When we last left Bruce Wayne, he, as Batman, was forced to choose between saving his friend, Harvey Dent, and Catwoman from an attack by a newly arisen terrorist group calling themselves the Children of Arkham. While the events leading up to the attack and the Mayoral debate led players to believe Oswald Cobblepot was the leader of this revolution, a new figure appears to reveal a horrible secret that Bruce's parents kept from their son.
New World Order is all about the consequences of your choices in Children of Arkham, figuring out exactly what the organization is planning, and trying to work out some kind of damage control after the nature of Thomas Wayne's past has been laid out to the world.
