Recaps

Murphy united the Order factions against the locust swarm while resolving the crisis around Edward, Cecilia, and the Sin Dwarves. The coalition launched its assault on Abyssal City, where the swarm began hatching dragon-gene larvae and Shani set out to capture a gene courier.

• Iverios learned that Lord the Withered had made the locust plague a test of survival, while the Dragon Emperor summoned the Order factions and Murphy refused an offer of legions in favor of building an Astral Army.
• Murphy enlisted Black Servant Forest’s ratmen in the Order, pursued the Daughter of Dawn’s blessing for Hu Fu, and watched Khufu become her second Chosen.
• Murphy’s allies discovered that Cecilia had attacked Edward and was spreading Madblood through Fog City, so Murphy, Shani, and Femis confronted her and contained the Chaos outbreak.
• Femis killed Cecilia to end her suffering, then Murphy transformed Shani, whose real name was Katherine, into a vampire, and Murphy later accepted King Louis’s apology for the Ten-Year War.
• Murphy met the Sin Dwarves and summoned Shorty Loren from the underworld, allowing him to forgive his father, the Heart of Burning Sin, and urge him to protect their descendants.
• Fenris Ironfist revealed the Twilight Nest’s location and the King Without a Land’s return, while Murphy arranged for the Sin Dwarves and Brass Dwarves to join the coalition’s assault on Abyssal City.
• Murphy expanded the player deployment and the Order forces attacked Abyssal City, where Maxim found evidence that the swarm had absorbed dragon genes and Murphy ordered research into dragon organs.
• Dragon-gene eggs hatched in Abyssal City’s fourth-layer hive, and Murphy told Shani to warn the goatfolk and capture a gene courier alive.

The players cleared Abyss City, and Murphy led the Gray Expedition into the Eternal Rift, where he recruited ratmen and uncovered the Abyssal Sisterhood’s plan to corrupt the locust swarm and the Shadow Elves. Drusilia rallied her allies as Shadow City faced the Sisterhood and the swarm, while the Sovereign reported that Sin Bastion had been reclaimed.

• The players defeated Abyss City’s swarm lords, Squadron Leader Lion Beast reached Golden rank, and Maxim assigned the city’s defenses to the Sin Dwarves.
• Murphy led the Gray Expedition into the Eternal Rift and won over Mejewa’s ratmen by teaching them to cook locusts.
• Adele defeated Truman’s remnant in the ruined arena and awakened the Golden Law Night Song Shadowguard.
• Murphy freed the Abyssal Sanctuary’s prisoners and learned that the Abyssal Sisters planned to corrupt the swarm and pregnant Drusilia.
• Sarif Shadowblade rescued Drusilia, and Drusilia told Murphy about her family with Old Bai and her plans to reunite the Shadow Elves.
• Drusilia resisted the Sisterhood’s takeover at the council while Shadowblade and his dragons attacked the High Priestesses.
• Murphy suppressed Chaos in Shadow City and left Yvette and Raven to fight the First Seat as the Sovereign announced Sin Bastion’s recovery.
• The players and Black Servant’s Skaven attacked the besieging swarm, and Manus Plagueclaw lost his lower body to a mine while trying to kill Black Servant.

As Murphy prepared to strike Hive Zero, he led the vampire coalition into the sealed territory and uncovered the Scarlet Dawn and Fato’s blood-bound clan. Murphy gathered the vampire inheritances and confronted Fato, but the power overwhelmed his body and left him transforming inside a blood cocoon.

• Lady Drusilia revived Saliv, who freed Apollis and another dragon to fight the swarm, but Saliv died after entrusting his unborn child to Bertie.
• Murphy activated the Genesis Matrix beneath Sin Bastion, allowing selected players to awaken in physical bodies, then prepared the expedition against Hive Zero.
• Murphy accepted the Dark Scabbard and entered the Holy Blood Seal with Lord Paine, where they found the Scarlet Dawn and learned that Fato was alive.
• Murphy took control of the Scarlet Dawn and discovered that Fato had kept most of the Madbloods in hibernation, while Fato reunited with Paine and Edward.
• Fato revealed that Chaos corruption had overtaken him and challenged the group to fight for the right to inherit his curse and guard the Madbloods.
• Murphy entered the Sourceblood Pool during the battle and purified the Bloodmad Clan tablet, learning how Fato created the blood pact and source blood.
• Murphy gathered the seven Original Sin tablets and received the vampire inheritances, while Fato remembered his past and granted Murphy the final inheritance.
• Murphy’s bloodline became unstable and his body succumbed to hemolysis, so the Midnight Twins enclosed him in a blood cocoon as his transformation began.

Murphy led the vampires and their allies into the Zero Hive, where they stopped Old Bach and Constance from restarting the world and confronted the evolving Scale-Father. The arc ended with the Otherworlders returning to the battlefield to attack the Scale-Father’s exposed heart.

• Murphy emerged as the second Blood Ancestor, reunited the Madblood Clan with the vampires, and set the Crimson Dawn toward the worlds and realms threatened by the swarm.
• The swarm attacked across the frontiers while Lily and Payin reunited at the Stormtower, and the defenders endured battles at the Great Wall and Vampire Coast until General Winter’s storm devastated the bugs.
• Murphy and Prince White planned an assault on the Zero Hive, and Murphy led the Scarlet Dawn’s strike into its core as the Gray Expeditionary Force fought its way toward the Scale-Father.
• The Scale-Father hatched as a Chaos Evil God while Murphy’s party reached the Life Greenhouse, where they stopped Old Bach’s cloning plan and Murphy welcomed Constance back to the present age.
• Constance tried to secure Murphy’s help in reviving the dead, but Old Edward turned against her, and Murphy expelled her from the vampire clan before taking control of the Life Greenhouse and freezing its revival program.
• Murphy permanently deleted the ancient figures’ biological records, limited resurrection privileges to veteran Astra Militarum soldiers, and learned that the Scholar’s source code had been sealed while copies remained a threat.
• The Scale-Father evolved through further forms as the players fought it, and the seven gene bombs made its eighth evolution unstable and exposed its heart.
• Jim Raynor urged the players to target the Scale-Father’s exposed heart, Great White Shark threw his axe, and returning Otherworlders joined Happy Stick and Meow Brother in the renewed attack.