Recaps

As Severus investigates Irma’s abduction and the unrest in France, the story turns to the Salem witch trials, where accusations and spectral claims spread through the village. Martha Corey is imprisoned, Rebecca Nurse faces a new accusation, and the story leaves Salem’s authorities deepening the persecution.

• Severus learned from Madam Pince about Kamose I and the missing funerary bow, then found her gone from the library and followed clues suggesting Voldemort had arranged her abduction.
• Severus questioned Lyall Mayer about Irma and the missing Muggle boy, then learned from Gong Saiyi that the pharaoh and royal consort might have used them to destroy the crocodiles.
• Lucius urged Severus to preserve the Prince family line, while Severus rejected Susanna’s questions about the Obscurus and told her to stop speaking until he understood her purpose.
• Samuel Parris moved his family into Salem Village, clashed with the villagers over firewood, and accepted the pastor position as accusations of witchcraft began to spread.
• Hassan examined Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba, and their accusations led to arrests while Good escaped briefly with her baby before being recaptured.
• Martha Corey challenged the girls’ accusations, but Hassan sentenced her to six months in shackles after Reverend Noyes declared her guilty.
• Abigail acted possessed before Lawson and Paris, claiming Rebecca Nurse offered her a Devil’s book, while the chapter questioned whether she had been taught what to say.
• Lawson advised Paris to have someone in the Putnam household accuse Rebecca Nurse directly, as Mary Warren suffered convulsions and Elizabeth Proctor considered leaving her husband.

Severus pursued clues about Napoleon and his wife’s soul while Salem’s witch trials escalated into executions, exposing the damage done to accused families. The arc ended with Burroughs and others hanged, Alden spared, and Ann Putnam Jr. publicly confessing to her part in the accusations.

• The Salem proceedings exposed signs that the girls’ fits and injuries could be staged, while Severus considered Lucius’s political arguments and the Black family’s struggle over Sirius’s place.
• Gong Saiyi and Susan examined a child-shaped wax figure marked “Hathor’s Beloved,” while Severus said Napoleon had taken his wife’s soul and he meant to retrieve it.
• The Salem court arrested and accused more people, including Giles Corey, John Proctor, Bridget Bishop, John Alden, and Elizabeth Cary, as Severus’s group investigated a silver coin, a bow, and clues tied to Napoleon.
• Salem’s accused endured prison and public executions, while Philip and Mary English fled toward New York and Severus saved his wife after finding her gravely harmed at home.
• Alden’s history and the conflicts over trade and land came to the fore as he faced witchcraft charges, while Elizabeth Cary escaped prison and Onesimus taught Cotton Mather inoculation.
• Alden challenged the evidence and escaped the August 19 death list, but officials hanged Burroughs, Willard, Proctor, Jacobs, and Carrier as Margaret Jacobs recanted and Ann Putnam Jr. later confessed publicly.

As the Salem trials ended and John Alden fled, the story ranged across political persecution, economic power, and historical upheavals while Severus and his allies investigated Angela Warren’s prophecy and Napoleon’s separated shadow. It left the larger conflict unresolved, with powerful forces threatening the weak and questions about magic, identity, and human nature still open.

• Stoughton continued the Salem prosecutions until Phips dissolved the Court of Oyer and Terminer, while Giles Corey died under pressing and Martha Corey was hanged.
• John Alden escaped Massachusetts as the witch hunts and broader persecution of witches continued, and Cotton Mather questioned the imprisoned William Milbourne.
• Newton pursued alchemy and experimental science while the story traced political and religious upheavals from Egypt to Europe and America.
• Gianluca told Severus and his companions that Angela Warren had prophesied the world’s end, and the group investigated her connection to Mary Warren and her star drawings.
• Gong Saiyi and Lucius brought Severus a golden bow and a notebook about sheut, while Lucius confirmed that the Death Priest had summoned Napoleon’s ghost.
• Political and economic power threatened communities across France, America, and the wizarding world, as the story followed Alstom, informants, Grindelwald, and Dumbledore’s apocalyptic warning.
• The narrative returned to questions of social power and magical identity, stating that Sphinxes and Manticores could speak human language but were not human and ate people.

Severus and Gong Saiyi investigated the Egyptian relics and symbols connected to Sirius Black while following clues through Paris’s underground spaces. Severus identified Les Invalides as the next destination and set out to rescue Pomona from the Muggles.

• Severus used the red ointment and Weather Bottle in the Oval Hall, where silver scorpions and a Sphinx emerged from the mirrors.
• Susanna answered the Sphinx’s riddle, received a Nilometer, and left with the Golden Cubit and Gong Saiyi’s score.
• Gong Saiyi summoned Hathor at the fig tree, then demanded that Severus treat him as an equal before offering help.
• Severus and Gong Saiyi entered the Deep Blue Hall, while Severus later searched the library for the missing woman and confronted Susanna about Count Leroy and Lily.
• Severus joined Susanna’s group at a social venue, then followed Bruny through a hidden entrance beneath Montsouris Park into tunnels under Paris.
• Severus and Lucius investigated Sirius Black’s tattoo symbols and considered the dangers of weather weapons, the catacombs, and the Montsouris Reservoir.
• Narcissa told Severus that Sirius’s tattoo symbol represented a pillar and reliability, while Severus connected the markings to mercury and Hathor.
• Severus reviewed the six relics and the clues to their locations, then stabbed Pharaoh Kamose I’s dagger into the map at Les Invalides.