Strange is brought to the Moon by Uatu, the Watcher, and told of the reason for the unnatural happenings on the world and indicates that if a being known as the Forerunner, a powered person out of time who has precipitated the appearance of powered people about 400 years early however, the knowledge to return this person to their own time is bound with the condition that Strange may not speak of it to anyone while he lives. Once Fury finds that Count Otto von Doom created the mechanical horror that brought Elizabeth down, he makes a deal with Carlos to take the fight to Castle Doomstadt, using the powers of young John Grey to levitate a ship over the mountains. James, having waited for this opportunity, demands that Fury capture the wards of Carlos Javier, witchbreeds that have been hiding in his special academy. While Fury interrogates the would-be assassin, another plot to remove the queen is successful, and her reign ends. While they meet with the Queen, a Vulture-like creature attacks, revealing that Miss Dare has a secret of her own, now known to Dr Strange. Looking to request more support from the crown for the American colonies, Virginia Dare, the first British citizen to be born in the New World, and her indigenous bodyguard Rojhaz travel to England. James I of Scotland is waiting for the death of Elizabeth so he can take the English throne and add it to his own, while making overtures to the Spanish Inquisition led by Head Inquisitor Enrique, who has been burning those known as Witchbreeds, people with unusual and powerful abilities and sometimes hideous visages and forms as enemies of the church.
Fury and his ward, a young Master Parquagh, engage with a blind Irishman of considerable acrobatic ability named Murdoch to secure this treasure, who in turn invites fellow rogue Natasha to join him in his quest. Strange also tells of an ancient and powerful weapon traveling to London from Jerusalem, and Fury is directed to bring it safely to the crown, as it may be the most powerful relic ever seen by human eyes. Each man seeks answers to the issues of the crown, Fury to the machinations of the Count of Latveria and Strange to the unnatural weather and energies that have begun to spook royal and common alike. Queen Elizabeth I sits on the throne of England riddled with a wasting disease, asking for advice from her Spymaster Sir Nicholas Fury and her physician Dr Steven Strange. Into this mix, Neil Gaiman drops another set of great heroes and villains: those of the Silver Age Marvel universe. The end of the Elizabethan era and beginning of the Jacobean (with the death of Queen Elizabeth I and the rise of King James) were a tumultuous time, and every part of the UK was affected, even to such extremes as impacting Shakespeare, whose plays suddenly turned against the Tudors and towards the Stuarts to match the changing of the times. "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
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