Recaps

Rover hunted the Fractsidus in Ananke Abyss, where he fought through their experiments and entered the Gate of Truth to seek a way to restore Imperator. After the dead helped return him from the Gate, the stronghold was destroyed, and Phrolova joined the defense against the approaching Faceless Inferno Lord.

• Rover killed Phrolova, then confronted Scar and Christopher until a Fractsidus leader interrupted his attack and Klephin asked him to protect Rinascita.
• Rover followed Phrolova into the Lost Shore and used the Book of the End to separate Triss from a Tacet Discord, then agreed to let Phrolova earn chances to use the book through atonement.
• Phrolova went to Jinzhou, where Jinhsi and Sanhua imprisoned her before Jinhsi left to aid Rover at the Fractsidus base in Ananke Abyss.
• Rover and Cartethyia fought through the stronghold, uncovered its plan to create artificial humans and revive Imperator, and defeated its guardians Pride and Blood Nest.
• Rover entered the Truth Array alone to seek Imperator’s soul, but Truth turned him to stone after he repeatedly failed to take her through the Gate.
• Phrolova’s recorded message and the memories of the dead gave Rover their strength, allowing him to return and take Imperator’s soul blueprint into himself.
• Rover and Jinhsi stopped Xiutake, but Xiutake detonated the Philosopher’s Stone and destroyed the stronghold, and Rover then unlocked Ryūjin Jakka.
• When the Faceless Inferno Lord approached Jinzhou, Phrolova left her prison cell and set out to help confront it.

Jinzhou defeated the Faceless Inferno Lord, and Rover returned to Rinascita with Cartethyia to confront Edward III’s forces and investigate Ashihara’s disaster. Rover entered a time-looping city to find Chengxia and reached the Rainbow Sound Tower, the source of the Lament.

• Jiyan and Phrolova defended Norfall Gorge until Rover arrived and defeated Crownless with the defenders’ help, then sealed the weakened Threnodian.
• Rover stayed in Jinzhou with Phrolova, helped her recover from a nightmare, and learned more about her powers and the prophecy surrounding the Star Maiden.
• Rover and Cartethyia left for Rinascita, defeated Gaia on the way, and reached Septimont, where they discovered that Lu Hong’s Neon Tavern was abusing Ashihara children.
• Cartethyia exposed herself as a Sentinel, defeated Lu Hong, freed the children from their collars, and ordered the tavern turned into an orphanage.
• Rover pursued Nesso into a spatial rift, found Christopher, and fought him until Scar intervened and Threnodian power trapped Rover in another space.
• Rover escaped into a city caught in a repeating disaster, rescued Chisa from Tacet Discords, and headed with her toward Rainbow Sound Tower to find Chengxia.