The young mouse Karic seeks to rescue his family from slavery and save his people from rat oppression by reuniting the legendary Mice Templar. But the Templar have been sundered by a vicious civil war, distrustful of one another, and despised by the very people they failed to protect. The fate of all creatures now rests in the paws of one small mouse, if only he can find the courage and strength to become one of the Templar knights himself.

Karic might be the Chosen One...but what does such a title even mean for the young mouse who desires only to save his family from a monstrous fate. Under the training of exile Cassius, Karic learns what it truly means to be a Templar knight and warrior, while One-Arm Leito rallies his fellow prisoners, struggling to become a leader against impossible odds. Both mice find themselves on a collision course with destiny! Collects Mice Templar: Destiny #1-5.

Destiny, prophecy, and free will collide as the young mouse Karic prepares himself for an audacious confrontation with the fearsome Snake God of the Druids, for the salvation of his family, and the fate of all mice. Yet many forces stand in Karic's way: the tyranny of the mad King Icarus, the twisted riddles of the Bats of Meave, a Scorpion god, the ancient demonic Nathair, and certain doom at the claws of the Zombie Cat!

"A MIDWINTER NIGHT''S DREAM" - Karic was the prophesied "Chosen One," yet now all the Dark Lands will suffer for his audacious actions against King Icarus and the snake god of the druids. Winter has come to the Shadow Time. The Druid High Priest claims the vacant throne and unleashes a wave of tyranny. Civil war looms between rats and weasels. The legend of "Karic Lives" sparks open rebellion. While the hero Karic lies in a feverish coma, unable to wake: yet his dreams are a portal to the Outer Darkness, where the accursed evil of Donas the Nathair lays claim to Karic''s very soul The two-time Harvey Award-winning series continues, from the acclaimed writer of Thor: First Thunder and the co-creator of POWERS and Takio

On the last night of the world as it was, the restored Templar Order marches against the fortress stronghold of mad King Icarus. Yet as they lay siege without the guidance of Karic, the heroic young mouse that overcame their generations of prejudice and division, will everything they fight for prove lost to the horrors that arrive with the coming dawn? The grand finale of an 8-year Creator-Owned vision, with a Foreword by Brian Michael Bendis!