Recaps

Favia went to the Great Temple to claim the Sun Stone and end human sacrifice, confronting Tlaloc behind its sealed door. He explained why he wanted to change the Aztec world, leaving Tlaloc silent as he mourned the fall of Constantinople.

• Favia asked Moctezuma II to let him enter the Great Temple and hear the gods’ revelations, and Moctezuma appointed him High Priest and led him there.
• Tlaloc returned to the Sun Stone chamber wounded, discovered Tezcatlipoca was gone, and raged about Favia before hearing him at the door.
• Favia opened the door by using Tlaloc’s blood and approached the Sun Stone, while Tlaloc tried to stop him from abolishing human sacrifice.
• Favia said the Aztec people suffered under a world of constant sacrifice and disease, though he understood Tlaloc’s love for Tenochtitlan.
• Favia recalled Constantinople’s destruction and Constantine XI’s final struggle, leaving Tlaloc unable to answer.

Favia planned to end human sacrifice among the Aztecs by establishing a new sun, but learned that the Fifth Sun Era had no sun god. Half a month later, he addressed the Aztecs during a scheduled mass sacrifice and raised an obsidian knife to his own chest, leaving his next action unresolved.

• Favia learned from Tlaloc that the present Fifth Sun Era had no sun god, so he declared that he would become a new sun for the Aztecs and their world.
• Half a month later, Favia stood before the Great Temple in Tenochtitlan as priests brought captives from Tlaxcala and Aztecs forward for the annual sacrifice.
• Favia quoted the words used in past sacrifices and told the crowd that Quetzalcoatl grieved over the lives lost in the rituals and had sent him to punish them.
• Favia said his mission was to restore peace and apologized for not coming sooner.
• Favia raised the Obsidian Sacrificial Knife and placed it against his own chest.

Favia proclaimed himself Quetzalcoatl’s emissary and atoned for the Aztecs’ human sacrifices by stabbing himself, then called on the peoples of the Aztec and Maya world to follow him toward peace. He secured Tlaxcala’s allegiance and forced the Purépecha Empire to surrender, leaving Teotitlan as the remaining major target.

• Favia addressed the Aztecs, stabbed himself with the Obsidian Sacrificial Knife, and declared that he would bear the sins of those who followed him.
• Favia waited outside Tlaxcala for its response while Tlaloc questioned his plans and warned that ending sacrifice could plunge the world into darkness.
• Tlaxcala’s four leaders pledged to follow Favia and abolish human sacrifice.
• Favia led ten thousand Tlaxcalans and ten thousand Aztecs against the Purépecha Empire, which surrendered after his devastating attack.
• Comala, Jalisco, and other small city-states offered to follow Favia, bringing valuable saltpeter deposits under his influence.

Favia united the Maya states with the Aztec-aligned nations and continued his reforms before following a jaguar’s trail to the Kukulkan Pyramid, where Tezcatlipoca revealed himself. Tezcatlipoca showed Favia a god’s perspective on the First Sun Age and began revealing events from the Second Sun Age.

• The Itza, Kʼicheʼ, and Chʼortiʼ submitted to Favia, completing the union of Central and South America.
• Favia established a central legal code, began training judges, relaxed restrictions on luxury goods, and banned human sacrifice.
• Favia followed a spotted jaguar’s presence to the Kukulkan Pyramid, despite Tlaloc questioning why he had come there.
• At the pyramid’s summit, a black serpent-shaped shadow swallowed Favia and carried him to a foggy realm, where Tezcatlipoca introduced himself.
• Tezcatlipoca gave Favia a god’s perspective, showing him the First Sun Age and the destruction of its people before revealing a conversation from the Second Sun Age.

Favia told Tezcatlipoca he would become the Fifth Sun and abolish human sacrifice, even if he had to shoulder the consequences and fight the gods. Tezcatlipoca rejected the proposal for now but became excited by Favia’s resolve, offered him counsel, and prepared to leave Mictlan to investigate why the world had summoned him.

• Tezcatlipoca explained that he had foreseen the destruction of the Aztec world but could not see Favia in any of the possible futures.
• Favia declared that he would become the new Fifth Sun, take responsibility for the dimming sun, and reject the world’s cruel rules.
• Favia argued that the people of Central and South America should fight for their land and future rather than die merely as sacrifices.
• Tezcatlipoca said Favia could not simply defy the world’s rules, but grew excited when Favia claimed he would become the land’s sole god.
• Tezcatlipoca advised Favia not to forget the need for weapons and battle, then explained that the Shadow of the Feathered Serpent had been his Thunder Serpent guise.
• Tezcatlipoca learned that Favia knew of the eagle warriors, then said he had to leave Mictlan to discover why the world had called him.

Favia returned from the Underworld with Tezcatlipoca’s mask and a gift, then tricked Tlaloc into believing he was her brother before revealing himself. Months later, Baobhan Sith worried about her closeness to Favia and asked Tlaloc what she thought of him; both girls admitted they wanted to cut him down, though for very different reasons.

• Favia asked Tezcatlipoca to help find the missing piece of the Silver Key, and Tezcatlipoca agreed before giving him the Jaguar Man mask and a shadowy power.
• Tlaloc mistook the masked Favia for Tezcatlipoca, and Favia let her believe he had died before revealing himself and provoking her fury.
• Nearly three months later, Baobhan Sith asked Tlaloc what she thought of Favia, and Tlaloc said she wanted to cut him down.
• Baobhan Sith explained that she feared Tlaloc might be close to Favia, then complained that he exploited his workers, made Da Vinci paint, and owed her money.
• Tlaloc realized Baobhan Sith still cared deeply about Favia and privately reaffirmed that she wanted revenge on him.

Tlaloc saw Favia inspire a child named Cuauhtémoc to imagine a peaceful future in Tenochtitlan. Half a month later, Hernán Cortés’s expedition reached the Aztec Empire’s eastern coast, with Bartolomé de las Casas warning him that the people there had souls.

• Tlaloc admired Tenochtitlan after the rain and sensed the changes Favia’s work had brought to the city.
• Tlaloc asked Cuauhtémoc what Favia had told him, and the child explained that Favia wanted him to write his own story rather than become a warrior for him.
• Tlaloc praised the name Favia had given Cuauhtémoc and felt that the city was moving toward a new future.
• Half a month later, Hernán Cortés arrived on the eastern coast with eleven ships and more than six hundred men, intent on seizing wealth and glory.
• Bartolomé de las Casas warned Cortés that the people of the continent had souls, but Cortés dismissed them as inferior.

Hernán Cortés landed with six hundred Spaniards and met Favia, the Aztec envoy, whose warriors attacked them after he announced their arrival. As Bartolomé watched the battle, the chapter shifted to his past and the sermon that first challenged his acceptance of Spanish colonial rule.

• Hernán and his men landed on the shore, where Aztec warriors quickly surrounded them.
• Hernán fired his gun to intimidate the warriors, but they stood firm because they trusted Favia.
• Favia identified himself as the Aztecs’ Second Sun’s envoy, named Bartolomé as a Church priest, and led the Aztecs into an attack on the Spaniards.
• Bartolomé watched the fighting and saw an image of the archangel Michael as he struggled to use Magecraft.
• The narrative recounted how Bartolomé encountered an Indian boy, joined the colonists, and became an encomendero and priest.
• Antón Montesinos denounced the colonists’ enslavement and abuse of Indians in his 1511 sermon, challenging Bartolomé and the other Spaniards to recognize their humanity.

Favia convinced Bartolomé to join him in rescuing the enslaved Indians of Cuba, with Tlaloc and Coti accompanying the expedition. The story then followed Geronimo, a young Cuban Indian enslaved by the Spaniards, as he learned from an elder that the sun watched over his people.

• Favia praised Bartolomé and invited him to help bring the Indians of Cuba back; Bartolomé agreed.
• Coti appeared, and Tlaloc decided to join Favia because the Cuban Indians deserved the sun’s protection.
• Eight-year-old Geronimo was branded as a slave by the Spaniards.
• During the 1513 uprising, a stranger urged Geronimo to flee, but Geronimo returned to his hut; Spanish forces crushed the revolt and forced enslaved Indians to watch captured rebels being scalped.
• Geronimo asked an elder why the rebels had cried out “Sol,” and the elder explained that the sun was called “Apo” in their language and had long watched over them.

Favia rescued the Cuban natives and persuaded Geronimo to trust him and join his effort to become a sun for the people of the Americas. He then worked to unify Central and South America against the Spanish, while Baobhan Sith arrived exhausted from learning the Aztec language.

• Favia led Aztec warriors to Cuba, defeated the Spanish authorities, and opened a path for the surviving natives to leave.
• Geronimo stayed behind because he felt his Spanish-influenced understanding of the sun separated him from his people, but Favia urged him to trust him and offered to become his sun.
• Geronimo accepted Favia's appeal, and Favia declared he would challenge the world's cruel rules; Tezcatlipoca sensed that North American forces had also made a decision and set out to find something for the Fifth Sun.
• Favia used Bartolomé's help to romanize writing, enlisted priests and Geronimo's people to spread it, and promoted unity against the expected Spanish invasion.
• Baobhan Sith visited Favia with Tlaloc, worried about his workload and revealing that she had stayed up nights learning Aztec; she wondered whether changing languages meant she would have to start over.

Favia prepared to perform a new ritual in Tenochtitlan, with Tlaloc agreeing to help inscribe the Fifth Sun on the Sun Stone. As the ritual began, the people gathered to see Favia, whom they regarded as a great leader.

• Tlaloc agreed to help Favia inscribe the Fifth Sun on the Sun Stone during the coming ritual.
• Favia told Tlaloc that finding the pieces of his Silver Key and reuniting with his little sister remained his original goal, but that staying to help was his own choice.
• The people of Central and South America gathered outside Tenochtitlan's Great Temple for Favia's unprecedented ritual.
• Favia appeared before the gathered people with ritual colors painted on his hands, the Jaguar Man Mask on his chest, and a giant coyote following behind him.

At the first grand ritual since the continent’s unification, Favia announced the Fifth Sun and confronted Tlaloc, who had taken the form of Cipactli to sacrifice herself and usher in a new era. Favia refused to kill her, choosing to create a future for the world without repeating its ancient laws of sacrifice.

• Favia addressed the gathered people, defended the rescued enslaved people, and urged the continent to meet foreign cruelty with strength and dignity.
• Favia named the Fifth Sun-Tonatiuh as the ritual’s recipient, and darkness fell as four flames revealed Tlaloc in the form of the water monster Cipactli.
• Favia realized that Tlaloc had accepted the Cipactli concept so he could kill her and reenact the myth that created the Sun Eras.
• Favia opened his fist to reveal a blue flower, refused to kill Tlaloc, and asked her to watch for the birth of the Fifth Sun.
• Favia continued toward the Sun Stone, resolved to establish a different way of life rather than obey the ancient world’s sacrificial rules.

Favia rejected the Central and South American World's compromise and accepted Tezcatlipoca's approval to fight the resurrected Cipactli, the ancient monster whose body formed the world's foundation. After Cipactli revealed that human sacrifice had fed its endless hunger, Favia began resisting it with the world's plants, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Tezcatlipoca met Favia in Mictlan, explained Cipactli's power, and approved Favia's plan to defeat it.
• Tezcatlipoca, the Lord of the Flayed, and other powers lent their support as Favia returned to face Cipactli in the darkness over Tenochtitlan.
• Favia questioned Cipactli's resurrection, and Cipactli explained that it was the world itself and that human sacrifice had fed its hunger.
• Favia realized the world had revived Cipactli to preserve its old rules after he rejected its compromise, and vowed to destroy the monster and create a new world.
• Cipactli attacked Favia, but Favia's words roused the plants of the darkened world to resist the monster.

Favia gathered the continent’s power and the prayers of its people to defeat Cipactli in Mictlan, ending the ancient world’s laws and ushering in a new sun era. Aboveground, the four suns lit the Sun Stone again, confirming that Favia had slain Cipactli.

• Favia kicked Cipactli into Mictlan, where the monster raged and Tezcatlipoca urged Favia to destroy it as the Fifth Sun.
• The souls and hopes of the continent’s people converged on Favia, empowering him with the force called Maya.
• Cipactli pleaded with Favia to spare it and offered to help him, but Favia said he had come because someone had cried during a sacrifice.
• Tezcatlipoca declared that the future would continue, as Favia raced toward Cipactli’s heart and unleashed the light of Maya.
• Favia tore Cipactli apart, and the ancient monster died as the world’s laws began to change.
• The four great suns lit up on the Sun Stone in Tenochtitlan, and everyone understood that Favia had slain Cipactli.

Favia defeated Cipactli and used the First Sun’s Black Sun authority to postpone ORT’s emergence for a month, while the people accepted him as the Fifth Sun. He left Moctezuma II to govern and spread the faith, then prepared to send the sun away and face the coming battle.

• Favia used the four previous suns to destroy Cipactli, and the people of Central and South America began spreading the story of the newborn Fifth Sun, Tonatiuh.
• Favia confronted ORT beneath the earth and used Tezcatlipoca’s Black Sun authority to reverse the present moment, setting their final battle in Crystal Valley for a month later.
• Favia told Moctezuma II to continue governing and asked Bartolomé and Geronimo to keep spreading the faith while he left.
• Moctezuma II accepted Favia’s instructions, and Favia rose to leave and send the sun away.

Favia reassured Moctezuma II that he would return and asked him to lead Aztec in his stead, then spoke with Tlaloc about her reckless sacrifice, her apology, and the promise she had fulfilled. The chapter left Favia affirming Tlaloc’s worth and her status as the equal of the goddesses whose miracles she brought to the Sun Stone.

• Moctezuma II asked whether Favia was abandoning Aztec, and Favia asked what kind of king he wanted to become.
• Moctezuma II vowed to lead his people through whatever challenges lay ahead, and Favia asked him to fight in his stead until Favia returned.
• Favia left the palace and met Tlaloc by Moon Lake, where she asked about his condition and requested that he keep calling her Tlaloc.
• Tlaloc admitted she had broken her word, misunderstood Favia, and tried to kill him, then offered to accept any punishment.
• Favia forgave Tlaloc and reminded her that she had fulfilled their promise by manifesting the miracles of Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue on the Sun Stone.
• Favia told Tlaloc that she was capable of fulfilling the duties of both goddesses and was their equal.

Favia reassured Baobhan Sith that he would protect her, and she accepted his promise while hiding how deeply she cared for him. Days later, Baobhan Sith interrupted Tlaloc as she tried to invite Favia to a secret place in Tenochtitlan, and the two girls silently competed for his attention.

• Baobhan Sith worried that Favia had risked his life fighting the monster, but he told her he would not ignore people in need and promised to protect her.
• Baobhan Sith admitted that she would let Favia protect her, and he gently took her hand and agreed.
• Over the following days, Baobhan Sith cherished Favia's promise and assumed Tlaloc did not like him.
• Tlaloc sat shyly beside Favia and began inviting him to see a special place in Tenochtitlan, but Baobhan Sith called out to him before she could finish.
• Baobhan Sith sat between Favia and Tlaloc and clung to his arm, while Tlaloc privately resented the interruption and reconsidered whether the pair suited each other.

Favia obtained control of Moon Lake’s leyline from Tlaloc and used it to begin mimicking the Inner Sea of Stars. He set out to become its UO to prevent the planet and its inhabitants from perishing, leaving Tlaloc bewildered as his transformation began.

• Tlaloc watched Favia leave with Baobhan Sith and hoped he would visit her soon.
• Favia later asked Tlaloc to entrust Moon Lake to him, and she acknowledged him as its master, releasing the leyline’s Od.
• Favia explained that he would use Moon Lake’s leyline and powers gathered across different eras to mimic the Inner Sea of Stars.
• Tlaloc realized Favia intended to become a UO and offered to help him kill Altrouge Brunestud and Arcueid instead.
• Favia sent Tlaloc away and began his mimicry to save the planet and everyone living on it, including the approaching Spaniards.

Favia endured 4.6 billion years inside an Imitation Sun, using his conviction and humanity’s faith to preserve his identity as the Sun. He emerged onto Earth transformed and ready to confront ORT, the cause of the world’s impending destruction.

• Favia used the Leylines and everything he had gained across three eras to create an Imitation Sun and resolved to endure as long as the real Sun had existed.
• Inside the mimicry, Favia experienced the Sun’s formation and watched life, civilization, and human faith unfold across immense stretches of time.
• Favia foresaw the destruction brought by ORT’s awakening but drew strength from the lives and hopes of the people beneath him.
• After 4.6 billion years, Favia reclaimed his identity as the Sun and leaped out of the Imitation Sun.
• Favia appeared on Earth wearing the Jaguar Man Mask, declaring himself the Sun that unites all as one.

Favia explained to Tlaloc that ORT had awakened because of him and left to face it alone, while she mourned his departure. Beneath South America, Favia confronted the rising ORT and prepared for their decisive battle.

• Tlaloc confronted Favia about leaving without telling her, and he revealed that ORT had awakened and that he had sent it one month into the future.
• Favia showed Tlaloc a newborn named Cuauhtémoc and explained that he would face ORT because the Final Object inside it had caused its awakening.
• Favia thanked Tlaloc for helping him become the Fifth Sun, told her to live through the changing seasons, and disappeared; Tlaloc wept and confessed her love for him.
• Favia reached ORT's underground Crystal Valley and raised a vast, blazing tree to block its advance and keep it from destroying the planet.
• ORT emerged from beneath the earth, identified Favia as a possible stellar-level being like itself, and faced him as Favia declared their decisive battle had begun.

Favia, the Sun UO, fought ORT in Crystal Valley by wielding the abilities of the planetary UOs and transforming into a giant body of light. The battle escalated into a clash between two stellar beings, with neither able to overcome the other as the otherworld continued to break apart.

• Favia used Saturn UO's power to counter ORT's stellar attack, while Jupiter and Pluto's UOs maintained a seal around the otherworld.
• ORT analyzed Saturn UO's ability and copied its spear of light, so Favia invoked the other planetary UOs and became a giant body of light.
• Favia endured ORT's copied attack and struck back, beginning a close physical battle between the two stellar beings.
• Favia and ORT traded attacks that shook the universe and repeatedly shattered and restored Crystal Valley.
• ORT transformed into its luminous disk form and unleashed endless spears of light, while Favia became a sun and met its attack with layered defenses.

Favia was killed by ORT, but revived the sun through his will and joined its power to defeat the Star Eater. He reclaimed the Silver Key fragment that had awakened ORT and destroyed the visitor from another world.

• As Favia's leaves withered, ORT pierced his body of light, killed him, and began devouring him while Crystal Valley's erosion resumed.
• Favia found himself conscious in darkness and summoned a false but renewed sun, restoring his life and pushing back Crystal Valley's erosion.
• With the planets' wills supporting him, Favia unleashed the sun's power and cracked ORT's disk-shaped body.
• Favia pulled the final Silver Key fragment from ORT's heart, then endured the creature's retaliatory flames without fighting back.
• Favia used the sun's remaining power to collapse ORT's systems, and ORT shattered into fragments.

After ORT’s defeat, Favia set out to return to the place where he had been born and keep his promise. In 1891, Sherlock Holmes and Helena Blavatsky encountered the supposedly dead James Moriarty and his daughter Frankenstein in the Himalayas, where they reunited and discussed their next destination.

• ORT called Favia’s renewed life beautiful before it fell silent, and the Crystal Valley and the otherworld’s protective sky vanished.
• Favia walked toward the exit, determined to return to his birthplace because someone was waiting for him.
• In the Himalayas, Helena asked Sherlock Holmes what Moriarty had been like, and Holmes recalled their final confrontation at Reichenbach Falls.
• Seven mages ambushed Helena and Holmes; after Holmes drove them off, the last assassin reached Helena, but Moriarty and Frankenstein intervened and defeated the attacker.
• Holmes learned Moriarty had survived Reichenbach Falls because Frankenstein had followed him, and Frankenstein said they had come to see Holmes before leaving for Antarctica.
• Moriarty pleaded with Frankenstein not to disown him after she chose her grandfather, while Helena laughed at his antics.

Fran and Moriarty traveled toward Antarctica after recalling Moriarty’s farewell to Edmond Dantès, while Favia returned to Tenochtitlan and saw the people thriving under the Sun god’s protection. After fulfilling his promise, Favia died in Moon Lake as Tlaloc confessed her love and kissed him, and Edmond Dantès arrived in Mexico, believing he had seen the Priest.

• Fran teased Moriarty about his stubbornness before they headed toward Antarctica, and Moriarty recalled Edmond Dantès leaving Europe for Mexico after saying he would wait and hope.
• Favia arrived in a prosperous Tenochtitlan, where a child told him that the people celebrated Tonatiuh and had driven out the Spaniards.
• Favia read a monument honoring the people’s struggle, then sat on the bench by Moon Lake and watched the city’s hopes rise as dreamlike lights.
• Favia placed the completed Silver Key on the bench and entered the lake, where Tlaloc caught him and grieved over his death.
• Tlaloc confessed her love and kissed Favia as he faded away, while Edmond Dantès arrived in Tenochtitlan and said he thought he had seen the Priest.

Edmond met Abigail at Moon Lake and learned that the Priest had been her brother, Favia, who had left but would meet him again someday. He then delivered Favia’s letter to Baobhan Sith, who wept as she read his promise to return.

• Edmond dismissed Haydée and went to Moon Lake, where he met Abigail holding the complete Silver Key.
• Abigail told Edmond that the Priest was her brother, Favia, and that he had left; she reassured Edmond that they would meet again.
• Edmond accepted Abigail’s words, waited in the sunshine, and later encountered a red-haired girl searching for someone.
• Edmond recognized the girl as Baobhan Sith, remembered Favia’s request, and gave her the letter he had carried for her.
• Baobhan Sith read Favia’s message and cried, resolving to keep waiting for him and believing they would meet again.