Chapter Summaries

Evenson and Coulson staged a harsh confrontation to make Skye understand the consequences of her mistake, and Coulson ultimately promised to give her another chance. After Skye left, they revealed the act, while Miles Rhydon was abducted by men who removed his wristband and prepared to kill him.

• Skye pleaded with Evenson not to kill Rhydon, arguing that S.H.I.E.L.D. had neutralized his hacking threat.
• Evenson told Skye that her actions had endangered Coulson, Ward, and the team, and warned that she herself was the real threat.
• Coulson said he trusted Skye and would give her another chance, so Evenson agreed not to punish her further.
• After Skye left, Coulson and Evenson revealed that they had staged the confrontation to teach her a lesson.
• Two thugs abducted Miles Rhydon, chopped off his wristband-bearing hand, and prepared to burn him, but Brother Fly reprimanded them for their careless handling of the evidence.

Evenson visited the London Sanctum, where Holmes struggled with his unresolved feelings for Moriarty, before Ancient One revealed that R'lyeh’s anomaly had begun and asked Klayya to accompany her. Ancient One left Evenson in charge of the London Sanctum, warning that the aligning stars could also destabilize the barriers between the Nine Realms, especially around the United Kingdom.

• Evenson discovered that he had cursed Master Margani to speak only Demonic Language after losing their contest in Classical English.
• Evenson learned Holmes was practicing tranquility because Moriarty’s presence had left him conflicted, while Watson said their Extremis energy remained stable.
• Klayya told Evenson that he had bought a supposedly haunted New York house that had belonged to her family, and Evenson realized its haunting had helped him obtain Soul Crystals.
• Ancient One brought Evenson and Klayya into the Mirror Dimension and announced that R'lyeh’s anomaly had begun, asking Klayya to go with her.
• Evenson placed a marker on Klayya so he could retrieve her if necessary, and Ancient One gave him her token and ordered him to command the London Sanctum during the coming anomalies.

Evenson took command of the London Sanctum as dimensional ripples began around Greenwich, then went to investigate a sudden energy outbreak. Jane Foster crossed into another dimension and became host to the awakened Aether.

• Ancient One gave Evenson a token and authority over the London Sanctum’s military and administrative affairs.
• Evenson alerted Nick Fury that dimensional ripples would soon affect Greenwich and explained that people and creatures might cross between realms.
• A powerful energy fluctuation triggered an outbreak at the London Sanctum, damaging its monitoring system, and Evenson ordered the sorcerers to stand by while he investigated.
• Evenson arrived at an old Greenwich warehouse and found police officers, Darcy, and Jane Foster near an anomalous gravity field.
• Jane crossed into another dimension, where the ancient Aether awakened and attached itself to her.

Jane reunited with Thor after returning from an alternate dimension, while Evenson discovered that the Aether inside her was draining her life. When Evenson touched Jane, the Aether erupted and knocked her unconscious.

• Jane argued with Darcy for calling the police, then confronted Evenson when he arrived at the warehouse.
• Evenson sensed that a powerful force inside Jane was consuming her life, but Jane focused on her research and then spotted Thor.
• Jane slapped Thor twice before forgiving him, and Evenson interrupted their reunion to ask why Thor had waited so long to come to Earth.
• Thor explained that Heimdall had been watching Jane and could no longer see her when she entered the ancient space.
• Evenson warned Thor that Jane was not fine and touched her arm, causing the Aether to blast them aside and knock Jane to the ground.

Jane Foster returned from another dimension with the Reality Stone embedded in her, and Evenson sensed it was consuming her life. Thor took Jane to Asgard for help and brought Evenson along to fulfill his promise to heal Evenson’s right hand; they arrived at Asgard, where Sif explained the legendary Valkyries’ history.

• Evenson examined the blast from Jane and realized the strange energy had shattered his Void Protection with a special property.
• Thor blamed Evenson for Jane’s collapse, but Evenson explained that Jane had brought something back from another dimension and warned that it was draining her life essence.
• Thor prepared to take Jane to Asgard, and Evenson persuaded him to bring him along by reminding him of his promise to have Evenson’s right hand healed.
• Thor summoned the Bifrost, and Evenson was flung out at the far end before meeting Heimdall and mistaking him for a man named Morrigan.
• Thor, Jane, and Evenson boarded a flying ship for the Golden Palace, while Sif told Evenson that no one used the Valkyrie name because the ancient force had perished.

Evenson advised Sif on how to pursue Thor, then arrived with Thor and Jane at the Golden Palace, where Odin confronted them. Evenson impressed Odin by reciting his many titles and delivered Ancient One’s greeting and token.

• Sif asked Evenson for advice about her feelings for Thor, and he suggested she become Thor’s second wife and gave her two books about palace intrigue.
• The group reached the Golden Palace, where Sif left and Thor took Jane to the healers, who found nothing wrong with her.
• Odin arrived, mocked Jane, and ordered Thor to send her back to Earth.
• Evenson introduced Odin with an elaborate list of titles, and Odin ordered his guard to record them and find him two wolves named Freki and Geri.
• Evenson told Odin that Ancient One had sent him and presented her token along with her greeting.

Odin examined Ancient One’s token and learned from Evenson that the Aether had reappeared inside Jane Foster, threatening her life. Evenson suggested that Malekith might have used the Reality Stone to save the Dark Elves from extinction, leaving Odin to prepare for their possible return.

• Odin recognized Ancient One’s token, recalled their past duel, and asked Evenson why she had sent him to Asgard.
• Evenson revealed that the Aether was inside Jane, and Odin confirmed the dark energy in her arm.
• Odin explained that the Aether was an ancient weapon once wielded by the Dark Elf leader Malekith and warned that it was draining Jane’s life.
• Evenson proposed that Malekith might have used the Aether to rewrite the Dark Elves’ extinction, despite Bor’s reported victory over them.
• Odin accepted that the Dark Elves might have survived and planned to wait for them to come after the Aether.

Malekith returned to Svartalfheim and vowed to reclaim the Aether and restore the Dark Elves’ world, while Asgard quietly prepared its forces for a possible attack. Odin confronted Evenson about whether the Sorcerer Supreme had sent him to assess Odin’s impending death, leaving Evenson struggling to deny it.

• Malekith mourned Svartalfheim’s destruction, and Agam reminded him that he had preserved the Dark Elf race by using the Aether to rewrite reality.
• Malekith vowed to reclaim the Aether, take revenge on the Asgardians, and restore his world.
• Evenson discovered that Odin was secretly drilling Asgard’s elite forces while publicly presenting the preparations as a military exercise.
• Sif explained that the berserk Berserker Legion would be deployed as cannon fodder, and Evenson worried that Asgard was underestimating the threat.
• Odin dismissed his guards and questioned Evenson about why the Sorcerer Supreme had sent him, suggesting he had been chosen to judge Odin’s declining life force.
• Evenson denied that he had come to test Odin, though he privately recognized that Odin was near the end of his life.

Odin questioned Evenson about his suspicions regarding the Sorcerer Supreme and asked for his view on Thor and Loki as heirs to Asgard. Evenson cautiously judged Thor suited to rule in wartime and Loki clever but immature, leaving Odin to reflect on how his sons might complement each other.

• Odin accused Evenson of probing his condition, but Evenson repeatedly denied knowing anything about it.
• Odin showed Evenson Asgard and said its future needed an heir, then explained Earth’s alliance and the Sorcerer Supreme’s political standing.
• Odin pressed Evenson for his opinion on Thor and Loki, assuring him that his answer would be treated as personal.
• Evenson said Thor would make the best king in a crisis but needed more guidance in peacetime, and described Loki as clever yet reckless.
• Odin accepted Evenson’s assessment, acknowledged Loki’s punishment, and sent him away before reflecting on his sons.

Evenson had his conceptually damaged right hand repaired in Asgard and tried to return to Earth, but the Dark Elves’ invasion sealed the Golden Palace and left him unable to leave. As the Asgard Wall’s barrier weakened, he armed himself to help Sif while Agamotto’s infiltration was revealed.

• Evenson met Sif in the treatment room, where Asgardian physicians restored his right hand by repairing its missing conceptual fragments.
• After thanking Sif, Evenson tried to teleport back to Earth, but the Asgard Wall blocked his spell as the Golden Palace sounded an enemy attack alarm.
• Sif told Evenson that the Dark Elves had invaded and the Golden Palace was sealed behind the Asgard Wall.
• When the barrier began to loosen amid impacts and explosions, Evenson donned the Corruptor Set and joined Sif instead of leaving.
• Sif deduced that the Asgard Wall’s energy core had been damaged by an infiltrator, and Agamotto was revealed to have entered Asgard disguised among prisoners.

Agamotto used the last Curse Warrior runestone to break out of Asgard’s prison and destroy the Asgard Wall’s energy core, enabling Malekith’s surprise attack on the Golden Palace. The Dark Elves crashed into Odin’s throne room, where Sif confronted Malekith and Evenson arrived exhausted.

• Malekith hid the final Curse Warrior runestone inside Agamotto and sent him to infiltrate Asgard.
• Agamotto got himself arrested, transformed into a Curse Warrior in prison, escaped, and headed for the Asgard Wall’s energy core.
• Heimdall detected the cloaked Dark Elf ships, brought one down, and activated the Asgard Wall before the rest reached the Golden Palace.
• Agamotto destroyed the energy core, and Malekith led his flagship through the shattered barrier and into Odin’s throne room.
• Sif deflected Malekith’s gravity grenade and confronted him, but Malekith withdrew while his Black Warriors held her back.
• Evenson arrived at the throne room after Sif had dragged him there, exhausted from the run.

Evenson and Sif fought off the Dark Elf attack on the Golden Palace, but a revealed mural exposed Asgard’s bloody past and a hidden warrior beside Odin. Evenson then killed the surviving Einherjar guards to keep the battle’s secrets safe, declaring that he trusted the dead more.

• Evenson secretly summoned Hellhounds and explosive imps, which killed the Dark Elves attacking the palace.
• A grenade knocked away part of the throne hall’s mural, revealing Odin’s warlike past and a horned woman fighting beside him.
• Evenson looted the battlefield and staged an Einherjar warrior’s corpse with a Dark Elf’s body, angering Sif.
• Evenson persuaded Sif and the surviving Einherjar to claim credit for defeating the attackers and keep his presence secret.
• After the Einherjar agreed to finish off the Dark Elf corpses, Evenson’s imps killed the guards, and he said he trusted the dead more.

Evenson justified killing the Asgardian soldiers by claiming they had seen Odin’s hidden mural, and he and Sif witnessed Odin kill the Einherjar who saw it. They fled toward Frigga’s chambers, where Frigga was in danger from Malekith and the Curse Warrior, and Sif launched an attack to save her.

• Evenson told Sif he had killed the soldiers because they had seen the mural and might reveal its secret to Odin.
• Odin entered the throne hall, saw the exposed mural, and killed the Einherjar who had witnessed it before restoring the flattering image.
• Evenson warned Sif to keep Odin’s secret, and they decided to make it appear they had fought elsewhere by heading toward Frigga’s chambers.
• Evenson and Sif found that Malekith and the Curse Warrior had cornered Frigga after discovering that Jane was only an illusion.
• Sif hurled a Heroic Throw at the Curse Warrior to save Frigga.

Evenson and Sif reached Frigga, where Evenson briefly struck the Curse Warrior before stalling Malekith with a bluff about powerful cosmic beings. Malekith interpreted the conflict as a performance meant to please those beings and resolved to pursue the Aether with renewed zeal.

• Sif hurled Evenson at the Curse Warrior, and Evenson used Shadow Fury to wound him before retreating from the fight.
• Evenson confronted Malekith and delayed him by pretending his dark power came from ancient, powerful entities.
• Evenson claimed that Nyarlathotep enjoyed the struggle between light and darkness and that the conflict was staged for the being's amusement.
• Malekith concluded that the war was designed as a performance and vowed to obtain the Aether and make the conflict more magnificent.

Malekith attacked Asgard and poisoned Frigga with Night Cicada before escaping, leaving her life in danger. Evenson slowed the poison with a Healing Stone and began arranging a risky cure that would involve Sif sharing Frigga’s suffering.

• Malekith dramatically confronted Frigga and Odin, then stabbed Frigga with a poisoned dagger before escaping Asgard with the Curse Warrior.
• Thor struck Malekith with lightning, but Odin identified the poison in Frigga’s wound as Night Cicada, which he said had no cure.
• Evenson offered to try a method that worked on most poisons and placed a Healing Stone in Frigga’s hand, slowing the poison’s spread.
• Evenson said the cure required a young, strong female volunteer to share Frigga’s poison, and Sif volunteered.
• Evenson requested a gold bucket, jeweled ivory cups, and many sacrifices for the ritual.

Evenson began a dark ritual to save Frigga by linking her life to Sif’s and preparing a potion from the souls of thirty condemned prisoners. After filling a golden barrel with enchanted blood, he gave cups to Odin and Thor and told them to make Frigga and Sif drink.

• Evenson used magical runes to link Frigga’s life to Sif’s, and the poison spread into Sif before she fainted.
• Evenson ordered the Valhalla warriors to torture the prisoners until their souls met his requirements, then absorbed and burned their souls.
• Evenson poured the prisoners’ spiritual energy into a Demon Heart, which produced enough glowing green blood to fill a golden barrel.
• Evenson summoned Odin and Thor, gave them cups of the green blood, and instructed them to make Frigga and Sif drink it.

Evenson gave Odin and Thor concentrated Fel medicine to save Frigga and Sif, warning that it could turn them green and make them grow tails. After they drank it, the women convulsed and developed green markings and eyes; Frigga then experienced a vision of Asgard burning and cried that their ending should not be like this.

• Evenson warned Odin and Thor that the Fel medicine might change Frigga and Sif's appearance and cause them to grow tails.
• Odin and Thor fed the medicine to Frigga and Sif, who swallowed it while unconscious.
• Frigga and Sif convulsed as their black poison markings faded and green markings appeared on their bodies.
• Frigga and Sif opened their green eyes but remained unresponsive, while Frigga found herself in a vision of a burning Asgard.
• Frigga tried to shield her people from the flames, but her barrier broke and the fire engulfed them.

Frigga relived Asgard’s destruction in a prophetic vision and repeatedly failed to save her subjects before accepting that she lacked the power to change fate. Her suppressed obsessions then appeared as a dark double, and the chapter ended with the green entity merging with her as she declared herself the Queen.

• Frigga awoke unharmed in a black void, where the charred corpses of her subjects accused her of failing to protect them.
• Frigga recognized the destruction of Asgard as a prophetic dream triggered by Malekith’s poisoned dagger and resolved to find a way to save her people.
• Frigga tried again and again to evacuate civilians and stop the apocalyptic flames, but every attempt failed.
• Frigga told the corpses she had exhausted every method and believed Asgard’s destruction was fate, after which they dispersed.
• A woman resembling Frigga appeared and revealed herself as the embodiment of Frigga’s suppressed obsessions and ambition.
• The woman transformed into a green substance, which merged with Frigga and formed enormous wings as Frigga declared, “I am the Queen!”

Frigga transformed into a Fel Valkyrie after Evenson treated her, then recovered and thanked him. She recruited Sif to command a rebuilt Valkyrie Corps, presenting the role as a path to becoming Thor’s wife and Asgard’s future queen.

• Odin and Thor worried when Frigga remained unresponsive after Sif woke, and Evenson guessed that Frigga’s recovery was taking longer.
• Frigga’s vitality surged, and she transformed into a giant armored Fel Valkyrie with green wings and a longsword before shrinking back to normal.
• Frigga embraced Odin, thanked Evenson, and asked to keep the remaining medicine; Odin promised Evenson a treasure from his treasury.
• After Evenson and the others left, Frigga kept Sif behind and offered to rebuild the Valkyrie Corps with Sif as its commanding general.
• Frigga told Sif that her military authority would help her become Thor’s wife and Asgard’s future queen, and Sif accepted by asking Frigga to grant her wings.

Odin and Thor argued over how to defend Asgard from Malekith, with Odin favoring a full military defense and Thor proposing to lure the Dark Elves away by taking Jane to the Dark World. Thor rejected his father's caution and secretly gathered his allies to carry out his plan, alarming Evenson by calling it tantamount to treason.

• Odin heard Fandral report that Asgard could not restore its palace barrier or detect the Dark Elves, and he judged Fandral unfit to advise Thor.
• Thor confronted Odin over placing Jane under house arrest, then proposed pursuing Malekith by taking Jane and the Aether to the Dark World.
• Odin refused Thor's plan and declared that Asgard's recalled army and fleet would defeat the Dark Elves if they attacked.
• Thor asked how many people would die under Odin's strategy, and Odin insisted that victory was what mattered.
• Thor secretly gathered the Warriors Three and Evenson, saying their plan amounted to treason and that Heimdall would cover it up.
• Evenson edged toward the door, fearing Thor would lead them into a rebellion against Odin.