Chapter Summaries

Raymond’s forces defeated the Chitauri invasion, while he punished Little Annie for her reckless role in the battle and returned the Tesseract to Thor. After the war, Earth’s leaders sought Baator’s help expanding into space, and scientists began experimenting with Phyrexian Oil aboard a captured ship.

• Little Annie tried to use Loki as a shield, but Raymond confronted her, and Hulk smashed Loki into the ground after Raymond influenced him with Suggestion.
• A compleated Pit Fiend reported that the Chitauri fleet had been suppressed, and Raymond ordered the Devils to stop short of attacking Thanos and to clear the remaining troops from Earth.
• Raymond confined Little Annie in the gap between the Dark Void and Realspace, closed the Wormhole, and gave the Tesseract to Thor to help repair the Bifrost.
• The Devil fleet eliminated the remaining Chitauri, and a compleated Pit Fiend presented Earth with a captured warship and promised protection at the United Nations.
• Earth’s Security Council asked Raymond for technology to support space colonization, and he directed its representatives to negotiate with Alvis about listing Earth on Baator’s market.
• Tony Stark and Dr. Banner examined Phyrexian Oil aboard the gifted ship as scientists tested it on a mouse, which it transformed into a mechanical creature.

Raymond explained Phyrexian Oil to Tony Stark and Dr. Banner as Earth prepared to unite under the Human Federation, while a Hydra raid stole alien technology and Antimatter. As Raymond managed new threats around Wanda and Little Annie, Thanos put the hunt for the Orb in motion, sending Gamora and Nebula toward the Power Stone and drawing Star-Lord into the search.

• Raymond revealed Phyrexian Oil’s capabilities and risks to Tony Stark and Dr. Banner, and Tony accepted that Earth had little choice but to use it.
• The Security Council established the Human Federation, while Raymond mocked officials seeking power through bargains with him.
• Coulson reported that attackers had stolen Chitauri equipment, research, scientists, and a ton of Antimatter; Hydra’s Alexander Pierce and Bucky had secretly delivered the haul to Baron Strucker in Sokovia.
• Wanda and Pietro observed the Hydra base, and Iggwilv decided to secretly guide Wanda; at Kamar-Taj, Little Annie displayed extraordinary magical talent and The Ancient One agreed to teach her.
• Balthazar told Raymond that Iggwilv was aiding Hydra and targeting Wanda, so Raymond ordered Hydra kept Lawful Evil and warned Iggwilv away from the girl.
• Thanos learned of the Chitauri defeat and ordered a universe-wide bounty for the Orb, sending Gamora and Nebula to seek the Power Stone while Star-Lord prepared to join the hunt.

Greya prepared Tifanton for war against the City of Shade, while Telamont declared Greya his greatest enemy and began reviving Borem. Elsewhere, Raymond claimed Thrall’s soul after Jaina executed him, reincarnated him among another world’s Orcs, and began a plan to turn him against their gods with Corellon’s help.

• Greya had Corinna prepare defenses around Tifanton, threatened the Harpers against spying, and agreed with Owo the Undead to target the Shade Princes.
• Telamont declared war on Greya after confirming Lamolek could not be revived, then pulled the dagger from Borem’s Heart of the Swamp to begin the Primal God’s rebirth.
• Jaina executed Thrall after Eitrigg’s coup, and Raymond took Thrall’s soul from Azeroth.
• Raymond explained that Thrall would lead another world’s Orcs away from their gods, and he reincarnated Thrall in a young Orc Fighter’s body with Orgrim Doomhammer.
• Thrall joined Obould Many-Arrows’s tribe and proved his strength in wrestling contests as Raymond watched with Corellon.

Thrall made his debut in Obould Many-Arrows’s tribe by helping destroy Port Llast and earning the Orcs’ awe, while Sword Coast Empire Dragon Knights arrived to repel the attacking horde. When Thrall summoned a storm and killed a Dragon, the Orcs hailed him as the Dragon Slayer.

• Raymond told Corellon that Thrall could lead the Orcs toward an orderly civilization and warned him that Lolth planned to unify Drow faith by eliminating her rivals.
• Obould Many-Arrows’s Monster army attacked Port Llast, where the outnumbered defenders chose to fight so civilians could escape.
• Thrall struck the human formation with a devastating lightning attack, killed the remaining defenders, and earned promotion to Champion Warrior from Obould Many-Arrows.
• Two Gunships and their Dragon Knights arrived to rescue Port Llast, routed the Monster army, and began pursuing the fleeing forces.
• Thrall summoned a tremendous storm, brought down a Dragon with elemental power, killed it, and was acclaimed by the Orcs as the Dragon Slayer.

Thrall’s battle with the fallen Aribeth drew attention away from Neverwinter as Deszel and a Drow army launched a hidden assault through the city’s underground passages. The city fell into chaos, while Albus Dumbledore and Vancevik appeared to confront the attackers, leaving their next move uncertain.

• Thrall and Aribeth fought with elemental magic and Hellfire while Obould Many-Arrows watched, and Aribeth’s Flame Dragon slaughtered Gnolls nearby.
• Deszel revealed that his attack on Port Llast had been a diversion and ordered the Drow matron to seize Neverwinter while he held Lord Nasher captive.
• The Drow entered Neverwinter through ancient tunnels, killed gang members, and split into teams to spread chaos, assassinate city leaders, and attack Neverwinter Castle.
• Drow freed prisoners and set Beggar’s Nest ablaze as Demons attacked the city and its temple; Arian Zhend and General Tyro chose not to reveal their forces.
• Albus Dumbledore cut through a group of Drow with Vancevik at his side, surprising Arian Zhend and General Tyro.

Neverwinter descended into chaos as Drow and demons attacked, while Dumbledore exposed the assault and the attackers opened an ancient seal beneath the castle. Aribeth returned to face Deszel, Thrall led the Orcs away from the Northland, and the unleashed Beholders left the castle in ruin.

• Aribeth and General Tyro let Neverwinter fall into chaos to weaken Lord Nasher’s original powers, while Dumbledore and Vancevik organized resistance in the city center.
• Dumbledore used Daylight to expose a Drow and demon force near the castle, allowing the defenders to bombard them before the attackers teleported into the castle and overwhelmed its defenses.
• Deszel opened a passage beneath Neverwinter Castle, releasing a swarm of Beholders that attacked the Drow, demons, and castle defenders as Tyro ordered Aribeth to return.
• Aribeth told Thrall that Deszel had used the Orcs as bait to open the seal and warned him that Orcs were first on the Dark Lord’s extermination list.
• Thrall killed two dissenters and led more than five thousand Orcs away from the Northland, while other monsters attacked Port Llast and faced the Dragon Knights and Gunships.
• Aribeth confronted Deszel and the Drow matron mother after returning to Neverwinter, then killed the matron mother with a blow from her Hellfire greatsword.

Aribeth killed the Drow matron but could not defeat Deszel’s ancient Metal Golem, while General Tyro’s forces entered the buried city and overcame its Golems and Lizardfolk defenders. Habasar Drin suspected the awakened Lizardfolk had usurped the Sarrukh’s legacy, and more than a hundred Legendary Liches arrived to investigate the city’s secrets.

• Aribeth slaughtered Drow elites after killing the matron, but her Artifact greatsword and Divine Magic could not harm Deszel’s Metal Golem, so she used Disintegrate to topple it and pursued Deszel.
• General Tyro sent the Adeptus Custodes against the Beholders in Neverwinter Castle, then led an army into the vast underground city beneath it.
• Habasar Drin warned that the Creator Race’s energy sphere could raise temperatures across Faerun, and Tyro’s Wizards trapped more than a hundred advancing Golems in a vast swamp.
• The Steel Raptor Cavalry and Imperium troops defeated the weakened Lizardfolk, while Habasar Drin questioned prisoners who insisted they were the Creator Race.
• Habasar Drin suspected the Lizardfolk had taken power from the Sarrukh and altered their history, then summoned more than a hundred Legendary Liches to investigate.

More than a hundred Legendary Liches arrived to investigate the Sarrukh city, but Queen Mossara raised a Temporal Barrier that trapped soldiers and resisted their magic. While Ymir and Chromie explained the artifacts sustaining it, Dumbledore infiltrated the chaotic time currents and reached the temple, where he unleashed Fiendfyre against the Lizardfolk guards.

• Habasar Drin divided the city among the Legendary Liches, who captured Ancient Lizardfolk and subjected them to brutal experiments while General Tyro defended the Imperium’s ruthless treatment of its enemies.
• Queen Mossara learned that her forces had failed to stop the invaders, killed the surviving messenger, and ordered her subordinate to activate the Sundial, which enveloped the city center in a Temporal Barrier.
• The liches discovered that the barrier exposed fragments of the past and future, and Ymir explained that the Sundial and Time Crystal enabled Mossara’s limited time travel; Chromie revealed that Dumbledore was already inside searching for them.
• Dumbledore navigated shifting temporal currents, escaped a meeting with the Giant Snake and an attack by Beholders, then reached the temple plaza, where Lizardfolk guards dispelled his Invisibility Potion.
• Dumbledore broke open a sealed container and unleashed Fiendfyre, which swallowed the Lizardfolk’s attempts to extinguish it and began spreading through the plaza.

Dumbledore removed the Time Crystal from the Sundial, nearly died from the resulting flood of information, and helped the Imperium defeat Queen Mossara and seize her city. Chromie revealed Mossara’s time-traveling history, while Raymond confronted Earth Prophet Asindo with proof and offered the surviving Sarrukh land in exchange for cooperation.

• Dumbledore’s Fiendfyre and Abi-Dalzim’s Horrid Wilting overwhelmed the Lizardfolk defenders, allowing him to pull the Time Crystal from the Sundial and remove the time barrier.
• Dumbledore survived the Time Crystal’s informational impact, but Mossara attacked him with the Energy Source Stone before the Legendary Liches arrived and disrupted her control of it.
• The Liches restrained Mossara and discovered that a temple ritual transferred damage away from her; after they killed the ritual’s Lizardfolk participants, Mossara aged into a Bone Hourglass from temporal backlash.
• Chromie explained that Mossara had traveled into the past, stolen Sarrukh knowledge, and altered Northland history before taking the Time Crystal and Sundial to report to her master.
• Raymond told Earth Prophet Asindo that Mossara had been a slave who infiltrated Bethis through time travel, and Chromie’s artifacts convinced Asindo of the account.
• Raymond offered the surviving Sarrukh a suitable homeland in exchange for a small price, and Asindo agreed to inspect the ancient city and recover his people’s remains.

Raymond settled Neverwinter’s crisis, supported Aribeth’s rise, and revealed that Kurlemos was carrying out his plans in the Northland. After Kurlemos killed Lord Nasher and stopped the remaining hunt, Raymond’s influence over Faerûn’s future became clearer.

• Raymond turned the Sundial, Time Crystal, and Bone Hourglass into Planeswalker Cards, then traveled with Chromie to Neverwinter’s graveyard.
• Aribeth fought Deszel until Raymond removed the Golem protecting him, allowing her to kill Deszel and end Neverwinter’s immediate crisis.
• Dumbledore comforted the heartbroken Vancevik, and Raymond told him that Gellert Grindelwald would soon arrive in Faerûn.
• Raymond told Aribeth that Kurlemos would eliminate Lord Nasher and other threats, then revealed that the Glacier King commanded a vast undead army in Neverwinter Wood.
• Kurlemos captured Lord Nasher, explained that he served Raymond, and killed Nasher with Disintegrate.
• Kurlemos ordered his forces to leave the migrating Orcs alone because Raymond had arranged for them to remain part of his plans.

Thrall led a breakaway Orc Horde toward the Underdark while Raymond learned that Shar planned to unleash Dendar and devour the sun. In another universe, Earth’s representatives gambled on the Nine Hells securities market, and Coulson met the Ancient One.

• Thrall led his young, reformed Orc Horde through the Spine of the World, and a scout found an Underdark entrance where they planned to camp.
• Raymond met Auril, who warned him that Shar intended to release Dendar through the Shadowfell and had recently met with Mask.
• Raymond explained that he had deceived Benu to mislead Shar, while Auril warned that the coming Northland winter would be exceptionally cold.
• Earth’s representatives listed their planet on the Nine Hells securities market, and Alexander Pierce reported that their investment had risen about thirtyfold.
• After returning to Earth, Coulson organized security for negotiations and encountered the Ancient One, who asked to speak with him.

The Ancient One asked Coulson to help the newly awakened spellcasters return to society, while Raymond warned him that alien technology was fueling a global crisis. Coulson was tasked with forming a special response team, but Hydra secretly drove the violence and prepared to build a fleet controlled by Doctor Zola.

• The Ancient One showed Coulson the magically gifted people at Kamar-Taj and asked him personally to arrange their return to society, trusting him to respect their choices.
• Annie returned from another dimension with a huge-eyed Monster, altered Coulson's pistol, and was reprimanded by Raymond, who had mastered the power of time.
• Raymond warned Coulson that alien technology would destabilize Earth, and Coulson reported the growing crisis to Maria Hill.
• Maria Hill assigned Coulson to lead a powerful global emergency-response team as attacks using alien weapons and armor spread, while she and Coulson remained unaware that Hydra was behind the chaos.
• Alexander Pierce and Baron Strucker discussed their weapons research and plans to transfer Doctor Zola into a computer system that would control a future space fleet.

Coulson’s team tracked Rising Tide and captured Daisy Johnson, while Grant Ward secretly found a magical Book of Devils. Meanwhile, Tony Stark’s guilt and fear pushed him toward militarization, and Alexander Pierce began plotting to recruit him and Steve Rogers as Hydra prepared to seize power.

• Coulson’s team tracked a Rising Tide broadcast to Los Angeles and captured Daisy Johnson, while Grant Ward secretly took a magical book from her van.
• Grant Ward discovered that the book contained knowledge about Baator, Devils, and summoning, while Balthazar warned Iggwilv against spreading chaos.
• Tony Stark told Dr. Banner that nightmares and guilt over the Chitauri invasion drove him to build Earth’s space fleet, while Phyrexian Oil powered the shipyard’s machinery.
• Alexander Pierce watched footage of Tony Stark and decided Hydra would manipulate him and Steve Rogers by exposing the Human Federation’s corruption.
• Mordo grew jealous of The Ancient One’s attention to Little Annie and became obsessed with stealing the Eye of Agamotto to master time.

Mordo tried to steal the Eye of Agamotto but Little Annie stopped him, while The Ancient One let him escape as part of her plan to prepare the next Sorcerer Supreme. Elsewhere, Raymond used Barry Allen to create a Flashpoint timeline, rescued Kara Zor-El from a secret laboratory, and began absorbing Kryptonian technology from her spaceship.

• Mordo put on the Eye of Agamotto and tried to stop Little Annie with the Time Stone, but she was unaffected and struck him down before he healed himself and fled.
• The Ancient One revealed that Mordo’s theft was a test she had arranged and told Little Annie not to pursue him.
• Raymond threw Barry Allen into a spacetime tunnel to make him create a Flashpoint, then entered the resulting timeline while Batman watched helplessly.
• Raymond found Kara Zor-El imprisoned in an underground laboratory, rescued her, and used magic to make the guards and scientists suffer as she escaped.
• Kara absorbed sunlight, recovered her strength, and took Raymond to her Kryptonian spaceship, where he infected it with Phyrexian Oil to copy its technology.

Raymond created a Speed Force Land Card while Barry Allen gained his powers, then strengthened Kara and manipulated her into trusting him. When General Zod arrived to demand the Kryptonian on Earth, Raymond waited for the humans to seek Kara, while Bruce Wayne and the two Barrys discovered the massacred base and identified Raymond from its surveillance footage.

• Raymond learned that Kara carried the Codex of Krypton and manipulated her grief over Kal-El's death into hatred for General Zod and dependence on him.
• Raymond observed the two Barry Allens recreating the lightning accident, created a Speed Force Wall Land Card, and became a Speedster.
• Raymond took Kara into the Sun's core and magically strengthened her before returning her to the ship and preparing breakfast.
• The ship detected Black Zero, and General Zod broadcast a demand that Earth hand over the Kryptonian citizen living there.
• The older Barry Allen found no Superman in this timeline and brought the younger Barry and Bruce Wayne to investigate Kara's former base.
• Bruce Wayne and the two Barrys examined the massacre and its recordings, where the older Barry recognized Raymond and wondered whether Superman was a woman.

Raymond recruited the elderly Bruce Wayne to help defend Earth against General Zod, while Kara confronted Zod and the Barry Allens joined the fight. As the battle raged, Raymond infiltrated the Kryptonian mothership to absorb its technology, discovered the location of the real Doomsday, and was confronted by Faora.

• Bruce Wayne, the two Barry Allens, and Raymond met at the Kryptonian ship, where Raymond revealed Kara was the Timeline’s surviving Kryptonian capable of opposing Zod.
• Kara demonstrated her strength to Bruce and the Barrys, and Raymond explained that the older Barry had changed the past to save his mother, leaving this Timeline without its other superheroes.
• Raymond persuaded Bruce to sign a contract for his soul in exchange for help against Zod, and the group began planning while Zod launched a devastating invasion of Earth.
• Kara attacked Zod after he admitted killing her brother Kal-El, while both Barry Allens and Bruce fought the Kryptonian forces.
• Raymond secretly infected Black Zero and the World Engine with Phyrexian Oil, found coordinates for the real Doomsday, and was confronted by Faora, whose attack failed and whose bodysuit disintegrated.

Raymond defeated Faora, Compleated the Kryptonians aboard Black Zero, and seized the ship and World Engine, while Kara and the others fought General Zod. Eobard Thawne arrived to restore the timeline by killing the younger Barry Allen and attacking Kara, but Raymond intervened and caught him.

• Raymond used the Speed Force to defeat Faora, Compleat Ursa and the Kryptonian soldiers aboard Black Zero, and take control of the ship and World Engine.
• Kara continued fighting General Zod while the two Barry Allens and Bruce Wayne helped defeat the Kryptonian forces.
• Eobard Thawne emerged from a spacetime tunnel, revealed that Barry's attempt to save his mother had disrupted the timeline, and killed the younger Barry Allen.
• Eobard attacked Kara, but Raymond appeared and seized him by the ankle before he could strike her.

Raymond captured Eobard Thawne and used him to stabilize the altered timeline as a parallel universe, then returned to the battlefield where Kara had killed General Zod. After the government sought negotiations, Raymond revived Barry Allen by trading Bruce Wayne’s life for his soul and took Bruce’s soul to Baator to make him an Archdevil.

• Raymond severed Eobard Thawne from the Speed Force, forced him to create a stable parallel universe, and bound him as a servant.
• Barry Allen restored his mother’s apparent death, while Raymond secretly kept Noura alive in a Stasis Field so the timeline could split into parallel worlds.
• Kara had Ursa kill Lor-Zod and then killed General Zod, ending the Kryptonian invasion.
• Raymond returned to Kara, and Amanda Waller offered Earth’s cooperation in exchange for protection; Raymond instead demanded a contract granting him ownership of the dead’s souls.
• Bruce Wayne offered his life for Barry Allen’s resurrection, and Raymond revived Barry before claiming Bruce’s soul and taking it to Baator.

Raymond transformed Bruce Wayne’s soul into the Archdevil Bat-Demon, then brought him to a parallel universe to meet another Bruce Wayne. As Batman learned that the altered timeline had become a separate world, Raymond explained that he had used the Observer Effect.

• Bruce Wayne explored Baator’s Ninth Layer as Raymond explained its Order, soul-corruption system, and the fate awaiting mortal souls.
• Raymond awakened Bruce Wayne’s darkness, and Asmodeus helped infuse the cocoon with energy until Bruce emerged as the Archdevil Bat-Demon.
• Raymond returned to the parallel Earth, encouraged Barry Allen to go home, and signed a Devil Contract with Amanda Waller that exchanged souls for protection and access to Kryptonian resources.
• Raymond took Kara and the Bat-Demon to Wayne Manor, where Alfred met the older Bruce while the timeline’s Batman was away.
• Barry told Batman how Raymond had sent him into the past, and Batman later met the Bat-Demon after returning to the Batcave.
• Batman asked how the altered timeline had survived as a parallel world, and Raymond said he had used the Observer Effect from quantum mechanics.

Raymond explained how he had used illusion magic and a Stasis Field to make Barry Allen’s mother appear dead, then gave her and the device to Bruce Wayne, who kept the Bat-Demon as an ally. Meanwhile, Coulson recruited Daisy Johnson into S.H.I.E.L.D. and brought her to meet Raymond, where they watched helicopters attack Tony Stark’s mansion and saw someone emerge from the ruins to fight back.

• Raymond showed Bruce Wayne an illusion of his parents’ murder and explained how he had deceived witnesses about Noura’s death.
• Raymond gave Bruce Wayne the frozen Noura and the Stasis Field Generator, and offered him a way to restore his parents in a parallel world.
• Bruce Wayne agreed to work with the Bat-Demon, while Alfred revealed Bruce’s private habits to his alternate self.
• Coulson had Daisy Johnson sign an agreement to join S.H.I.E.L.D. in exchange for avoiding prosecution, then took her to meet Raymond in Los Angeles.
• Raymond and Kara watched helicopters destroy Tony Stark’s mansion as Coulson ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. forces to respond.
• A figure burst from the mansion’s ruins and attacked a helicopter.