Recaps

Fleur completed her coronation and condemned the rebel Pharaohs, while Murphy planned the anniversary storyline and his next expedition to investigate Dagon and Project 27. The chapter ended with Murphy and Adele watching the crowd celebrate Fleur and her new era.

• Fleur delivered her coronation speech, received Hades's blessing, and led her procession through Ptolemaic King's City.
• Fleur sentenced the rebel Pharaohs to eternal torment, and the crowd pelted them with rotten food as Captain Zhao struck the Pharaoh of Pilrig with an egg.
• Murphy planned an anniversary event in Great Reef Province involving mermaids, the Abyssal Venerable, and Dagon fishmen.
• Adele told Murphy that King John's invitation had been a trap set by a Lost King, and General Kudel planned to turn the ruins into a dungeon.
• Murphy decided to travel with Adele to Cape End to investigate Project 27 and Dagon, while Triss would return to Transia with Mirian.
• Murphy watched the crowd cheer Fleur and urged Adele to celebrate the new era.

Murphy saw Lord Pahing and Grand Duchess Hathor off as they returned to the Dark Mountains, then received source blood from Edward and Hathor before setting out to investigate Dagon and Project 27. Meanwhile, the Reverend learned that the scholar had found a way to obtain the Sentinel Legion’s authentication key, and planned to exploit Dagon as a threat shared by Order and Chaos.

• Pahing told Murphy that Angelina supported spreading the Midnight Church and forming the Holy Blood Legion, while Shani’s opposition would not stop their plans.
• Palanno said he would continue guarding Hathor and praised her beauty, despite Murphy warning him that he was falling into another doomed romance.
• Adele gave Murphy Wolfsbane source blood from Edward, and Murphy discussed Edward’s past conflicts and the future of the Wolfsbane Clan.
• Pablo delivered a box from Hathor containing Secret Blood source blood, bringing Murphy’s collection to six of the seven clans as he prepared to investigate Dagon.
• The scholar told the Reverend that the Frontier Pact bound the whole world and that he could extract the Sentinel Legion’s authentication key in at least twenty-five days.
• The Reverend planned to use Dagon’s threat to bring Order and Chaos into temporary alignment while their allies bought them time.

Murphy and his companions entered the Chaos-corrupted Dagon observation zone at Cape's End to investigate the fishmen and possible threat to the Sea Abyss Sovereign's avatar. The others appeared on the remote monitors, but Murphy did not, and he realized he had been drawn into a dreamlike encounter alone.

• Pablo discussed Lady Constance's role in Project 27, while Adele reported that Fraser's symbiote crystal had helped him uncover the Nun's faction.
• Murphy told Pablo, Claire, and Adele that they would investigate Cape's End before the Sea Abyss Festival because Dagon's cult might cause trouble during the Sea Abyss Sovereign's tour.
• Murphy and Adele carried Pablo and Claire over Cape's End, then the four entered the whirlpool and passed through a spatial rift into Eden District's nearshore observation zone.
• Murphy contacted Triss through Lady Rose's temporary communications network and asked her to monitor the observation zone and guide them.
• Triss reported that Adele, Pablo, and Claire appeared on the monitors but Murphy did not, so Murphy struck down their apparent forms and concluded that someone had invited him into a dream.

Murphy entered a dream left by Dagon and witnessed Grand Duchess Constance’s memories of creating Dagon as part of a project to help future generations resist Chaos. Constance revealed that she had arranged for her own return in the future and asked Murphy to approve it, leaving him with her plea as the dream faded.

• Murphy realized Dagon had drawn him into a stored dream that would reveal a memory and a truth.
• Murphy watched Constance and the Secret Blood researchers implant a Chaos symbiote into a Shadow Salamander during Project 27.
• Constance ordered the salamander fitted with an iteration device and released into the Warp, naming it Dagon and entrusting it with knowledge for the future.
• Constance explained that Dagon’s dream had been left for the right person to find and that she had given it instructions to guide the message to Murphy.
• Constance told Murphy that Callum would build a great civilization, Dagon’s knowledge would help counter Chaos, and she had arranged to return in the future.
• Constance asked Murphy to approve her return so she could reunite with the man who had waited for her.

Murphy learned that Dagon was the result of Project 27, a Chaos symbiote whose biology might provide a way to strengthen warriors against Chaos, and he organized a plan to draw it out at the Deepsea Festival. After reaching the Kingdom of the Deep, he received the Lord of the Deep Ze’s approval to use his avatar as bait and kill Dagon.

• Murphy contacted Triss and learned that Dagon had devoured Poseidon, while Adele and Claire traced its arrival and the breach in Observation Zone Three.
• Murphy explained that Dagon’s symbiotic biology might reveal Constance’s answer to Chaos, and he resolved to kill it and study its flesh and genes.
• Murphy and his allies planned to use the Lord of the Deep’s avatar as bait during the Deepsea Festival, recruit merfolk, pirates, gods, players, and other forces, and prepare for a major battle in Great Reef Province.
• Murphy assigned Triss and the others to organize the preparations, while he planned to contact Ze, Prince Bai, and Triton and arrange evacuation support.
• Liji escorted Murphy to the Kingdom of the Deep and explained that Ze was also the God of Revenge, bound to pursue vengeance.
• Ze approved Murphy’s plan to use his avatar as bait and urged him to kill Dagon and a few extra enemies.

Murphy left the Deepsea Divine Kingdom with gifts from the Deepsea Celestial Venerable and learned that the god was at risk of being consumed by vengeance. Ao urged Murphy to help revive the Astral Realm, and Murphy agreed to consider it after consulting the Sentinel Legion, whose silence and Avalon's secrets raised new concerns.

• Vikanos gave Murphy a poisonous scale that could unlock the paths of vengeance and toxic corrosion, while Tritan offered an old shell for the paths of space and protection.
• Tritan explained that the Deepsea Celestial Venerable was a Kunpeng whose family had perished in the Astral Realm's collapse, leaving him consumed by vengeance.
• Tritan proposed using the Creator's creation energy and a seed of the starry river to restore the Astral Realm and possibly bring the Celestial Venerable's clan back.
• Murphy recognized Tritan as Ao in disguise, and Ao revealed that he wanted Murphy to revive the Astral Realm to help Ze and give the Order faction a secure front line.
• Murphy said he would wait to consult the Sentinel Legion, while Ao warned him that the Legion's Warp front was locked down and that Avalon was hiding something.

Crow and Boss Huo expanded their plan to spread a fraudulent investment scheme through Nordtov, drawing in powerful allies while accepting the risks it posed. Back in Scarlet Keep, Crow began treating a troubled umbral elf whose past included killing the warrior who once saved his life.

• Boss Huo questioned the losses in Kafuhoka, and Crow explained that he had raised the scheme’s dividends to draw in more investors before expanding it further.
• Crow predicted that the scheme would inspire financial fraud across the continent and transform the Goddess of Wealth, Dutena, while Boss Huo agreed to secure backing from Master Qin.
• Crow and Boss Huo discussed drawing Count Andrei and the Thorn Clan into the scheme, then parted to handle their separate duties.
• After returning to Scarlet Keep, Crow helped prepare for the Avalon Church’s gathering and welcomed a weary umbral elf seeking treatment.
• The umbral elf recounted his brutal upbringing in Mejeva City and how a warrior saved him from the matriarch’s wrath.
• The umbral elf revealed that he later killed the warrior who had saved him, and Crow encouraged him to continue telling his story as his patient.

Unfallen Pride’s players prepared to escort Sir Ferdinand’s cargo aboard their ghost ship, while Little Rich Bro worried about the cost of commissioning armor for his manticore. As the expedition prepared to depart, Sir Ferdinand’s mysterious ailment flared, and he awoke seeing three versions of himself in a mirror.

• Dog, Rabbit, and the other players discussed the escort job, their guild reputation, and Little Rich Bro’s plans to buy custom armor for his manticore.
• Rabbit summoned the ghost ship Thousand-Mile Sunny, and the players boarded it for the escort mission.
• The Artist Squad discussed recruiting other players to compete for a ghost ship during the upcoming anniversary event.
• Sir Ferdinand waited at Chardo Port while his assistant confirmed that another cargo ship had safely passed through the dangerous icy waters.
• Sir Ferdinand suffered a painful vision, went to sleep in his cabin, and awoke seeing three versions of himself in a mirror.

The escort fleet rerouted to avoid a three-sided naval battle and passed near the cursed Glamour Island, where Little Rich Bro heard a phantom woman warn him about the Black Grail and a coming disaster. The ghost ship crashed near the island, leaving its undead sailors motionless as Little Rich Bro’s manticore carried him toward shore.

• Little Rich Bro noticed that the ghost ship had gone off course, and the undead sailor said it was avoiding a dangerous battle ahead.
• Little Rich Bro and Dog scouted the sea and found Plantagenet warships, Helm's Island ships, and mermen fighting one another.
• Dog persuaded Sir Ferdinand to change the fleet’s route, and Sir Ferdinand warned that the detour would take them near Glamour Island, where strange supernatural dangers had been reported.
• Little Rich Bro heard a phantom woman warn him to leave and seek Master McAffrey, allies, the Punishers, and the Red Knight because the Black Grail threatened to erupt into a nightmare.
• A crash threw Little Rich Bro from the ghost ship, and his manticore carried him toward Glamour Island as the undead sailors stood motionless on deck.

After a shipwreck stranded the players and their escort fleet on Glamour Island, Little Rich Brother discovered an undead army led by a Red Knight wielding the Punisher. He rescued a noble girl from the massacre and realized the island held a threat far beyond the stranded group’s strength.

• Rabbit reached shore after escaping the ghost ship, while Dog drowned after logging back in and received a three-day ban.
• Rabbit and the other players rescued the fleet’s sailors, salvaged some of the artworks, and arranged for Dragon and airships to bring reinforcements.
• Little Rich Brother told Rabbit about a cyber ghost’s warnings, and the players agreed to scout Glamour Island before sharing news of its apparent hidden quest.
• Little Rich Brother spotted a stranded Plantagenet warship and saw plants, zombies, and ghouls slaughtering its sailors under a Red Knight wielding the Punisher.
• Little Rich Brother rescued a noble girl from a man-eating flower and saw the Red Knight look up at him, sensing that it was dead.

Little Rich Bro rescued a traumatized girl on Glamour Island, and Sir Ferdinand identified her as Princess Bridget, making him her temporary guard. Meanwhile, players organized an expedition to reclaim the Great Oak Holy Blade and investigate the island, with the elves revealing that a druid squad led by Archdruid Kaspar had vanished there years ago.

• Little Rich Bro brought a frightened girl back to the cape, cared for her, and learned from Sir Ferdinand that she was Princess Bridget of the Westland royal family.
• Sir Ferdinand asked Little Rich Bro to keep Bridget's identity secret and protect her, and Little Rich Bro accepted after considering the reward from King Louis.
• Meow Brother learned that the Great Oak Holy Blade called the Punisher had appeared on Glamour Island and prepared the Big Bird Guild's elite team to retrieve it.
• Smoke Sam arranged a power armor suit and planned to buy anti-undead supplies from the Sun Church and the Death Moon Church before the expedition.
• Chenlong's guild received an epic quest from the Castilian elves to rescue the missing druids on Glamour Island and discover whether their leader, Archdruid Kaspar, was still alive.

King Louis learned that Princess Bridget had disappeared and ordered preparations for a campaign against Helms Island while seeking a rescue team. After discovering that Bridget was safe on Gramore Island, he kept the military plan in place and asked Danny about the growing faith in the Holy Light.

• King Louis learned that Princess Bridget’s ship had vanished and suspected the Helms fleet had taken her.
• Danny said the Helms fleet had likely acted as a rogue force manipulated by Isha loyalists at court, and warned Louis against rash decisions about the succession.
• King Louis ordered a blockade and preparations for an assault on Helms Island, and planned to send Count Leon to negotiate with Transia over Saxon.
• Danny recommended that Brigadier General Fraser lead a small rescue team, citing his recent destruction of a major cult in Anjou.
• King Louis learned that a shipwreck had left Bridget stranded on Gramore Island, where Transians had rescued her, and Danny warned that the island remained dangerous.
• King Louis ordered Fraser to act quickly, reaffirmed his plans against Helms Island, and asked Danny about the faith in the Holy Light.

Murphy considered whether Transia should become involved after a Helmsian fleet abducted Princess Bridget, and sought advice from Helmsian leaders about the looming conflict with the Plantagenet Kingdom. Mother Marian condemned the restorationists and urged Lady Effie to choose the Helmsians’ interests over an unwinnable war, leaving Murphy to decide how to respond.

• Murphy received King Louis’s conciliatory reply and argued that Saxon and East Prussia had to be returned before Transia and the Plantagenet Kingdom could coexist peacefully.
• Adele warned Murphy that Helms Island’s failed abduction exposed its leadership’s weakness, while Bablo described the Helmsians as fierce, difficult rebels who would resist any ruler.
• Murphy questioned whether Transia should support Helms Island and contacted Lady Effie and Mother Marian for their views.
• Mother Marian urged Murphy to keep Transia out of the conflict and accused the Helmsian elders and restorationists of driving their people toward disaster.
• Lady Effie said the fleet had acted without the elders’ orders, but Mother Marian challenged her to reject the restorationists’ influence and take responsibility for the Helmsians’ future.

Murphy and Mirian refused to intervene in the war between Helms and the Plantagenet Kingdom, while Murphy arranged for the Underworld to protect Helms’s people. Effie realized that the undead would help defend the island only if she took leadership from the current Council of Elders.

• Murphy rejected Effie’s appeal for help, arguing that Helms’s alliance with Isa restorationists had compromised its cause.
• Mirian told Effie that Transia would remain neutral, citing territorial integrity, political principles, and the risk of alienating its Otherworlder allies.
• Murphy discussed plans for the Underworld’s expansion and learned that Crow and Boss Huo were pursuing a risky financial scheme involving the Goddess of Wealth.
• Effie prepared to return to Helms Island as King Louis’s forces threatened it, but her Golden-rank undead ancestor arrived with other undead to escort her.
• Effie’s ancestor said the undead would protect Helms’s people but would not support the current Council of Elders, making clear that Effie had to assume leadership to secure their aid.

Elite players and Avalon Church forces headed to Glamorgan Island to rescue Little Rich Bro and civilians surrounded by undead. As Amber warned the group about the island’s dangerous divine barriers, Great Shark announced the first airborne deployment was beginning.

• Niu Niu and Pink Pear discussed repairing power armor, and Niu Niu declared that martial artists would eventually outrank it in combat.
• Amber reunited with Niu Niu, explained that his grandfather had accepted their relationship, and warned the group about Glamorgan Island’s psychic threats and strange holy sites.
• Niu Niu and Amber found Qu Bro with Captain Mia and Three-Five Dou accompanying Katerina, who had come to investigate gathered fishmen and a planned Great Reef Temple on Greeny Island.
• Amber explained why King Louis was seeking new faiths for his people, while Niu Niu admitted that his resentment toward the king was personal.
• Great Shark summoned the players to join Lady Natalie’s airborne deployment after Little Rich Bro and a princess were surrounded underground by unusual undead.

The Transian players arrived at Cape Shipwreck and turned the battle against Glamour Island’s plant undead, while Meow Brother and Natalie investigated the death spores behind the outbreak. After Chen Long found a huge undead stronghold and a concentration of deathly psionic energy, Murphy decided to go to the island himself.

• The players dropped from the airships and joined Little Rich Bro’s defenders, quickly rescuing the survivors from the plant undead.
• Little Rich Bro sent his gem scorpion Pangding against two thorn beasts, and power armor and Avalon Church clerics helped the players push the remaining enemies back.
• Meow Brother examined a plant undead corpse, and Natalie identified the infection as forbidden death spores that had run out of control after Glamour Island fell.
• Chen Long reported finding tens of thousands of undead gathered near a site with deathly psionic energy comparable to the underworld’s Great Pyramid.
• Murphy ordered Adele to notify Pablo and send the Origin Pioneer to collect him so he could investigate the site himself.

Brigadier General Fraser arrived at Glamour Island aboard the Cape Sword to rescue Princess Bridget, but Mother Marianne discovered that Bridget was infected with Death God spores. The group had to find the mother plant in the ruins before Bridget could safely leave the island.

• Fraser and Colonel Ron discussed the Dusk, the kingdom’s political corruption, and their suspicions about the Helmsian unrest while the Cape Sword headed for Glamour Island.
• After the Cape Sword landed at Cape of the Shipwrecked, Fraser met Little Rich Bro and offered to take Princess Bridget home.
• Bridget said goodbye to Little Rich Bro and Stinky Treasure, then collapsed in pain as strange markings appeared on her neck.
• Mother Marianne identified Death God spores in Bridget and warned that leaving the island would turn her into a plant undead.
• Mother Marianne said they had to find the mother plant in the former Old Church cathedral ruins to save Bridget.

After Princess Bridget and the Adventurers' Guild crew were infected with Reaper Spores, Little Rich reached Archdruid Caspar in a dream and learned how to reach the original spore plant beneath Avalon Keep. The group prepared to enter the underground route with Bridget as Captain Capet arrived to lead the assault.

• Mother Marian discovered that many crew members were infected, and Amber and Natalie discussed ways to reach the ruins and calm the island.
• Niu Niu told Amber and Natalie that Little Rich would seek help from the cyber ghost in a dream and that Murphy was on his way.
• Little Rich drank Cheche's vampire sleeping potion and contacted Archdruid Caspar, who revealed that the original spore plant lay beneath Avalon Keep and described an underground route from the coast.
• Little Rich promised Caspar that the players would rescue her and the island's survivors, then woke and shared what he had learned with Natalie, Fraser, and the players.
• The commanders decided to set out immediately with Princess Bridget, and a supply crate from the Sword of the Capet arrived carrying an exoskeleton and weapons for Captain Capet.

Chen Long’s strike team fought through a fishman nest beneath Glamour Island and reached Deadwood Town, where its plantlike survivors explained the island’s corruption. The group learned that the Black Grail, a former Avalon divine artifact, had caused the disaster and that Ms. Caspar and Knight Commander Epirus were still containing it with the holy blades.

• Chen Long sent Goji Berry Bro and his new squad to collect plant samples and guard the rear while he led the others toward the island’s central ruins.
• Thirty-Five Fights and the team entered the underwater cave, where they killed a large fishman clan and rescued Gorse Navy sailors marked for a ritual transformation.
• The strike team followed a root-lined passage to Deadwood Town, an underground settlement inhabited by plantlike survivors led by Senodis.
• Senodis revealed that some desperate islanders had embraced Dagon’s call and become fishmen, while the remaining survivors had held out for eight years.
• Senodis told the group that the Holy Grail of Avalon had overflowed with filth during the city’s destruction, creating the disaster that Ms. Caspar and Knight Commander Epirus were still containing with the Red and Gray Knights’ holy blades.

The group reached the ruins of Avalon Keep and learned that Ms. Caspar had bound the island’s dead souls to its twisted natural power to contain an evil entity. As Lady Natalie and Brigadier General Fraser led most of the party toward the tower, Meow Brother stayed behind to summon the Knight Commander of Epirus and challenge him for the Punisher.

• Mayor Senodis guided the group through Deadwood Town and explained how the survivors had endured underground and how Ms. Caspar used the Death God Spores to help suppress the evil entity.
• Sanwudou identified the townspeople’s plantlike changes as assimilation by Gramor Island’s distorted natural power, while Amber discovered an army of forbidden plants growing inside the dead tree.
• The group climbed to the ruins and Meow Brother found a corpse bearing Senodis’s name, realizing the mayor they had met was one of the island’s bound souls.
• Lady Natalie took the dead knight’s nameplate and led the group toward the intact tower, while Brigadier General Fraser assigned Ron to search for the Death God Spores’ mother plant and joined the expedition.
• Meow Brother stayed behind with his companions, summoned the Knight Commander of Epirus, and rode his bramblebeast into a duel against the Red Knight.

The players and Lady Natalie fought their way into Avalon Castle’s deadwood tower, where they discovered the Old Church’s Black Grail was pouring Chaos into the world. After the seal broke and a nightmare abomination emerged, Lady Natalie sent Little Rich Bro into the dream maze to rescue Lady Kasper.

• Lady Natalie led the players and Brigadier General Fraser through Chaos-corrupted Plantfolk undead to the deadwood tower, while exhausted Plantagenet sailors stayed behind to hold the rear.
• The party entered the tower and climbed into a dreamlike space that Cheche warned could affect reality.
• Natalie and Amber identified the Old Church’s Black Grail, which had become a node for pouring pure Chaos into the material world.
• Lady Kasper warned that an abomination was chasing her through the dream maze, and the Arbiter Holy Sword shattered as the Black Grail’s taint formed a monster.
• Great Shark struck the monster with Vam’s Executioner Great Axe as the players charged, while Natalie sent Little Rich Bro to rescue Lady Kasper from the nightmare maze.

Princess Brigitte recovered from the death-spore infection, but the awakening of a Chaos tower trapped her and the others in a battle on Glamour Island. As King Louis sent the Tower of Rings to help, Brigitte cried out for her father and her parents sensed her danger.

• Princess Brigitte woke with lingering pain and scars, and Colonel Ron arranged for Captain Iron Hand to carry her while the mercenaries collected pollen to cure the infected.
• A tremor revealed that the deadwood tower was rising and spreading a black storm, and Ron and Iron Hand fought Chaos abominations while escorting Brigitte toward the Ancient Tree.
• Meow Brother summoned plant spirits through the Ancient Tree, and Mayor Senodias led the transformed residents of Deadwood Town into the battle against Chaos creatures and Dagon fishmen.
• Brother Qu shot an abomination threatening Brigitte, who trembled and called for her father.
• King Louis asked Master Sim and the Tower of Rings to go to Glamour Island, and they departed as a black tower and storm blocked the royal flagship.
• Countess Margaret accused Queen Elizabeth of arranging Brigitte's kidnapping, then sensed her daughter was in danger and wept with the queen.

The defenders discovered that the Black Grail’s taint was linked to Aphidasil, the dead Astral World Tree, and Murphy prepared to strike it with the God-Rod. Lady Caspar was freed from the nightmare labyrinth and revealed how she had sealed the Grail, while the story ended with the Father of Oaks asking Murphy to help his former body find peace.

• Lady Natalie and the players fought the tainted creatures as Cheche warned that they needed to sever the Black Grail’s supernatural connection before destroying it.
• Grandma Bach and the psychic overlords arrived to reinforce the battle, and Grandma Bach determined that the Grail’s corruption was connected to Avalon and a source other than Dagon.
• Little Rich Bro reached Lady Caspar in the nightmare labyrinth, freed her from the tainted thorns, and learned that she had used Dagon’s nightmare to seal the Black Grail.
• Lady Caspar told Sim that the Black Grail was symbolically linked to Aphidasil, the dead Astral World Tree, and Little Rich Bro called for Murphy’s help.
• Murphy activated the God-Rod’s hyperdimensional targeting system to strike Aphidasil, and the Father of Oaks asked him to help the dead tree find peace.

Murphy used a Godrod strike to expose and destroy the Chaos corruption hidden inside the Afidashir Giant Tree, cutting off the Black Grail’s connection between the three realms. As the battle at Gramor Island ended, Murphy arrived to protect Brigadier General Fraser from a Chaos shadow and challenged the entity behind Dagon.

• Murphy fired a hyperdimensional Godrod shot that shattered the Afidashir Giant Tree and revealed Chaos filth pouring from its hollow trunk.
• Mannis realized the dead tree had served as a passage for Chaos corruption and that the Black Grail could have enabled an invasion of the material world.
• At Gramor Island, Niu Niu rallied the fighters after Murphy’s strike weakened the Black Grail, and Lady Natalie urged Brigadier General Fraser to destroy it with the Arbiter’s blade.
• Fraser struck the Black Grail with the broken holy blade, splitting it and severing the link between the Warp, astral realm, and material world.
• A Chaos shadow tried to seize Fraser, but Murphy arrived, used the Nightguard and Omega’s power to break its hold, and shielded Fraser with his wings.
• Murphy confronted the Chaos shadow beyond the sealed rift and taunted it about Dagon.

Murphy defeated the Black Grail and learned how Kasper and Glamorgan Island’s defenders had contained it for eight years. Avalon revealed that the Grail held a seed linked to the dead Afidashir tree, leaving the fate of the Astral Plane in Murphy’s hands.

• Murphy purged Fraser’s Chaos-tainted symbiote as the Black Grail’s defeat caused the nightmare realm to collapse, and Natalie led the others out with the Arbiter’s broken blade.
• Little Rich Bro returned with Kasper, and she admitted she had used dream magic to hide the Black Grail and protect Glamorgan Island’s defenders from Dagon.
• Kasper recounted how she and the resurrected Epirus had held the nightmare seal until Murphy and his warriors arrived.
• Murphy sent Little Rich Bro to escort the chained Kasper outside and confronted Avalon about concealing Glamorgan Island’s crisis.
• Avalon denied colluding with Chaos and said the ordeal had persuaded Afidashir to choose the right path; the Black Grail crumbled to reveal a seed, placing the Astral Plane’s fate in Murphy’s hands.