Chapter Summaries

Lux’s artificial lake project stopped the Freljord Glacier and drew residents’ attention as spring arrived. At her spring speech, Lux explained that the lake was the first part of her plan to use Freljord’s water resources to support trade.

• The Fosberons discovered that a vast artificial lake had trapped the glacier at its source outside Freljord.
• Residents recalled Lux’s promises of tax relief and waterworks, and merchants’ guild clerks announced that she would give another public speech.
• More people filled the central plaza to hear Lux’s spring speech after hearing about the lake and her winter visits to local homes.
• Lux told the crowd that the lake had been completed three days earlier and was part of the Freljord waterworks project.
• Lux explained that she hoped to use Freljord’s abundant water to improve commerce, as Silvermine City did.

Luxanna explained how Freljord’s new artificial lake would support trade and improve access to clothing and medicine, then presented her plans for the year. The Hextech users received public recognition, and the chapter ended with Freljordians looking ahead to the changes promised before winter.

• Luxanna compared the artificial lake to a giant soup bowl and explained how waterways could ease Freljord’s hardships and connect it to southern markets.
• Luxanna introduced the Hextech users who had built the lake, and recovered patients led the crowd in applauding them.
• Luxanna announced plans to expand trade, cultivate Northern herbs, and consolidate the blue ochre stone industry.
• Luxanna promised to report back before winter, and the crowd welcomed her plans with cheers and applause.

Fuquilin and the Hextech users joined the First Harvest Team to survey plants in the Dragon's Ridge Mountains, where their magic challenged Nadinsson's expectations. After seeing an igloo and an oak tree forced into an autumn state to provide acorns, Nadinsson began to observe the Hextech users as his mother had urged.

• Fuquilin traveled with Cisilia, the Hextech users, and soldiers on the First Harvest Team, and Cisilia promised to request Yuncong Flower seeds if Fuquilin focused on the trail.
• Fuquilin struggled through the steep, deep snow, slowing the team, while a Hextech user built an igloo beside the hunter's cabin for the crowded group.
• Fuquilin gave Nadinsson hot roasted acorns that Brunoklin had gathered from an oak tree he had magically brought into an autumn-like state.
• Nadinsson read his mother's advice to observe and record, tasted the acorns, and acknowledged that they were delicious.

The Hextech mages improved the first-harvest team’s meals and demonstrated how magic could help cultivate northern plants. At the team’s first observation site, Fuquilin began an experiment to simulate the growing conditions of Cassidoro flowers, leaving Nadinsson hopeful that the rare spice could someday be farmed.

• Brunoklin used magic to grow fresh fruit and nuts for the team, then explained to Nadinsson that overusing magic would eventually kill a plant.
• After three days of travel, Nadinsson led the team to their first observation site, where they found dormant Cassidoro flowers growing among the rocks.
• Fuquilin ordered the mages to build an ice greenhouse around a selected flower and began accelerating its growth.
• Braum controlled the greenhouse’s temperature while Anna managed humidity, and Fuquilin directed the team through changing the flower’s simulated conditions.
• Nadinsson realized the experiment might reveal how to cultivate Cassidoro flowers and felt both excitement and worry about the prospect.

Fuquilin and her team chose Xianghongsu as Freljord’s first plant for artificial cultivation after evaluating the northern plants’ growing conditions and economic value. Granny Nadin told Lux about her failed attempts to grow it and pledged the herbalists’ support, leaving Lux committed to finding a way to cultivate it.

• Fuquilin’s team completed field experiments and explained why the Fosberons had struggled to grow Freljord’s native plants.
• At a meeting with Lux, Karya, and Granny Nadin, the group ruled out the Cassidoro flower and chose Xianghongsu for artificial cultivation.
• The group identified Xianghongsu’s harvestable first-year leaves, high yield, and uses in oil and dye as advantages, while Fuquilin planned further experiments.
• Lux invited Granny Nadin for tea and asked why she had stayed silent during the meeting.
• Granny Nadin recalled that her own Xianghongsu plants had died in summer and winter, then said she wanted herbalists to avoid risking their lives in the mountains.
• Granny Nadin promised Lux that the herbalists would support cultivation, and Lux solemnly agreed to find a way to grow Xianghongsu.

Yin Nuo traveled to Velo Village to investigate Blue Ochre Stone mining and assess how to improve its processing. After seeing the unsafe mine conditions, she realized the operation needed urgent safety attention.

• Yin Nuo arrived in Velo Village and met Mr. Jiram, the mining association head, who hoped Lux would help the miners process Blue Ochre Stone locally.
• Yin Nuo asked Jiram to show her an active mine, despite his warning that it was dirty and that work had only just resumed.
• Yin Nuo found the mine shaft had no supports or permanent lighting and recognized the high risk of a collapse.
• Jiram explained that Velo Village had formed around the expanding mines and that miners had already abandoned two levels.
• Yin Nuo pressed her temple as Jiram assured her the mountain still held plenty of ore, realizing he was ignoring the danger of the mine collapsing.

Eno saw that Velo Village’s unsafe, inefficient mining methods stemmed from a shortage of workers and the harsh living conditions, then promised Jiram help with ore washing and crushing. She asked him to try her mining improvements afterward, leaving his answer unresolved.

• Eno asked Jiram about the mines’ output and learned that Velo Village also had black iron ore it could not mine.
• Eno told Jiram that the village’s mining methods were dangerous and inefficient, and he explained that only about a thousand men worked underground because few people lived there.
• Jiram showed Eno the village entrance and described its relentless cold winds and the difficulty of commuting from elsewhere.
• Eno promised to bring water from the artificial lake and find a way to crush ore, then asked Jiram to try her suggestions afterward.

Lux’s reforms began transforming Freljord’s mining and herbalism industries, while hunters grew resentful that their own work and prospects seemed unchanged. After Raliumur leaked news that the Northern Third Legion would recruit fewer militiamen, Lux and General Robes redirected aspiring recruits into Lux’s private army, turning the hunters’ discontent into support for her and leaving Raliumur outmaneuvered.

• Eno arranged for Hextech users and villagers to develop ore washing and crushing in Velo Village, while Lux pursued a direct buyer for the stone and mining reforms joined Freljord’s agenda.
• Hunters grew restless as herbalists, miners, and water-management projects made progress, and they questioned why Lux had not sent help to their guild.
• Raliumur learned from General Robes that the Northern Third Legion would reduce militia recruitment, then leaked the news to stir opposition among hunters.
• Lux and General Robes announced that aspiring militiamen could join Lux’s private army instead, with the same number of places and the possibility of knighthood.
• Lux organized spring militia enlistment training and personally taught the recruits, gaining influence among hunters while Raliumur’s maneuver backfired.

Fiora represented Lux in Freljord’s hunter recruitment, while the chapter recounted how Lux’s earlier duel had taught Fiora to accept responsibility and loss. After Fiora surrendered to Jax in a bridge fight, their conversation led her to consider leaving Demacia City.

• Lux appointed Fiora as her representative for the new recruit selection in Freljord.
• Fiora recalled how Lux’s calm concession and acceptance of the Stone Crown Punishment changed her view of defeat and her family obligations.
• Fiora went to the stone bridge after a masked stranger defeated five Laurent guards, and she introduced herself to Jax.
• Jax blocked Fiora’s attacks and taunted her until she used her Sword Dance Waltz against him.
• Fiora lowered her sword to acknowledge defeat, and Jax laughed before speaking with her at length.
• After talking with Jax, Fiora resolved to consider leaving Demacia City.

After learning from Jax, Fiora left Demacia City with Lux’s faction and broadened her experience through military service and recruitment work. As she prepared to join Eno’s first trade mission to Freljord, Jax returned and asked her to introduce him to Luxanna.

• Jax advised Fiora to broaden her horizons, focus on swordsmanship rather than politics, and leave Demacia City to see more of the world.
• After Lux returned to Demacia City, Fiora joined Lux’s faction and traveled north, where Lux’s lessons and work in Freljord changed Fiora’s understanding of Demacian history and society.
• Fiora recruited hunters from Freljord and studied their rough, practical fighting styles, then asked Lux to assign her to a Northern Trade expedition.
• Lux sent Fiora to Eno, who made her deputy leader of the escort for Freljord’s first trade mission that summer.
• Jax visited Fiora and asked her to introduce him to Countess Luxanna.

Jax asked Lux to support Icathia’s recovery, claiming that Icathia had the right to inherit the Shuriman Empire. He left Lux stunned by revealing that he wanted her to endorse a duty-free trade route between Zaun and Icathia’s Kalong Harbor.

• Jax asked Fiora to arrange a meeting with Lux and gave her a letter, saying an old friend from Icathia wanted to see her.
• Lux agreed to meet Jax after hearing he came from Icathia and recognizing a possible connection to Karya.
• Jax revealed that he had once been called Ajax and said he had come to raise funds for Icathia’s recovery.
• Jax argued that Icathia was the rightful heir to the Shuriman Empire and that Lux, as Karya’s heir, should help rebuild it.
• Jax clarified that he wanted Lux to endorse a petition for a duty-free trade route between Zaun and Icathia’s Kalong Harbor.

Lux declined to make commitments to Jax without more information, while news of her golden feather stirred Shurima and drew envoys and spies toward Zaun. As Lux began Freljord’s first trade with the Avarosan tribe, the Aspects sent Kayle down Mount Targon, and a chained Fallen Angel recognized her as her big sister.

• Lux asked Jax to prepare a report, and he returned to Icathia determined to win her support for a sea trade route with Zaun.
• Karya’s golden feather spread news of Lux’s succession across Shurima, drawing spies and envoys to Zaun.
• Zaun allowed the rival spies to fight in its abandoned mines at night until war in Nazumah and the falling star drew them away.
• The Aspects sent Kayle from Mount Targon to recruit mortals, and a chained Fallen Angel in Zhenxi County sensed her arrival and called her big sister.
• Lux watched Eno’s caravan carry oats toward the Avarosan tribe, then asked Karya to help her build a team in Freljord.

Lux worked to build Freljord’s administration by establishing an adult education program to train local clerks, but few people enrolled because they could not afford to stop working. After learning that the first trade had earned far more than expected, she ordered the city’s four organizations to send students and offered generous subsidies.

• Eno led a caravan to Freljord, while Kuren led a gift-laden caravan to Silvermine City and construction delegates joined the caravan to Demacia City’s trade fair.
• Lux focused on creating an administrative organization for Freljord, but she could not simply fill its positions with Hextech users from outside the city.
• Lux announced six months of adult education, promising that graduates who passed her examination could become clerks.
• Fewer than a hundred people enrolled in the first ten days because students would lose a season of work and risk their families’ winter livelihood.
• Yiva brought Lux Eno’s letter reporting unexpectedly high profits from the first trade, so Lux ordered the four organizations to select students and offered them generous subsidies.
• The closing note explained that Demacian merchants could advance from saving money and building connections to becoming tax farmers and eventually tax collectors.

Everyday goods in Freljord’s first trade with Avarosa drew little interest, but tea and tobacco became unexpectedly popular. Ashe’s encounter with tea led Tryndamere to trade a huge bear for the Frostport intelligence team’s entire supply, leaving tea associated with love among the Avarosans.

• Eno sent Yiva back with a letter describing the Avarosans’ strong interest in everyday goods during the trade negotiations.
• Avarosans showed little interest in most goods but offered game in exchange for the tea and tobacco brought for the Frostport intelligence team.
• Sona’s love of tea had spread the drink among Hextech users and Freljordian soldiers, while intelligence teams treated it as a rare comfort.
• Ashe tried tea during a late discussion with the Frostport intelligence team and told Tryndamere how refreshing it was.
• Tryndamere returned from a hunt dragging a huge white bear and exchanged it for the intelligence team leader’s entire supply of tea.

Tryndamere’s bond with Ashe deepened as his bear hunt sparked tea and tobacco trading between Avarosa and Freljord. Lux used the resulting trade income and new markets to advance Freljord’s reforms, until Sambor reported that an angel had descended in Demacia City.

• Tryndamere won over Ashe through his growing admiration for her and brought back a polar bear to trade for tea, provoking rival Avarosans to hunt bears until Ashe stopped them.
• Avarosans traded game for tea and tobacco, and Ashe arranged an official tobacco trade with Eno, who reported the deal to Lux.
• Lux approved the tobacco trade, expanded hide markets through visits to Demacian cities, and helped establish the Northern Trade route.
• Lux, Eno, and Sona organized clerk training, True Ice processing, Hextech restructuring, and new duties for Freljord’s army, while Karya reviewed their plans.
• Eno prepared a second caravan to Frostport, and Sambor sent news from Demacia City that an angel had descended.

After learning that Kayle had appeared in Demacia City, Lux sent Shyvana there to gather intelligence for Freljord. Shyvana delivered letters to Sambor but discovered that Nullstone Prison had been rebuilt, leaving her to improvise a way to learn more.

• Lux, Eno, Sona, and Karya discussed Kayle's arrival and chose Shyvana to investigate Demacia City.
• Karya advised Shyvana to use her ability to fly and carry letters from Lux and Sona to their families.
• Shyvana flew south, disguised herself as a Zaunite merchant, and entered Demacia City.
• Shyvana gave Lux and Sona's letters to Sambor, who promised to deliver them to Crown Guard Manor and Buweier Manor.
• Shyvana went to the abandoned Nullstone Prison to contact the Silencers but found it rebuilt and guarded.
• Shyvana distracted a guard squad leader with exaggerated praise of the buildings and learned he directed her to the Art Support Association.

Shyvana visited Demacia City's Art Support Association to investigate rumors about the Winged Sisters, only to find the arts scene consumed by their sudden appearance. She bought an invitation to a dance where she hoped to learn more, after intimidating the gallery guide with her Dragon's Might.

• The chapter described how the Art Support Association had grown into an arts center and informal gathering place for Demacian nobles, including untitled noble offspring seeking respectable work.
• Shyvana judged Demacia's art conservative compared with Piltover's and planned to use the association to ask about rumors surrounding the angels' descent.
• Shyvana found the gallery filled with art about the Winged Sisters and learned that the association had shifted its events toward exhibitions, readings, and history salons about them.
• The gallery guide told Shyvana about a special dance and suggested she could attend as a foreign lady, prompting her to warn him that she was there for art, not frivolity.
• Shyvana used Dragon's Might to frighten the guide, then paid three Gold Hextech Coins for an invitation and left him to cover the currency difference.

Shyvana investigated the Art Support Association’s plans for commemorating the Winged Sisters and returned to Freljord with her findings and two letters. Lux and Sona concluded that Demacia was concealing what had happened to Kayle, Taric, and Morgana, but that Freljord faced no immediate threat.

• Shyvana attended the Art Support Association’s ball, met Crown Prince Jarvan IV, and noticed his questions about statues focused unusually on Morgana as well as Kayle.
• Jarvan IV left the sculpture meeting while the artists argued, and Shyvana spent two days gathering information about the angel’s descent.
• Sambor delivered letters from Crown Guard Manor and the Buweier estate, and Shyvana flew back to Freljord with the letters and her findings.
• Lux and Sona learned from the letters that Kayle and Taric had vanished after the angel’s descent, while Jarvan III and the Illuminators kept the matter from the nobles.
• Lux proposed that Taric and Morgana might have joined forces to imprison Kayle, and the group decided Freljord could continue its plans while monitoring Demacia.

Lux handled Freljord’s daily affairs, reviewing trade accounts and teaching Hextech how to process True Ice. Her lesson was interrupted when Cisilia told her that a hunter’s son was showing signs of magical corruption.

• Lux collected breakfast for herself and Sona, then they ate before heading to their respective work.
• Lux reviewed the summer trade accounts with Sambor and asked him to prepare a preliminary plan for the autumn trade.
• Lux went to the clerk training program and taught gifted Hextech how to safely control True Ice fragments.
• Cisilia told Lux that a hunter’s wife had come for help because her son was showing signs of magical corruption.

Lux welcomed young Lova into the Hextech after his magical awakening and began considering how Freljord could actively find and recruit other mages. She ended the chapter planning to test the idea through trade with Silvermine City.

• After Lova's magic caused his home to collapse, Lux arrived with Hextech members and stopped him from running away with a sheet of ice.
• Lux explained that Lova could join the Hextech, and his mother agreed after observing Lux teach an open class.
• Madam Lova entrusted Lova to Lux, and the Hextech welcomed him as their newest junior member.
• Lux considered using Freljord's trade network and magical vision to find mages beyond the Magic Seekers' reach.
• Lux added a plan to test mage recruitment through trade with Silvermine City to her notes.