Recaps

Shade investigated Stone Osenfott’s demonic ties while pursuing the final items for Stone’s commission, and uncovered a plot to unleash Mad Earth at Eldron Lake. After defeating the transformed Rain-Seeking Golem and learning more about the Guardians, Shade sought answers from curator Zoff Fernandes, who reacted with terror to Haila Osenfott’s name.

• Haila Osenfott asked Shade to defeat Stone without killing him, offered her soul as payment, and sent him to find Mr. Fernandes, and Shade defeated the Corpse Ghoul gardener and later located the Edward Marcus statue at Osenfott Manor.
• Shade met Stone Osenfott at a wedding, subdued a wraith attacking Maggie Mason and Mr. Enriques, then defeated Stone in a duel and heard his warning about danger near Eldron Lake.
• Shade explored the Moon Worship Ruins, received the Moon’s Thorn Spirit Rune and Miracle Technique, and learned from Sister Devlin that black night or death might taint Sand of Time.
• Shade joined the Church’s effort to contain Mad Earth at Eldron Lake, where three cultists prepared for a relic’s arrival and a Rain-Praying Statue rose from the lake as a Rain-Seeking Golem.
• Miss Benanis’s stone statue failed to stop the Golem, and Johnson Fleming revealed himself as the Third Guardian before sacrificing himself to strengthen Shade’s Earth Power.
• Shade controlled the stone statue and destroyed the Golem with Moonlight Wheel, while the witch carried him and Luvia away and reported Fleming’s sacrifice.
• Shade and Luvia concluded that the Guardians’ Inheritance trial required defeating the Evil Spirit Demon, while Iluna agreed to tell the Church that the Feast of the Earth Mother God could cleanse Mad Earth.
• Shade and Iluna caught the Plague Merchant, who gave them cures and Earth-related gifts before leaving the city, and Shade then visited curator Zoff Fernandes, who panicked at Haila Osenfott’s name and warned him to leave Randall River Valley City.

Shade explored the Black Night Spirit Temple, uncovered Luvia’s buried history, and helped Fiona escape Eternal Night City. He defeated Stone Mirror Demon Goth and entered Wosente Manor, where he captured three men linked to the Stone Heart Demon.

• Mr. Fernandes told Shade about the demon that had cursed him, and Doctor Schneider identified it as Stone Mirror Demon-Goth.
• Shade and Miss Benanis explored the Black Night Spirit Temple, where Shade crossed into an ancient memory and overheard Luvia explain her plan for Siris and the buried Time Key.
• Shade visited Fiona in Eternal Night City, helped her recover confidence in her mission, and joined her and Mia in crossing the darkness.
• Iluna warned Shade about the Chosen One of the Earth, while Dorothy and Leisha helped him gather the ingredients needed to make pigment that could paint upon the night.
• Shade confronted Goth in the snowy forest, resisted its time powers and demonic mark, and used the Blasphemy Cross and Moonbeam Greatsword to defeat it and gain the Silver Blasphemy Spirit Rune of Pride.
• Shade reached Wosente Manor and learned from three fleeing men that they served the Stone Heart Demon and had been sent to find a weapon, and he captured them for questioning after the manor gate slammed shut.

Shade uncovered the First Angel’s bones at Wosente Manor, pursued clues linking Stone Osenfott to the ancient evil, and investigated the spreading petrification plague in Randall River Valley. He found a hidden passage beneath the mountains, where the antique key began to glow at a sealed stone door.

• Shade entered Wosente Manor, freed Haila Osenfott’s tormented family, and recovered two finger bones of the First Angel that could counter immortality.
• Shade told Priest Augustus about the bones and asked him to forge a crude weapon from their power, then sought advice on destroying Stone Osenfott’s escaping soul.
• Shade traced an antique key to the Granger Family and learned it was connected to Miracle Element and the Heart of the Earth.
• Shade chose the Miracle Technique Praise the Sun and worked with Margaret to uncover Prince William’s interference in her negotiations with the Stone Masons Association.
• Shade learned that the Petrification Plague had affected more than two hundred people and heard Emilia describe an Elven prophecy of the land’s growing madness.
• Shade and Luvia searched the Black Night Spirit Temple while Miss Lathers and Miss Benanis prepared to draw out the land’s memories, and Shade later found Benjamin Elford’s remains and research materials in the mountains.
• Shade followed Elford’s clue to the summit, activated an ancient Earth Mother emblem, and discovered a hidden passage leading to a sealed stone door.
• Shade tried Door Key at the stone door, and the antique key from Earl Granger began to glow.

Shade investigated the Earth’s corruption in Randall River Valley while seeking clues to the Heart of the Earth and helping Fiona complete her journey through Eternal Night City. He uncovered the origins of the Petrification Plague and found that the Clay Holy Grail could cure the afflicted, as the wider crisis continued to unfold.

• Shade found Fred House Lehmann’s memoirs and a crimson gemstone, learned the Land Memory thaumaturgy through Miss Lathers, and warned her not to sacrifice herself before the valley’s crisis was over.
• Shade learned that Stone Osenfott’s contract with the Demon-Goth might claim his soul, then agreed to retrieve Captain Allen Woody’s letters and photographs in return for a White Gem.
• Shade heard Weilon Lathers warn that the plague and earthquakes signaled the Earth’s spreading madness, and learned that the Graveyard’s gemstones and key could lead to the Heart of the Earth.
• Captain Woody told Shade how he had made a demonic contract, then gave him Haila and Stone Osenfott’s letters and photographs after Shade rescued a boy from drowning.
• Shade helped Fiona awaken her dragon powers in Eternal Night City, obtained the Golden Needle, and followed her through a black curtain toward the city’s final destination.
• Shade searched the old Granger cemetery, defeated its undead guardian, and found Thomas Granger’s records revealing that Ferrari Granger’s Earth Power experiments had caused the 1498 earthquake.
• Shade read Lehmann’s memoir and told Leisha and Angelina that Butterfly blood could resist the Petrification Plague, while most severely infected patients came from outside the valley.
• Shade entered the Sun Church with Miss Danist and saw the Clay Holy Grail produce liquid that could cure living petrified patients, though the church diluted it through a Divine Ritual.