outside her tower and debate their responsibility for the cataclysm that is underway. They witness Hellboy approaching their position at base of the tower and mistake him for Odin and then for Thor because of his hammer-like stone hand and his missing eye. They direct him up to the top chamber from whose window (onto the spears of her soldiers) Nimue tosses Ganeida in an enraged denial of her ongoing transformation. As Hellboy fights his way up the tower, Alice grieves back in the pub when the barkeep reminds her of what King Arthur told her in Morgan's castle - that Alice's life is bound to Excalibur and that she would be the first to see the new king with his crown. The barkeep tells Alice that the pub belongs to George Washbook (grand-nephew of two traitorous Victorian witches repeatedly referenced in Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder whose search for redemption nearly got him in a World War I trench when he was saved by a robed and ghostly woman with a gold chalice. A year after return to England, Washbook purchased the pub where he had grown impossibly old with the sense that he was "waiting for something ... that was coming to him." As Hellboy battles his last few soldier opponents, George Washbrook, skeletally aged and decrepit, is guided down the stairs of the pub by a ghostly robed woman. Alice falls to her knees and offers Excalibur to Washbrook, crowned by the robed woman as he transforms into a stern and regally armored youth as he accepts the holy grail and uses the chalice to restoring the undead army to life. Entering Nimue's chamber, Hellboy knocks her helmet up with an axe he picked up along the way. As Nimue's helmet hits the floor and splits back into three ravens with two flying out to call her army to commence humanity's extermination, the being possessing Nimue's mutating body introduces itself is the Ogdru Jahad. Ogdru Jahad explain that Rasputin's ritual allowed them to slowly escape their prison as the world gradually descended in chaos. As the lightning storm builds outside Nimue's tower, Nimue's body gradually mutates from the Ogdru Jahad's possession into a dragon while telling Hellboy he is too late to stop the army's advance. At the pub, Alice hears the chant of Nimue's approaching army and the barkeep tells her it is spearheaded by the four