Recaps

Shade helped Miss Louisa defeat the nightmare born from the Dream Pen of Joy, then visited the Innocent Creator and told the children the Match Girl story. Back in Tobesk, Shade took on new investigations and commissions, but his carriage ride with Miss Bayes ended in an ambush and her abduction.

• Shade searched Captain Rades’s apartment for the ornament, then helped Miss Louisa investigate Professor Manning’s Dream Pen and destroy the nightmare it had created.
• Shade and Miss Louisa saved Professor Manning, who gave them the Dream Pen of Joy and a Rhodes Card in return for their silence.
• Shade visited the Innocent Creator in Hope Town and told the children the story of the Match Girl, receiving the Saint’s blessing before returning with his Time Key damaged.
• Shade asked Miss Louisa about the Match Girl’s origins, bought advertisements for his agency, and was questioned by Iluna Bayes about Lassoya and the Lake View Manor case.
• Shade accompanied Miss Bayes to the Lucky Southern Cross Club, where the Lady hired him to collect Mary Jane’s Makeup Box and revealed an impending Blood Spirit School alliance.
• Miss Galina hired Shade to play Rhodes Cards against Duke Lucas for a wager involving two Delarion Navy positions, while Miss Bayes investigated traces of blood in the club.
• Shade and Miss Bayes found evidence connected to Mr. Lawrence’s disappearance and agreed to report it, but their carriage stopped in a remote alley and Miss Bayes was taken away.

Shade investigated the Blood of Mercury, uncovered a hidden space beneath his house, and faced a deadly Fish Scale outbreak with Dorothy Louisa. He awakened the Spirit Rune The Little Match Girl, saved the Dais family, and woke to find the Church had taken them into its protection.

• Iluna Bayes weakened the Blood of Mercury attackers and joined forces with Shade, who asked her to investigate Mrs. Lawrence's murder.
• Shade had Founding Silver Moon authenticated, entered the Great City Player tournament, and learned more from Miss Annette about the Chosen Ones and the Witch Council.
• Shade received the Relic Whisper from Galina Cavendish's exchange, then helped Miss Louisa fight a Blood of Mercury agent and a Fishman created by Drowned Fishman's Scales.
• Shade's study group learned that kidnapped Mr. Lawrence was meant to serve as a shell for an evil god, while the Academy rewarded Shade and taught him new time thaumaturgies.
• Shade and Priest Augustus took his house documents to Dawn Church, where workers cleared the first-floor passage and Shade discovered a hidden basement chamber and a Space Labyrinth.
• Shade found Miss Louisa afflicted with Fish Scale Disease near the Deis Family home, and they entered the house through a fog-filled space where the Match Girl fought off Fishmen.
• Shade used the fairy-tale parchment to invoke The Little Match Girl, inscribed its Spirit Rune, and freed the Dais family as the God of Drowning in the Deep Sea withdrew its gaze.
• Dorothy Louisa brought the unconscious Shade home, explained that the Church had taken the Dais family into its protection, and watched as he tried to activate his new Mystic Lock.

Shade’s Rhodes Cards victory over Duke Lucas brought him into contact with Galina, Military Intelligence Section Six, and Miss Bayes, while his investigation with Doctor Schneider and Miss Louisa exposed Blood of Mercury’s murders and the ruins beneath Tobesk. The arc ended with Shade taking on Mrs. Lemmer’s inheritance case and receiving a favorable divination from Addis Stan.

• Shade revealed to Miss Louisa that he had written “The Little Match Girl,” and she asked him to teach her while offering to study his Spirit Rune.
• Shade defeated Duke Lucas in their Rhodes Cards match with Origin · Silver Moon, then learned that Miss Galina was a Great Witch and an Eleventh Ring Arcanist.
• Miss Galina introduced Shade to Dak Anlos, who gave him a nominal intelligence position and instructed him to report on the Southern Spy Case.
• Shade and Miss Bayes interrogated Baron Herle about Blood of Mercury, then confronted a grave robber and agreed to keep working together on the investigation.
• Shade exchanged the Corpse Finger Bone for Witch's Copy Paper, collected his identification and revolver, and officially joined Military Intelligence Section Six.
• Shade, Doctor Schneider, and Miss Louisa found the murdered household at Mr. Pangdun’s home and captured an assassin sent by the Silver-Eyed One.
• Doctor Schneider revealed that Blood of Mercury had discovered ancient ruins beneath Tobesk containing God's Gift Box, and Shade recognized the nearby entrance.
• Shade agreed to investigate Mrs. Lemmer’s inheritance case, then asked Addis Stan to divine whether she would safely receive the money, and Stan’s reading was favorable.

Shade rescued Queen Diana during an assassination attempt and received honors while pursuing the Silver-Eyed One, God’s Gift Box, and the meaning of his new relics. He joined Dawn Church, helped clear Room Number Two, and prepared to attend a lecture at the Delarion Royal Mechanical Academy.

• Shade used Echoes of the Past and the Dice of Destiny to track a missing boy to Tobesk Station, where he leaped in front of Queen Diana’s carriage and stopped a gunman’s attack with a commemorative coin.
• Queen Diana thanked Shade and gave him her Ruby Ring, while Miss Galina promised an honor medal and asked him to bring her the Metamorphosis Ring from the underground ruins.
• Shade accepted Another Face and the White Stone Crystal from Tifa Servit, then entered the Time Corridor and fulfilled the Innocent Creator’s final wishes for three children.
• The Innocent Creator urged Shade to collect the thirteen Myriad Aspects of Impermanence cards, and Shade resolved to accompany Miss Bayes to the ruins where God’s Gift Box was hidden.
• Shade learned Chaotic Time Blade from a leaf of the Father of Infinite Tree, acquired the Echo Spirit Rune, and lent Miss Louisa another leaf.
• Shade joined Dawn Church after Bishop Owen baptized him, gave him religious books and Holy Water No. 3, and received Shade’s commemorative coin and donation.
• Shade mailed Mrs. Lemmer his report on Lawyer Locke Laurel and agreed to collect her inheritance, while Hels Nidro and nine Dawn Church Ring Arcanists declared Room Number Two safe.
• Shade searched Room Number Two without finding anything suspicious, prepared snow for Little Mia, and left to attend a lecture at the Delarion Royal Mechanical Academy.