The Prophet burst onto the scene an already potent force, all his struggles over, his plans in place, his supers gathered. But how did he begin, and what set him on the path from being chaplain of the Superhero Agency to waging war on the federal government? In this volume, Southford Historian James Farrell relates the Prophet's rise: his receiving of new powers, his gathering of old superheros and new appearances such as Bladegaze and Rockrunner, and finally, his crippling at the hands of the most feared of all the supers, the grim Argon Podenda.