What do you do when it's your destiny to be damned? For centuries, thats the grave question that has plagued each wielder of the Ebony Blade - and all of them ultimately succumbed to the sword's curse. Now, as his own addiction to the weapon grows ever stronger, this shocking truth is laid bare to its current owner, the former Avenger Dane

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