Recaps

Shade inherited the Edwards family’s relics and settled into a growing circle of relationships while his companions advanced and prepared for Doomsday. At the Witch Council, Shade’s Words of Sublimation ritual failed to summon past heroes, but Fiona Drago reached him through time.

• Shade reunited Lust Edwardz with Durut Giles, explored the Edwards family’s hidden chambers, and claimed Howard’s Philosopher’s Stone and relics.
• Shade joined Megan and Audrey on Green Island after they advanced to the Twelfth Order, and they declared him the island’s other lord.
• Doctor Schneider’s Fingertip Distance lifted a weight from Shade’s heart and granted him a new power as he traveled to Tobesk.
• Iluna summoned the Fire Guardians and received five tasks, then gained strength and insight into Destiny from the thirteen sacred emblems.
• Shade reunited with Luvia and Iluna, learned about their advances and the coming Doomsday, and promised they would face it together.
• Shade spent time with Luvia, Leisha, and Angelina, while Miss Galina arranged for him to activate the Words of Sublimation at the Council.
• Shade’s ritual failed to summon past heroes and left him asleep, but Fiona Drago woke him and explained that she had reached him through the Dreamlands and the Witch Council.

Shade learned more about Doomsday, gained Adele Isabella’s guidance and Time Stop, and followed the Hope Diamond lead to Moon Bay. There he found an ancient Dragon Nest and became entangled in the city’s political tensions as Angelina’s impossible claim led the group to investigate Yodel Palace.

• Shade reunited with the witches, learned that Doomsday was inevitable, and agreed to help unite the Witch Council and its potential allies.
• Adele Isabella warned Shade that Luvia might destroy the world, gave him a pocket watch, and urged him to seek the Hope Diamond for a way to stop her.
• Shade learned that a fortune-teller who may have possessed the Hope Diamond had been in Moon Bay, then prepared for the journey as plague and political tensions spread.
• Shade entered the Past through the Time Corridor, defeated Armand Bernhardt’s ghost, and accepted Adele’s offer to teach him the Power of Time and help stop Luvia.
• Shade returned to the present with Time Stop and Witch Echo Speaker—Isabella, then learned that Leisha’s Kasonlik Special Steel shipment had been detained in Moon Bay.
• Shade used Sudden Fate and the Space Labyrinth to find an abandoned Dragon Nest, activated its altar with Fiona’s glove, and gained an ancient gold coin.
• Shade reached Moon Bay, followed Benanis’s clues near Herring Street, and heard conflicting accounts of the illegal group Eternal Light while searching for the missing diviner.
• Shade met with Miss Galina, Leisha, and Angelina, who gave him contacts for Moon Bay and claimed that Yodel Palace had neighbors, so the group went to investigate.

Shade investigated the Radiance Messenger disaster and pursued clues about relics, criminals, and Moon Bay’s factions while helping his friends and allies. The stretch ended when the Dice Story Collection trapped Bella Belinder, York O'Connor, and others in a game arranged by Light Chaser.

• Shade entered the Sea of No Light, met survivors of the Radiance Messenger sinking, and helped them summon the Dream Giver to recover their childhood wishes.
• Shade returned to Moon Bay, investigated local residents and a blood-drained corpse, and reunited with Viscount Bernhardt and Mr. Albert.
• Shade took charge of Princess Trading Partner’s troubles, investigated the Black Hand Gang and Freeman Hawthorne, and learned that the Belinder Family had taken a stone mirror tied to Destiny.
• Shade met Miss Belinder, who mistook him for Miss Benanis’s follower and invited him to the Councilor Club, while Miss Galina gave him records about the Radiance Messenger wreck.
• Shade gathered Mirror Fairytale and Black Flame Ice Wine for his friends, visited the black market, and enlisted Gray Gloves to investigate Moon Bay and help clear Leisha’s fleet.
• Shade watched Belinder Big Ben as two Ring Arcanists from the Seekers of Light Research Society began a ritual, then saw Bella Belinder and York O'Connor confronted by them.
• A woman acting on Light Chaser’s orders activated the Dice Story Collection, sealing the terrace and forcing Bella Belinder, York O'Connor, and the others to play.

Shade joined Bella Belinder in investigating Moon Bay’s dragon prophecy, a blood-drained victim, and the Dragon Devouring Order while pursuing clues about a sunken ship. The stretch ended with Shade and Bella’s group entering a cave in Whisper Hills and confronting a werewolf.

• Bella Belinder won the Dice Story Collection game, claimed a divination relic, and later met Shade, who introduced himself as John Watson and agreed to help her in Moon Bay.
• Shade examined the Radiance Messenger’s decayed boards, met Miss Illustrious, and received an Anchor Silver Ornament and a series of tasks tied to Moon Bay’s history.
• Bella hired Shade to investigate the city’s dragon prophecy and a drained corpse, while he warned her about the Dragon Devouring Order and helped her with local matters.
• Shade traced the missing woman’s movements to Crowley Steam Bathhouse, fought a modified Seventh-Ring warlock, and learned from Miss Lisa that Freeman Hawthorne and others had been at the bathhouse with the victim.
• Shade completed Illustrious Miss’s first task by helping Miss Lisa and Maria, then returned to Tobesk and met Emilia and her classmates as they arrived for summer field practice.
• Shade accompanied Bella to the Dawn Church disguised as her cousin, then learned more about her family and prepared to investigate the Black, Wood, and Hawthorne families.
• Shade reforged a sword for the operation, met Bella and her companions at Saint George Stone Bridge, and followed them into Whisper Hills to search a cave beneath an ancient tree.
• Shade and the others found evidence of a werewolf in the cave, then countered as it leaped at Bella and the Great Witch of Fate cast Death Finger.