Recaps

Shade led the Witches through the Gravestone Wasteland, defeated its guardians, and returned to the living with a Gold Bracelet and new revelations about the Deathbringer Angel. Back in the present, he renewed old connections, pursued the Chosen One Ritual’s clues, and set out to deal with an Infinite Snake.

• Shade and the Witches crossed the Great Tomb, defeated the Swollen Lady, and reached the Temple of the God of Death.
• Shade paid the temple’s toll and led his companions along the road to the World of the Living, where they resisted the voices of the dead.
• Shade and the Witches shattered the Bone King’s Gold Bracelets with Sister Devlin’s help, but the skeletal hands hurled Shade toward a black coffin containing his own head.
• The God of Graves revealed the Deathbringer Angel’s fate, and Shade gained the Coffin of the Underworld and a drop of the God of Graves’ divinity before returning to the living.
• Shade reunited with Theresa, Miss Violet, Miss Liard, and Sister Belen, then returned to his own time and learned of Sister Belen’s message and the Angel Feather’s power.
• Shade exchanged information with Mr. Mortis about the Chosen One Ritual, then received Moonlight Ray from Shibel Beast in a dream and returned to Tobesk.
• Shade tested Moon Fire through Moonlight Ray, then captured an Infinite Snake from the White Pearl’s damaged Steam Engine and sealed it in a coffin.
• Shade obtained a replacement engine from Sivie’s fleet and set out with Claire, Miss Larson, Elder Vilda, and Ellie to throw the Infinite Snake from the Shadow of Herm.

Shade investigated the Fatu People’s relics and the doppelgangers infiltrating Tobesk while searching Fatumonst Island for clues to the Fate Base. After fighting Seer Association cultists and a Flame Demon on Snow Mountain, he learned that several factions were seeking the relic and prepared to pursue the treasure maps with Luvia.

• Shade and his companions performed the Fatu People’s cliffside sacrifice, then found the Coffin of the Underworld intact but its Snake missing.
• Shade joined Sivie aboard the Radiance Messenger and organized searches for Resurrected people, while Dorothy’s Serpent’s Shedding revealed her role as an important supporting character.
• Shade and his companions uncovered doppelgangers among the island’s aristocrats and learned that the House of Resurrection had revived Viscount Alfield’s fiancée.
• Shade and Sivie searched the renegade priest’s cave, found the Decoy Skull, and learned that its former holder had sought the rumored Fate Base.
• Three Seer Association diviners confronted Shade, but their divinations failed, and Shade and Sivie found a message directing them toward Hangdon Village.
• Shade fought Seer Association cultists and a Flame Demon on Snow Mountain, then used the mountain’s power to destroy the Demon.
• Shade found Benevolence of the Mushroom and a treasure map, while Mr. Mortis explained that the Clown Troupe sought the Fate Base and believed the Annals of Time was in the Moon Sage’s library.
• Shade told Danist he would search for the Annals of Time without using it, then showed Luvia the Fatu People’s maps as she prepared to divine which clue would lead them to the Fate Base.

Shade uncovered Laplace Howard’s trail to Fatumonst Island, gained the Fate Manual, and helped destroy the House of False Men’s operation in Tobesk. He then turned his attention to the island delegation, suspecting a Stage Four Imposter was hiding among its members.

• Shade and Megan found Laplace Howard’s hidden library, where his records revealed that he had reached the end of the pilgrimage route on Fatumonst Island and left an item there.
• Shade and Daniste entered the Silver Moon Library, learned about the Ancient Gods, and took a fragment of the Annals of Time that granted Shade the Fate Manual.
• Shade used the Fate Manual to examine Dorothy’s Serpent’s Shedding, while Luvia recognized the new thaumaturgy’s importance.
• Shade and Luvia protected Leisha’s guests from Doppelgangers at Yodel Palace, and the Church later identified Charlotte Davis as a victim of transformation.
• Shade and Tifa infiltrated the House of Resurrection, where they encountered a Stage Four Imposter copying Tifa, then fought their way out as their allies attacked the manor.
• Shade’s group traced the House of False Men to Murray Textile Factory, where its leader revealed that many workers had agreed to be replaced before destroying the factory with bombs.
• Shade and his allies destroyed the remaining Doppelgangers in Tobesk, while the House of False Men’s main body moved south and many of its members remained at large.
• Shade suspected a Stage Four Imposter was hiding among the island delegation, then entered the closed-door meeting with Claire under arranged identities.

Shade escaped the House of False Men after confronting its core and learned that Firstborn Flesh was keeping its sealed door open. He gathered allies and clues for a return, while the Ten Thousand Spirits Festival and the search for Doppelgangers brought new plans into motion.

• Shade and Claire joined the battle against Hermons on the Snow Mountain, but Hermons trapped Shade in the House of False Men, where he took three Divine Art Items and escaped the core with the Door Pendant.
• Shade entered the Lord of Walls’ inn and met Novare, Joanna Coens, and Lady Chesia Gerd, then helped them explore its dangerous rooms and locate an elevator.
• Shade met the Lord of Walls, who blessed his house key and tasked him with finding the escaped resident of Room 1978 and repairing damaged walls on the 25th Floor.
• Shade and Miss Coens investigated Room 1978, subdued an undead scholar, and returned the floor key to the Lord of Walls, who gave Shade a holy emblem that let him return home.
• Shade discovered that Firstborn Flesh created by the Twilight Creator was preventing the House of False Men’s door from closing, then used Miracle Ling Light to weaken the House and escape.
• Shade told his allies about the House of False Men, and the Doctor identified Nagur as the Dream Devouring Demon trapping Miss Coens in a long dream.
• Shade learned from the Goddess in the Lake that a Snake Fang could suppress Firstborn Flesh, while Grace and Helen protected him from abduction by the House of False Men.
• Shade met the Moon Creek elves, arranged for Elder Harald to make Snake Fang bullets, and gave Viscera Tracing to Matilda and the maids to search for Doppelgangers in the Delarion Delegation.