Recaps

Shade won the Lake View Manor tournament, confronted the Truth Society at Schluch Lake, and gained the Thunder Spirit Rune after saving Little Mia from divine lightning. After the banquet, he learned more about the Fourth Chosen One and traveled with Sister Devlin to Lake Heart Island, where Lady Cherub set his next task.

• Shade and Angelina won the horse race, and Angelina told Shade she wanted his help escaping Leisha’s control and her arranged marriage.
• Shade impressed Baron Fuller and Princess Margaret with his economic views, joined the banquet’s games, and won the Rhodes Cards tournament by exposing Viscount Glenn’s cheating and defeating Miss Pawo.
• Shade and Tifa followed Miss Pawo to Schluch Lake, where they discovered Lost Vinar’s Island of Trials and learned that Wise Man’s Gleaming Stones were needed for the Chosen One Ritual.
• Shade fought Karl Leipzig, shielded Little Mia from Wrath of Fury’s divine Thunder, took the relic, and killed Leipzig with Thunder Spear before completing his trial on Lake Heart Island.
• Shade danced with Dorothy, Leisha, Tifa, and Iluna during the banquet, while Princess Margaret gave him her handkerchief and invited him to her Reading Salon.
• Shade told Luvia about the five Gleaming Stones and suspected Miss Pawo might be the Fourth Chosen One, while Luvia said the Church planned to have Iluna receive the stones.
• Shade and Sister Devlin crossed Lake Carlek with Little Mia and reached Lake Heart Island, where Lady Cherub declared Shade had passed her first test and tasked him with investigating Professor Kansas Drake’s visit, price, and wish.

Shade pursued Professor Drake’s forgotten encounter, helped contain a dangerous relic, and completed a trial at the Obsidian Tower with Miss Violet and Miss Teresa. He left with a new trial requiring a water sacrifice as Jack the Thief’s thefts and the Keeper of Secrets’ trial drew more groups to Tobesk.

• Shade began his second Trial by investigating why Professor Kansas Drake had sought the Goddess in the Lake, and found a diary, letters, and an old book among Drake’s materials.
• Shade and Iluna investigated Professor Tiris Manning’s home for signs of Jack the Thief, while Shade studied a moon-responsive slab and learned that it held knowledge related to Time Perception.
• Shade and Doctor Schneider helped Mr. Jims confront his fear of danger, then joined Mr. Madison and Princess Margaret in containing a parasitic relic that split into flying heads and cursed them.
• Shade and Luvia discussed Miss Pawo’s identity and the Keeper of Secrets, while the group reported the Lake View Manor trial to the Academy and considered the reward for the Wise Man’s Gleaming Stone.
• Shade collected Apna Library documents from the Public Cemetery, escaped the Church’s ambush, and learned from Old John that the Chosen One Ritual had to take place on water.
• Shade returned to Lake Heart Island, exchanged research with Miss Violet and Miss Teresa, and entered the Obsidian Tower with them to meet the God of the Lake.
• The God of the Lake accepted Shade’s and Miss Violet’s papers as Crystallizations of Wisdom and granted all three the Wise Man’s Blessing, then set a second trial requiring a water sacrifice.
• Shade learned that Jack the Thief had stolen the Mandela Snake Nest Bottle, asked Priest Augustus to investigate the Uncertain Wise Man cult, and received a scorched feather to present to Cherub.

Shade uncovered Professor Drake’s past with the Knowledge Arrow of Akenola, then faced the Goddess in the Lake’s trials and gained new powers. Back in Tobesk, he prepared for Jack the Thief’s attack as a pursuit led to a sudden confrontation inside the Seer Association.

• Shade found Halder Ondiba’s Safe House and discovered a photograph linking him to Professor Kansas Drake, along with the Knowledge Arrow of Akenola.
• Shade showed Drake the photograph and the arrow, and Drake recovered enough of his memories to ask Shade to take him to the Goddess in the Lake.
• At Lake of Cherub, the White Robed Lady confirmed Drake’s past and set Shade three trials, including a duel that ended when she conceded after Shade drew the Knowledge Arrow.
• The White Robed Lady gave Shade the Deathbringer Angel’s ribs and set his final trial: to discover why she had remained in the Material World.
• Shade learned the Heaton Seal, tested it with Miss Sylvia, and helped Sister Devlin’s efforts to expand Snake Heart Hospitals before returning to Tobesk.
• As Church forces prepared for Jack the Thief, Shade attended the Seer Association’s Reading Salon and met Margaret privately to accept a commission.
• Luvia warned Shade that factions were watching for Jack the Thief, while Iluna spotted Miss Pawo and two companions and joined the pursuit.
• Iluna, Miss Green, and Mr. Modrow chased the professor and a cultist to the Seer Association, where a playing card wounded the professor before they crashed through a window into a lit room.

Shade helped Iluna defeat Jack the Thief through the Dice Story Collection, then traded the Wise Man’s Gleaming Stone and prepared for his final trial. At Lake Heart Island, he answered the god’s questions and completed the trials, though the god left one mystery unanswered.

• Professor Onse and a cultist trapped Iluna and the others in the Dice Story Collection, where Iluna chose Shade as her character.
• Shade followed the Story Characters, survived the Man-Eating Cats, and killed Qiaogeli Diwusi when the Gun of Kindness turned his bad luck against him.
• Shade and his companions cornered Jack the Thief, and Little Mia’s help let Shade defeat it in the dice story.
• Shade demanded Dorothy’s stolen letters and Iluna’s relic from Jack, then kept the Wise Man’s Gleaming Stone and gave Doctor Schneider a Relic in exchange for his silence.
• After waking at Miss Galina’s manor, Shade traded the Gleaming Stone for Founding, money, and a Rhodes card, and received an Angel-bone badge fused to his Witches Detection Badge.
• Shade identified Heart Lake as the source of Moonlight Water, then entered the Time Corridor for his final trial and fought Formless Spawn alongside Miss Violet and Miss Teresa.
• Shade and the Witches reached Lake Heart Island, where he offered pure water and answered the god’s questions about the Intellect Angels.
• The god confirmed Shade had completed the trials, withheld the reason five Intellect Angels remained in the mortal world, and said a sufficiently high-level Moon could unseal Shade’s power.