Recaps

After saving Lina and restoring her as the Raven Prophet, Ian stayed behind in R'lyeh City to face Cthulhu's deeper dream projection. He transformed into Dark Tiga as Saruman led Lina and Karg away, leaving their survival uncertain as the confrontation began.

• Lina reunited with Saruman and Karg, while Ian confirmed that her soul had bonded with the new Raven Prophet brand and that her pollution had been cleansed.
• Karg and Saruman thanked Ian for saving Lina, but Ian said his battle with Cthulhu was not over and opened a portal for them to leave.
• Saruman guided Lina and Karg away from the gateway, while Ian entered Cthulhu's dream again to confront its waiting will.
• Ian released the dark energy he had absorbed and transformed into Dark Tiga inside the dream domain.
• Cthulhu's immense projection emerged beyond the gateway to face Dark Tiga as the true battle began.
• Saruman struggled to lead Lina and Karg through R'lyeh City, and Karg worried aloud whether Ian could survive alone.

Saruman, Karg, and Lina took shelter in R’lyeh while Saruman recovered from borrowing legendary power, but Stealth Devourers attacked them. Lina used her new Raven Prophet abilities to protect Saruman and help Karg kill the creatures, leaving them beginning to understand the divine powers Ian had given her.

• Saruman said Ian was their only hope against Cthulhu and urged Karg and Lina to trust him while they avoided becoming a burden.
• The three rested in a recess among boulders as Saruman suffered from the strain of borrowed legendary power and his unstable soul.
• Three Stealth Devourers attacked, and Karg knocked one aside while Lina sensed an incoming strike and dodged its acid spit.
• When another creature lunged at Saruman, Lina instinctively redirected its path, allowing Karg to kill it with his greatsword.
• Lina used a new ability called Featherfall to slow the last Stealth Devourer, and Karg caught up and killed it.
• Lina told Karg and Saruman that she had used the power Ian gave her when he named her his prophet, and she suspected it was a kind of divine art.

Lina used her new Raven power to create a protective circle that gave her and her companions a safe place to recover. As Ian fought in the distance, his actions seemed to further heal Lina and strengthen her new power, leaving Saruman convinced that he was witnessing another miracle.

• Lina formed a Raven Protection Magic Circle at the crevice entrance, weakening the surrounding madness and giving Saruman and Karg relief.
• Saruman recognized that Lina’s corruption had been completely transformed and began to believe Ian was Raven’s incarnation rather than Merlin.
• Saruman sensed Lina’s Raven brand resonating with Ian’s distant battle, and the others realized Ian was still fighting for them.
• Lina’s remaining traces of corruption vanished as her health and Raven power rapidly recovered while the dark aura from the battlefield weakened.
• Saruman inferred that Ian might be purifying or seizing Cthulhu’s power and feeding it back to Lina, while Lina looked toward the battle with deep gratitude and reverence.

Saruman learned that history had changed and waited with the others for Ian Prince to finish his battle, while Ian, as Dark Tiga, fought Cthulhu’s will in the dream world. After deflecting its devastating attack, Ian began plundering the trace of Fire of the Old Ones at its core.

• Saruman realized that Lina had survived, Karg was still alive, and Ian was fighting to end the nightmare.
• Dark Tiga disrupted Cthulhu’s tentacle attacks and struck back, testing the chaotic entity’s strength.
• Dark Tiga absorbed and converted Cthulhu’s mental death rays, provoking the entity to unleash stronger attacks.
• Cthulhu’s will charged a destructive sphere containing Fire of the Old Ones, while Raven’s brand sent Ian the cryptic words “Vanguard of the Old Ones.”
• Ian used Wings of Darkness: Spacetime Deflection to redirect most of the sphere’s force, then began plundering the Fire of the Old Ones at its core.

Ian used Dark Tiga’s power of plunder to steal and absorb Cthulhu’s Fire of the Old Ones, gaining a new authority as Cthulhu’s dream began to collapse. Cthulhu forcibly awakened to escape being drained, and Ian returned to his body in R’lyeh with a new power awakening within him.

• Ian activated the Power of the Raven and tore a wisp of Fire of the Old Ones from Cthulhu’s attack, enduring agony as he absorbed it.
• Ian’s Dark Tiga form adapted to the Fire of the Old Ones and began devouring the flames Cthulhu sent against him.
• Cthulhu realized its power was feeding Ian, while Ian’s absorption grew into an active attempt to plunder all the Fire of the Old Ones in the dream.
• Cthulhu abandoned its dream and forcibly awakened, shattering the dream before Ian could drain it completely.
• Ian was expelled from the collapsing dream and woke in his physical body in R’lyeh, where a new authority surged within him and the system reappeared.

Ian gained the Fire of the Old Ones authority and became an Undefeated Legend as Cthulhu awakened in the real R'lyeh. He found Saruman, Karg, and Lina trapped in the collapsing city and nearing corruption.

• Ian's stolen power fused with his soul, granting him the Fire of the Old Ones authority and raising his life tier to Undefeated Legend.
• Cthulhu awakened in reality, and its enormous form emerged as R'lyeh began to collapse.
• Ian resisted Cthulhu's mental contamination and found that its chaotic aura could nourish his new authority.
• Ian sensed Saruman, Karg, and Lina trapped in the ruins, struggling against Cthulhu's contamination.
• Saruman and Karg fought off madness and mutation while Lina, suffering the worst corruption, resisted Cthulhu with the Raven's power.

Ian used his authority to banish Saruman, Karg, and Lina from Cthulhu’s domain back to their original spacetime in an African jungle. The three survived and recognized Ian as Raven, while Lina sensed that he was still confronting Cthulhu and growing stronger.

• Ian used his Fire of the Old Ones authority and Legend Mental Power to locate Saruman, Karg, and Lina and forcibly return them to their original spacetime.
• Saruman, Karg, and Lina landed in the jungle near the lake, free of their mutations and relieved to have escaped R’lyeh.
• Saruman identified their rescuer as Raven, and Karg realized Raven was the Ancient Supreme depicted in ancient ruins.
• Lina confirmed that Ian was Raven’s incarnation among mortals and sensed that his aura remained steady as he faced Cthulhu.

Ian fought Cthulhu amid the ruins of R’lyeh, using his legendary magic and the Fire of the Old Ones to withstand and absorb the Great Old One’s attacks. Cthulhu became increasingly fascinated by the hope within Ian’s soul as their battle reached a stalemate.

• Saruman assured Karg and Lina that the Raven would defeat the ancient nightmare, and they prayed for him.
• Ian faced Cthulhu’s awakened true body atop R’lyeh’s shattered ruins, wielding the Elder Wand and the Fire of the Old Ones.
• Ian blocked Cthulhu’s tentacle strike and used a Chaos Barrier to absorb and transform its madness breath.
• Ian anchored his existence with paradox magic and evaded Cthulhu’s varied attacks with spells, Apparition, and transfiguration.
• Ian traded attacks with Cthulhu in a draining stalemate while Cthulhu fixated on the hope in Ian’s soul.

Ian defeated Cthulhu’s manifestation in R’lyeh by channeling his hope for Hogwarts and his home world into a light that purified and captured the Great Old One’s power. He gained a new, heavily sealed authority, opened a doorway home, and left as R’lyeh collapsed behind him.

• Ian realized Cthulhu coveted the hope and goodness of his world as material to corrupt, and resolved to protect it.
• Ian poured his magic, will, and memories into an attack that combined hope, paradox, and the Fire of the Old Ones.
• Ian’s light overwhelmed Cthulhu’s manifestation, purified it, and captured its power, granting Ian the unique authority Erosion of Chaos/Foundation of Order.
• Ian learned that Cthulhu’s defeat did not eliminate every threat from the Old Ones, but resolved to grow stronger and protect his world.
• Ian opened a spatial doorway to his own spacetime and stepped through it as R’lyeh collapsed and vanished.

Ian’s victory over Cthulhu rewrote history, erasing the source of contamination beneath the African Ministry of Magic and freeing its nameless watcher from centuries of torment. The watcher awakened with new memories and a new mission: to guard the ancient Gate of the Watcher and keep its legend secret.

• Ian’s actions erased Cthulhu’s influence from history, and the changes rippled forward into the future.
• The African Ministry of Magic’s underground prison changed as its seals lost their purpose and the contamination began to disappear.
• The nameless Auror welcomed the rewriting of history, allowing his memories and identity to be reconstructed.
• He awoke in a modern observation room, free of contamination and remembering himself as an Auror in the Department of Mysteries.
• Mentor Lina told him to focus on his mission and showed him the Bronze Door, the Gate of the Watcher, which they were charged with guarding.

Mentor Lina and the Black Robe Wizard watched the Bronze Door open and reveal Ian Prince, but an unseen force pulled him back before he could step through. Lina concluded that the Raven had returned to the era and confirmed that his anchor and proxy remained, though she did not know where he was.

• Mentor Lina told the Black Robe Wizard that her lineage had guarded the Bronze Door, waiting for someone to emerge from it.
• The Bronze Door awakened, opened onto a strange expanse, and revealed Ian Prince approaching from beyond it.
• The light abruptly collapsed, pulling Ian and the vision back before he could cross the threshold.
• The Black Robe Wizard asked why Ian had not come through, and Lina said the door was sound and the Raven may have appeared only to confirm something.
• Lina felt the mark of the Raven Prophet’s successor pulse and concluded that the Raven had returned, while admitting she did not know where he was.

Lina told the Black Robe Wizard that Raven had returned and instructed him to continue guarding the Bronze Door in Africa. Ian unexpectedly arrived in rainy London, where he checked on his power, decided to repair his Time Machine, and went looking for food.

• Lina explained that Raven had returned but that she and the Black Robe Wizard should keep watch and remain silent about his legend.
• Lina revealed that Saruman and Karg had died peacefully, and told the Black Robe Wizard to rest and adapt to his reborn state.
• Ian unexpectedly appeared in a London alley and found that his magic and authority had grown stronger.
• Ian recognized London, suspected Saruman had misled him about Newt, and decided to repair his Time Machine.
• Ian concealed his presence and walked through the rain to find something to eat while Lina reaffirmed her watch in Africa.

After returning from a battle across dimensions, Ian Prince explored London while replenishing his energy and seeking a meal that could comfort him. Satisfied by French cuisine, he took a relaxing walk beside the Thames and bought a painting, leaving his Time Machine repairs for later.

• Ian Prince disguised himself as an ordinary person and ate fish and chips, but found the food too rough for his tastes.
• Ian tried kung pao chicken at a Chinese restaurant and found it overly sweet and soft.
• Ian ate onion soup, red-wine-braised beef, and crème brûlée at Le Petit Bistro, enjoying the meal and feeling restored.
• Ian postponed repairing the Time Machine and walked along the Thames as evening fell.
• Ian bought a painting of Tower Bridge from an old street artist and continued his walk.

Ian arrived in London on October 31, 1979, and enjoyed ordinary city life while assessing the era and planning how to enter the wizarding world discreetly. At a night market, he quietly helped a hungry boy escape a vendor and left him money, then continued into the darkness with his next steps still ahead.

• Ian fed pigeons in a London square, spoke with an elderly woman, and decided to find lodging and gather information about the wizarding world.
• Ian bought a newspaper and learned that the date was October 31, 1979, when Voldemort's forces were rapidly expanding and the wizarding world was tense.
• Ian avoided the Leaky Cauldron as a first point of contact and planned to find an alchemist and Dumbledore to examine his Time Machine.
• Ian followed food aromas to a night market and sampled roasted chestnuts, a crêpe, and a chicken and mushroom pie.
• Ian used magic to make a fish-and-chip vendor lose his balance as the man tried to seize a starving boy, allowing the boy to escape.
• Ian secretly placed a one-pound coin in the boy's pocket, and the boy discovered it as he fled into the darkness.

Ian spent the night exploring a London market, discreetly helping people with magic, then checked into a hotel while keeping his identity and presence concealed. He settled in for the night, planning to investigate the Wizarding World and the altered timeline the next day.

• Ian secretly gave a hungry boy a coin and used small spells to help people around the night market without attracting attention.
• Ian chose a Muggle hotel rather than risk visiting Hogwarts or Diagon Alley before he understood the current timeline.
• Ian used a Confundus Charm to check into the Royal Catherine Hotel as Ian F. Stone and settled into room 312.
• Ian bathed, ordered room service, and thought about Voldemort's terror, Dumbledore, the Order of the Phoenix, and possible timeline changes.
• Ian declined the receptionist's offer of special evening services, then went to bed without hearing voices or experiencing disturbances.

After a peaceful night in a London hotel, Ian set out to learn about the Wizarding World of 1979 but encountered a Death Eater fighting Jorkins on a Muggle street. Ian secretly deflected the battle’s stray debris to protect bystanders as the fight continued.

• Ian woke refreshed from a dream of Hogwarts, ate breakfast, and decided to visit the Leaky Cauldron in disguise.
• Ian headed toward Charing Cross Road and saw a Death Eater and Jorkins crash out of a tear in space and begin fighting.
• The wizards’ spells caused panic and destruction on the street, endangering fleeing Muggles.
• Ian used precise, wandless magic to divert debris away from a mother and child, elderly people, and a group of students.
• The Death Eater continued attacking and cast another Killing Curse.

Ian intervened in a battle between Jorkins and a Death Eater, overwhelming the Death Eater and restoring the damaged street with powerful magic. Muggle police and soldiers arrived and aimed their weapons at the wizards, leaving Ian to prepare a Ministry of Magic tradition to contain the situation.

• Ian revealed his power, silenced the street, and forced the Death Eater back with a glance.
• Ian repaired the street and its damaged buildings and vehicles with a sweeping Reparo spell.
• The Muggles reacted with panic and curiosity as Jorkins took shelter behind Ian and the Death Eater looked for a chance to escape.
• Police officers and soldiers arrived, surrounded the three wizards, and ordered them to surrender.
• Jorkins dropped his wand and surrendered, while Ian raised his hand and prepared to use a Ministry of Magic tradition.

Ian erased and rewove the Muggles’ memories of the magical battle, the street’s destruction, and the military response, leaving only himself, Jorkins, and the Death Eater aware of what had happened. The Death Eater tried to escape by Apparition, but Ian effortlessly sealed the space around him and stopped him.

• Ian cast a vast, precisely controlled Memory Charm that replaced the Muggles’ memories of the battle and the emergency response with an ordinary traffic incident and drill.
• The Muggles resumed their routines, while Jorkins and the Death Eater stared in shock at Ian’s power.
• The Death Eater decided to flee, believing Ian might be weakened after casting the mass Memory Charm.
• The Death Eater began to Apparate to a safe house, but Ian casually sealed the space around him and disrupted the spell.
• The failed Apparition caused a magical backlash, leaving the Death Eater injured and despairing.

Ian stopped a Death Eater from hunting Cedric Jorkins on a London street, restrained him, took memories of the mission, and sent him back with a warning for Voldemort. Ian then questioned Jorkins about the Death Eaters’ pursuit, suspecting that someone had manipulated events.

• Ian dismissed the Death Eater’s threats about Voldemort and used the Foundation of Order to immobilize him.
• Ian marked the Death Eater’s soul, extracted memories about the hunt and several Death Eater contacts, and warned him to leave Muggles alone.
• The Death Eater fled, leaving his wand behind, while the Muggles continued unaware of the confrontation.
• Ian identified Jorkins as a Ministry employee serving under Barty Crouch and asked to speak with him.
• Jorkins explained that he had found a suspicious artifact in an antiques list and was hunted after planning to report it to Barty Crouch.
• After examining the Death Eater’s memories, Ian suspected that someone had manipulated the incident.

Ian questioned Jorkins about why he had fled into a Muggle street and discovered that a mysterious figure had planted a message that guided him toward the Royal Catherine Hotel. Jorkins agreed to let Ian examine his memories, leaving the truth behind the guidance unresolved.

• Ian suspected Jorkins had deliberately led a Death Eater to the Royal Catherine Hotel, but Jorkins denied acting on orders from Barty Crouch.
• Jorkins recalled that a hooded stranger in Diagon Alley had warned him about danger and told him to run toward a sanctuary marked by a golden lion.
• Jorkins explained that the stranger’s words had resurfaced in his mind during the pursuit and driven him toward the hotel.
• Ian connected the message to the Royal Catherine Hotel and asked to examine Jorkins’s memories to verify his account.
• Jorkins agreed to Ian’s request and relaxed his mental barrier.

Ian took Jorkins to a Muggle restaurant after their confrontation and challenged his assumptions about Muggles. The chapter left Jorkins humbled and reconsidering the wizarding world’s sense of superiority.

• Ian led Jorkins to a family-run Muggle restaurant and ordered them shepherd’s pie, fish and chips, and tea.
• As they ate, Jorkins wondered why a powerful wizard seemed so interested in ordinary Muggle life.
• Ian asked Jorkins what he thought of Muggles, and Jorkins described them as ordinary and their society as noisy and crude.
• Ian argued that Muggles showed creativity, cooperation, and resilience, and that magic did not make wizards nobler or more advanced.
• Jorkins thanked Ian for the lesson and felt ashamed as he reconsidered his own condescending views of Muggles.

After lunch, Ian examined Jorkins’s memories and discovered that a mysterious Black Robed Woman had planted a subtle magical suggestion directing him to the Royal Catherine Hotel during a crisis. Ian warned Jorkins that the intervention might have saved him or served a more complicated scheme, leaving him alarmed that he had become a pawn in a larger plot.

• Jorkins reflected on Ian’s remarks about wizards’ prejudice against Muggles, then followed Ian from the restaurant into a quiet alley.
• Ian asked Jorkins to let him examine the memories of the seer, the Death Eaters’ pursuit, and his arrival at the hotel, and Jorkins agreed.
• Ian used Legilimency to review only the relevant memories and detected a concealed magical suggestion linked to the Black Robed Woman’s words and Jorkins’s crisis-driven decision to seek the hotel.
• Ian told Jorkins that his memories were genuine but that someone had magically guided his choice to come there.
• Ian identified the Black Robed Woman as the prime suspect and warned that the person behind the suggestion was powerful, leaving Jorkins to fear that he was being manipulated.

Ian protected Jorkins from a Death Eater and advised him to keep quiet about a dangerous dark magic object while Ian watched for whoever had planted a prophetic suggestion in his mind. After Jorkins left with a pebble that could alert Ian, Ian considered whether the unseen planner had foreseen his arrival or specifically known about him.

• Ian confirmed that Jorkins’s memories were intact except for a sophisticated suggestion guiding him toward shelter, and concluded that both of them had entered a larger game.
• Ian reassured Jorkins that the Death Eater would not pursue him soon and advised him not to report the dark magic object or attack to Barty Crouch or anyone else.
• Ian gave Jorkins a warm black pebble to contact him if the suggestion stirred or the black-robed person returned, and told him to keep the incident secret.
• Ian declined to examine or learn the hiding place of the dark magic object so it could remain bait and reveal the hidden actors’ plans.
• Ian told Jorkins to rest and assured him he could probably bring him back if he died; Jorkins accepted the reassurance and left.
• Alone in the alley, Ian considered whether the black-robed person knew he would appear or had merely foreseen a powerful variable arriving to alter Jorkins’s fate.

Ian resolved to investigate the forces targeting him by seeking information in the Wizarding World, but first wandered through 1979 London to eat and observe Muggle life. After sampling food and buying old books at a street market, he felt he had blended into the city.

• Ian ruled out several possible identities behind the mysterious force and decided to investigate the era’s Wizarding World rather than avoid history.
• Ian wandered through London and ate roasted chestnuts, a sweet potato, and doughnuts while observing the city’s streets and residents.
• Ian tried samosas and vegetable fritters from a street stall, praised the food, and added coins to a community donation tin.
• Ian browsed a secondhand market and bought an old London travel guide and an Agatha Christie mystery.

Ian bought handicrafts from a young boy raising money for St. Mary's Orphanage, then encountered a strange crow carrying a message specifically for him. The chapter ended as Ian reached for the scroll tied to the crow’s leg.

• Ian found a young orphan selling handmade crafts and bought a knitted bear, a sun card, and a paper plane.
• Ian gave the boy a half-crown worth 30 pence, telling him to use the extra money for the orphanage.
• Ian left the stall feeling cheered by the encounter, but a large, metallic-sheened crow swooped down and landed in front of him.
• Ian recognized the crow as a magical messenger and considered who might have sent it.
• The crow offered its leg, and Ian touched the mysterious letter tied to it.