrior - non-Christian priest known as the Order of the Dragon , who have fought to protect the Earth from supernatural threat for hundred . TheOrder Draconumwas founded by King Sigismund Von Luxembourg of Hungary in 1408 , and was initially used to protect the Billie Jean Moffitt King ’s empire from threats .
About a hundred years later , the Order of the Dragon went underground , now working to protect humanity itself . In the sixteenth C , they fought vampires . The 17th saw the Order struggle the Plague Zombies , and in the 18th they battled against the Fjord Queens . The lamia return in the 19th hundred , but again were drive back ; and it seems in the 20th , the club fought against Nazi shark - mutants !
Surprisingly enough , writer Charles Soule has based the Order of the Dragon on a group who really existed . King Sigismund Von Luxembourg is an literal figure from history , and in 1408 he really did found the ordering of the Dragon after the fashion of the unlike orders who served in the Crusades . Daredevil#604 is in reality sprinkled with imagery that really does run all the mode back to the Order of the Dragon , the right way down to their sigils and insignia .
Even that whistle - stop story ofOrder Draconumactivity throughout the historic period has its basis in account and fable . Some of the previous lamia caption spring up in the 16th one C ; the seventeenth 100 is famous for the bubonic plague ; orbicular temperature worldwide really did drop off throughout the eighteenth C , and the wintertime of winter of 1794–1795 was in particular harsh in the Northern Hemisphere . Bram Stoker’sDraculawas written in 1897 , andDracula ’s an factual Marvel villain , so it micturate sense that the Order took on vampire around that fourth dimension . divertingly , Father Jordan reveals that Van Helsing was actually a member of theOrder Draconum . Apparently he die fighting a Yeti - daemon in Nepal .
It seems the Order has never been legion ; Father Jordan only manage to bring in 20 soldier to help in the battle against the Hand . But they ’re tremendously skilled warriors , and appropriately enough they can actually fly . With the help of theOrder Draconum , Daredevil at long last manages to begin to gain land in the state of war for New York .
When the dust settles from the " Mayor Fisk " arc , the Order of the Dragon will no doubt go down as one of the most important and imaginative crook in Soule ’s tale . Soule ’s run is one of the best in tenner , easily standing alongside the likes of Frank Miller and Mark Waid . It ’s surely only a topic of time before some of these arcs are adapted into Netflix ’s popularDaredevilseries - and this inventive idea is by all odds an attractive one .
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Daredevil#604is available now fromMarvel .
