Recaps

Shar ended the Cataclysm of the Saints by recovering the Fate Stone Tablet, and AO restored her power while imposing new trials on the gods. Orsaga returned to Crimson Heaven as worlds began merging, leaving Tony Stark and others facing an unfolding cosmic crisis.

• Shar attacked Mystra, while Tyr fought Kozuv and the battlefield filled with demons, devils, and adventurers.
• Shar killed the Devil Master and Dimogegen, then used their hearts to corrupt Mystra and try to turn her into an evil god.
• Orsaga appeared as Shar and Mystra confronted each other, and Shar touched the Fate Stone Tablet, prompting AO to end the Cataclysm of the Saints.
• AO restored Shar’s power and decreed new trials and changing positions for the gods, while Orsaga received Primal Pain from the Lady of Pain.
• Orsaga returned to Crimson Heaven, consumed Primal Pain, surveyed its worlds and possible futures, and spoke with his wives about their unborn children.
• Orsaga met Sleep Demon, Death, the Living Tribunal, a Beyonder, and OAA as they discussed the Crimson Dimension’s connections and the planned merger of Marvel and DC.
• Tony Stark went to the nightclub Hell as Mephisto and Ancient One watched, while another universe began overlapping with his and Planet Devourer died trying to stop the crisis.

As the universes moved toward collision, Orsaga arrived in Gotham with Lorgar Aurelian and Conrad Koz and met the Justice League and Doctor Manhattan. Lorgar defeated Doctor Manhattan, while the coming merger remained unavoidable.

• Ancient One reached Eternity with Odin and Frigga’s help, learned that the cosmic entities were already fighting, and returned with a way to reach the DC universe.
• Loki stormed the Time Variance Authority, killed Kang, and took control as black corruption spread through the timelines and the Void.
• The Live-Action Marvel World and Live-Action DC Universe continued converging as OAA observed the collision and Orsaga prepared to visit Gotham.
• Orsaga arrived in Gotham, killed a taxi driver who tried to rob him, and drew Batman and Constantine into an investigation of his supernatural presence.
• Orsaga entered Penguin’s Iceberg Restaurant with Lorgar Aurelian and Conrad Koz, where the Justice League confronted him and Constantine recognized him as the Crimson King.
• Doctor Manhattan appeared, learned that the universes would merge, and accepted Orsaga’s challenge for Lorgar Aurelian to fight him.
• Lorgar Aurelian battled Doctor Manhattan across dimensions, overcame his powers, and cut him in two before burning away his body with Black Flame.

Orsaga forced the Justice League and Constantine through deadly games while Conrad Koz’s attack shattered the Origin Wall and unleashed Perpetua. Across the Marvel Multiverse, the Marquis of Death destroyed the Time Variance Authority and entered the Crimson Dimension as new powers, including Beyonder, emerged.

• Ancient One bound the Justice League and led them with Orsaga into the Dark Multiverse, where Orsaga ordered Conrad Koz to kill Barbatos.
• Conrad Koz defeated Barbatos, and his attack destroyed surrounding space, killing The Batman Who Laughs and Red Death before Orsaga resurrected The Batman Who Laughs and began a team elimination game.
• Constantine endured Orsaga’s strange training world, where Pete and a Rooster fought across vast distances and Constantine discovered the world’s gods and devils.
• Conrad Koz delivered Barbatos’s head to Orsaga, then hurled Barbatos’s body into the Origin Wall, cracking it and freeing Yuga Khan, Clark Kent, and Perpetua.
• Perpetua escaped the shattered Origin Wall, killed powerhouses while searching for her attacker, and departed after World Forger realized Conrad Koz’s strike had badly wounded her.
• Batman defeated The Batman Who Laughs, and the Justice League survived its games before Orsaga made the participants give their experiences perfect reviews.
• Infinite Ultron attacked the Marquis of Death, who crushed him and cast him into lower dimensions, while Beyonder emerged in the Transcendence Domain and drew the attention of powerful beings.
• The Marquis of Death erased the Time Variance Authority, freeing the Timelines from Kang’s restraints, then entered the Crimson Dimension and witnessed its vast landscape of slaughter.

Orsaga defeated Marquis of Death, then helped set events in motion as Marvel and DC’s worlds began to merge. The New World stabilized, but Thanos and Darkseid gained new powers, and Orsaga challenged OAA over his role in what came next.

• Orsaga lured Marquis of Death into his palace, fought him with the Crimson Dimension’s lethal power, and devoured him after winning.
• Orsaga created a rapidly evolving lifeform to repopulate the Crimson Dimension and discussed Lucifer’s Great Villain Competition and a larger plan involving OBA and the Beyonders.
• Free Morty rejected Orsaga’s offer of a Demon Ritual and left to escape the Central Finite Curve, while Orsaga considered the limits of freedom and his own distance from OAA and Gann.
• Orsaga’s comics spurred characters across Marvel and DC to pursue new powers and treasures, while some broke through the Dimensional Wall to confront their creators.
• Time defeated Eternity in their struggle for control, and Marvel and DC’s worlds began merging as cities, people, and even their suns overlapped.
• Thanos and Darkseid fought during the upheaval and vowed to eliminate their counterparts, while Orsaga linked Darkseid to a Destiny Line leading to Soul Fire.
• Sentry killed Kingpin, restored his victims and the ruined city, then used a reality-altering punch to accelerate the fusion and help Time stabilize the New World.
• Lucifer took control of the merged Hell, Thanos acquired the Reality Controller, and Darkseid fused with Soul Fire and devoured Jaspers’s power before Orsaga told OAA he would fight rather than serve as their stepping stone.