Recaps

After the Black Calamity, Adele’s mission to scout Shadow Valley brought her face-to-face with Salif Shadowblade, who revealed details about her father and gave her his sword, Blackfang. Salif then learned Murphy had destroyed his faction’s base, and the Warden sent him to the Genoa Peninsula to help King Gelman Gnawbone.

• Murphy and his advisers chose to let the fleeing gnolls enter the Barren Mountain region before attacking them alongside Fort Courage, while Nash was given two days to decide whether to persuade the gnolls in Shadow Valley to surrender.
• Adele led Shadow Intelligence Bureau agents through the tunnels toward New Mejewa Village, where a Hydra Shadow Barrier trapped them and projected false attackers.
• Adele recognized the deception, and Salif Shadowblade emerged, revealed he had been Truman’s follower, and gave her Truman’s sword, Blackfang.
• Salif told Adele that Truman had died fighting nine Gold-ranks to protect Mona and her followers, admitted he had survived that battle, and warned her to keep her distance from Murphy.
• Salif learned Murphy had destroyed his faction’s base and ordered Bertie to take the badly injured Penny to the Genoa Peninsula for treatment.
• A Warden contacted Salif and ordered him to find King Gelman Gnawbone on the Genoa Peninsula and offer him help.

After the Hunting Lord fell, the Bonechewer Clan’s soldiers became too demoralized to fight, leaving German Bonechewer trapped on the Genoa Peninsula. The slave lord offered German Original Sin and an elixir of immortality, while warning that Marshal Loren would attack in six hours.

• The Pioneer Legion resettled northern Genoa Peninsula refugees in the Cato region as German Bonechewer’s forces battered its forward outposts and killed more than ten thousand troops in a week.
• German learned that the Hunting Lord’s fall had left his soldiers unwilling to fight, and Manuk urged him to withdraw to the Dark Mountains.
• German refused to retreat because his army might collapse under pursuit, and he ordered his personal guards to keep attacking while the priests found a way to restore morale.
• The slave lord entered German’s tent and offered Original Sin as a new power that could answer the gnolls’ calls and restore their resolve.
• The slave lord gave German an elixir of immortality and warned that Marshal Loren would attack two marauder units in six hours, then left him to choose whether to accept the offer.

Nash contacted Hogg for advice about the Bloodclaw Clan’s instability and its mission to persuade the Splitclaw Clan remnants to surrender. Hogg helped Nash define the clan’s future as the gnoll kingdom’s diplomatic representative, and Nash resolved to use Hugeson’s story to win over the survivors.

• Nash told Hogg that Malty and Vangore were challenging its authority and that it feared the Bloodclaw Clan would split apart.
• Hogg urged Nash to decide what role the Bloodclaw Clan could serve in the future gnoll kingdom, and Nash chose diplomacy and representation to the outside world.
• Nash planned to let Malty and Vangore lead willing followers in defending the ancestral homeland while it pursued an embassy and sent the Splitclaw survivors to help build the gnoll city.
• Hogg told Nash that the two pups in its care were Hugeson’s children and explained Hugeson’s hidden sacrifices for the gnolls.
• Nash said Hugeson’s story raised its chance of persuading the Splitclaw remnants and promised to erect a statue of him in Wolf Castle.
• Hogg approved a statue depicting Hugeson as a sage and said Hugeson’s children would grow up in the civilized world and serve gnoll civilization.

Nash entered Shadowvale to persuade Warlord Hass and the Cleaverclaw Clan to surrender, carrying Hugerson’s final message. After hearing how Hugerson sacrificed himself to free the gnolls, Hass agreed to lay down his weapons and asked to guard Hugerson’s grave in the Filthy Swamp.

• Nash left for Shadowvale with four guards after Lady Adele, Lady Lisa, and Little Ashina warned him of the dangers and offered support.
• Dark Mountain gnolls attacked Nash at the pass, but a military priest delivered Hugerson’s letter to Warlord Hass, who ordered Nash brought to him.
• Nash saw the starving, overcrowded people of Shadowvale and learned that many gnolls had become listless after losing their god’s presence.
• Nash recounted Hugerson’s betrayal of the Hunting Lord and his sacrifice to Hass, then urged the warlord to preserve his people by surrendering.
• Hass agreed that his soldiers would surrender and asked to guard Hugerson’s grave until he died there.

After the gnolls surrendered, Murphy arranged their transfer and discussed Adele’s future and the threat Salif posed to the Shadow Elves. Vilanthes returned with the Spider Lady’s original shrine and asked Murphy to help her attain freedom.

• Adele conveyed Murphy’s terms to Commander Hass, and Hass accepted his sentence and handed over the roster of his elite warriors.
• Murphy told Adele that her people were safe and agreed to accompany her to Mejewa when the Holy Blood Seal operation resumed.
• Femis returned to Fort Valor and embraced Adele, while Murphy considered using Triss’s illusion knowledge to create a Godslaying War raid.
• Vilanthes showed Murphy the Spider Lady’s recovered original shrine and explained how the Abyssal Sisterhood had hidden it in a crack in time.
• Vilanthes asked Murphy to help her attain the freedom she believed was her destiny.

Murphy learned that the Spider Lady wanted his help severing her bond with Avalon so she could become independent, and questioned whether she could be trusted. Avalon confirmed the Spider Lady was sincere and advised Murphy to require an oath before helping her.

• The Spider Lady separated herself from Villanther and explained that she wanted Murphy to cut the link between her and Avalon.
• The Spider Lady described how Avalon’s purification had created her and explained that their bond had trapped them in mutual torment.
• Murphy challenged the Spider Lady’s motives and worried that freeing a deity of fate could bring another dangerous power to the side of Chaos.
• The Spider Lady promised she would oppose the subspace and offered to serve Murphy in exchange for freedom.
• Murphy silently asked Avalon to judge the Spider Lady’s claims, and Avalon confirmed they were mostly truthful.
• Avalon advised Murphy to make the Spider Lady swear an oath before the Creator, assuring him that he could trust her until he suffered a crushing defeat.

Murphy helped the Spider Lady separate from Avalon and upgraded the artificial godheads with the Omega Program, allowing the Spider Lady to ascend as a free goddess. She named herself Rose, kissed Murphy, and left him awaiting the divination he had requested about his Path.

• Murphy required the Spider Lady to swear that she would center her Web of Fate on him, observe others with restraint, and help him when needed.
• The Spider Lady began separating from Avalon, while Shadow Elves across the continent gathered to witness and pray for her birth.
• Murphy entered Avalon's divine realm and used the Primordial Shrine and Omega Program to sever the goddesses' connection.
• Murphy copied the Omega Program to the active artificial godheads, strengthening their purification systems and earning the New Gods' thanks.
• The Spider Lady took shape as a goddess, chose the name Rose, and kissed Murphy before he could ask her to divine his Path.

Murphy persuaded Lady Lolth to abandon neutrality and embrace the future of a world-spanning information network, and her divination revealed his path as a pioneer destined to become the First King. After Lolth pledged herself as his ally, she dragged him into her divine realm to claim compensation for the fate authority she had given up.

• Lady Lolth blessed Murphy with Lolth's Kiss and tried to seduce him, but Murphy refused and asked her to divine his fate.
• Lady Lolth struggled to read Murphy's fate, then warned that Adele's future would become entwined with changes among the shadow elves and offered her an Abyssal blessing.
• Murphy explained that computational orbs and information networks could transform Lolth into a powerful God of the Network or God of Data, then let her experience visions of that future through Eden.
• Lady Lolth's divination revealed that Murphy would forge a road to a new world and become the First King, and she pledged to stand firmly on his side.
• As Lady Lolth departed for the astral plane, she pulled Murphy into her divine realm and demanded compensation for abandoning her Web of Fate.

Prince Khufu met with Hogg to seek the Gnoll Kingdom’s support in establishing the Sangheili Empire’s legitimacy as the Creator’s heirs. Fierre’s revelations unsettled Khufu, and Hogg agreed to pursue Murphy’s recognition while accepting Sangheili aid for the gnolls.

• Popok challenged Sannik to a fistfight and provoked him by questioning the Sangheili’s role in the Golden Age.
• Khufu asked Hogg to make the relationship between the Sangheili Empire and the Creator’s Guard more than friendship.
• Fierre took control of Hogg’s body and told Khufu that the Sangheili were not the Creator’s children, then accused the Pharaoh of trying to silence him a thousand years earlier.
• Hogg told Khufu that Murphy’s recognition as the Creator’s Chosen could settle the Sangheili’s legitimacy, and Khufu agreed to continue the discussion at the Pharaoh’s birthday banquet.
• Khufu offered to pay the Gnoll Kingdom’s war reparations and send food, seeds, and supplies, and Hogg accepted the aid while promising to attend the banquet and seek Murphy’s support.
• Khufu affirmed the Sangheili Empire’s devotion to the Creator despite doubts about its history, then left to think over Fierre’s claims.

Murphy returned to the Maginot Line, learned that Kulkulkan’s corruption had been contained, and went to meet Queen Angelina after negotiations over Kakhovka failed. Their public refusal to compromise concealed a shared understanding that the real conflict concerned Shani’s influence and the future of Nordtov.

• Adele told Murphy that Lady Rose had blessed her with the Shadow Elf inheritance and revealed that Vilanth had gone to Princess Chuchute for help cleansing Spider Lady’s corruption.
• Kulkulkan told Murphy that his upgraded artificial divine spark had suppressed her corruption, then promised to establish Sun Warrior altars and temples in Transia.
• Mirian reported that Queen Angelina had rejected Transia’s claim to Kakhovka, while Andrei explained that Grand Duchess Shani had urged the queen to take a hard line.
• Murphy heard Angelina tell Su that Nordtov’s future lay in eastern trade and reform, and realized she was seeking support to free herself from Shani’s control.
• Angelina refused to negotiate over Kakhovka, and Murphy answered that Transia would reclaim the territory, leaving both rulers to signal that their dispute with Shani would become a larger conflict.

The Wolf Girl arranged the northern legions’ withdrawal from Cadman City and reassigned General Baldwin to the northern frontier while putting Marshal Heraclius in charge of Kafuhoka’s defenses. At the God of the North Wind’s frozen retreat, Eris showed off his new werewolf forms and explained that he would lead a pack working under contract in Transia, prompting Old Su to lose his temper.

• The Wolf Girl and Murphy agreed that the Winter Wolf Church would build a sanctuary and memorial at the frozen site, and the northern legions departed through Cadman City under her escort.
• The Wolf Girl promoted General Baldwin to marshal, ordered him to return north with the legions, and assigned Marshal Heraclius to oversee Kafuhoka’s defenses.
• General Baldwin inferred that the Wolf Girl was protecting him from political turmoil and pledged his loyalty when she asked whether he believed she could stand alongside the Hero King.
• Eris arrived at the God of the North Wind’s retreat in werewolf, human, and intermediate forms, then proposed forming a pack to protect the werewolves in the material world.
• Eris told Old Su that his pack had signed a mercenary contract with Governor Murphy and would work in Transia under Magistrate Mirian’s terms.
• Old Su bound Eris with ice chains and erupted in anger when Eris insisted he would serve as the pack’s muscle rather than lead it himself.

The Azure Wolf Army found that a strange blood-red crystal had revived Dahei as a conscious, immortal War Spirit, while Triss began studying the crystals and preparing a new raid illusion. Murphy arranged for Silverkeep to forge a holy sword called Ceasefire for Biqi, another secret faith-bound weapon for the vampires, and a pendant for Triss, all before her birthday in a month and a half.

• Furry Great Immortal and Boss Lion Beast uncovered a blood-red crystal fragment, and the gnolls discovered that it had revived Dahei.
• Triss identified Dahei as an uncorrupted War Spirit and ordered the players to collect the remaining crystals for study.
• Murphy and Triss discussed the Cloudland Illusion, which Triss planned to build on the Creation Plains as a hundred-player raid.
• Murphy selected a two-handed sword design for Biqi and named the holy blade Ceasefire.
• Murphy asked Lord Oufuge to forge a second faith-bound weapon for the vampires and a pendant for Triss from the purified divine fragments.
• After Lord Paine confirmed the vampires' request, Lord Oufuge agreed that Silverkeep would forge the Mother of Midnight's original shrine before Triss's birthday.

Murphy and the others discussed how to restrain or redeem the Mother of Midnight, and Crow explained how organized action and clear obligations could shape faith and transform a god. They chose atonement for vampires’ original sin as their shared goal, with Murphy set to lead the effort and wield the weapon once it was finished.

• Lord Paine warned Murphy that the crisis on the Genoa Peninsula had worsened and Transia might soon be asked to help.
• Murphy proposed using a primordial shrine to restrain the Mother of Midnight and described a last-resort plan to lure her godspawn into the material world and kill it with the Scepter of God.
• Lord Paine said the Mother of Midnight had a benevolent side and might be changed, and Crow explained how clear goals, organized action, and reciprocal obligations could shape faith and gods.
• Crow argued that vampires should unite around a clear goal and establish a divine contract defining the Mother of Midnight’s duties and their own obligations.
• Lord Paine proposed purifying vampires’ original sin as the foundation of their faith and named Murphy the vanguard of the Great Atonement.
• Murphy accepted the role, and Triss said the Mother of Midnight seemed calm and might not have noticed their plans—or their path might be right.

Raven accepted Dutena Goldflame’s offer to test his theories about faith and gods, then enlisted Boss Huo for a plan to topple hostile nations. Meanwhile, Murphy ordered an expedition to the Genoa Peninsula after gnolls empowered by Dusk attacked a town near Chardo Port.

• Raven advised Boss Huo that Dutena Goldflame might make him a chosen one if he demonstrated his business talent, and Boss Huo proposed opening an exchange and trading stocks.
• Dutena Goldflame contacted Raven and offered to become the subject of his research, and Raven agreed to show the continent the power of wealth and trade.
• Raven contacted Boss Huo and asked him to join an effort big enough to topple one or two hostile nations.
• Murphy reassured Triss that Raven’s outsider perspective had revealed new ways to understand faith, and Triss acknowledged that his ideas could help the Temple of the Berserkers.
• Adele told Murphy that gnolls of the Bonechewer Clan had breached a satellite town of Chardo Port, and Murphy identified Dusk’s influence in a battlefield photograph.
• Murphy ordered an expeditionary force and player quest notices, prepared to travel to the Genoa Peninsula, and invited the Helmsmen to hunt Dusk there.

Marshal Loren planned to reinforce the besieged towns on the Genoa Peninsula and lead the Pioneer Legion against the gnolls. After Fraser reported on Transia’s growing power and looming regional conflicts, Loren appointed him his second adjutant for the expedition.

• Marshal Loren learned that gnolls had overrun eight of the seventeen towns in northern Genoa and discussed an airship operation to reinforce the besieged defenders with General Soros.
• Loren decided to lead the Pioneer Legion to the Genoa Peninsula as the Plantagenet Kingdom’s Black Calamity began, while Fraser arrived at Dorod Fortress and received his promotion to brigadier general.
• Fraser warned Loren that Transia would send an expeditionary force led by Murphy and might soon clash with Nordtov over the Kakhovka region.
• Fraser explained that Transia’s alliance with the Blood Dread pirates gave it a powerful navy and urged Loren to propose returning the Sachs region to ease tensions.
• Loren rejected Fraser’s proposal to give up Sachs until after the war, then named Fraser his second adjutant for the Genoa expedition.

The Transian expeditionary force prepared to break the gnoll siege of Chardo Port, while Murphy arranged to secure passage for the Creation Guard and met with Helms Rangers commander Effie Moxon Doolittle. Murphy and Effie discussed joining forces against the Xilanese Sun King as the fleet prepared to depart.

• Old Qin told the players that Chardo Port was under siege and explained the rewards and missions available for defending the halfling capital.
• Meow Brother ordered Old Qu to bring Major Mia and her vampire hunter platoon into the Big Bird Squad as long-range support.
• Captain Paula deployed Perfect Shipping Company's eighteen airships to transport nearly four thousand people and supplies, including fifteen dragon walkers, to Chardo Port.
• Murphy told Paula he wanted the Steam Lords to allow the Creation Guard gnolls to enter the city, and Paula worried the halflings would reject their help.
• Murphy met Colonel Effie Moxon Doolittle, who explained the Helms Rangers' opposition to the Xilanese and her plans to reclaim her ancestors' remains.
• Murphy proposed that Transia and the Helms Rangers cooperate against the Xilanese Sun King and protect their homelands.

Lord Qin’s airship formation flew to Chardo Port while its commanders discussed player schedules, future recruitment, and the Brass Fortress ruins. As the formation entered the Genoa Peninsula, Gnoll-held air defenses struck the rear airship Flashgold, forcing its crew and passengers to prepare for a crash and escape.

• Lord Qin, Five-Pair Wheels, and Old Soldier of the Qing Dynasty discussed coordinating players’ schedules and training local soldiers to supplement them.
• Lord Qin and Five-Pair Wheels considered letting new players explore the Brass Fortress ruins and nearby Wanderer headquarters.
• Lord Qin observed that Gnolls had occupied and devastated Halfling towns, while enslaved workers kept some factories running.
• Lord Qin warned the airships to climb after Gnolls fired captured ground-based air defenses at the formation.
• Captain Paula and Governor Murphy ordered the damaged Flashgold crew and passengers to steer toward Delir Lake, parachute if possible, and seek refuge near the Shield Dwarves.

The Gilded Dawn was struck by anti-aircraft fire and crash-landed near Lake Delir, scattering its passengers into territory held by dangerous Bonechewer gnolls. After the survivors regrouped and the Dragoons massacred the attackers, Old Qu told Mia that Lord Qin had given them a new mission that was practically a death sentence.

• Captain Yara ordered the Gilded Dawn’s crew to prepare for an emergency landing, while the 150 Pride of the Undying players parachuted out and Major Mia’s soldiers descended with the vampires’ help.
• Old Qu used his exoskeleton to fly down and shot a gnoll from the air after realizing the landing area was occupied by gnolls; Mia fired a flare to rally the survivors.
• Xu Dog and Mao Rabbit joined Big Slap and the jaegers to fight the unusually powerful Bonechewer gnolls, and the battle cost the players a quarter of their number.
• Old Qu and Mia led the survivors to Lake Delir, where they found the grounded Gilded Dawn, its shaken halfling crew, and three Dragoons that had slaughtered nearly a hundred attackers.
• Captain Yara said the ship could no longer fly but that its cargo was intact, and Old Qu informed Mia that Lord Qin had ordered them onto a nearly suicidal mission.

Qu Ge, Major Mia, and their allies prepared to attack a gnoll slave factory, then learned it held a strategic subway station and sought Shield Dwarf support. Captain Yara revealed her Thieves' Guild identity and the factory’s hidden route, while the group faced the consequences of halfling technology entering the war.

• Qu Ge told Major Mia that Old Qin had ordered them to destroy a gnoll-run factory and free its enslaved workers, and Mia agreed to join the mission.
• Qu Ge apologized for failing to train Mia and for being absent when her friends died, while Mia explained that she still suffered from trauma.
• Shield Dwarf griffin riders arrived, and Qu Ge told them Heather was alive and offered them the salvaged military supplies.
• Mao Tu, Xu Gou, and Major Mia urged the Shield Dwarves to support the attack, promising them the factory’s explosives and weapons.
• Captain Yara revealed that a hidden subway station beneath the factory connected to a hub near Chardo Port and admitted she was a Thieves' Guild agent with an access card.
• Yara explained that halflings had avoided developing technology for warfare, while a Shield Dwarf urged them to change as the gnoll war threatened their people.

Brother Qu and Captain Mia led a joint assault by players, hunters, Dragon Cavalry machines, and Shield Dwarf griffin riders against the gnoll-held explosives factory. The attackers captured the town, and Brother Qu and Mia killed a tainted gnoll warlord after it ambushed him inside the factory.

• Xu Dog encouraged the new players as the force marched toward the factory, and Brother Qu scouted the town before dividing the ground troops into two groups.
• Brother Qu gave Captain Mia special Dragon's Breath ammunition, then the Dragon Cavalry machines charged as Tucker Hoffman led the Shield Dwarf air cavalry in a bombing run.
• The players and hunters advanced through town while the griffin riders bombed the gnolls, and the combined force pushed toward the factory.
• A wyvern knocked Brother Qu through the factory's glass canopy, where a tainted gnoll warlord attacked him.
• Captain Mia shot the warlord and helped Brother Qu defeat it with coordinated attacks, after which she checked on him and he posed coolly amid the flames.

Old Qu and the players defeated the mutated Bonechewer Hyena warlord, then discovered that its cursed relic could tempt people with the power of Original Sin. Goji Berry tested the relic, became a Chaosborn, and was killed by Brother Qu before he could harm anyone, leaving the players facing a dangerous new threat.

• Old Qu and Captain Mia brought down the factory platform, and the players destroyed the mutated warlord with ranged attacks and Avalon purification magic.
• Old Qu appraised the warlord’s cursed battleaxe and Shattered Stone of Original Sin, then warned Lord Murphy about the corruption and its power to tempt people.
• Goji Berry volunteered to test the stone and received the Madness to the Bone status, turning into an Original Sin Supplicant and changing his faction alignment to Chaosborn.
• The players attacked the newly hostile Goji Berry, and Brother Qu shot him dead before he could kill anyone.

After the players rescued factory prisoners and discovered the gnolls had forced halfling engineers to make weapons, Brother Qu offered them a chance to produce rifles for Transia instead. Meanwhile, Murphy prepared to reinforce Chardo Port and unexpectedly discovered that Old Edward remembered his ancient past.

• The players burned the corrupted gnoll corpses, then found the factory's weapons and learned from a halfling engineer that the gnolls had coerced prisoners into designing them.
• Captain Mia and Sister Mao urged the halflings to fight for themselves, while Brother Qu offered them refuge or the option to make weapons for Transia; the engineers agreed to discuss producing PPSh-style rifles.
• Brother Qu learned that Transia was preparing to mass-produce new rifles and aircraft, then joined the players as they opened the underground subway to Chardo Port.
• Maxim told Murphy that the Golden Shimmer's castaways were heading to Chardo Port and that Captain Yara was a Thieves' Guild operative; Murphy sent Maxim and Old Qin to command the front while he went to negotiate with the Steam Lords.
• Murphy flew toward the Steam Lords' location and spotted Old Edward on the city wall, but a sudden memory resonance made him fall and revealed that Edward remembered his past.

Murphy hid in the sewers with Paula and explored Salokdar’s memories, uncovering Edward and Constance’s secret relationship and the disaster that destroyed the Eden District. Constance’s final warning revealed that the Department of Mysteries and its forbidden research had caused the catastrophe, leaving Murphy with a clearer view of the danger behind the Ancient Ones’ past.

• Paula helped Murphy evade Edward by hiding with him in Chardo Port’s sewers, while Edward searched the street and returned home without finding the intruder.
• Murphy watched a memory of Edward and Constance’s intimate relationship, in which Constance confided that her experiment to study divinity had failed again.
• Murphy saw Constance and Farto oversee the perfect-life experiment using seven biological pods, then watched Constance secretly give Edward a capsule and teleport the others away.
• A blast of corrupt violet energy tore open the material world and devastated the Eden District after the experiment used its test subjects as anchors.
• Constance warned Edward to beware the Department of Mysteries and Councilor Steiner, confessed that she too deserved to die, and asked him to find her in another life.

Murphy’s memory resonance revealed that Edward had retained his memories and that Constance’s Department of Mysteries had pursued dangerous research, prompting Lord Paine to confront Edward. Edward showed Paine his record of hunting the people responsible for Constance’s death, then left to keep searching for her.

• Murphy told Lord Paine that Constance’s research had crossed forbidden boundaries and that Edward might have preserved his memories for a thousand years.
• Lord Paine said Senator Steiner had been erased from his memories and vowed to make Edward answer for the ancients’ deaths.
• Murphy suffered another memory resonance, witnessed Edward’s past encounter with Salokdar and Oksana, and heard Shani confirm that Oksana had discovered Edward’s secret.
• Edward showed Lord Paine his diary of more than fifty names and said he had hunted Constance’s killers for a thousand years.
• Edward insisted that Constance might still be alive and left to search for her, warning Paine that they would all meet their ends in blood.

Murphy learned that Edward remained obsessed with Constance and that the Secret Department’s legacy still survived, then flew to the expeditionary army as gnolls attacked. His Midnight Echo aura drove vampires from both the Blood Eagle and Wolfsbane Clans into a united counterattack, and he considered bringing the Blood Covenant Clan into the fight as well.

• The Steam Lords quickly granted Murphy’s request for permits and reinforcements after hearing that gnolls from the Creator's Guardians faction would help defend Chardo Port.
• The Venerable Lord gave Murphy Edward’s diary, warned him not to provoke Edward, and said the Secret Department’s surviving members might be connected to Dusk.
• The Venerable Lord told Murphy that Wydia’s prison was likely beneath the Gray Desert and warned him not to speak to Wydia until they could investigate.
• Murphy decided Constance might still be alive, then arrived at the expeditionary army’s position as gnolls attacked and used Midnight Echo to send the vampires into Black Rage.
• Murphy’s aura helped Maxim and the Blood Eagle vampires rout the gnolls, while Murphy took command and ordered Old Qin to lead the players in reclaiming the outer-city district.
• Murphy spread Midnight Echo to the Wolfsbane Clan, drove its commander and troops into battle alongside the Blood Eagle Clan, and considered summoning the Blood Covenant Clan too.