Chapter Summaries

Ian witnessed the Raven forging something in Mount Doom’s volcano, which he realized had once been Death’s workshop before the Raven drove Death away. Death’s dark wizard souls attacked the Raven and its furnace, and as the battle threatened to reach the lava, the Raven addressed Ian.

• Ian concluded that Death had secretly returned to Mount Doom to reforge the Deathly Hallows while the Raven was away.
• The Raven arrived with countless Dementors and used the volcano to forge an unknown object from cursed materials.
• Ian recognized the volcano as a powerful forging furnace and realized that the Raven had taken it from Death.
• Dark wizard souls sent by Death attacked the Raven and tried to destroy the volcano while the Dementors defended it.
• The Raven continued forging as the battle raged, then looked up and asked Ian why he did not intervene across time and space.

Ian intervened in the Raven’s past by destroying the Thorn Crown, then watched the Raven use souls, the Creator’s heart, and other forbidden materials to forge a baby in the volcano. The Raven celebrated the successful creation and flew away with the child as the black-and-white world shattered.

• Seven dead Dark Wizards formed a Thorn Crown and sent it toward the Raven’s volcano, destroying thirty Dementors in its path.
• The Raven spoke to Ian across time, and Ian cast Fiendfyre that shattered the Thorn Crown and interrupted the Dark Wizards’ attack.
• The Dementors overwhelmed the Dark Wizards and threw their souls into the lava, where the Raven used them as fuel for its forging.
• The Raven cast the Creator’s heart and numerous Titan organs into the volcano, turning the magma bright white.
• A baby emerged from the magma, and the Raven lifted him, celebrated its success, and flew into the sky as the black-and-white world shattered.

The Raven forged a soulless baby body for its reincarnation and escaped Death’s attack, then returned to seal Death in a crystal so it could proceed with its plan. Ian remained in the volcanic crater, where Death’s gaze suddenly turned toward him.

• The Raven carried the newly forged baby away and revealed that it intended to become human again, leaving Ian to wonder whether the child was his own origin.
• Death attacked the Raven and the baby, but the Raven used Dementors to delay him and fled across the Misty Illusion.
• Death bound the Dementors with chains and prepared to return to the human world, but the Raven reappeared and challenged him.
• The Raven used spacetime rifts to divert Death’s attacks, passed through his chest, and sealed him inside a dark-purple crystal.
• The Raven left to reincarnate, while Ian stayed by the volcanic crater and felt Death’s gaze turn toward him.

Ian returned from the collapsing black-and-white past to the true Misty Illusion, where Death’s warning that there would be another round left him questioning his connection to Raven. He found comfort in the familiar forest and town, then reunited with Ariana and King Arthur, who noticed something strange about him.

• Death stared at Ian through the crystal, told him there would be another round, and vanished as the black-and-white world collapsed.
• Ian returned to the true Misty Illusion and wondered whether Death’s words referred to Raven, himself, or their connection.
• Ian explored the familiar forest, ate a fruit given to him by a monkey, and sat by the lake while trying to make sense of what he had seen.
• Ian went into town and watched Ariana spar with King Arthur, who coached her swordsmanship.
• King Arthur noticed Ian and told him that he smelled strange.

Ian learned from King Arthur that Death's scent clung to him because he had touched the past, and that Death had gone mad after becoming infected with human emotions. After celebrating at Arthur's tavern, Ian went to Teacher Morgan to seek help returning home, but the Ancient Dragon stopped him to ask about the dragon blood on his scent.

• King Arthur recognized the scent of Death on Ian and learned that Ian had interfered with the past during the battle involving Raven and Death.
• King Arthur explained that Death's traces on Ian came from the past, then warned that Death had gone mad after gaining human emotions and had been sealed away.
• King Arthur invited Ian and Ariana to celebrate at his new tavern, where they ate roasted meat and discussed Ian's inability to return home.
• Ian left the tavern carrying roasted meat for Teacher Morgan and crossed into the castle's shadowed territory to seek her help.
• The Ancient Dragon woke as Ian approached and asked how many dragons he had killed, noting that he smelled of ancient dragon blood.

Ian spoke with the Ancient Dragon about how powerful wizards could deceive time and history, learning that minor changes could be concealed while major changes required tricks or higher powers. The Dragon also explained the Dragon Slayer achievement, leaving Ian curious about the reward granted for killing twelve Dragons.

• The Ancient Dragon recognized the scent of multiple Dragons on Ian and deduced that he had traveled through time because it believed itself the last Pureblood Dragon.
• The Dragon told Ian about Rowena Ravenclaw’s research on deceiving time, explaining that history could smooth over small changes and that clever wizards could disguise larger ones with substitute events.
• The Dragon listed ways to avoid time’s notice, including leaving no traces, preserving key events, acting in temporal blind spots, and letting history explain ambiguous actions.
• Ian connected the Dragon’s account to Dumbledore’s plans concerning Ariana and wondered whether a higher power had hidden important events from history.
• Ian asked about becoming a Dragon Slayer, and the Dragon explained that killing twelve Dragons could earn a world-granted reward and mark someone as more important to Destiny.

Ian learned that slaying twelve Ancient Dragons could earn a Dragon Slayer privileges from the world, then told Hogwarts’ senior dragon about the Titans and their alien origins. The dragon begged Ian to summon it to the real world, while Ian left for the Ancient Castle to find Teacher Morgan and discovered a note on her bedroom door.

• Ian asked the senior dragon why twelve dragons mattered, and it explained that twelve represented a complete cycle and that Dragon Slayers could receive privileges from the world.
• Ian told the dragon about the gods, the Titans, and the World Ship, and the dragon excitedly begged him to summon it to the real world so it could meet the aliens.
• The dragon explained that Dragon Slayer rewards strengthened weak Legends who had taken a shortcut to attain Legend, and said it felt no sympathy for its extinct kind.
• Ian reflected on whether Dumbledore, Raven, Death, and the events in the Black-and-White World had also deceived time and history.
• Ian went to the Ancient Castle to see Teacher Morgan, searched the dining hall and her usual rooms, and found a note on her bedroom door.

Ian explored Teacher Morgan’s castle while she was away, discovering its sentient objects, strange garden, and magical rooms. In the observatory, he opened a hidden compartment and found a notebook that transformed into a book titled “The Mystery of Fairy Tales.”

• Ian read Morgan’s warning on her bedroom door, peeked beneath it at strange Crystal Vials, and learned from the Ancient Dragon that Morgan might be gone for two days.
• Ian decided to explore the castle and fled after an obsidian-like suit of armor told him to kiss it.
• Ian entered the enchanted garden, ate a magical apple, and encountered a self-sweeping broom and talking Mirrors.
• Ian found silent, magically locked books in the study and backed out of a kitchen where animated utensils were fighting.
• Ian reached the observatory, answered a mechanical owl’s password challenge, and discovered Morgan’s hidden notebook, which became a book titled “The Mystery of Fairy Tales.”

Ian discovered Morgan’s enchanted fairy-tale book and learned that her research linked the decline of belief in fairy tales to the decline of magic. He returned from the Misty Illusion just as Dumbledore tried to stop a girl from cooking Fawkes.

• Ian used the password “Knowledge knows no bounds, truth is eternal” to open the mechanical owl’s hidden compartment and found Morgan’s notebook.
• The notebook transformed into The Mystery of Fairy Tales, revealing animated stories that taught magical principles and Morgan’s handwritten research.
• Ian read Morgan’s findings that 1990 ± 5 years would mark the birth of the last true fairy tale, followed by an age without hope, and learned that belief in magical creatures was declining among Hogwarts freshmen.
• Ian wondered whether Raven sought to restore humanity and save fairy tales and magic before the Misty Illusion pulled him away.
• Ian woke to hear Dumbledore telling a girl that Fawkes was a companion, not an ingredient, while she described her phoenix stew recipe.

Ian woke from the Misty Illusion and told Dumbledore that he had spent time with Ariana, while Claire questioned him about the memories he had encountered. Dumbledore explained how he had reached Ian through the Bronze Door, and Claire began simmering her Phoenix, Red Feather, as Ian and Dumbledore watched in disbelief.

• Ian woke to find Claire trying to persuade Dumbledore to let her stew Fawkes, while Dumbledore protected the frightened Phoenix.
• Claire said Ian's encounter with echoes of history had not been caused by her, though she might have acted as a catalyst.
• Ian told Dumbledore he had played with Ariana and that she had given him a Star Candy, prompting Dumbledore to reminisce about her.
• Dumbledore explained that he had deciphered the Bronze Door's magical mathematics and causal logic to locate Ian's era.
• Ian confirmed that twelve Ancient Dragons could earn a Dragonslayer recognition from the world, as Dumbledore and Grindelwald had learned from Lady Ravenclaw's paper.
• Claire's Phoenix, Red Feather, climbed into her Cauldron, and Claire claimed that simmering Phoenix soup strengthened it through its nirvana cycle.

Ian watched Claire use a phoenix rebirth ritual to produce a powerful soup, while Dumbledore left to collect alchemical materials for her. Claire then revealed that the leftover soup could refine the ancestors of the Dumbledore family, claiming it was the family’s origin.

• Claire explained that her phoenix grew stronger by stewing and consuming itself, while Dumbledore refused to subject Fawkes to the same process.
• Dumbledore departed to collect alchemical materials that Claire said had uses including strengthening the body and enhancing phoenix rebirth.
• Claire successfully created a Phoenix Rebirth Soup, and the phoenix reformed as an egg in a nearby nest.
• Claire drank the soup and offered some to Ian, who declined because he did not want to turn into an egg.
• Claire told Ian that the remaining soup could refine the ancestors of the Dumbledore family and declared it was the family’s origin.

Ian learned that the Dumbledore family's connection to Phoenixes came from Claire's soup and that time could flow in loops and reversals. To uncover more secrets and eventually return home, he agreed to collect materials across different eras using a Time Machine Claire had already built.

• Ian questioned Claire about the Dumbledore family's origins, and she explained that her soup had given the family its affinity with Phoenixes.
• Claire revealed that Titan exile prevented her from traveling beyond her floating island, and Ian agreed to gather materials for her.
• Claire gave Ian a list of rare materials, including crystals from the volcanic crater in the Misty Illusion, and explained that he could collect them because he could interfere with Destiny.
• Ian asked Claire to teach him Time Magic, but she said she would build him a Time Machine and explained that it could not take him all the way back to his own era.
• Claire revealed that she had already built a Doraemon-like drawer Time Machine, and Ian took the list and climbed inside.

Ian used Claire’s disguised Time Machine to travel to 300 BC Greece in search of a talking rose and Epiphyllum Flower Nectar. He arrived in a city under attack and heard someone accuse Athena of betrayal.

• Claire explained the Time Machine’s controls, warned Ian not to alter history, and told him to return with the green button if he faced danger.
• Ian set the destination to 300 BC Greece and activated the Time Machine despite Claire’s warning that gods there might recognize its stolen power.
• After a violent journey, Ian arrived in an alley, where the Time Machine had disguised itself as a bronze ring and played a recorded tutorial message.
• Ian left the alley and found a Greek city in flames as Spartan warriors attacked Athenian soldiers.
• Ian heard an enraged voice shout, “Athena! You betrayed me!”

Ian arrived in ancient Rhodes Island during a war and tried to stop the soldiers from slaughtering civilians. As Zeus watched Kratos battle the animated Sun God, Ian appeared beside the god and greeted him.

• Ian recognized Rhodes Island as an ancient center of magical civilization as Spartan soldiers attacked the city.
• Ian protected a civilian, transformed the soldiers’ weapons into squeaking toy chickens, and bound the combatants with a spell.
• Zeus arrived in the form of a giant eagle and animated the statue of the Sun God, which began destroying the city.
• Ian recognized Kratos as he fought the Sun God amid the destruction of Rhodes Island.
• Ian appeared beside Zeus and greeted him, startling the king of the gods.

Ian met Zeus among the ruins of Rhodes and demanded a talking rose, Epiphyllum Flower Nectar, and Godslayer’s Blood. Zeus pointed him toward Kratos, then left as Kratos fought the Colossus of Helios; Ian also kept his search for a god’s heart secret, and Zeus later blamed Ian for wanting Kratos dead.

• Ian appeared before Zeus, who recognized him as Raven and anxiously asked why he had returned.
• Ian requested a talking rose, Epiphyllum Flower Nectar, and Godslayer’s Blood, and Zeus agreed to obtain the first two while pointing to Kratos for the blood.
• Kratos fought the Colossus of Helios, denounced Zeus and the gods, and was knocked unconscious; Zeus revealed Kratos was his son and said he would let the colossus kill him.
• Zeus warned Ian not to interfere in the gods’ affairs, then flew away, while Ian secretly noted that he also needed a god’s heart.
• At Port of Rhodes, Kratos continued fighting after Zeus had drained his divine power, and Zeus descended in hawk form atop the colossus.
• Zeus told Kratos that someone wanted him dead and pointed toward Ian, whom Kratos then saw nearby.

Zeus stripped Kratos of his divine power and killed him after destroying the Spartan Legion, while Ian watched and protected the surviving civilians. Zeus gave Ian Kratos’s blood, but Ian predicted that Kratos would return.

• Zeus pointed out Ian to Kratos, who rejected the warning and charged at Zeus.
• Zeus used the Colossus of the Sun God to overpower Kratos, whose mortal body could not harm the God-King.
• Zeus unleashed the Sword of Olympus and annihilated the Spartan Legion, blaming their deaths on Kratos.
• Kratos bit Zeus and drew divine blood, but Zeus impaled him with the Sword of Olympus and killed him.
• Zeus collected Kratos’s blood and gave it to Ian, who said Kratos would come back.

After Zeus destroyed Rhodes Island, Ian buried the dead and urged the survivors to stop depending on gods and build their own future. Zeus considered killing them to suppress their new hope, but the Sun God stopped him by reminding him of his fear of Ian.

• Zeus gave Ian Kratos's blood and promised to deliver the Talking Rose and Epiphyllum Flower Nectar, while warning Ian to stay away from Mount Olympus.
• Ian used magic to bury the corpses and the fallen Sun God statue beneath the earth, then revealed the civilians he had secretly protected.
• When the survivors called Ian a god and offered to worship him, he urged them to rely on themselves, unite, and establish their own order.
• Ian transformed into a Raven and flew away, leaving the survivors with a new sense of hope instead of kneeling or praying.
• Zeus prepared to destroy the survivors, but the Sun God intervened and warned that doing so could bring Ian back; Zeus ultimately held back.

Zeus spared the surviving mortals and returned to Olympus while Ian searched the mountain for a dead god’s heart. With Athena’s guidance, Ian found Ares’s tomb, took his heart, and then traveled to Thebes, where he observed the gods’ influence among mortals.

• The Sun God warned Zeus that killing the mortals might give Ian a reason to attack, and Zeus released him before flying back to Olympus as an eagle.
• Ian followed Zeus toward Mount Olympus and searched for a dead god’s grave so he could obtain a God's Heart.
• Athena guided Ian to the Forbidden Land, where he opened Ares’s coffin and removed the God of War’s heart.
• Zeus told Athena to help Ian find the rest of his requested items so the gods could learn his purpose and send him away.
• Ian flew to Thebes and watched priests, divine incarnations, and a holy water procession spread the gods’ influence among the people.

Ian explored a city ruled by the gods, healed an injured hippogriff, and joined a secret gathering of Witches. When temple forces raided the gathering, Ian confronted them and challenged the gods to face him.

• Ian saw the city's people punished for blasphemy and witnessed a Divine Grace test that tied magical power and education to the gods.
• After Artemis's Priestess ordered unmarked wild magic users to register, Ian healed a hippogriff that temple healers had refused to help.
• Ian followed a Witch into a hidden gathering where attendees traded forbidden magical knowledge and discussed a bounty on a wizard matching Ian's description.
• Temple Knights and a priest raided the gathering, froze the Witches' magic, and prepared to arrest them.
• Ian addressed the temple forces and declared that if their goddess rejected Witches, the gods could face him.

Ian intervened when Temple Knights raided a Wild Wizard gathering, defeating them and freeing the wizards while Athena ignored the priest’s prayer. He drove the temple forces away and invited the Wild Wizards to continue their discussion.

• Temple Knights raided a gathering near Thebes and began arresting the Wild Wizards until Ian challenged them.
• Ian froze the charging Knights, struck down their leader, and used magic to defeat the rest and free the wizards from their chains.
• The priest called on Athena for aid, but the goddess did not respond, and Ian mocked the priest’s faith.
• Ian warned the temple forces to leave, and the Knights carried the injured priest out of the barn.
• Ian turned back to the Wild Wizards and asked them to continue their discussion.