2009

Many years before his showdown with Luffy, the 'Gold Lion' Shiki came face to face with the most legendary pirate of them all: Gol D. Roger. On one fateful day the two fearsome captains clash in a fight known as "The Great Battle of Edd War" and Shiki and his pirates are forced to flee the battle, regrouping later on. However, when Gol D. Roger is captured three years later, Shiki refuses to accept it and decides to go up against the navy to stop his execution and claim the pirate king’s life himself...

Rin Okumura is a seemingly ordinary boy living at the Southern Cross Boy’s Monastery. One day, however, Rin encounters a boy who has been possessed by a demon. Amidst the struggle, he not only awakens latent powers sealed within him, but also learns that he is the son of Satan! No longer able to stay under the protection of the church and with his very existence straddling the line between human and demon, Rin decides to fight against his parentage and joins the True Cross Order as an exorcist. Now, the teen must attend the True Cross Academy and begin special exorcist training alongside his new comrades all while keeping his identity a secret; but can the son of Satan really become a true exorcist?

Thassarian is a renegade death knight, one of the few of his kind to be free of the Lich King's control. Although Thassarian has turned his incredible powers against his former master, he remains feared and despised by most of his Alliance allies. Countless players have aided Thassarian in game as he battles against the Lich King's agents in Northrend, but few fans know the details of his former life. Death Knight is Thassarian's story, a tale that reveals the origins, motivations, and darkest secrets of Warcraft's newest incarnation of death knights.