Court of Owls

HIstory
The Court of Owls is a mysterious entity, which has long been considered nothing but a mere urban legend among Gothamites. However, a few years ago, Batman uncovered evidence that the Court did at one time exist when a masked assassin called Talon was discovered running through Gotham.

Once subdued, Talon was unmasked and identified to be William Cobb, a man who supposedly had died in the late 1800s (and who happens to be Dick Grayson's great, great grandfather).

Cobb was found to have been in stasis in an old bunker once belonging to the Court of Owls which housed a dozen such stasis chambers, all of which had become inoperable from neglect and thus only contained corpses. It was decided that the Court had fallen out of popularity as a niche secret society and thus lost the resources needed to maintain such a luxury as the stasis chambers (especially in the early 1900s). While questioning Cobb about the Court, Cobb was kept in Arkham Asylum's Black Wing but he has recently escaped.

While the Court appears to be defunct, their legend lives on. The mysterious Owlman who was a brief member of the Salvation Syndicate may be have been inspired by such tales of the Court when creating his persona. Others, such as Helena Bertinelli and Andrea Beaumont, insist that the Court of Owls continues to this day, thriving behind the scenes and fueled by the immense wealth of many of Gotham's oldest power families.

Links and References

 * Appearances of the Court of Owls
 * Team Gallery: Court of Owls
 * Membership of the Court of Owls