Chapter Summaries

Eno defeated Yiva with a massive ice dragon and sealed her inside an iceberg, then invited Shyvana to join Freljord’s air force. Shyvana began to consider the offer, while Eno confidently promised that her teacher could persuade Yiva to join too.

• Shyvana and Eno trapped Yiva in ice, but Yiva broke free and tried to escape by flying away.
• Eno and Karya created an enormous ice dragon that chased Yiva, froze her, and sealed her inside an iceberg.
• Eno introduced herself to Shyvana as a Transcendent mage, and Shyvana explained that Yiva was her mother and had hunted her for being part human.
• Eno invited Shyvana to join Freljord’s air force and described the settlement’s acceptance of Magic Corruptors and others who did not fit in.
• Shyvana asked what would happen to Yiva, and Eno said her teacher could persuade the dragon to become the air force soldiers’ companion.

Karya transformed Yiva into a Frost Dragon and bound her to an Elemental Dragon Contract, while Eno told Shyvana about Zaun and suggested Karya could teach her. Yiva tried to escape but the contract stopped her, leaving Shyvana startled as Yiva cursed Karya.

• Yiva woke in an ice prison and learned that Karya had changed her from a Fire Dragon into a Frost Dragon and healed her wounds.
• Karya explained the Elemental Dragon Contract and guided Yiva through signing it in exchange for help advancing toward an Ancient Dragon.
• Eno described Zaun to Shyvana, who expressed a longing to visit and heard that Yiva would no longer be able to hunt her freely.
• Eno offered to introduce Shyvana to Karya as a teacher who could help her control her magic, dragon form, and instincts.
• Yiva woke, attempted to fly away, and was paralyzed by the contract rune before cursing Karya in Old Shuriman.

Quinn and Valor were sent to investigate the dragon near Green Tooth Peak, where they found that Eno and Karya had already captured Yiva. Quinn agreed to report that the Silencers had handled the danger, then returned to the defenders while Eno and Karya discussed Sona’s talent for making friends.

• The defenders at Green Tooth Peak chose Quinn and Valor to scout the Elemental Dragon and warn nearby villages.
• Quinn convinced the commander to let her track the dragon and help plan an ambush along its route.
• Quinn and Valor found Yiva bound on the ice, with Eno and Karya nearby.
• Quinn met Eno, learned the Silencers had captured the dragon, and said she would report that they had handled the problem.
• Quinn and Valor returned to Green Tooth Peak after checking that the fire was not spreading.
• Karya praised Sona for building friendships, while Eno said she could not learn Sona’s welcoming manner.

Sona toured Demacia with the Illuminators’ choir and learned that common listeners responded best when she reshaped familiar folk melodies to suit their tastes. Her performances became a success, and she recognized that music drew vitality from the needs and desires of its listeners.

• Sona performed for the public on tour, but her subtle music left the crowds unmoved.
• An older musician explained that commoners wanted music to unwind, not something they had to work to understand.
• Sona realized the Illuminators’ music needed to connect with familiar experiences and reworked folk melodies around songs for weddings and funerals.
• The audiences enthusiastically welcomed Sona’s new performances, and she felt the vitality music gained from its listeners.

Luxanna became Countess of Freljord at a grand ceremony in Demacia City and secretly resolved to return. Meanwhile, the fugitive Sylas fled north toward Freljord, hoping to gather strength for revenge.

• Jiawen III praised Luxanna's deeds, granted her the title of Countess and Freljord as her domain, and presented her with a scepter and seal.
• Luxanna gave a brief oath to serve Demacia, accepted the crowd's cheers, and privately vowed to return after establishing herself in Freljord.
• Sylas escaped Demacia City, disguised himself, and avoided main roads and major cities while fleeing north from the Magic Seekers.
• After rejecting Noxus and other nearby states as destinations, Sylas studied a stolen map and chose Freljord as a place to build his strength.
• Sylas reached Demacia's northern border and began climbing the mountains, intending to enter Freljord and later return for revenge.

Quinn and Caleb guided a noble hunting party, where a Razorbone Beast attacked and Quinn fought to protect her brother and a Blue Rock Falcon. After Quinn and Sona helped save the injured bird, Sona invited Quinn to join the hunt, and Quinn gained a new friend and companion.

• Quinn and Caleb trained as Irondale pathfinders and paused their enlistment plans to work as guides for a noble hunting competition.
• A Razorbone Beast attacked the hunting party, killed a baron, and wounded Caleb, so Quinn drew it away from the others.
• A Blue Rock Falcon joined Quinn against the beast, and Quinn killed it by shooting a bolt into its open mouth.
• Sona bandaged the falcon's injured wings with rune bandages and invited Quinn to join the hunt as a participant.
• Quinn collapsed from exhaustion, and Sona caught her and the falcon as the bird became her companion.

Lux led a large expedition of soldiers, Magic Corruptors, merchants, and craftsmen toward her Freljord fief, using nightly literacy lessons and Demacian history to build her army’s loyalty to her New Order. Her stories moved both the soldiers and the Magic Corruptors, leaving a story of a mage among Demacia’s founding heroes to take root in their minds as the journey continued.

• Lux organized the journey to Freljord with a thousand private soldiers and more than a thousand Magic Corruptors, alongside merchants and craftsmen.
• Lux focused on training her soldiers and used their future roles as officers to persuade them to attend evening literacy lessons.
• Lux taught through stories of Demacia’s history, with Sona providing musical accompaniment, and the soldiers grew engaged in the lessons.
• Lux’s account of Karya, a mage who saved Oren and became a founding hero, affected the soldiers and drew the Magic Corruptors to listen.
• Lux explained that the mage’s followers later became forerunners of the Illuminators and the Magic Seekers, prompting complicated reactions among the Magic Corruptors as the journey continued.

Lux pushed the reservists through a forced march north, then began teaching them to cooperate by making them haul Galio. Meanwhile, Sylas reached Dragon Ridge Mountains on his way to Freljord, where the worsening cold left him shivering and uncertain.

• Lux increased the reservists’ marching pace until they covered sixty miles a day for eight days, then slowed them as the altitude rose and temperatures fell.
• Lux had squads of sixteen pull Galio uphill and explained that the exercise would teach them to work together against powerful enemies.
• Lux challenged the soldiers to drag Galio out of a circle, but Galio held his ground and showed them how poorly the squads coordinated.
• Cisilia asked why they were training that way, and Lux said she wanted to prepare them before winter made further training difficult.
• Sylas traveled north alone, stole warm clothes, and climbed Dragon Ridge Mountains toward Freljord.
• Sylas reached the snowy ridge after several days of travel and shivered in the cold despite wearing a heavy fur coat.

Sylas chose to press deeper into the Freljord rather than risk being captured if he returned to Demacia. When he collapsed in a blizzard, Solva followed a mysterious summons to him, and he survived by stealing her magic.

• Sylas decided that death in the Freljord was preferable to returning to his prison, and continued north through the worsening cold.
• Solva rode with Frelna and the Winter's Claw Raiders as a blizzard intensified, then spotted a lone figure in the snow and felt compelled to approach.
• Despite Frelna's warning that the figure might be in danger, Solva rode toward him, and the raiding party followed.
• Solva found Sylas collapsed in the snow and examined the glowing stones on his chains, which seemed to cause the tremor in her heart.
• Sylas suddenly bound Solva with his chains, drained her magic, then draped his robe over her and thanked her in Demacian.

Eno visited her family in Silvermine City and tried to bring them with her to Freljord, but they refused to leave their home. After Karya helped her explain her work in terms of roads, irrigation, and farmland, they accepted her decision to go and build a future there.

• Eno's parents initially mistook her return for an escape from prison, but her brother's account of her status helped them understand that she worked for Countess Luxanna.
• Eno's parents refused to move to Freljord, and her brother urged her to return to Silvermine City instead.
• Karya advised Eno to describe her plans for roads, irrigation, and farmland so her family could understand her work.
• Eno's family warmed to her plans for developing Freljord, and her father gave her a pouch of money for the work.
• Eno's mother tried to arrange a marriage for her brother, while her father privately encouraged Eno to work hard and bring home a suitable partner.

Eno and Shyvana began surveying Freljord while Lux was away, and Karya helped Shyvana pose as a young Piltover investor to overcome the locals’ distrust. Shyvana met the head of Freljord’s merchant guild to discuss buying Ling Jiang in bulk, and he recognized her as someone from Piltover.

• Eno arrived in Freljord and began a social and economic survey with Shyvana while Lux was away hauling Galio.
• Shyvana struggled to speak with wary locals, so Karya advised her to present herself as a Piltover investor.
• Karya helped Shyvana prepare a wealthy young businesswoman’s backstory and directed her to the merchant guild.
• Shyvana visited the Freljord merchant guild and asked to place an advance bulk order for Ling Jiang.
• The guild’s owner, who had led the earlier caravan, recognized Shyvana as a visitor from Piltover after noticing her accent, clothes, and Hextech horns.

Shyvana and Eno used a failed attempt to buy Ling Jiang to survey Fosberon’s economy and draft a regional report. Lux arrived with soldiers, Galio, and Magic Corruptors just as the report was completed, giving her an initial picture of the region’s population, trade, and industries.

• Karya coached Shyvana to keep the guildmaster focused on Ling Jiang, and she convinced him she was a Piltover merchant without answering his questions about Piltover.
• The guildmaster explained that Ling Jiang was gathered seasonally in unpredictable quantities, then showed Shyvana other Fosberon goods in hopes of securing her business.
• Shyvana used the guild’s assistance to research local prices and markets, while Eno helped her investigate Fosberon and nearby settlements.
• Shyvana and Eno’s report described Fosberon’s sparse population, unstable household incomes, difficult transport, and reliance on the merchants’ guild for trade.
• The report identified specialty plants, Ochre Blue Stone, and fur as Fosberon’s main exports, and noted that mineral processing profits went to Seka Town.
• Lux arrived in Fosberon with soldiers, Galio, and Magic Corruptors as Shyvana and Eno completed their first report, and she felt relieved to receive it.

Lux reviewed Eno and Shyvana’s incomplete socioeconomic survey of Freljord, while Sylas was surrounded by Winter’s Claw warriors after taking the shaman Solva’s blessing. He tried to steal the ancient ice magic in Brokvar’s sword, but the power overwhelmed him and left him unconscious.

• Lux recognized that Eno and Shyvana’s first survey draft relied on unreliable local figures but could help guide future development in Freljord.
• Frelna and the Winter’s Claw warriors surrounded Sylas after Solva collapsed, and Sylas and Frelna exchanged their names despite not understanding each other’s language.
• Solva lay freezing in the snow after losing her protection from the cold, while Sylas covered her with his fur coat.
• Brokvar attacked Sylas with Winter’s Sigh, and Sylas struggled to defend himself against the stronger warrior.
• Sylas tried to use his Nullstone chains to steal the True Ice in Brokvar’s sword, but the magic overwhelmed him and knocked him down.

Sylas stole the power of True Ice from Brokvar’s greatsword and nearly froze to death, but gained control of it when Brokvar hauled him up. Solva persuaded the Winter’s Claw raiders to consider cooperating with Sylas against Demacia, though Frelna required him to prove himself first by fighting against the Avarosans.

• Sylas wrapped Nullstone chains around Brokvar’s greatsword and stole the True Ice within it, but the power froze him solid.
• Solva stopped Brokvar from killing Sylas, calling the incident a divine trial, and told him to pull Sylas up.
• When Brokvar grabbed him, Sylas stole the giant’s Iceblood Lineage power, mastered the True Ice, and created a forest of Ice Spikes.
• Solva told Frelna that Sylas wanted to work with the Winter’s Claw against Demacia and claimed the Three Sisters had granted him control of True Ice.
• Brokvar and the warriors embraced the story of the Three Sisters’ guidance, while Frelna remained wary of Sylas’s claims.
• Frelna agreed to consider Sylas’s proposal if he fought alongside the Winter’s Claw against the Avarosans, leaving Solva responsible if anything went wrong.

Luxanna arrived in Freljord to take up her position as its new lord, while local merchants welcomed the prospect of her support and hunters worried about losing their path into the Third Legion. The Freljord Merchant Guild greeted her at the city gates, where Sambor recognized her and she addressed him by name.

• Luxanna planned to win over Freljord’s residents by addressing their needs, including promising a road to Silvermine City.
• Freljord’s merchants welcomed the news of a lord who could improve their trade, while hunters feared her arrival would hinder their recruitment into the Third Legion; miners and herb gatherers remained indifferent.
• Luxanna reached Freljord with her private army, Magic Corruptors, and Galio, whose size made it impractical to bring him inside the city.
• Guildmaster Sambor went to greet Luxanna and explain why Galio had to remain outside the walls.
• Luxanna emerged from her troops’ formation, dismounted, and greeted Sambor by name, leaving him stunned.

Lux traveled north with her army and the Nullstone Colossus Galio to take up her lordship in Freljord, where merchants welcomed her while hunters worried and workers remained indifferent. After arriving outside the city, she met guild representative Sambor, whose thoughts went blank when she greeted him.

• Lux considered how to win over Freljord's people and saw a road to Silvermine City as a way to benefit them.
• Freljord's merchants welcomed the prospect of a lord who could support their trade, while hunters feared losing their direct path to the Third Legion and miners and herb gatherers stayed indifferent.
• Lux led her private army, Magic Corruptors, and Galio north and arrived outside Freljord.
• The merchants' guild sent Sambor to welcome Lux, and he saw Galio and her disciplined troops as signs of her influence.
• Lux rode out from the ranks, dismounted, and greeted Sambor, leaving him speechless.

Sambor doubted Luxanna’s promise to build an artificial lake in Freljord’s frozen ground and met with her to explain the obstacles. Lux revealed that the unusual magical abilities of the Magic Corruptors traveling with her could make the project possible, leaving the lake plan tied to their training.

• After Luxanna promised five years without taxes and announced a winter artificial-lake project, Sambor worried about the cost of her troops and the impossibility of building on Freljord’s frozen ground.
• Sambor requested a meeting with Luxanna and explained how frozen soil was hard to dig in winter and riddled with thermokarst lakes in summer.
• Luxanna agreed that the ground posed difficulties, but was surprised and impressed that Sambor had offered her honest advice.
• Luxanna recalled how Sona had assessed the more than a thousand Magic Corruptors traveling north and found many had rare or unusual magical talents.
• Luxanna planned to use the Magic Corruptors’ varied powers to train on the frozen ground while digging an artificial lake strong enough to withstand the spring glaciers.

Luxanna worked to establish her rule in Freljord while easing tensions with the Magic Corruptors and regulating local guilds. Exhausted, she learned that Frey would join her at the settlement, where Sephika’s reason had begun to return.

• Luxanna gave Sambor a draft proposal to bring Freljord’s guilds under government supervision and asked him to discuss it with the other leaders.
• Luxanna recalled her packed days of meeting military and local leaders, addressing tax farmers, and helping the Magic Corruptors settle and control their magic.
• Luxanna sentenced Magic Corruptors who had abused their powers and left Karya and Shyvana to oversee the camp and assess the settlers’ magical abilities.
• Eno brought Luxanna food and told her that Karya had arranged the frost dragon Yiva as Luxanna’s personal mount, which she could ride only at night.
• Eno told Luxanna that Frey would accompany them to the camp and that Sephika’s reason had begun to return.

Eno and the 11th Squad traveled to Silvermine City as Shyvana and Yiva investigated Winter's Claw's gathering in Freljord. Sejuani prepared to attack Avarosa after learning how Ashe's scouts tracked her forces, while Silvermine City went on high alert after a Dragon Rider was shot down.

• Eno left for Silvermine City with the 11th Squad, Shyvana, and Yiva to deliver supplies and investigate Freljord's gathering warriors.
• Sejuani summoned Winter's Claw's scattered raiders to the Sanjigra Plains, intending to break through Avarosa's defenses and capture Frostport.
• Sejuani ordered her warriors to attack a large bird overhead, which fled wounded after they struck it with arrows and an axe.
• Three days later, Eno arrived at Silvermine City and found its troops and militia mobilized for war.
• Eno's brother told her that a Dragon Rider had returned wounded after Winter's Claw attacked him, and that more than a hundred bonfires marked the tribe's gathering.

Eno transported grain from Silvermine City toward Freljord as Demacia mobilized its northern defenses, while Sejuani led Winter’s Claw west and Ashe struggled to prepare the Avarosans for winter. The chapter ended with Ashe learning that Winter’s Claw had taken Nuskar Pass and Sejuani had killed its defender, Braca.

• Eno met General Hunchar, who warned her that Freljord’s forces had attacked Dragon Riders and urged Earl Luxanna to prepare for a major invasion.
• Eno collected grain and supplies, then led the Hextech mages and Northern Warhorses out of Silvermine City across the frozen canal toward Freljord.
• Demacia placed its northern legions and militias on full alert as Winter’s Claw assembled fewer than twenty thousand seasoned warriors.
• Sejuani led Winter’s Claw west across the Sanjigra Plains, intending to plunder and absorb the tribes in its path toward Avarosa territory.
• Ashe refused demands to raid other tribes and tried to reassure the Avarosans despite a failed cassava crop and a difficult winter ahead.
• Ashe learned that Winter’s Claw had captured Nuskar Pass five days earlier and that Sejuani had killed its defender, Braca, in single combat.