Chapter Summaries

Raymond brought thirty specialists into magically enhanced clone bodies and extended Faerûn’s Weave across the Floating City, where Mystra repaired a Mythallar and gave him a concept for a permanent time-reversal spell. He then inspected the city’s research and saw Ludewi unveil a monstrous Undead creation and plans for an automated Undead factory.

• Thirty specialists awoke in young, powerful clone bodies, and the Mind Flayer escorted them to wash and eat while Dr. White asked when Soros would meet them.
• Raymond opened a permanent portal to Faerûn and used Silver Fire to extend the Weave throughout the Floating City; Mystra arrived and repaired the Mythallar.
• Raymond asked Mystra how to make Millennium Reversal permanent, and she gave him a spell concept involving severing an individual’s timeline before departing to prepare for Cyric’s schemes.
• Talanthyr told Raymond that Gisa had become an Undead worker and that Ludewi was obsessively studying Necromancy, then led him to Ludewi’s laboratory.
• Ludewi activated a stitched-together Undead made from dragon, troll, giant, and other corpses, then showed Raymond and Talanthyr plans for a factory producing thousands of Undead each day.

Raymond prepared Plantia Floating City for cross-dimensional conflict, ordered Talanthyr and Vanessa to locate rival Floating Cities, and sent the Phoenix to Herl to establish a faith under the name Bennu. He introduced thirty experts from Earth to their magically enhanced bodies and new research duties, then showed them their home was a city floating in the sky.

• Raymond explained to Talanthyr why Ludewi's cheap Corpse-Inlaid army would complement elite Constructs in future cross-dimensional wars.
• Raymond ordered Talanthyr and Vanessa to find every other Floating City within three months, especially Horathis Floating City.
• Raymond learned that the Phoenix could send power into this world through their Land Card connection, and the Phoenix named himself Bennu and flew to Herl to seek believers.
• Raymond showed thirty senior experts that their new bodies combined human, Drow, dragon, and Troll traits, then demonstrated magical energies and assigned them research and administrative work.
• Raymond opened a portal to a biological laboratory and warned the experts not to reveal the truth to incoming players.
• Raymond led the experts outside and revealed that they were aboard Plantia Floating City, astonishing McCas, Dr. White, and the others.

Raymond expanded his plans for training Earth specialists and preparing the Fourth Calamity while learning that Irenicus had returned with five captured fire genies. Raymond went to meet him with Bodhi and Vermees, while Shaan VII arrived seeking an alliance against Sharpfangs.

• The thirty Earth specialists learned cantrips within a week, and Raymond told Vanessa to prepare academies for future recruits.
• Raymond explained to Bol that ordinary modern weapons were weakened by magical energy and suggested developing simpler alchemical weapons instead.
• Raymond described plans for Infinite City and a second batch of fifteen hundred souls before teleporting to check on the other Isadoras.
• Bodhi told Raymond that Irenicus had returned with five magic-sealing bottles and seemed more powerful than before.
• Raymond brought Bodhi and Vermees through a secret passage to meet Irenicus, while Shaan VII arrived to propose a joint attack on Sharpfangs.

Raymond confronted Irenicus over the stolen Atropal, but Irenicus attacked to claim the Godling and unleashed Heroic Spirits against Raymond’s group. Vermees battled the warriors with help from the Oddity as Raymond and Irenicus prepared to continue their fight, ending with Irenicus activating a crimson magic circle.

• Irenicus blamed Raymond for the destruction of his base and demanded to know who had masterminded the demon invasion.
• Raymond named Shar as the culprit and revealed that he had the Atropal sealed in a scroll.
• Irenicus tried to seize the scroll and attacked Raymond with Disintegrate, but Raymond’s immunity nullified the spell.
• Irenicus summoned Heroic Spirits and sealed off teleportation, prompting Raymond to unleash Fiendfyre and Vermees to transform into her Dragon form.
• Vermees and the Oddity fought the Heroic Spirits, killing several as the battle engulfed the room in flames.
• Irenicus activated an unknown spell or item, and a massive crimson magic circle appeared behind him.

Raymond defeated Irenicus’s summoned forces, absorbed Fire Elemental Prince Rizalir with his newly awakened Spark, and drove Irenicus to flee. Afterward, Raymond discovered his Spark had awakened at level 11 and gained the irreversible Spark Link ability, leaving him uncertain about its risks and origins.

• Irenicus freed Fire Elemental Prince Rizalir, whose crimson flames destroyed the Heroic Spirits and much of the sewer while Raymond survived behind protective spells.
• Raymond revealed that his Divine Power Shock Scepter was fully recharged, prompting Irenicus to abandon his plan and lift the barrier that had blocked summoning magic.
• Rizalir summoned the Crimson Flame Legion, but Raymond unleashed thousands of stored frost spells through the portals, devastating the legion and freezing part of the Elemental Plane of Fire.
• Raymond absorbed energy from the battle, rose to Planeswalker level 11, and lost control of his Spark, which drained Rizalir and left only a ruby-like fragment.
• Raymond grabbed Irenicus as he tried to teleport away, but Irenicus escaped, leaving behind the mask that concealed his aging appearance.
• Raymond examined his Legacy and discovered that his Spark had awakened with the irreversible Spark Link ability, then wondered how the ability worked and where it came from.

Raymond created the Vessel of Greed, a reusable card that granted Wishes, and used it to increase his attributes after Irenicus escaped the City of Brass under a crushing debt to the Sultan. He kept Irenicus under surveillance, healed Vermees, turned the Heroic Spirit statues into a card, and examined Irenicus’s soul-bound mask.

• Irenicus told a fire genie Pasha that Soros had killed Rizalir and destroyed a Fire Elemental legion, then accepted responsibility for losing the Sultan’s artifacts and left the City of Brass.
• A Pit Fiend told the Pasha that Asmodeus wanted Soros in Baator because his soul might create a new layer of the Nine Hells, and the Pasha went to report the offer to the Sultan.
• Raymond activated the Vessel of Greed and wished for increased Intelligence, Perception, and Agility, then ordered Bodhi to resume spying on Irenicus.
• Raymond healed Vermees after she was badly wounded, while she asked for a Wish and declined to take the Heroic Spirit statues.
• Raymond converted the twenty-four Heroic Spirit statues into an LV9 Red Treasure Card and examined Irenicus’s mask, discovering its powerful spells and exclusive soul-binding enchantment.

Raymond met Shaan VII, who proposed an alliance to destroy Iryklathagra “Sharpfangs” and the Twisted Rune. They planned to provoke Sharpfangs by stealing her tax revenue, while Raymond sought divine approval and secured Shaan VII’s promise to abolish slavery if he reclaimed Calimshan.

• Raymond discovered Shaan VII waiting at the Wizard’s Tower in his original elderly Calishite form, and learned that he wanted revenge on Sharpfangs.
• Shaan VII proposed ambushing Sharpfangs in Calimport, but Raymond warned that the Twisted Rune and the gods could intervene and suggested stealing her tax money to provoke a conflict with the Rune Lords.
• Raymond revealed that he had mastered dragon-devouring magic and insisted that Sharpfangs must die by his hand; Shaan VII shared intelligence detailing her extraordinary spells, treasures, and abilities.
• Raymond agreed to speak with Ilmater and help with the plan if Shaan VII publicly abolished slavery after reclaiming Calimshan; Shaan VII promised him influence over Amn and discussed a possible future empire.
• Shaan VII said they would act in three days, when Sharpfangs left her lair, and Raymond set out to visit Ilmater’s temple before speaking with Talona.

Raymond secured Ilmater’s support for Shaan VII’s return to power in Calimshan by promising the end of slavery, then received powerful rewards from Talona for giving her the Spore Divine Portfolio. The chapter ended with Talona tormenting the captured soul of Angel Poisoncore.

• Glory and the poor believers shared their soup, and Ilmater rewarded the priest by raising his cleric level.
• Raymond told Ilmater that Shaan VII planned to reclaim Calimshan and abolish slavery, and Ilmater agreed that his church and the God of Justice’s church would support him.
• Talona raised Raymond’s cleric level by ten, granted him powerful Divine Magic, and gave him the spell Summon Talona’s Avatar.
• Raymond gave Talona the Spore Divine Portfolio, which she recognized as a path toward Greater Divine Power and control over fungal faith.
• Talona seized Raymond in a teasing embrace, then used Talona’s Favor to release Angel Poisoncore’s soul and cursed him with endless torment.

Raymond gained Talona’s Favor, empowered by Angel Poisoncore’s tormented soul, and learned that Cyric was preparing a dangerous Artifact. As Davian grew stronger for an upcoming battle with Iryklathagra, Oghma warned Raymond that the Bhaalspawn crisis and Bane’s possible return were approaching, then taught him about the Rainbow Servant prestige class and helped him plan new magical headgear.

• Talona turned Angel Poisoncore into a Soul Stone, added his Soul Borer curse and Druid powers to her scepter, and gave Talona’s Favor to Raymond.
• Raymond warned Talona that Cyric was creating a book capable of turning mortals and gods against other deities, and they agreed to wait for a chance to oppose him.
• Raymond upgraded Davian with a Fire Elemental Prince Core, then sent him to hunt monsters and gain strength before their planned fight against Iryklathagra.
• Raymond struggled to reproduce the magic in Irenicus’s Mask until Oghma suggested combining magical components with his Planeswalker power.
• Oghma told Raymond that the Bhaalspawn were hunting one another, Bane’s influence was growing, and major upheavals could begin soon.
• Oghma taught Raymond about Silver Scholar and Rainbow Servant, and Raymond chose Rainbow Servant before beginning to craft a gemstone-studded circlet.

Alustriel and Vera Malandis investigated a powerful Lawful Neutral Flame Red Dragon and planned to meet Raymond, while Davian returned from his hunt stronger and brought Raymond a Polar Bear cub. Raymond completed a Quasi-Artifact crown for the coming battle against Sharpfangs, as Shaan VII repaired Calimport’s palace barrier and entered its treasury.

• Vera Malandis showed Alustriel the Flame Red Dragon’s slaughter of Monsters, reported that he had killed hundreds of thousands across Faerûn, and identified him as Lawful Neutral.
• Alustriel told Vera that Soros had apparently killed a New God and invited her to visit Neverwinter and Luskan.
• Davian reached LV25, gained Dragon Ascendant, transformed into a more powerful form, and brought a Polar Bear cub back to Raymond.
• Raymond accepted the cub as a future Animal Companion and revealed the Crown of Spell Storing, which he planned to use against Sharpfangs.
• Shaan VII repaired the barrier beneath Calimport’s palace, then entered its treasury, where Ghosts and Mummies recognized and bowed to him.

Iryklathagra, Sharpfangs, destroyed Calimport’s palace after its tribute vanished, then fought the Twisted Rune when Rain ambushed her. Raymond and Shaan VII watched the battle from Aisha’s Wizard’s Tower as the confrontation escalated into open war.

• Iryklathagra flew into Calimport to collect tribute, and Emperor Pisacal learned that the palace treasury had been robbed.
• Pisacal tried to investigate the theft, but Iryklathagra killed him and his attendants, then burned and plundered the palace.
• Ragon led the Twisted Rune to confront Iryklathagra and offered to recover her stolen treasure, while Raymond and Shaan VII watched from Aisha’s Wizard’s Tower.
• Rain struck Iryklathagra with Greater Ruin, and the wounded dragon healed herself before brutally attacking Sapphiraktar.
• Iryklathagra unleashed Hellball on the Rune Lords and declared an irrevocable feud with the Twisted Rune.
• Ragon summoned the group’s elite fighters, including Ebenezer with Raymond’s Blue Dragon Bane, and Iryklathagra prepared to fight them.

Iryklathagra fought the Twisted Rune with Super Breath Potions, but Shaan VII arrived with an army and trapped everyone inside a powerful barrier. Rain and Shelassa joined Shaan VII’s side as he began his campaign to defeat the Rune Lords and reclaim Calimshan, while Davian grappled with Iryklathagra.

• Iryklathagra used a Super Breath Potion to freeze the Blue Dragon Bane and then used Dispel Breath to strip away the Twisted Rune’s defenses before attacking its followers.
• Rain persuaded Shelassa to abandon the Twisted Rune and revealed that she served Soros, while Iryklathagra and the Rune Lords fought to a stalemate.
• Shaan VII appeared with his undead army and a barrier that prevented escape, then declared his intention to reclaim Calimshan.
• Shaan VII’s barrier teleported Iryklathagra into the death knights’ charge, and she accidentally struck several Rune Lords with her Flame Breath.
• Ragon and Iryklathagra agreed to ally against Shaan VII, but Davian transformed into a Red Dragon and tackled Iryklathagra to keep her occupied.
• Rain and Shelassa prepared to fight the Twisted Rune as Shaan VII and his simulacrums began casting spells, while Davian pinned Iryklathagra beneath his greater strength and flames.

Raymond raided the Twisted Rune’s hidden bases, seized three Liches’ Phylacteries, and destroyed the group’s secret strongholds. He joined the battle, confirmed that Iryklathagra wore Life Gems, and forced the Rune Lords to choose between submission and destruction.

• Iryklathagra gained the upper hand against Davian, but Raymond’s surprise strike activated one of her Life Gems and revealed that she wore them.
• Raymond found Rain’s Phylactery and Ragon’s in a hidden Demiplane, then looted it and destroyed the Twisted Rune’s undefended lairs.
• Raymond discovered Sapphiraktar’s and Kaltak Spailser’s Phylacteries, along with records of the Rune’s network across Calimshan and Tethyr.
• Raymond arrived at the palace, revived Davian with Fiendfyre, and warned him about Iryklathagra’s Supreme Amulet before Davian resumed their fight.
• Raymond showed Ragon, Sapphiraktar, and Kaltak Spailser their Phylacteries and declared that the Twisted Rune was finished, giving them three minutes to submit or be destroyed.

Raymond forced the Twisted Rune’s surviving members to surrender their phylacteries and used his Spark to turn the organization into a Creature Card that summoned them as servants. He then joined Shaan VII’s battle against Iryklathagra, helping destroy her magical gear and Life Gems with a barrage of Mordenkainen’s Disjunctions.

• Raymond revealed that Rain had spied for him and that the gods supported his plan to bring down the Twisted Rune, prompting Ragon, Kaltak Spailser, and Sapphiraktar to submit.
• Raymond threatened Ragon, beheaded the resisting illithilich, and used Silver Fire to make Lakaishike reveal his phylactery’s hiding place.
• Ragon retrieved the final two phylacteries, and Raymond gathered the Twisted Rune’s members before using his Spark to create a Creature Card that made them obey him.
• Raymond learned about the Arcane Lord class and discussed his plans to qualify for it with the Diary.
• A Simulacrum clone of Shaan VII fell into lava as Shaan VII and Davian fought Iryklathagra, who restored herself after Shaan VII struck her with Energy Drain.
• Raymond warned Shaan VII about Iryklathagra’s Life Gems, and they used Time Stop to unleash more than fifteen Mordenkainen’s Disjunctions, destroying her gems and most of her equipment.

Raymond, Shaan VII, and Davian fought Iryklathagra amid devastating magic that ravaged the Royal Palace and threatened Calimport. After the dragon used the Shaan Scepter and other artifacts to recover, Raymond trapped her and unleashed a storm of stored Magic Missiles, leaving her battered and out of resources.

• Raymond explained the Time Copy Spell to Shaan VII, then bombarded Iryklathagra with magic while Davian kept her occupied.
• Iryklathagra used Displacement to try to kill Raymond, but his True Seeing and Nondetection thwarted her, and Raymond’s Roiling Earth and Falling Meteor sent her and Davian crashing into lava.
• Aisha, Calimport’s Wizard’s Tower owners, and the churches helped contain the lava and rescue residents as the battle continued.
• Shaan VII struck Iryklathagra with his Death Orb and cursed her with the souls of a hundred blue dragons, but she used the Shaan Scepter, a genie’s wishes, and the Basaros Lens to restore herself.
• Raymond prevented Iryklathagra from teleporting away, baited her into casting Energy Immunity—Fire, and unleashed hundreds of stored Magic Missiles after dispelling her Shield.
• Iryklathagra exhausted her spell slots and the Shaan Scepter’s energy while Raymond’s missile barrages battered her into cries of pain and despair.

Raymond defeated Iryklathagra, devoured her power and soul, and helped Shaan VII reclaim Calimport. After Raymond restored the palace, the city’s wizard-tower owners emerged, learned the Shaan Dynasty was returning, and began swearing allegiance to Shaan VII.

• Davian gave Raymond Iryklathagra’s recovered magic items, and Raymond returned the Shaan Scepter to Shaan VII.
• Raymond healed Iryklathagra, bound her to a magical platform, and devoured her magic, vitality, and soul, gaining immense power.
• Raymond used a Wish to increase his Strength and Charisma, while Shaan VII claimed Iryklathagra’s corpse for his planned Zombie Dragon.
• Raymond reversed the damage to the palace and its underground ward, then reminded Shaan VII to abolish slavery as promised to Ilmater.
• More than two hundred wizards emerged from hiding, and Raymond discovered Kels’s popular book had given him a long list of grand titles.
• Shaan VII revealed his identity to the tower owners, and more than two-thirds swore allegiance to him.

Shaan VII restored order in Calimport and faced resistance after abolishing slavery, while Raymond advised him to crush the old ruling class and enlist Tyr’s church for law enforcement. Shaan VII named Ayesha his heir and arranged her future marriage to Raymond; then he sent Davian to help Aipuke confront the Thieves’ Guilds, whose assassins attacked them.

• Shaan VII took control of Calimport, suppressed gangs and rival elites, and abolished slavery, provoking nobles, merchants, and Thieves’ Guilds to resist.
• Raymond urged Shaan VII to eliminate the resistant upper class and redistribute its property, and Shaan VII named Ayesha his heir and future bride for Raymond.
• Raymond advised Shaan VII to give Tyr’s church law-enforcement authority without legislative or administrative power.
• Aipuke reported that twelve Thieves’ Guilds had joined the plot, and Shaan VII sent Davian with him to deal with them.
• Artemis Entreri and Jarlaxle ambushed Aipuke, but Davian blocked their attacks and protected him from bolts and a rapier.
• Jarlaxle hurled a Fireball at Aipuke, and Davian intercepted it, was engulfed in flames, and fell as Jarlaxle claimed victory.

Davian returned to Calimport, captured Jarlaxle, Entreri, and their companions, and led a purge of the city’s Thieves’ Guilds. Meanwhile, Shaan VII granted the churches of Tyr, Ilmater, and Torm law-enforcement authority, and their followers joined the army’s assault on the slave-owning rebels, advancing under a divine miracle.

• Jarlaxle and Entreri attacked Aipuke, but Davian returned, crippled both men, captured Jarlaxle’s companions, and defeated the Half-blood Troll Monk.
• Davian and Aipuke’s forces raided and destroyed the other Thieves’ Guilds in Calimport.
• The churches’ leaders debated whether to attack the rebels until Shodar Tanthul delivered Shaan VII’s authorization granting the churches law-enforcement authority and ordering the rebels killed.
• Shodar Tanthul promised the City Guard and Imperial Guard a share of confiscated wealth and rewards, raising their morale for the attack.
• The City Guard and Imperial Guard advanced on the rebels, and the churches’ allied force charged their flank as Tyr, Ilmater, and Torm sent down shafts of holy light.

Shaan VII’s forces crushed the Calimport rebellion while Raymond advised him on balancing the power of the churches. After Raymond revealed his Planeswalker Spark and offered Shaan VII one in exchange for his phylactery, his help, and permanent exile from Toril, Shaan VII accepted, making them allies.

• The Paladins, Shaan VII’s troops, and the guards broke the rebel coalition, rescued enslaved people, and began confiscating the rebels’ estates and property.
• Raymond advised Shaan VII to balance the churches by supporting useful faiths and restraining those that threatened his rule.
• Aipuke presented the captured Thieves’ Guild leaders and supplies, while Davian brought Jarlaxle, Artemis Entreri, and Anya Trukai to Raymond as captives.
• Raymond healed the three captives and created a Creature Card that summoned them as a group, then asked Shaan VII to clear the hall so he could reveal his secret.
• Raymond summoned the Twisted Rune and explained that he was a Planeswalker whose Spark allowed him to travel between worlds and could be taken from another person.
• Shaan VII agreed to receive a Spark and become Raymond’s ally, provided he could first unite Calimshan and Tethyr; he promised to leave Toril and entrust Raymond with his phylactery.

Raymond and Shaan VII strengthened their alliance as Shaan VII restored order in Calimshan, abolished slavery, and rewarded his supporters. After reviewing Sharpfangs’ enormous hoard and preparing for a diplomatic meeting in Luskan, Raymond left to retrieve Crenshinibon while Ayesha Shaan watched him from afar.

• Shaan VII shared several powerful Epic Spells with Raymond, and Raymond exchanged knowledge from other worlds that deepened Shaan VII’s desire to become a Planeswalker.
• Shaan VII crushed the rebellion, purged Calimshan’s former ruling elite, rewarded the armies, and helped Aipuke take control of the Underground World.
• Ilmater, Tyr, and Torm observed the freed slaves receiving land and discussed how Soros had persuaded Shaan VII to abolish slavery; Ilmater urged cooperation with Soros, while Tyr agreed to watch him longer.
• Raymond reviewed Sharpfangs’ vast treasure with Jeffrey, accepted the captured Noble Genies for the organization’s use, and learned that Alustriel Silverhand and Vera Malandis planned to visit Luskan for a Lords’ Alliance meeting.
• Raymond agreed to host the diplomatic gathering, then teleported away to retrieve Crenshinibon from the Red Dragon Hephaestus while Ayesha Shaan secretly watched him.