Recaps

Tang uncovered Elusha’s hidden imprisonment and learned that Damon planned to open a passage to Avernus by sacrificing Wind Sand Islet’s souls. After stopping Damon’s ritual and vanishing in the Balor’s explosion, Tang woke in the Great Desert with Shalti and Night Wind and began traveling west toward the Tyron Empire.

• Tang, Shalti, Bella, and Night Wind uncovered the prison’s hidden cells, rescued Elusha, and escaped after the Warden let them go.
• Elusha told Tang that Damon had been persuaded to revive Asmodeus’s plan to sacrifice souls and open a new passage to Avernus.
• Damon’s ritual engulfed Wind Sand Islet as corrupted Beastfolk became devils, while Kandelian, Leon, and the refugees fought to survive the assault.
• Tang arrived with the allied army and ordered his forces to protect refugees and capture corrupted Beastfolk alive as a Balor emerged from the fiery second sun.
• Tang used two Dimensional Bags to form an Astral Gate that pulled Damon away and stopped the ritual, then vanished with the Balor when it exploded.
• Shivana set out to search for Tang, and Halahar located him in the Great Desert beside Shalti and Yiwu.
• Tang, Shalti, and Night Wind traveled west toward the Tyron Empire as Tang gained new Journal rewards and learned that Asmodeus’s Gaze let devils recognize him.
• Tang used Charm Monster to divert a Blue-Footed Dragon Serpent, but after he and Night Wind found Drow-marked Hook Horrors, dark figures appeared on the dunes.

Tang reached Lightless City disguised as a Drow and learned that the Kling prisoners and the Golden Beacon were central to the coming sacrifice. After fighting Chris and negotiating with a Mind Flayer, Tang proposed turning the city’s oppressed men into a resistance against the Matron Mothers.

• Tang and his companions defeated Sarah’s Drow at the outpost, then Nightingale revealed that the Kling survivors were being held for sacrifice in Lightless City.
• Tang’s group crossed the Underdark and reached Lightless City, where Tang entered disguised as Drizzt Do'Urden and received the empty Kling residence from the Spider Silk Matron Mother.
• Nightingale and Night Wind found their mother, Ye Ying Kling, imprisoned with hundreds of wounded Drow, while Tang evaded the Matron Mother’s spy and stirred the spy’s resentment of Drow society.
• Tang and Shalti infiltrated the prison, where Night Shadow Kling revealed she had thrown the Golden Beacon into Dark Lake and offered to guide Tang to the ruins if he rescued her family.
• Chris attacked Tang and Shalti at the Kling estate, but Tang defeated him with Shalti’s help before a Mind Flayer seized Tang and tried to bargain for Chris.
• Tang escaped the Mind Flayer’s grasp and learned that Ye Ying Kling held the Golden Beacon, which opened the way to the Golden Country, while the Mind Flayer sought to plunder its ruins.
• Tang offered to work with the Mind Flayer to retrieve the Golden Beacon and proposed rallying the city’s men against the system, asking the Mind Flayer to spread their suppressed doubts.

Tang rallied male Drow and the Kling captives against the matriarchal order, then survived Lolth’s test and helped defeat the spiders and Mind Flayers threatening Lightless City. The Spider Silk Matron Mother remained alive as Night Shadow proposed sharing political power and Tang prepared to support a new order.

• Tang exposed Sarah’s betrayal to Sir Raffi and used the Hero Tavern to rally male Drow against the matriarchal system.
• Tang’s followers gathered in secret, but the Spider Silk Matron Mother moved the Kling sacrifice forward and brought Tang and Shalti to the Spider Temple.
• Tang set fire to the temple webs to free the Kling captives, and armed male Drow stormed in as Rafi killed the Poison Sting Matron Mother.
• Lolth appeared, confirmed that she had imposed the Drow’s social order, and forced Tang, Shalti, and the Kling family into deadly tests of betrayal.
• Tang survived Shalti’s dagger and used his connection to Asmodeus to withstand Lolth, whose avatar was driven off by hellfire.
• Tang led the survivors through a spider siege, then rallied Lightless City’s Drow and slaves to defeat the spiders and free the slaves.
• Tang led the crowd to the Mind Flayers’ lair, where a Beastfolk serf killed the Elder Brain and Tang forced the surviving Mind Flayer to accept blame and surrender its Conch Ship research.
• Night Shadow proposed keeping the Spider Silk Matron Mother as nominal ruler while Matron Mothers shared authority, and Tang stood with Ye Ying Kling as the Matron Mother addressed the crowd.

Tang Qi led the Drow toward Dragon Gold City, then traveled with Shalti to recover Falto’s remains in the Golden Country’s ruins. They defeated a Death Tyrant, and Shalti began confronting her sealed Wild Magic and her feelings for Tang Qi.

• Spider Silk revealed Lolth’s betrayal to the Drow, and Tang Qi urged them to leave the underground and join the migration to Dragon Gold City.
• Tang Qi gained new abilities from his Journal, met Anduin at the Dark Lake, and brought the Drow to the Dragon’s Nest, where he warned the dragons that the Phlogiston Sea would consume their world in two years.
• The Crystal Dragon explained Thom’s sacrifice and the dragons’ plan to save their young, while the Ancestor Dragon agreed to help Yiwu and trusted Tang Qi’s hope for escape.
• Tang Qi and Shalti traveled to the Golden Beacon, explored the Golden Country’s ruins, and found Guard No. 17, who joined them in searching for survivors and Falto’s remains.
• Tang Qi, Shalti, and No. 17 retrieved Falto’s body, but a cavern collapse sent them into a lake, where Shalti explained that her wild magic had caused Falto’s death and may have created a Living Prismatic Spray.
• A Death Tyrant ambushed the group at the ruins’ exit, and Tang Qi, Shalti, and No. 17 fought it as it raised zombies and nearly killed Tang Qi.
• Shalti let the Living Spell engulf her to break her stable Magic Web, then reclaimed her Wild Magic and killed the Death Tyrant with Prismatic Spray and Control Chaos, though No. 17 was destroyed.
• Tang Qi woke in Gold City, where he urged Shalti to face her fear of her magic, and she admitted that seeing him had stirred confusing feelings before agreeing to explore her curiosity.