Recaps

Shade and his companions drove off the Paradox Worm, investigated the Kaming family’s tangled time-travel history, and uncovered a threat tied to the Tree Hollows. The arc left Shade and Owl heading to meet the stranger who had summoned Baron Kaming, while the potion’s owner remained under investigation.

• Past Adele Isabella warned Shade to stay out of sight, and Adele Isabella and Flora Winslet escaped the time rift as the Time Fog threatened Vesta City.
• Shade and the blonde elf pierced the Paradox Worm with the Antique Arrow and the Ancient Elven Stability Principle, dispersing most of the White Fog.
• Adele Isabella explained that Flora’s Time Curse and Miss Winslet’s spell had created the Paradox Worm, while the Elf Girl offered to make a curse-easing potion from its shell.
• Shade and his companions traced Baron Kaming’s history, then Shade followed him through the Tree Hollow to 1802 and learned that the Baron had stolen his future wife as a baby.
• The Baron returned Shade to 1854 with the Tree Hollow book, while Shade kept a box delivered under threat and promised to handle its handover.
• Shade and his companions investigated the Tree Hollows and the Time Sharing Potion, while Shade agreed to help Doctor Schneider find a demon for his ritual.
• Shade restored Dorothy’s crystal rose with Breath of Time and discussed the coming war before leaving for the Moon Dance Festival Concert.
• Shade and Owl went to the railway tracks outside Creekwood Town to meet the stranger who had arranged to see Baron Kaming.

Shade captured Father Francois, helped resolve the Kaming family’s crisis, and gained Moon Fire after confronting a dragon beast during the Moon Dance Festival. He then traveled with Ms. Brooke to the Underworld and back through time to investigate Peggy McConaughey’s broken key, before preparing to meet the Hermit Order amid a church standoff.

• Shade and Miss Bell’s group captured Father Francois, who confessed to using a Time Sharing Potion and killing five people, while Shade drew the Church Arcanists into the investigation.
• Sister Devlin used the First Fire with Shade to suppress Danist Gustav and Flora Winslet’s curses, then joined Shade in a Mystic Lock to destroy the Paradox Worm inside James Kaming.
• Shade attended the Moon Dance Festival concert, dreamed of the Silver Fire, and awoke as the Clockmaker and time-cloned dragon beasts attacked Vesta City.
• Shade killed the dragon beast and revealed Moon Fire, which Sister Devlin identified as Secret Fire and helped him absorb into his Primordial Fire.
• Shade entered the Time Corridor with Ms. Brooke, met Jessica Bullock in the Underworld, and received the Direction Spirit Rune before traveling back to witness Peggy McConaughey’s encounter with a death ray.
• Shade and Ms. Brooke learned that Nightsong Elves had rescued Peggy, and Shade planned to investigate the attack and find a way to restore her key.
• Shade returned to Vesta Woodland, learned that four churches had surrounded the Nature Church, and prepared with Flora Winslet to meet the Hermit Order.

Shade and his allies investigated Vesta Woodland’s time distortions while Shade faced a Mind-Bone Prophet in the Doomsday Era and helped Iluna gain a new power. The group prepared to investigate York Bronte at a wedding banquet as the threats surrounding the Tree Hollows remained unresolved.

• Shade and Miss Danist met the Hermit Order, whose elders explained the Time Curse, the Paradox Worms beneath Vesta Woodland, and the dangers of its Tree Hollows.
• Shade returned to Tobesk, uncovered a secret message in an antique jewelry box, and agreed to let Luvia move in with him before marking her with Moon Fire.
• Shade and Iluna stopped a clock relic from consuming a man at the Maria Empress Opera House, and Iluna later learned how to improve her Time Resistance.
• Shade entered the Doomsday Era, defeated the Mind-Bone Prophet, and learned from Adele that the Tree Hole Association could unleash creatures from across time.
• Shade used a Beacon Acorn to track York Bronte, then found him draining a horse’s Life Force and learned from Daniste that he might be a Death Apostle.
• Shade traveled to Vesta Woodland with Iluna, where they found a hidden temple and used its altar to give Iluna a golden eye that could freeze what she saw and reveal traces of the past.
• Shade and Iluna found an emblem of the Upside-down Judge, explored the woodland, and returned to prepare for the wedding banquet where they planned to observe York Bronte.

Shade and his companions tracked York Bronte through time, uncovered his family’s history of death and soul experiments, and defeated the Mourner inside the coffin’s hidden world. The coffin’s collapse left Theodore Bronte’s soul and a suspected Paradox Worm trapped in spatial turbulence as ominous clouds gathered around Vesta City.

• Shade and Iluna found York Bronte at a Collins wedding, then Shade sent him back to 1787 with Return of Time and discovered a Rosicrucian badge among his abandoned belongings.
• The Hide and Seek Boy trapped Shade between 1821 and 1854 and demanded that he find its ball, which Shade eventually hid in God’s Gift Box after battling Benn Bronte and returning the ball to the present.
• Shade met Helena Carter in the past, learned that her curse was turning her into a tree, and promised to stop Danist from visiting her there.
• Shade and Flora Winslet found a coffin that served as a Tree Hollow, then learned from the Bronte family’s spirits that Theodore had evaded a death curse by traveling through time and conducting soul experiments.
• Shade and Flora entered the Edge of Life and Death, fought the Bronte noblewoman’s wraith, and found York’s flesh puppet emerging from the coffin before Flora drove York’s soul back to his original body.
• The coffin swallowed Shade and Flora into the Tombstone Plain, where they rode together to pierce the Mourner’s right eye and subdue its core before escaping the collapsing pocket world.
• Flora told Shade that her encounter with the Mourner had brought her to the edge of the Twelfth Order, while her Time Curse deepened after their escape.
• Shade and Flora discovered that Theodore’s soul and a suspected Paradox Worm were trapped in the collapsed coffin subspace, and the Elf Girl stored the coffin as ominous clouds gathered around Vesta City.