Chapter Summaries

During the debate, Voldemort incited the crowd to attack Diana Hoganmeel and Tedel Alucard, then turned the chaos into a display of his strength. Diana and Tedel fled and reported their failure to Irina Smirnova, who said she would inform Mr. Tierra.

• Diana Hoganmeel and Tedel Alucard denounced Mr. Riddle and called for unity between the Wizarding and Muggle worlds.
• A wizard attacked Tedel Alucard, and another Charm flew at Diana Hoganmeel before her Auror guard blocked it.
• Voldemort mocked the candidates and roused the crowd into hurling Charms at the stage, but every Charm veered away from him and burst like fireworks.
• Aurors escorted Diana and Tedel from the venue, and they fled in a Thestral carriage.
• Diana told Irina Smirnova that she and Tedel had failed their task, and Irina said she would report the situation to Mr. Tierra.

Irina Smirnova reassured Diana Hoganmeel after her defeat, then returned to Tierra, who explained how a failed nationalist campaign could weaken Voldemort’s support. Tierra instructed Irina to attract people from Voldemort’s side by offering them resources and land.

• Diana Hoganmeel thanked Irina Smirnova for honoring their promised terms after her defeat.
• Irina Smirnova ended her communication with Diana and returned to the banquet in New Tyneham Village.
• Tierra told Irina that Diana’s loss was not important and urged her to enjoy her meal.
• Tierra explained that racism and nationalism depended on expansion and could collapse after a defeat.
• Tierra told Irina to bring people over from Voldemort’s side by offering them money, supplies, and land, including children if adults could not be persuaded.

At the wizard settlement’s victory banquet, Tierra explained why Voldemort’s growing influence was difficult to stop and why the Muggle World had refused to support his opponents. He argued that they needed to make Voldemort’s expansion threaten Muggles too, forcing them to seek wizard help.

• Tierra told the banquet guests that Voldemort had become more dangerous and that their ideals lacked practical support.
• Doniel Klosterman reported that wizards in Finland were attacking his family’s businesses after branding them traitors.
• Irina Smirnova said that Muggle leaders had refused to help the anti-Voldemort faction.
• Tierra argued that they should make the Muggle World ask wizards for aid, warning that racist expansion would eventually turn against its own allies.

Tierra outlined a strategy to resist Voldemort by growing the wizarding population, expanding settlements, and defending public opinion while Voldemort turned against the Muggles. His listeners imagined a future wizarding empire, though some also hoped to eliminate their rivals.

• Tierra explained that Voldemort would have to keep attacking either wizards or Muggles to pursue his goals through racism.
• Balázs Locke Hoffmannde recognized that the wizards should defend themselves, and Tierra stressed defending public opinion and ideas.
• Tierra proposed having more children and improving people's happiness to preserve the wizarding population advantage.
• Tierra predicted Voldemort would attack the Muggles if he could not conquer the wizards quickly.
• Tierra urged the wizards to spread out, build bases among Muggles, and eventually establish wizarding cities across the British Commonwealth Empire.
• Several listeners imagined ruling a wizarding empire with Tierra and eliminating their rivals.

Tierra arranged for Arthur Weasley and his family, along with Harry and Hermione Granger, to travel through the United States and Europe to learn about Muggle society. He described the trip as an employee reward and a chance to compile a travel guide.

• Arthur Weasley urged Tierra to monitor Muggle movements and understand how Muggles might react to wizarding plans.
• Arthur suggested Gregory Rabot as a Muggle expert, but Irina clarified that Tierra wanted people to experience Muggle society firsthand.
• Tierra chose Arthur Weasley, his family, Harry, and Hermione Granger for a post-exam trip through the United States and Europe.
• Irina praised Arthur as a renowned Muggle expert and questioned whether his family could handle the assignment.
• Tierra explained that the trip was a reward and an opportunity to compile a travel guide to the Muggle World.

Tierra brought Jeffrey Rogge to Padstow to offer him a path to immortality, then revealed that his offer was connected to Jeffrey’s trace of nonhuman blood. The chapter ended before Tierra explained what that bloodline meant.

• Tierra explained to Irina that he wanted to develop wizarding tourism around Muggle attractions and more distant destinations.
• Tierra brought Jeffrey Rogge to Padstow, where the busy seaside town could not hide a fishy stench from the deep sea.
• Jeffrey asked why Tierra had brought him there, and Tierra recalled Jeffrey’s answer about what immortality meant to him.
• Tierra said he had brought Jeffrey to offer him a path to immortality, but not because of his classroom answer.
• Tierra revealed that Jeffrey possessed a trace of nonhuman bloodline.

Tierra explained that Jeffrey Rogge carried Deep One blood and could undergo an irreversible transformation into one of them. He offered Jeffrey a choice between accepting immortality and its cost or staying back from the line that would activate the bloodline.

• Jeffrey Rogge asked whether the nonhuman bloodline came from evil gods or their servants, and Tierra identified it as Deep One blood.
• Tierra described the Deep Ones, their worship of Father Dagon, Mother God Hydra, and Cthulhu, and how human hybrids gradually transformed into them.
• Jeffrey Rogge feared that he might develop the frog-like features of a Deep One and asked Tierra what he should do.
• Tierra drew a line and warned Jeffrey that crossing it would activate his bloodline irreversibly, leaving him to choose whether to accept immortality and its price.

Tierra persuaded Jeffrey Rogge to become a Deep One descendant and act as a diplomat to help forge an alliance between the Deep Ones and wizards. Jeffrey accepted after Tierra promised powerful magic and assistance with a future Divine Being ritual, and learned he could retain his human appearance on land.

• Tierra explained that Deep Ones were secretive and that Jeffrey Rogge's ancestry likely came from an encounter with one of their descendants.
• Jeffrey asked about the effects of becoming a Deep One, and Tierra described the fishy stench, changes in temperament and diet, while assuring him his sanity would remain intact.
• Tierra promised to teach Jeffrey powerful magic and provide free assistance if he sought to become a Divine Being.
• Jeffrey agreed to become a Deep One descendant and crossed the line Tierra had drawn.
• Tierra told Jeffrey he could keep his human appearance away from water and eventually learn Flesh Magic to transform his form himself.

Tierra took Jeffrey Rogge to Wave's Garden for a meal while they discussed Jeffrey's Deep One bloodline. Tierra revealed that about a dozen others in the Wizard Alliance had the same bloodline, though five wizards he had approached had refused.

• Tierra and Jeffrey entered Wave's Garden after Tierra chose it using his Peering spell.
• Tierra ordered a large meal and Champagne Coconut Wine, reassuring Jeffrey that a Divine Being could eat as much as he wanted.
• Jeffrey asked whether he was the only person in the Wizard Alliance with Deep One bloodline.
• Tierra told Jeffrey that about a dozen others had the bloodline and that five wizards he had approached had refused.

Tierra explained to Jeffrey that other wizards had refused to work with the Deep Ones out of fear of becoming like them, and that he could not enter their territory without risking war with their divine rulers. Tierra planned to wait for the Deep Ones to approach them, since Jeffrey’s mixed blood might attract their interest.

• Tierra told Jeffrey that about a dozen other wizards had Deep One bloodlines, but most had refused the role after learning they might transform into Deep Ones.
• Tierra explained that he would not enter the Deep Ones’ territory, ruled by Father Dagon and Mother God Hydra, because doing so could provoke war and risk contact with the sleeping Great Cthulhu.
• Tierra said the Deep Ones rarely came ashore, but traded deep-sea fish for plastic and might also be drawn to Jeffrey, their human-blooded descendant.

Tierra explained why the Deep Ones sought mixed-blood descendants: their numbers were low, and they could not use magic. He described their history of interbreeding with humans, leaving Jeffrey to understand why they focused on wizarding descendants.

• Jeffrey asked why the Deep Ones were interested in mixed-blood descendants, and Tierra explained that their population was small and grew slowly.
• Tierra said Father Dagon and Mother God Hydra gathered the Deep Ones every hundred years to worship Cthulhu and force them to mate.
• Tierra explained that Deep Ones had limited combat abilities and were sometimes killed by sea creatures or Muggle naval torpedoes.
• Jeffrey guessed the Deep Ones sought human partners to increase their population, and Tierra said their origins might involve humans empowered by Cthulhu.
• Tierra described how Deep Ones pursued human partners during the Age of Discovery and the Triangle Trade, including by following slave ships.
• Jeffrey asked why the Deep Ones did not search the Muggle World for descendants, and Tierra replied that they wanted wizards because Deep Ones could not use magic.

Tierra told Jeffrey about a Muggle geologist’s encounters with the Deep Ones and gave him the geologist’s book to study before they faced the alien race. Jeffrey asked what interests could persuade the Deep Ones to cooperate.

• Tierra explained that his information about the Deep Ones came from a library and Muggle investigation reports because he avoided the ocean.
• Tierra described how geologist Hallelujah Frolov survived on Surtsey for three days with a creature he called a Toadman, whom Tierra believed was a Deep One.
• Tierra produced Frolov’s book, Journey to Surtsey: My Conversations with the Toadman, and told Jeffrey to study it after they checked into the hotel.
• Jeffrey began reading, but Tierra took the book back and told him to enjoy the food first.
• Jeffrey asked Tierra what interests they could use to persuade the self-sufficient Deep Ones.

Tierra explained how human pollution harms the oceans and described the Deep Ones’ society and abilities. He revealed that Jeffrey’s mixed wizard and Deep One heritage made him a Priest Caste by birth.

• Tierra produced newspapers describing severe oil tanker spills, and Jeffrey read about the resulting damage to coastlines and marine life.
• Tierra explained that industrial waste, emissions, plastics, and ocean acidification also polluted the sea.
• Jeffrey asked whether pollution affected the Deep Ones, and Tierra said their activities spanned the ocean but the pollution was not especially fatal to them.
• Tierra explained that some Deep Ones received magical abilities through blessings from Father Dagon and Mother God Hydra, becoming members of the Priest Caste.
• Tierra told Jeffrey that his wizard and Deep One blood made him a Priest Caste by birth.

Tierra explained how Jeffrey could serve as a bridge between wizards and the Deep Ones, whose anger over ocean pollution could help them bargain with humanity. He revealed that he was bringing in Professor Frolov and other Muggles as part of a gradual effort to infiltrate the Muggle world.

• Tierra said mixed descendants of wizards and Deep Ones were valuable because both groups lived hidden among humans, and Jeffrey could connect them.
• Tierra explained that the Deep Ones were furious about ocean pollution and recounted their warning that the Great Ruler would awaken and punish humanity.
• Jeffrey asked about Professor Frolov, and Tierra said Frolov had been committed to a mental hospital after warning that the Deep Ones might summon Cthulhu.
• Tierra said he had arranged for Frolov to be released and brought to join them in about a week.
• Tierra told Jeffrey that he was recruiting Muggles and using a research group he had established at the University of Greenwich to begin infiltrating the Muggle world.

Tierra explained that Padstow had been chosen because it was near Ahu-Y'hloa and had a history of sightings of fish-headed humanoids. After visiting the South Pacific, his true body returned to the Golden Books Conference with good news and bad news, where only the Thunderbird Chieftain and Maka-Far-Monkasha were present.

• Tierra told Jeffrey that Padstow was close to Ahu-Y'hloa and had recorded sightings of horrifying fish-headed humanoids.
• Jeffrey admitted he was afraid, and Tierra reassured him that fear of the unknown was normal.
• The Tierras working in several locations closed their eyes as Tierra’s true body hovered over the South Pacific Ocean amid a storm.
• After the scarlet figure vanished, the Tierras opened their eyes, and Tierra’s true body returned to the Golden Books Conference.
• Tierra announced that he had good news and bad news, while the Thunderbird Chieftain and Maka-Far-Monkasha were the only others in the meeting room.

Tierra reported that R’lyeh lay beneath the South Pacific, but his attempt to awaken the sleeping being there had no effect. He and the others decided to pursue an alliance with the Deep Ones and draw the American military toward R’lyeh if needed, while Jeffrey Rogge entered the Deep One instance.

• Tierra told the conference that R’lyeh was located at 47°9′ south latitude and 126°43′ west longitude, and that the nuclear bomb was sleeping there.
• Tierra explained that his fifteen-minute attempt to influence the waters as a complete Divine Being had produced no response from the great being, Father God Dagon, or Mother God Hydra.
• Thunderbird Chieftain and Maka-Far-Monkasha studied their calculations and concluded that Tierra’s influence should have been enough to alarm Dagon and Hydra.
• Tierra proposed forming an alliance with the Deep Ones and establishing a joint city near R’lyeh, with an offshore oil field as a fallback way to lure the American military there.
• Thunderbird Chieftain agreed to arrange the military lure if necessary.
• Tierra placed Jeffrey Rogge’s card on Padstow on an illusory world map and announced that Jeffrey Rogge had entered the Deep One instance.

Tierra outlined preparations to approach the Deep Ones and described the Dreamlands as a refuge, battlefield, and potential weapon. The alliance effort remained at an early stage, with Jeffrey Rogge as its sole prospective negotiator.

• Tierra said Hallelujah Frolov had been discharged from Bellevue Hospital and was waiting at Kennedy International Airport to travel to Padstow.
• Tierra introduced Mitchell Megan, a former employee with expertise in geography, as a participant in the operation and an early volunteer for Muggle Magical Conversion.
• Tierra explained that German graduates had made magical jewelry that allowed Muggles to use several simple spells, and that Mitchell Megan and Frolov would receive Invisibility Cloaks.
• Maka-Far-Monkasha reported thirty-seven wizards with Deep One bloodlines in Africa, while the Thunderbird Chieftain said four in the United States and Mexico had refused so far.
• Tierra said Jeffrey Rogge was the only person ready to negotiate an alliance with the Deep Ones and then described the Dreamlands as a refuge, battlefield, and second nuclear bomb.

Professor Frolov left the mental hospital with Mitchell Megan after she promised to end his nightmares. At the airport, he learned that she knew about the Deep Ones and the horrors he had encountered, and the two prepared to travel together.

• Professor Frolov struggled with exhaustion and nerves after months in the mental hospital and ongoing nightmares.
• Mitchell Megan offered Professor Frolov warm water and reassured him while they waited for their flight.
• Professor Frolov recalled how his encounter with a Deep One had led to nightmares, failed treatments, and his writing about the horrors he feared naming.
• Professor Frolov began participating in radical environmental organizations and left the hospital after Mitchell Megan promised to solve his nightmare problem.
• When Professor Frolov challenged Mitchell Megan's knowledge of what he had seen, she said they knew about the strange places and horrifying creatures.

Mitchell Megan revealed to Professor Frolov that her research group served a mysterious Shadow Society investigating supernatural phenomena and hidden places. She said the group had visited Unknown Kadath, the mythic place a Deep One had once mentioned to Frolov.

• Professor Frolov asked Mitchell Megan whether her research group specialized in the subject they were discussing.
• Mitchell Megan explained that her group had begun as a tycoon-funded research team before becoming a channel to the Shadow Society.
• Mitchell Megan said the society investigated supernatural phenomena and searched for mysterious places and creatures using old documents and folk legends.
• Mitchell Megan named Unknown Kadath as one of the group's discoveries.
• Professor Frolov recalled that a Deep One had told him of a mythic place like Heaven.
• Mitchell Megan told Professor Frolov that her group had been to Unknown Kadath, leaving him astonished.

Professor Frolov learned that the Deep Ones had cities beneath the world’s oceans and that other mysterious races had revealed this information. Mitchell Megan suggested that mythological stories might have real origins, leading Frolov to guess that wizards existed.

• Professor Frolov asked Mitchell Megan to describe her journey to the Dreamlands, and Mitchell Hogan said they would explain what they needed from him.
• Frolov guessed that the group wanted his help finding the Deep Ones’ lair, but Mitchell Megan said they had already located their underwater cities.
• Mitchell Megan named Y'ha-Nthle, Ahu-Y'hloa, and G'll-Hoo as major Deep One cities and said the Deep One Frolov met likely came from G'll-Hoo.
• Mitchell Hogan said other mysterious races had provided the information about the Deep Ones.
• Mitchell Megan asked Frolov to consider which beings from myths might truly exist, and he answered that they would be wizards.