Recaps

Orsaga uncovered how Abyss Prince factors shaped life across planes, then claimed half of the Styx and the Bottomless Abyss. After the Gith and Mind Flayer Empires fought over the God-Bestowed Scroll, Orsaga trained Dimogegen, killed the God of Plunder, and was abruptly taken away by an unknown being.

• Orsaga explained that Abyss Prince factors could shape organisms and civilizations across planes, and accepted half of the Styx and the Bottomless Abyss in exchange for warning the gods of alien parasites.
• The Mind Flayer Empire attacked a city to destroy the God-Bestowed Scroll, and the Lady of Pain split the scroll into versions sent across spacetime.
• Orsaga recognized one fragment of the scroll as it fell toward a distant shore and foresaw it helping develop the plane’s Spellcasting System.
• Orsaga tormented Dimogegen with months of training before sending him toward his hometown, where he would eventually become a powerful mad king.
• Mor. Derg defeated the Mind Flayer King with the Slaughterer of All Beings, while the Mind Flayer survivors escaped through cross-world teleportation to Orsaga’s world.
• Orsaga followed divine traces into the Void and attacked the God of Plunder, destroying his Divine Kingdom and devouring him.
• Orsaga challenged the watching gods, but a lightning-ringed halo appeared and an unseen being dragged him away, and AO identified him as a demon god from a Different Time and Space.

As the Chaos Queen’s Tanari Demons and the Heavenly Creatures reshape the Abyss through war, Orsaga draws Dimogegen into the slaughter. Asmodeus creates the Nine-Layered Hell, and Tyr’s attack is interrupted by an evil god’s strike.

• Orsaga dismissed the plane’s gods as weak and unambitious, while the Chaos Queen began building a new Tanari Demon branch to strengthen her rule.
• The Chaos Queen expanded her army, made Miska her consort and general, and sent him to attack Aikua’s Wind Elemental Legion.
• Aikua used Arkadi’s artifact to seal Miska and his avatars, turning the Order-aligned forces toward the Abyss as Heavenly Creatures invaded and devastated its plains.
• The Chaos Queen made the Tanari Demons independent through the Styx, while their growing numbers and the Heavenly Creature invasion threatened the Obriss Demons.
• Orsaga ordered Dimogegen to disguise himself as a Heavenly Creature and kill Abyss Creatures, then marked him with powers that let him infiltrate the Allied Army.
• Asmodeus severed nine Abyss territories from space and time, dissolved their inhabitants into blood, and declared the birth of the Nine-Layered Hell.
• Tyr attacked the Nine-Layered Hell through a Space-time Rift, and an evil god stabbed Asmodeus from behind as scarlet light engulfed them.

As Orsaga built the Nine-Layered Hell and the Blood War, Netheril rose through the Nethys Scrolls and arcane invention. The Felin Demon Sunflowers invaded Netheril, and its Grand Arcanists sought allies against Orsaga, leaving Dimogegen frightened and waiting for Orsaga’s next move.

• Asmodeus made Orsaga lord of the eighth layer of the Nine-Layered Hell, where newborn devils rose through a strict hierarchy and fed on fallen souls.
• Orsaga’s schemes helped turn the devils’ and demons’ growing hostility into the Blood War, while Dimogegen seized the Abyssal throne and the Gith spread across the worlds.
• Netheril opened the Nethys Scrolls to its people, and Congelio Ioun’s invention became the Ioun Stone, helping the kingdom rise through arcane research and floating cities.
• Karsus’s attempt to reunite the Nethys Scrolls ended with the escort killed and the scrolls stolen, while Iolam’s Divination showed Netheril’s floating cities falling under attack by unknown beings.
• The Felin Demon Sunflowers secretly invaded Netheril and siphoned magic and Life Force, killing Audral as the Grand Arcanists gathered to confront the threat.
• The Grand Arcanists sought help from devils and Dimogegen, but both recoiled when they learned their enemy was Orsaga.
• Dimogegen reported the summons to Orsaga, who told him not to interfere, leaving Dimogegen afraid that Orsaga had been watching him.

After Netheril fell to Karsus’s attempt to steal the Goddess of Magic’s power, Orsaga arranged to enter Gann’s Dark Tower Plane and explored other worlds. He destroyed the Huiluo Realm, met Great Sun Tathagata Buddha, and arrived at the Heavenly Court under a tense welcome.

• Karsus cast Karsus's Incarnation to take Mithril’s divine power, but the Weave collapsed, destroying much of Netheril and leaving Mithril near death.
• Iolam transformed himself into an undead Mind Flayer Overlord, while Yeg divided his divine portfolios among three mortals who ascended as gods.
• Gann agreed to cooperate with Orsaga and allowed part of his consciousness to enter the Dark Tower Plane, where Orsaga returned as the Bloody King.
• Orsaga sent his consciousness through Crimson Heaven’s channels and chose an unexplored coordinate leading to Huiluo Realm.
• An Ozhaki Derivative destroyed Huiluo Realm and killed Saint Monk Duxin’s allies, while Orsaga watched and claimed the realm’s deep-blue gemstone.
• Orsaga followed the concept of Buddha to the Tathagata Realm, where Great Sun Tathagata Buddha received him and explained the plane’s territorial rules.
• Orsaga left with a map from Great Sun Tathagata Buddha and headed for the Heavenly Court, where his arrival shattered the Monster-Revealing Mirror.
• Great Immortal Guang Ling Shou Sheng attacked Orsaga, but an old immortal called off the conflict and said the Jade Emperor had ordered him admitted.