Chapter Summaries

Niv-Mizzet and Raymond maneuvered against Nicol Bolas over the Planar Bridge while Raymond won the Old Dragon’s trust by presenting the artifact and revealing his power. Meanwhile, Davian fought Yaga-Shura’s Fire Giants at Saradush, but Yaga-Shura revealed his immortal body and vowed to claim the Blood Throne.

• Ral Zarek reported that he had lured Soros to Kaladesh, described his strength, and gave Niv-Mizzet the Ring of Spell Turning to examine.
• Niv-Mizzet decided to draw Nicol Bolas’s attention while Soros prepared to defeat him, and he ordered Ral Zarek to conceal that the Planar Bridge had been handed over.
• Nicol Bolas restored Tezzeret’s body and sent him to Ravnica to reclaim the Planar Bridge, then confronted Raymond, who revealed he had obtained it through Ral Zarek.
• Raymond displayed his Archdevil power and persuaded Nicol Bolas to share knowledge of god-slaying and Immortal Dread Gods in exchange for watching Ugin.
• Davian attacked Yaga-Shura’s Fire Giant legion outside Saradush, killing many Fire Giants and confronting their leader in battle.
• Davian pierced Yaga-Shura’s chest with the Fire-Death Sword, but Yaga-Shura recovered completely and declared that his immortal body would let him win the struggle for the Blood Throne.

Davian fought Yaga-Shura to a standstill while Sancho’s Legendary Magic devastated the besieging army, then Sancho met Balthazar and learned how to pursue Yaga-Shura’s weakness. Meanwhile, Raymond obtained the Ring of Mysrien, uncovered its secrets about mythals, and tested new rules in Athkatla, leaving the city’s residents baffled by a string of magical incidents.

• Davian revealed his Flame Dragon form and battled Yaga-Shura, whose Immortal Body matched Davian’s rapid regeneration, while the siege continued around them.
• Sancho cast the Legendary Magic Winter, freezing most of the Fire Giant army, before a Solar summoned him and explained Ao’s restrictions on the Bhaalspawn and the path to godhood.
• Balthazar revealed that he was a Bhaalspawn who wanted to destroy Bhaal’s legacy and told Sancho to find the swamp witch Niali to learn how to defeat Yaga-Shura.
• Melissan watched the slaughter in hopes of claiming the Blood Throne, while Raymond considered using her as a test subject for creating an Immortal Dread God.
• Nemetona brought Raymond the Ring of Mysrien and reported a hidden seal containing Mysrien Sareth’s final avatar; Raymond studied the ring and learned how mythals worked.
• Raymond experimented with mythal rules in Athkatla, causing brief darkness, accidental flight, unlit stoves, and a mass exodus of vermin that baffled the city’s investigators.

Raymond took in the self-aware Enforcer and learned from Ao’s messenger that he could compete for the Blood Throne as a Bhaalspawn. As Yaga-Shura lost his Immortal Body and faced Davian and Sancho, learning of Niali’s death awakened his divine power, and he transported them to Bhaal’s Realm to begin the true Divine War.

• The Enforcer returned after Mechanus rejected him for his Dark Void-tainted core, and Raymond welcomed him into the Wizard’s Tower while explaining that he had gained instincts and free will.
• A Solar carrying Ao’s message told Raymond that he qualified to compete for the Blood Throne and urged him to deal with the remaining consciousness in Pandorym’s Crystal Prison.
• Raymond watched Davian battle Yaga-Shura near Saradush, where Yaga-Shura’s wounds stopped healing and he fled after losing his Immortal Body.
• Davian caught Yaga-Shura and overpowered him, while Sancho arrived with the roasted hearts and Niali’s head, revealing that she had died protecting Yaga-Shura.
• Yaga-Shura mourned Niali, awakened his divine power, and transported himself, Davian, and Sancho to Bhaal’s Realm to begin the true Divine War.

Yaga-Shura gained Demigod power from Bhaal’s Blood Throne and overwhelmed Davian and Sancho, but Raymond entered Bhaal’s Realm and attacked him with divine weapons and spells. Bhaal intervened through Yaga-Shura, and Raymond summoned a Devil Legion as the chapter ended with the Devils swarming the possessed Bhaalspawn.

• Yaga-Shura drew power from the Blood Throne, grew to enormous size, and claimed he would become the new God of Murder.
• Yaga-Shura severely wounded Davian and Sancho with Demigod attacks, while Sancho escaped a meteor by casting Maze.
• Raymond entered the battle, identified himself as Soros, and wounded Yaga-Shura with a Silver Fire artifact before using a spell to control him through the Blood Throne.
• Bhaal broke the spell’s influence over Yaga-Shura, took control of him, and demanded that Raymond leave the realm.
• Raymond invoked his Archdevil power, summoned tens of thousands of Devils, and attacked Bhaal-controlled Yaga-Shura as the Devil Legion joined the fight.

Raymond defeated Bhaal’s controlled Yaga-Shura, drained his Divine Power, and captured his soul, while Sancho admitted he feared losing himself to Divinity. As Raymond prepared to eliminate the remaining Five Scions, Sendai and Abazigal awakened to new power, and Bhaal urged Abazigal to stop the devil threatening his legacy.

• Bhaal summoned reinforcements in his realm, but the Devil Legion’s disciplined formations and elite forces routed the demons and Petitioners.
• Raymond provoked Bhaal into drawing Divine Power from the Blood Throne, then defeated Yaga-Shura and raised his Planeswalker’s Spark from LV25 to LV27 by draining that power.
• Raymond crushed Yaga-Shura’s skull, captured his soul, and ordered the Devil Legion to withdraw rather than risk opening a front in the Blood War.
• Sancho confessed that he feared Divinity would change his identity, and Raymond said he could not reverse the process before deciding to help eliminate the remaining Five Scions.
• Sendai learned Yaga-Shura had likely fallen and turned her attention to Abazigal, while Abazigal questioned his sudden empowerment and met Bhaal, who asked him to kill Raymond.

Melissan and Abazigal conspired to use Abed to kill Sendai and absorb her power, while Balthazar learned of Soros’s plans and prepared to resist Bhaal. In the Elemental Plane of Fire, Soros sought Purifying Fire and arrived at its suspected birthplace, where a Fire Elemental Prince emerged from the flames.

• Melissan and Abazigal agreed to target Sendai, then planned to use Abed to disrupt her defenses and possibly devour her power.
• Balthazar told Sancho about the Five Scions’ meeting, and Sancho revealed that Soros had defeated Bhaal and was preparing to eliminate the remaining Scions.
• Balthazar began inscribing more Divine Runes on his body to contain the growing power of Bhaal within him.
• Soros negotiated with a Fire Genie Pasha for help finding Purifying Fire and joined an expedition to a region where a new spark was forming.
• Soros and Davian arrived above a Sea of Fire, where two enormous elemental lords fought around a blazing mountain.
• A Fire Elemental Prince emerged from beneath the Sea of Fire and crushed two fire genasi, and Davian recognized the prince as the group prepared to face him.

Raymond took the Purifying Fire from the Flaming Abyss and used it to create a sun, then infused it with Maniel and Davian through his Planeswalker's Spark. The sun contracted into a transformed figure that knelt before Raymond, leaving the consequences of his creation unclear.

• Maniel emerged from the Flaming Abyss, declared himself its ruler, and killed a Fire Elemental Lord to prove his control over the realm.
• Raymond summoned Benu and lent Davian the Phoenix God's power, allowing Davian to fight Maniel and his Fire Elemental army.
• Raymond reached the Purifying Fire while a Salamander leader asked to pledge loyalty in exchange for a place for his people to live.
• As the Purifying Fire ignited, Raymond gathered the remaining flames and creatures of the Flaming Abyss into a fireball and created a sun.
• Raymond and Davian forced the weakened Maniel into the sun, and Raymond used his Planeswalker's Spark to draw the sun's power into his follower.
• The sun contracted into a person who emerged from its golden light and knelt before the exhausted Raymond.

Soros exhausted himself empowering Davian and securing a Salamander tribe for Baator before entering dormancy, while Owo helped him plan a mobile Mythal and prepare defenses against the City of Shade. In Greyhawk, Raymond continued provoking the city’s nobles, pursued information about the Eye of Vecna, and encountered two Gnomes after an explosion at the black market.

• Soros transformed Davian into a Sun Dragon Knight capable of contending with gods, then warned him to watch Abdel and Viconia while Soros recovered.
• The Salamander leader pledged his tribe to Soros, who branded him and sent a Pit Fiend to contract the Salamanders for migration to Baator.
• Owo delivered Kadarin Magic Stones, discussed their uses with Soros, and agreed to explore Mythal applications and prepare magical weapons against the City of Shade.
• Soros distributed the magic stones and entered dormancy, while his projection in Greyhawk dismissed Mordenkainen’s concerns about his conduct and explained his enjoyment of stirring people’s desires.
• Raymond paid a young Rogue to secure access to an auction featuring the Eye of Vecna, then witnessed an explosion that sent two arguing Gnomes crawling from the rubble.

Raymond attended a secret auction in Greyhawk City and bought the Eye of Vecna for five hundred thousand gold coins. Lolth revealed that the final auction item was a book containing the Abyssal Will, then a raid by Iuz's followers disrupted the auction and left Raymond holding the dangerous book.

• Manab was fired from a black-market shop after another of her experiments caused an explosion, and Raymond received a red crystal auction token from his young Rogue companion.
• Raymond entered the underground auction without disguising himself and watched buyers bid on several magical items, including a supposed Vampire Hand.
• Raymond outbid another buyer for the Eye of Vecna, proved he could pay by opening a portal and pouring out a mountain of gold, and purchased it for five hundred thousand gold coins.
• Lolth appeared beside Raymond and revealed that she had arranged for a book containing a fragment of the Abyssal Will to be auctioned, warning that it could transform the world into part of the Abyss.
• Followers of Iuz attacked the auction, an arrow wounded the host, and Lolth placed the silk-wrapped book in Raymond's hands while urging him to summon his true body.

Raymond fought off Rary the Traitor, then faced Iuz, Iggwilv, and Graz'zt over the silk-wrapped book. As the battle escalated and allies arrived from multiple planes, Iggwilv summoned Zuggtmoy's true body into Greyhawk City.

• Rary the Traitor tried to seize the Eye of Vecna and the book, but Raymond resisted his spells, killed him, and took his magical equipment.
• Iuz and Iggwilv demanded the book, so Raymond attacked them with Vile Fire before Iuz and Graz'zt overwhelmed him and damaged Greyhawk City.
• Raymond called for reinforcements, bringing Zariel and Malcanthet through a portal as Mordenkainen and the Circle of Eight arrived.
• Zariel fought Iuz while Malcanthet blocked Graz'zt, and Raymond mocked the Dark Lord about his weakened territory.
• Iggwilv scattered white powder into a fissure while Graz'zt held off Mordenkainen and the Circle of Eight.
• The powder grew into a vast mass of mycelium, and Zuggtmoy's true body rose from the earth in the center of Greyhawk City.

Soros and his allies fought the demon lords who invaded Greyhawk City, while Mordenkainen battled Iggwilv and Talona and Waukeen turned the tide with their avatars. As Vecna and Nerull appeared, Raymond revealed the Abyssal Planar Will Fragment and warned that it could destroy Oerth and its gods.

• Zuggtmoy and a host of demon lords ravaged Greyhawk City, prompting Mordenkainen to ally with Soros and send Jallarzi to evacuate survivors.
• Soros summoned a Mind Flayer Nautiloid and Shaan VII, while Malcanthet repelled the demon lords and the Elder Brain captured two lesser lords.
• Soros used Planeswalker Land Cards to bring Talona and Waukeen into Greyhawk, where they overwhelmed Zuggtmoy and Graz'zt's forces as Mordenkainen fought Iggwilv.
• Raymond exposed Vecna's hiding place with the Eye of Vecna, and Nerull appeared amid the devastation, halting the battle.
• Raymond unwrapped the Abyssal Planar Will Fragment, unleashing its power and warning that it could destroy Oerth and every god bound to it.

Raymond used the Abyss Fragment to force the Greyhawk gods and Lolth into action, then destroyed Iuz’s power and helped defeat the Demon Lords. He left Oerth with Iggwilv, while the Greyhawk gods were left wary of his return.

• The Abyss Fragment’s aura corrupted Oerth, and Raymond warned the gathered gods and Demon Lords that he could unleash its power.
• Raymond threatened Lolth with exposing her connection to the Abyssal Will, forcing her to attack Graz’zt and the other Demon Lords.
• Raymond revealed that Lolth had arranged the crisis, then asked the Greyhawk gods to let him settle his grudge against Iuz.
• The Elder Brain used psionic detection to locate Iuz’s followers across the continent, and Mind Flayers destroyed his Imperium and gathered his followers.
• Zariel devoured Iuz, while Talona captured Zuggtmoy and Lolth destroyed Graz’zt’s projection; Raymond then left Oerth with Iggwilv.

Soros and his allies examined the dangerous Abyss Fragment while the Elder Brain described her growing Mind Flayer empire, and Diary reported on the war around Nazarick. Old Bone ordered a massive Undead counterattack, which devastated the allied camps and killed Ramposa III as Princess Renner’s coup and purge began.

• Lolth told Ulgurshek that she had delivered the Abyss Fragment to Soros and had been barred from entering the Greyhawk World for five hundred years; Ulgurshek focused on finding the fragment and learning why Soros had not used it.
• Soros, Shaan VII, and the Elder Brain tested the Abyss Fragment at Shaan VII’s secret base, confirmed that it was too dangerous for them to study, and left it there until Soros recovered from dormancy.
• The Elder Brain said she had transformed millions into Mind Flayers and expected to become a Super Elder Brain capable of contending with a Demigod; Soros gave Shaan VII notes on Incarnum, which he accepted.
• Diary told Soros that Princess Renner planned to seize the Kingdom’s throne and purge the nobles, and Soros ordered him to keep monitoring the True Dragon Lords while their other forces pursued Wild Magic and harvested energy and souls.
• Old Bone accepted Demiurge’s plan to unleash two hundred thousand Undead, and the nighttime assault shattered the allied camps; an Elf assassin killed Ramposa III and revealed that Renner’s coup would eliminate the royal family and hundreds of noble households.
• Gazef recovered Ramposa III’s body and retreated as the players and Nazarick’s forces fought a devastating battle in the forest; Diary watched the battle and prepared to contact Plantia Floating City.

After Old Bone’s forces crushed the allied armies, Plantia Floating City arrived and unleashed overwhelming magical and technological firepower against Nazarick. Old Bone’s army retreated toward its exposed lair as Plantia’s forces prepared to attack it.

• Old Bone’s surprise attack wiped out scattered player squads, while Plantia’s residents gathered equipment and prepared to return to battle.
• Vanessa announced Plantia’s trans-temporal transfer, and the floating city crossed a spatial rift as Old Bone’s army routed the allied forces.
• Old Bone embraced his ambition to rule through fear, while Albedo reported heavy losses among Nazarick’s forces and Guardians.
• Plantia emerged above the battlefield and erased Demiurge with a barrage of Magic Cannons before bombarding the Undead army and killing three Demon generals.
• Plantia’s Dragons, Airships, aircraft, and player riders overwhelmed Nazarick’s flying forces and drove Old Bone and the surviving NPCs into retreat.
• Corlant landed beside the Kingdom’s soldiers, where Gazef recognized him as someone he had seen die; meanwhile, the bombardment exposed the entrance to Nazarick’s lair.

Plantia Floating City’s forces overwhelmed Nazarick with aerial bombardment, and Diary forced Old Bone to submit while revealing that his assumptions about arriving in another world might be wrong. Raymond then prepared Renner to consolidate the Kingdom and begin conquering the world as Iggwilv remained captive.

• Gunships and Flapwing Aircraft devastated Nazarick’s elite forces, while Plantia Floating City’s weapons experts debated which new weapons to test next.
• A bunker-buster bomb destroyed most of the Undead legion on Nazarick’s First Layer, and Diary entered the Throne Room to confront Old Bone.
• Diary used the Crystal Tower to overpower Albedo, questioned Old Bone’s beliefs about his arrival in the world, and demanded Nazarick’s obedience and the women in its halls.
• Old Bone agreed to Diary’s demands, surrendered control of Nazarick, and allowed Diary to assault the female NPCs.
• Iggwilv awoke unable to use magic in the new universe, and Raymond explained that she would need months to adapt before Renner knocked her unconscious again.
• Renner told Raymond she had purged the royal capital and secured the Kingdom’s remaining nobles, then agreed to use Plantia Floating City to unify humanity and conquer the world.

Jircniv visited Plantia Floating City to negotiate with Renner, who revealed that she served its rulers and gave him a plan for the Baharuth Empire to follow. Meanwhile, Raymond prepared to confront larger threats, absorbed the memories and power of the Abyssal Will Ulgurshek, and modified his gauntlet to conceal his transformed hand.

• Jircniv traveled to Plantia Floating City and learned from Fluder Paradyne that its overwhelming military strength left the Baharuth Empire with little choice but to submit.
• Renner told Jircniv she served Lord Shaan VII and Lord Soros, demonstrated her new demonic power, and handed him a proposal for the Empire to follow.
• Diary claimed he had broken Nazarick's unity and kept the Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown, while Raymond assigned him and Shaan VII to hunt the True Dragon Lords.
• Raymond discussed seeking energy from other planes and later went to the Abyss Fragment to absorb its memories and power, learning the history of Ulgurshek and reaching Spark level LV30.
• Raymond's hand became demonic after the Abyss Fragment vanished, so he modified the Tyrant's Gauntlet with Abyssal runes to conceal its power.

After gaining power from the Abyss Fragment, Raymond went to the Abyss to fulfill his contract and seal the Eldrazi Titans. He sealed Ulamog and Kozilek, but Emrakul appeared and reached into his mind, leaving Raymond weighing whether to speak with it.

• Raymond examined the Demon Hand’s new abilities, converted Iggwilv into a Servant Card fused with Monahil, and then left Plantia Floating City for the Abyss front.
• At Baator’s outpost, Raymond told Zimimar that he had come to seal the Eldrazi Titans, then flew into battle and destroyed an Eldrazi Monarch while absorbing its energy.
• Raymond used Magic Crystals to trap Ulamog, and when Kozilek emerged to attack the first formation, he trapped that Titan with a second one.
• Raymond severed both Titans’ connections to the Dark Void, turning their projections into stone, while demons and Eldrazi creatures fought around them.
• Emrakul appeared, distorted creatures and minds across the battlefield, and repelled Raymond’s falling comet with a stitched divine servant.
• Emrakul asked Raymond to speak with it and continued penetrating his mental defenses, while Raymond considered whether to let it into his mind.

Raymond sealed Emrakul and the other Eldrazi Titans, then watched the Blood War resume as demons and devils clashed across the ruined Triple Realm. Meanwhile, Soros met Ulgurshek about the Abyss Fragment, and after returning to Faerun learned that Abazigal had killed Sendai.

• Emrakul entered Raymond’s mental world, explained its bargain with Ugin, and offered Raymond knowledge of the Dark Void in exchange for guiding the Titans to energy-rich planes.
• Raymond sealed Emrakul alongside Ulamog and Kozilek, then slaughtered Eldrazi and demons as the Demon Hand grew stronger.
• Devil Legions arrived and pursued the fleeing demons, restarting the Blood War in the ruined Triple Realm.
• Ulgurshek met Soros, urged him to embrace the Abyss Fragment’s power, and warned Lolth not to provoke him.
• The wider planes learned of the sealed Titans and Soros’s power, while Soros ignored worshippers and gained the title The Quiet One.
• Balthazar told Soros that Abazigal had killed Sendai, with Melissan involved, and reported strange changes in the Winding River.

Soth discovered that Bhaal had secretly prepared a hidden Bhaalspawn vessel and announced a final battle for the Blood Throne in ten days. He discussed his political ambitions and the novel Brave New World with Tyr, while the City of Shade returned to Anauroch and began building a new Netheril as Owo received weapons from Soros and planned a surprise for Telamont Tanthul.

• Soth found that Bhaal's remaining essence had vanished from the Winding River and concluded that Bhaal had chosen an unknown Bhaalspawn as a resurrection vessel.
• Soth told Balthazar to summon the last of the Five Scions and declared that he would challenge every Bhaalspawn seeking godhood at the Blood Throne in ten days.
• Tyr questioned Soth about the Sword Coast Empire, and Soth described his rule as a social experiment and gave Tyr a copy of Brave New World.
• Tyr discussed the novel's society and protagonist with Soth, then departed after warning him against turning the Imperium into a world like the book's.
• Telamont Tanthul returned the City of Shade to Anauroch, flooded a basin to create the Shadow Sea, and began constructing a capital while his forces enslaved nearby inhabitants.
• Owo received Soros's list of materials and footage of weapons tested by Plantia Floating City, then planned a surprise attack against Telamont Tanthul and the City of Shade.

The City of Shade’s return unsettled Faerûn as Prince Brennus Tanthul plotted to infiltrate Raymond’s Wizard’s Tower, unaware its defenses had already exposed him. Raymond left for the final struggle over Bhaal’s Blood Throne, where Balthazar struck down Melissan and the battle continued as Raymond anticipated Bhaal’s return.

• The City of Shade expanded its influence across Anauroch, while kingdoms and factions across Faerûn reacted with fear, caution, or plans to gather intelligence.
• Brennus Tanthul watched Raymond’s Wizard’s Tower in Athkatla and planned to enter it after Raymond left, unaware that the tower’s wards and residents had already detected him.
• Raymond and Davian traveled to Bhaal’s Realm, where the Solar explained that the contenders had to defeat or persuade one another to relinquish Bhaal’s power before ascending.
• Abazigal attacked and devoured the other Bhaalspawn, prompting Abdel, Imoen, and Sancho to join the battle against him.
• Balthazar revealed his betrayal of Melissan and battered her with his martial arts, apparently destroying her head with a Divine Power-infused strike.
• Raymond recognized that Melissan was feigning death and noted that the Blood Throne’s flowing blood was dwindling, warning Davian that Bhaal’s return and the next stage of the fight were approaching.