Chapter Summaries

Huxgerson rejected a Twilight servant’s offer of aid and sent a warning about him to the people of Transia. Players tracked the black-robed man at Blackflame Pass, prompting Natalie and Lina to launch a quest to follow him to Twilight’s base and destroy it.

• Huxgerson accused the Twilight servant of exploiting allies, refused his offer, and threatened to kill him if he returned.
• Huxgerson sent Deathclaw with a message describing the Twilight servant to the people of Transia.
• Meow Shark found the message after his battered hyenas returned, and A-Cha alerted players near Fort Valor.
• Lumina and Mrs. Judy spotted the black-robed man with a limp and green cane crossing the ruins at Blackflame Pass.
• Natalie and Lina reached Fort Valor and issued a quest for players to track the man to Twilight’s base and eliminate its servants.

Murphy prepared to travel to the Misty Coast to secure Bloodfear support for Hogg’s assault on the Gnoll Museum of Civilization, while Fort Courage assembled hunters to pursue Dusk. Mannis warned Murphy that Helsson controlled the astral wolf packs and that trouble was brewing among the Bloodfear vampires.

• Lina objected to hunting Dusk alongside Yvette, but Murphy gave her an incantation to use if Yvette tried to control her.
• Natalie offered Avalon Holy Blades to players who completed Dusk’s hunt and reached Silver rank, prompting other churches to provide rewards of their own.
• Murphy burned Sir Huxson’s letter and learned from Hogg that the Broken Tooth Clan blocked access to the Museum of Civilization and that the Bloodfear Clan had not answered their request for help.
• Murphy told Hogg to prepare an assault and promised that vampires would join him after Murphy traveled to the Misty Coast.
• Mannis agreed to escort Murphy through the astral plane and warned him that Helsson had taken control of its wolf packs after ambushing the God of the North Wind.
• Mannis told Murphy that Shani was hunting the Source in Vidia and warned that the Bloodfear Clan was unlike the other vampire families.

Hogg enlisted Lady Shani to disrupt the Broken Fang Clan and used a failed peace meeting to mark Chieftain Merk for assassination. Shani agreed to spare Merk, while Hogg prepared the Gray Wolf Army for war as they waited for Murphy and the Bloodfear Clan.

• Lady Shani contacted Hogg and agreed to disrupt the Broken Fang Clan if he marked the targets with Thorn Clan powder.
• Hogg joined Nanak and Popok in arranging a meeting with Chieftain Merk, who agreed to meet at the border.
• Hogg told Merk about the Bonechewer King's legacy and the danger facing the gnolls, but Merk refused to let him enter the holy site and ordered him to leave.
• After negotiations failed, Hogg declared that the Gray Wolf Army should prepare for war.
• Hogg told Lady Shani that he had marked Merk and asked her to spare his life; Shani agreed and said her assassins would strike during the coming battle.

Murphy and Triss entered the Astral Realm to join Hogg’s Wise Wolf Project, but the Silver Wolf and her packs attacked them on the way to the Star Gate. Mannis sent them through to Tritan, then revealed that his apparent misfortune had been a deliberate act to lure Hellsong into a confrontation.

• Murphy and Triss traveled to Fort Valor, where Triss said Tritan had agreed to help them reach the Misty Coast and Villancer gave Murphy a purified pair of shadow-elf punch daggers.
• Murphy used the Omniscience Device to enter the Astral Realm with Triss, where they landed on Mannis in its Mountain-Moving Serpent form.
• Mannis warned Murphy and Triss that Tritan waited beyond the Star Gate, then fled from Hellsong and her astral wolf packs as Murphy and Triss fought back.
• Murphy sent several Wolf-Calamity lords through rifts into the material world, including one that crashed into King Louis's palace in Fog City.
• Mannis hurled Murphy and Triss through the Star Gate toward Tritan, then faced Hellsong and her wolves alone.
• Mannis transformed into the Serpent of the Stars and revealed that he had staged his apparent bad luck to make Hellsong's allies indebted to him, then threatened to kill her and claim Su's favor.

Murphy and Triss traveled through the ruined Astral Realm with Tritan, who explained how the Warp had destroyed it and offered Murphy his help. They reached the vampire coast and learned that the Blood Fear Clan had rebelled, leaving Murphy to confront a warning about his own clan’s future.

• Murphy and Triss met Tritan, who guided them across the Astral Realm toward the Misty Sea.
• Tritan explained that the Warp’s assault had devastated the Astral Realm and warned that the material world could suffer the same fate.
• Tritan offered Murphy his help and sent him and Triss through a rift to the material world.
• Murphy and Triss arrived above the burning Blood Plunder Harbor and changed course to meet Shani.
• Shani told Murphy that rebels had seized the Blood Fear Clan’s Sacred Blood Pool, taken Primal Blood, and imprisoned Baburo and his loyalists.

Murphy arrived at Bloodplunder Harbor to find the Blood Fear Clan in rebellion and the city burning amid pirate infighting. He brought Tidal Murlocs into the harbor as a distraction, then found Andre and learned the rebels had seized the Sacred Blood Pool while Baburo was captive; Murphy prepared to resolve the crisis without fighting.

• Shani blamed Murphy and Triss’s rejection of blood contracts for inspiring the Blood Fear Clan’s rebellion, and Murphy retorted that Shani had betrayed her own elder.
• Murphy asked Crytan to draw Tidal Murlocs into Bloodplunder Harbor and to guard his foreign soldiers during astral travel, then asked Shani to seek the black winter wolf Eris.
• Shani led Murphy, Triss, and her attendants through the chaos in Bloodplunder Harbor after the murlocs attacked, and her Nightwalkers guided them to the Blood Fear Clan’s hiding place.
• Murphy reunited with Andre, who had reached Silver rank and revealed that Captain Viter’s followers had seized the Sacred Blood Pool and captured Baburo.
• Andre explained that the rebels spoke of a sacrifice and surrender, and Murphy concluded that they were acting out of fear before telling the others to wait while he tried to end the crisis without a fight.

Captain Vite tried to sacrifice Babro and Claire to the ghostfires in exchange for escaping the Blood Fear Clan, but Murphy arrived as the ritual opened a rift. The Flames of Worldslaying attacked the traitors, leaving the underground temple in chaos and the Blood Fear pirates still facing the nightmare.

• Vite accused Babro of bringing the ghostfires’ curse upon the Blood Fear Clan and announced his plan to sacrifice Babro, Claire, and their loyal followers.
• Vite revealed that the Deadtooth Grand Duchess had promised to change his bloodline, then took Babro’s signet ring to retrieve the clan’s civilization tablet fragment.
• The traitors used kidnapped Silver Pirates and a planar diamond to open a rift, and a Flame of Worldslaying emerged into the temple.
• Murphy entered with two vampire ladies and explained that Vite’s subordinates had switched sides after learning who the ghostfires were.
• The Flame of Worldslaying killed two traitor captains and then Vite, while more Flames poured through the rift and threw the temple into chaos.

Murphy sealed the Warp rift, rescued Babro, and arranged for the Blood Dread pirates to join the assault on Broken Fang territory in exchange for help against the Worldburner demons. Hogg and Popok prepared separate forces to attack the Broken Fang Clan and its holy site, where Hogg expected to find proof of the gnolls’ history.

• Murphy sealed the barely opened Warp rift, and Andrei pulled a holywood stake from Babro’s chest after the Worldburner demons and Chaos egg were dealt with.
• Babro ordered the pirates to reclaim their flagship and punish the mutineers, then told Murphy that Worldburner demons had hunted the Blood Dread Clan for over a year.
• Murphy promised to help the Blood Dread Clan if Babro united the pirates and led them against Broken Fang territory and then Mossy Valley.
• Triss, Shani, and Murphy advised Babro to distribute the clan’s source blood to the pirates, and Babro agreed to consider it while asking Murphy for foreign crew members.
• Hogg told Popok to lead the Graywolf Army toward the coast while Hogg took an elite force to the gnolls’ holy site.
• Popok asked Hogg to bring back proof of the gnolls’ history so Nanak and the other skeptics could believe him.

The Cang Wolf Army’s players prepared their clans for a decisive battle against the Broken Fang Clan, relying on disciplined logistics and gnoll warriors’ experience. As they marched toward the coast to meet expected reinforcements, the 188 player clans swore to stand together and fight without retreating.

• The chapter explained how Hogg’s players organized supplies, rewards, discipline, and female gnoll troops to strengthen the Cang Wolf Army without changing the gnolls’ traditional fighting methods.
• Moonlit Mad Wolf learned from Furry Immortal that Popok had ordered the troops toward the coast, where reinforcements were expected, and that Murphy had arrived.
• Moonlit Mad Wolf refused Furry Immortal’s request to release imprisoned clan warlords, insisting that the army’s discipline had to hold before the battle.
• The Cang Wolf Army assembled with potions and Victory Wine as its chieftains discussed their hopes for the gnolls and the danger posed by the Broken Fang Clan’s larger forces.
• White Wolf proposed that the clans help rebuild one another after the battle, and Furry Immortal corrected the count to include the Soulstealer Clan.
• Moonlit Mad Wolf led the 188 clans in swearing the Cang Wolf Pact: they would stand together and either defeat the Broken Fang Clan or die without retreating.

Hogg led nearly a thousand elite Canglang soldiers toward the gnoll sacred grounds while the main Canglang Army and the Bloodfear pirates attacked the Broken Fang Clan. Chief Merk counterattacked and reached Hogg’s war wagon, but Grand Duchess Shani knocked him unconscious and captured him.

• Chief Merk abandoned the front against the Canglang Army to defend the Broken Fang Clan’s rear from the Bloodfear pirates, only to learn the two enemy forces had joined together.
• Hogg disguised his elite squad as Broken Fang soldiers and led them toward the sacred grounds, while Nanak questioned his certainty that it held the answers he sought.
• Chief Merk saw the Canglang Army use repeated, reckless charges and ordered a counterattack against its weakened flank.
• Chief Merk killed the Furry Immortal, but the Furry Clan kept fighting because its warriors believed their chiefs would return as Undying Wolves.
• Chief Merk broke through to Hogg’s war wagon, where Shani used her psychic power and blades to knock him unconscious and capture him.

Hogg, Murphy, and Triss reached the gnoll civilization hall, where a guardian’s attack revealed that Chief Senk had guarded it for a century. Phile took control of Hogg to reunite with Senk and ordered him to rally the army against the Hunter, but Senk’s excitement left him struggling to breathe.

• Triss knocked Nanaak unconscious after Hogg brought her to Murphy for protection.
• Hogg opened the hidden entrance to the gnoll civilization hall, and Murphy used Eden to bypass the gate’s security system.
• A concealed gnoll in an exoskeleton attacked Hogg, but Murphy pulled him clear and Triss paralyzed the attacker with lightning.
• Hogg recognized the ancient guardian as Chief Senk, and Phile took control of Hogg’s body to speak with him.
• Phile told Senk to prevent fighting between the Broken Fang Clan and the Direwolf Army, then gather forces to fight the Hunter.
• Senk eagerly volunteered to lead the campaign, but Phile called for Triss to use a shock spell when Senk began struggling to breathe.

Murphy and Hogg entered the gnoll Hall of Civilization and discovered Phileas had left behind thousands of combat exoskeletons to equip the gnolls for the coming god-slaying campaign. The chapter ended with Murphy opening a special armor container for Hogg and reacting enviously to its contents.

• Triss revived Old Senke, and Murphy sent him with Nanak to stop the war while preparing a gathering for the gnolls to witness the Hall of Civilization.
• Old Senke explained that Phileas had appointed him guardian of the hall and urged Nanak and the other gnolls to learn their ancestral mission.
• Murphy and Triss found that the hall's displays and devices could awaken gnoll pride and condition them to obey the Creator's order.
• Triss discovered that two gnolls had used the biological pods for longevity treatments, and Hogg promised to ask Old Senke about the unknown second user.
• Murphy found three thousand gnoll-specific Shadow Wolf combat exoskeletons and ordered Hogg to equip players and selected warriors for the coming campaign.
• Hogg told Murphy that Phileas had reserved special armor for him, and Murphy was stunned when they opened its container.

Murphy found Phile’s unique military-grade “Khan” power armor and had Hogg fitted into it as the gnoll civilization’s representative. Murphy then entered the Civilization Hall’s energy room to send Creation Energy to Manis, who began restoring its strength and urged Trident to ally with it.

• Murphy examined the “Khan” power armor and learned that only a recognized representative of gnoll civilization could use it.
• Murphy renamed the armor “Wise Wolf” and forced Hogg into its storage tank, where the mechanical arms fitted it to the suit.
• Murphy left Triss to help Hogg adjust to the armor and went deeper into the Civilization Hall to find Creation Energy.
• Manis pretended to be gravely wounded while asking Murphy to channel Creation Energy through himself, then explained to Trident that it could strengthen their vessels for ascension.
• Trident worried that Creation-tainted beings would attract subspace shadows, but Manis pressured it to join an alliance and promised a way to hide in the material world.
• Murphy began supplying Creation Energy, and Manis felt its power return as it vowed revenge on Ao and Li Ji.

Murphy used Genesis Energy in the Civilization Museum to help Mannis break one of Ao’s seals, and the energy strengthened Murphy while charging his Myriad Forms device. He and Triss uncovered a fast-travel network and joined the Gnolls as they learned their origins, while Triss raised questions about the vampires’ own past and future.

• Murphy absorbed Genesis Energy from the museum’s energy crystal and transferred it to Mannis, who broke one of his seven seals and said he needed six more energies from different creation sites.
• Genesis Energy improved Murphy’s Warp talents and attributes, while touching the crystal caused the Mother of Midnight to recoil from Triss and inspired her to develop weapons against Worldburner demons.
• Murphy charged Myriad Forms, unlocking a hovering sentry-turret form, then used it to import coordinates into an ancient fast-travel device linking the Gnoll Civilization Museum and the Swamp Exhibition Hall.
• Murphy and Triss returned to find Sengk, Hogg, the Gnoll leaders, and surviving Gray Wolf Army players gathered to watch a documentary about Gnoll origins.
• Murphy and Triss watched the Gnolls learn they had been created to serve order, and Triss wondered where the vampires’ path led and what reckoning awaited them over their past.

Murphy and Hogg used the Gnoll Civilization Museum to turn the Broken Tooth gnolls toward the Maker and prepare an enhanced army for the coming attack on Mossy Valley. Murphy discovered that Hogg’s Maker’s Security faction qualified for the Administrator System’s tester feedback, and he ordered Hogg to recruit as many gnolls as possible before the war.

• After watching a documentary, several Broken Tooth gnolls questioned the Lord of the Hunt and embraced the Maker’s faith, while Triss explained that the obedience protocols in the films could be resisted.
• Murphy told Hogg to convert the Broken Tooth hunting priests and build a force of at least a thousand enhanced gnolls before Lord Paine’s godslayers attacked Mossy Valley.
• Hogg summoned Popok Blackeye as the first Maker’s Sentinel, and Triss used a biological pod to awaken Popok’s self-healing, primal fury, bear strength, longevity, and appearance genes.
• Murphy received a notification that Maker’s Security had joined the Administrator System’s feedback program and learned that the faction’s growth would provide him with more player slots.
• Murphy ordered Hogg to recruit more gnolls ahead of the operation, and Hogg vowed to lead the Maker’s Sentinels against the void fiends.

Popok awakened to his Creator’s obedience protocols and became Hogg’s first Creator’s Guardian, while Hogg prepared to recruit a thousand gnolls. Old Senk revealed that he had granted his half-brother Singe longevity, leaving Murphy and Hogg to enlist the Whiptail Clan’s neutrality in the coming war.

• Popok awakened from the biological pod, received an Eden District uniform and mechanical power hammer from Hogg, and set out to recruit a thousand Creator’s Guardians.
• Murphy and Triss discussed sending the Blood Terror Clan toward the Genoa Peninsula, while Triss planned to find a way to store Genesis energy for their ships.
• Hogg brought Nanak and Old Senk in for an examination, and Murphy asked Old Senk who had received the enhancement he gave eighty years earlier.
• Old Senk admitted that he had secretly given his half-brother Singe a longevity enhancement after the Bone-Biting Clan’s conflict drove him to seek help.
• Nanak identified Singe as the Whiptail Clan’s chief, and Old Senk explained that Singe had secretly supplied the Broken Fang Clan while waiting to inherit its sacred duty and the King’s treasury.
• Murphy and Hogg decided that Singe and the Whiptail Clan must remain neutral during the Black Calamity, and Old Senk agreed to try to persuade him.

Murphy left the gnolls’ internal affairs to Hogg and met with Shani, who warned that the Source would target Triss and asked him to help if Su faced a plot. Meanwhile, the players prepared a coordinated nighttime assault on a Twilight Stronghold, where a suspected group of Source cultists was hiding.

• Murphy received a special Eden District allowance after Hogg and the Construct Gnolls reached Revered reputation, then spoke with Shani about his influence and the dangers posed by the Source.
• Shani departed for Port Joseph to hunt the Source’s incarnations, promised to answer Su’s summons to Eris, and gave Murphy Jealousy Source Blood for Andre.
• Great Shark and the Wam Brotherhood watched the suspected cultist base while preparing to join the planned attack that night.
• Natalie, Lady Shui, and Little Ashina coordinated the assault forces and warned players to prepare for soul-transferring cultists and possible casualties.
• Lady Shui sent the team to rest before nightfall, while Natalie heard Lina struggle to fend off Yvette’s advances.

At Base R-9, Explorer and Flynn discussed the ratman project and Flynn’s former apprentice Heru before intruders breached the facility. The attackers fought through the base’s defenses and encountered enhanced biological weapons, while Flynn thought he spotted Heru among them.

• Explorer encouraged the researchers at Base R-9 and urged Flynn to finish his work enhancing the ocular organs of humanoid specimens.
• Flynn told Explorer that he had seen Heru in a battle recording from Blackflame Pass and worried that his former apprentice was fighting with the Transian army.
• Explorer suggested that Flynn invite Heru to join the Scholar faction’s organ-enhancement research, but Flynn said he would think about it.
• An alarm announced that intruders had breached Base R-9, and Explorer ordered the researchers to activate the biological weapons before leading Flynn to unleash his pack.
• Giant Shark and the Vam brothers attacked the base, while Meow Brother’s team fought through automated turrets and faced enhanced barbarians.
• A tentacle monster smashed Hedong Lion’s Roar through a wall as the players continued battling the base’s biological weapons.

The players stormed Dusk’s research base, while Plan B sneaked into its lower levels and confronted the Seeker’s experimental war beasts. Old Flynn tried to escape after the attack began, but he ran into his former apprentice Hru and knocked him unconscious when Hru tried to arrest him.

• The players overwhelmed the base’s automated defenses, and Meow Brother ordered Lady Water to begin Plan B.
• Rock led the shamans, dwarves, and knights underground with Earthwalk so they could reach the base’s deepest levels.
• The Seeker awakened his wolf-like creations, and Plan B burst into his laboratory as Old Flynn fled with him.
• Miss Peach and Knight Liwen bound the Seeker, while Old Flynn escaped toward an elevator to retrieve his research and find the prehistoric teleporter.
• Old Flynn encountered Hru, who revealed he had taken source blood to find his mentor and bring him to trial.
• Old Flynn pretended to surrender, then used a tiny scorpion to incapacitate Hru and took his thermic sword.

Hru was captured by Old Flynn, who revealed that he had joined Dusk and planned to give Hru his cultivated supernatural eyes and ears before dying. Amber and Niu Niu rescued Hru, but when he woke, his new laser eyes fired wildly through the base.

• Hru awoke restrained on an operating table, and Old Flynn explained how Dusk had given him the freedom to pursue research rejected by the Tower of Rings.
• Old Flynn prepared to implant cultivated blood-red eyes and elven-like ears into Hru, intending to pass on his proudest work before he died.
• Amber and Niu Niu fought through Base R-9’s werewolf-like monsters as they followed Hru’s distress signal.
• Amber shot the thermal sword from Old Flynn’s hand, and Niu Niu knocked him unconscious before he could attack them.
• Hru awoke and accidentally fired a laser beam from his new eyes, blasting through three walls and narrowly missing Amber.