>>95481464While sitting in his father's study – struggling to find the means to strike fear into the hearts of all Gotham's evil doers – a young Bruce Wayne suddenly notices something glimmering on his father's desk. For years the object had sat, untouched and unnoticed by the son of Thomas and Martha Wayne, but now, by some strange fate the orphaned heir found himself strangely drawn to the it. It was as if it were calling to him.
Bruce motioned toward the desk to better see the mysterious object. It was an old family heirloom; an amulet that he remembered his father once telling had been in his family for centuries. Bruce picked up the amulet and held it before his face.
>You desire to punish the wicked and protect the weak? Through me this can be granted and I can give you what you seek. Bruce stepped back, at first shocked by the voice he now heard emanating from the relic, but then intrigued by the promise it offered. Earlier that night he had nearly died trying to exact justice as a mere man. Could this object be the means he had sought? The means to exploit the fears and superstitions of the criminals that for too long had plagued his city?
Bruce knew what he must do to make evil pay, and in that moment, he knew the words to say:
>Gone! Gone! The form of man! Beware the demon… Etrigan!