The Gryphon (AKA: Der Greif)
Upon discovering a dark family chronicle on his sixteenth birthday, an outcast teenager must accept his destiny as a world-hopping warrior to rescue his brother from a monster-ruled parallel dimension. The dark fantasy series is set in 1994 within the German town of Krefelden, where a shy, traumatized teenager struggles to fit in while dealing with his father's mysterious death. His life changes forever when his older brother introduces him to a secret family legacy and hands him a massive book known as the Chronicle of the Black Tower. This text reveals the existence of a terrifying, parallel fantasy world subjugated by a world-devouring creature known as the Gryphon. Because his family line possesses the unique ability to travel between these realms using their imagination, they have spent generations protecting humanity from the beast's encroaching claws. Initial skepticism quickly va