Recaps

Tang Qi uncovered the Dream Society’s fabricated world, helped preserve it while its members began learning the truth, and joined Shalti and Dawn to pursue the Plague Outpost forces. The arc ended with the forest threatened and Tang Qi’s group tracking the captured druids and their captors.

• Tang Qi’s musical earned the Queen’s favor, and he and his companions went to Wish Palace, where Rumi wished to see his mother and the Queen resurrected Windsor Emerald Leaf.
• Tang Qi challenged the Queen’s account of Rumi’s mother, fought her forces, and learned from Markwen and Elder Bell Deer that Ebony Forest was a shared dream created to conceal the Society’s mutations and plague history.
• Tang Qi agreed to keep the dream’s truth secret, while Shalti told him about her past and accepted his invitation to travel with him after the festival.
• Tang Qi and Markwen investigated the Flail Snail’s disappearance, and Tang Qi realized Markwen had staged the thefts to hide his plan to end the dream and return the Society to reality.
• With the ritual short of [Road of Wealth], Tang Qi retrieved mushrooms from reality and helped Bell Deer grow enough to sustain the dream, while the Society began releasing its wishes and Rumi recovered his memories.
• Tang Qi and Shalti discovered that the Plague Outpost was harvesting Plague Source from infected people and preparing to attack Ebony Forest, while the outpost’s forces captured druids and their allies.
• After the forest barrier repelled Malin’s fire spell, Kandelian turned on the druids and captured them for their Plague Source, and Tang Qi, Little Rascal, Shalti, and Dawn followed the army’s tracks as Rumi returned to warn the High Elder.

Tang Qi fought Kandelian, exposed the massacre at the Plague Outpost, and helped reunite the two Societies before leaving for the Southern Great Wall. Meanwhile, Wendy, Anbi, Hubble Hall, and Arthur pursued the War Hatchet, ending trapped in a cabin as the mercenaries closed in.

• Shalti led Tang Qi, Dawn, and Little Rascal to Kandelian’s camp, where they fought the soldiers and Kandelian offered to hire them to retake the Southern Great Wall.
• Tang Qi refused to fight at the front, but he and his companions battled Kandelian, who survived their attacks as an undead revenant before the group subdued his forces.
• Kandelian used Iron Bastion walls to crush residents at the Plague Outpost, while Rod, Wendy, and the Halfling struggled to protect them.
• Tang Qi and his companions reached the ruined outpost, rescued survivors, and learned that Kandelian had killed thousands, and Ashley and the poets recorded the massacre in Tang Qi’s diary.
• Tang Qi gained new spells and True Sight, then worked with Bell Deer and Malin to unite the Societies and relocate the refugees to Ebony Forest.
• Tang Qi formed a Hag Gathering with Quinn, but his curse binding and sense of being watched from the south led him to consider going to the Southern Great Wall.
• Tang Qi sent Anbi north with Wendy and Hubble Hall, while Punk helped refugees and Anbi recognized Arthur, who enlisted Wendy to investigate the War Hatchet.
• Anbi exposed Punk as Monka’s informant and tracked Monka to a cave, after the group captured a mercenary, the War Hatchet found their cabin and advanced as Arthur remained in prayer.

Tang Qi uncovered the Aether Prism’s connection to the Southern Great Wall, defeated the Snakefolk’s plans, and rallied an alliance across the Gray Desolate Plains. After conquering and converting Beastfolk tribes, he followed Leon through a secret passage beneath the desert and reached a cavern where an Aboleth awaited.

• Wendy and Anbi fought Monka Battlecry’s mercenaries, and Hubble Hall found an Aether Prism in the cave that revealed the Southern Great Wall had collapsed from within.
• Tang Qi led the Beastfolk across the Gray Mountains, exposed the Snakefolk’s attempt to enslave his party, and captured their leaders and freed their prisoners, including Leon Lionheart.
• Tang Qi and Leon brought the alliance toward Wind Sand Islet, where Tang Qi learned of the coalition’s defeat and found Sandworm Hollow destroyed by Beastfolk forces.
• Shivana challenged Tumor to single combat, defeated him, and helped secure the surrender of the Poison Wolf Tribe and its allies, whom Tang Qi ordered to be confined and taught the Ironblood Bible.
• Tang Qi learned that Bella had stolen the Aether Prism for the Deep Pit Lord and agreed to help her investigate, then made peace with Shivana and shared a night with her.
• Tang Qi’s followers gained a new prayer-given power as the alliance entered the Little Desert, and Leon used Bella and the Aether Prism to open a passage beneath the sand.
• A Spice-fed sandworm carried the alliance to a tunnel leading toward the pyramid, where Tang Qi protected his companions from psychic attacks before identifying a huge three-eyed creature as an Aboleth.

Tang Qi helped Wind Sand Islet survive a Beastfolk siege, uncovered a conspiracy involving Damon and the Aether Prism, and reunited with the Collector at the Southern Great Wall. The Collector revealed the Forgotten Continent’s fate and sent Tang Ran and his companions to infiltrate Great Wall Prison to investigate Damon and search for the Succubus.

• Tang Qi saw the aboleths’ memories through the Aether Prism and learned from Eve Edel how gods, civilizations, and the Forgotten Land were tied to the world’s impending end.
• Tang Qi joined Shedskin, Uha, and Bella in uncovering a scheme involving a stolen Aether Prism, a fake assignment, and [War Hatchet] as the Beastfolk attacked Wind Sand Islet.
• Tang Qi rallied the defenders with his song, reinforced the northern wall, and defeated Anduin after Dawn and the others helped hold off the dragon.
• After the Beastfolk retreated, Tang Qi found explosives and a tunnel beneath the gate, then connected the attack to an internal Alliance mole and suspected Damon.
• Tang Qi helped the Morning Light tribe fight gnolls and blue dragons, and learned from Sivir that a Gnome had awakened the dragons and made a pact to break through a wall.
• Tang Qi reunited with Anbi and the Collector at the Southern Great Wall, identified Damon as the mastermind behind the Aether Prism scheme, and learned that the Collector had sent Dawn’s possible sword sheath to Dragon Gold City.
• The Collector told Tang Qi and Dawn that the Forgotten Continent was an isolated, stitched-together world destined for destruction, and explained that Dawn may have sealed the Gates of Hell fifteen hundred years earlier.
• The Collector gave Tang Ran a map of Great Wall Prison, and Tang Ran recruited Shalti, Bella, and Night Wind to infiltrate it and investigate the Beastfolk’s retreat and the Succubus.