Recaps

Iver evolved the Shadow Demon into Viennes, faced Emma’s charm, and negotiated a major trade offer for Avalon. As Isabel confronted the hardship beyond Glass Island, Iver accepted his own past and grew closer to her, leaving them ready to spend New Year’s Eve together.

• Iver sacrificed himself in the Shepherding Method ritual, and the Shadow Demon evolved into the Night Demon Viennes.
• Iver sealed Viennes in a Great Sin Card and summoned her as Night Raven, then faced Emma, whose charm he resisted with Viennes’s help.
• Iver uncovered the possible connection between the Shepherding Method, the Ring Angel, and the Rosy Cross Society, while resolving to question Emma about the Ouroboros Ring Ritual.
• Grandet offered port access, railways, locomotives, and long-term financing in exchange for Avalon opening its western ports and allowing foreign workers in.
• Iver agreed to lead Lloyd’s with Gray-Green’s help, then listened as Isabel described poverty and neglect beyond Glass Island and proposed using the railway to aid remote cities.
• Isabel broke down in Iver’s arms, and Iver accepted that survivor’s guilt had made him reject affection before kissing her.
• Iver and Isabel planned a New Year’s Eve celebration, and he offered to help her find Master Agnes before Isabel demonstrated her Resilient Illusion.

Iver and Isabel uncovered Emma’s plot, rescued Isabel, and exposed the attack that pushed Avalon toward war with Stibnite. As Iver prepared to leave for the Theocracy, he confronted new mysteries about his family and the Bear Angel, then began his Promotion Ritual with Ibn.

• Sherlock returned home for New Year after Watson challenged his belief that love and the Path of Wisdom could not coexist, while Yanis left Iver and Isabel her painting of Sofia and herself.
• Isabel, disguised as Yulia, was taken by Emma, whose enchantment led her toward Lloyd’s District and whose gift of coins put a flower girl in danger.
• Iver traced Isabel through the flower girl and rescued her, then summoned Viennes to defeat the succubus controlling Emma and the Grand Guardian.
• Isabel and Ligeia told the Arbitration Hall that Emma had attacked the Queen, while the public learned of the assassination attempt and Avalon moved toward war with Stibnite.
• Iver received the Bear Angel’s hunting mark and concluded that Stibnite’s likely defeat would bring forward the Ouroboros Ring Ritual, leaving him only months to prepare.
• Iver and Isabel spent time together before Sherlock arrived, and the three examined Yunus’s request to investigate Anastasia and the mystery of Freya’s lost records and Iver’s family’s forgotten memories.
• Iver urged Ibn to advance and seek revenge in the Parthian Ancient Kingdom, then began his Promotion Ritual by declaring that he followed the Path of the Candle Holder.

Iver and Isabel uncovered the conspiracy surrounding Queen Sophia’s death and joined forces with Shafiya and the Moriarty Family to resist Stibium’s plans. Iver killed Drost, reunited with Lia, and escaped the palace with his allies as Karl’s death unleashed a Flame Demon Legion across Avalon.

• Isabel and Iver entered the Promotion Ritual, where Akropolis explained its rules and began the Cruel Autumn scenario.
• Shafiya rescued Isabel from the palace after Queen Sophia was poisoned, and Isabel sought shelter with Iver at Moriarty Manor.
• Iver and the Moriartys learned the factions’ plans, and Iver proposed killing Prince John to activate the Shadow of Avalon ritual while Shafiya worked to recover the Queen’s Blood and rescue Sherlock.
• Iver went to the Silver and Tin Palace, tricked Drost into adopting him and transferring the Drost family headship, then revealed his identity and killed Drost with Lia’s help.
• Iver named the reborn Paradox Flame Butterfly Lia, and she chose to call him Daddy.
• Shafiya and Oswald returned with Queen’s Blood and the rescued Sherlock, but Karl attacked the group inside the palace.
• Oswald killed Karl, and Shafiya opened a portal through which Iver and the others escaped as the Flame Demon rose from Karl’s remains.
• The Flame Demon spread fire through the palace, transforming the dead into a Flame Demon Legion as Moke fled with a knight.

Iver and his allies carried out the Shadow of Avalon Ritual to resurrect Lancelot I while the Stibium invasion devastated Avalon. The ritual turned Lancelot into a vessel for an angelic power, and the resulting Dawn Fire destroyed much of the capital as the fabricated world collapsed.

• The Stranger saw Stibium’s Armored Gargoyles kill civilians with weapons based on his research, then vowed never to create another weapon for killing more efficiently.
• Iver sent Isabel toward the Theocracy while he prepared to complete the Shadow of Avalon Ritual, and Akropolis fought Enyo as the artificial world began to fail.
• Iver, Sherlock, the Consultant, Grape, and Olive recovered the missing dagger from the ruined Silver and Tin Palace and reached St. Genevieve Chapel.
• Olive used a lion’s heart in place of a royal descendant’s heart and plunged the dagger into Lancelot I, resurrecting the king as Shadow Power spread across Avalon.
• Iver redirected the ritual and offered himself to keep the Bear Angel’s apostle from using Lancelot’s body, while Lia confronted the Advisor and the Stranger returned to the front to help fight Stibium.
• Lancelot transformed and attacked Iver’s companions, while the Paradox Flame Butterfly trapped him in fire and Shafiya carried Isabel to the Theocracy.
• The Paradox Flame Butterfly used Self-Destruct to free Iver’s soul, and Dawn Fire destroyed the Silver and Tin Palace, the lake, Griffin Bridge, and much of the Red White Queen District as the ritual world collapsed.