Recaps

Shade and his allies destroy the prematurely born Abomination, but the fused Firstborn Son drives them to the brink before Little Mia and Ellie repel the Sea of Origin’s assault. As Shade recovers, the group investigates the Saint Alliance’s secrets and prepares for the sea’s growing threat.

• Shade and Lady Thorn found the White Horse in the Swamp and captured its memories, then returned to help deliver Lady Carmen’s daughter, Dolly, whose curse God lifted after the Old Witches prayed for her.
• Shade returned to his companions with Little Mia’s blessing and the god’s sunlight, then joined their assault on the Saint Alliance’s tomb beneath the old sewers.
• Shade and his allies killed the Infant-Holding Holy Mother and destroyed the egg, forcing Abomination into premature birth, but it escaped into a dream and emerged fused with a Firstborn Son at the Red Ocean.
• Shade and the group fought the Firstborn Son, but its attacks overwhelmed them until Little Mia transformed and Ellie’s Fairy Tale drove the Red Ocean back, leaving Shade unconscious.
• Shade recovered at the Moon Sanctuary and discovered that his Life Ray could combine Life Energy with Red Moon moonlight, while the group learned that the Abomination had lost its chance to become a Chosen One.
• Shade and the Witches examined evidence linking the Sea of Origin, the Burgundy bloodline, and Hermons’s New Humanity plan, while Luvia divined that the Creator’s divine artifact could destroy the Firstborn Son.
• Shade learned night-walking from Daniste and mastered Embrace of the Night as his allies prepared to face a projection of the Sea of Origin.
• Shade and Mr. Bernhardt questioned imprisoned Bloodkin, who described their clan’s alliance with the Blood Spirit School and the madness caused by consuming the blood of Mad King Lugh’s descendants.