Chapter Summaries

Eno and Ashe concluded a supplementary trade agreement that gave Freljord favorable terms, while Lux searched for a market for Freljord’s growing fur supply. Inspired by Lova, Lux realized Zaun could connect Freljordian furs to customers in Noxus and Ionia, and she began recording plans to pursue those markets.

• After five days of negotiations, Eno and Ashe signed an agreement for Avarosa to exchange furs for tobacco, accept lower prices for recreational goods, and pay for tea with True Ice shards.
• Eno handed over the tobacco and tea, collected another shipment of furs and other goods, and set off for Freljord.
• Lux struggled to find buyers for Freljord’s furs after the angels’ arrival disrupted her plan to create a fashion craze in Demacia.
• When Lova asked Lux about places outside Demacia, Lux remembered Zaun and recognized it as a potential route to markets in Noxus and Ionia.
• Lux filled her notebook with ideas for selling furs abroad, added a note to thank Lova, and put away her work to get dinner.

Lux proposed sending Eno on a long sales trip through Zaun and Bilgewater to reach markets in Ionia, and Eno accepted despite her initial dismay. At a meeting, Karya helped the group plan for setbacks, while Lux realized they had accepted Eno as the envoy without revisiting the decision.

• Lux explained that Eno would need to travel through Zaun and Bilgewater to sell Freljord's pelts in Ionia, and Eno felt overwhelmed by the lengthy journey.
• Lux apologized, but Eno decided to go as a traveling saleswoman, saying she had grown since their earlier travels together.
• After Shyvana returned three days later, Sona offered to make the trip, but Lux, Eno, and Karya rejected the idea because Eno had stronger connections and was better suited to the work.
• Karya supported foreign trade and asked the group to rank Zaun, Bilgewater, and Ionia by importance while preparing for possible problems along the route.
• Karya led Lux, Eno, and Sona through brainstorming setbacks and solutions, and Lux realized they had accepted Eno's departure without discussing who should go.

Eno departed Freljord with a thirty-person envoy while Karya stayed behind to fulfill his responsibilities. As winter approached, trade and new food supplies improved life in Freljord, and Lux prepared to deliver her first year-end report.

• Karya trained Eno in hypothetical reasoning and shared his knowledge with her as Freljord assembled a thirty-person envoy for her journey.
• Eno led the envoy out of Freljord in early autumn, while Lux and Sona watched them depart from the city walls.
• The New Porters traded sea fish with Freljord’s residents, and Hextech established a dedicated marketplace as the newcomers began using Demacian currency.
• Lux expanded autumn grain supplies and arranged a fresh-milk route from Pozaka, helping oats and milk become a more common winter meal.
• Freljord’s residents prepared larger, more varied winter stores as Anivia’s breath arrived, and Lux prepared to deliver her first year-end report.

Lux delivered Freljord City's first Winter Speech, reviewing the year's progress and announcing plans for the canal, mining, Xianghongsu cultivation, and the Northern Wanderers Legion. As Ashe considered expanding trade to sustain the Avarosans, Sejuani weighed winter targets for a raid and summoned Sylas to discuss attacking Silvermine City.

• Lux addressed the people of Freljord City, reviewed the year's changes, and announced canal construction, miner recruitment, Xianghongsu trials, and the renaming of the city's military forces.
• Lux reflected on her first year as lord and resolved to build the city's sense of belonging through action and hope.
• Ashe recognized that the Avarosans could not sustain their trade in furs and planned to trade tobacco and tea for goods to sell to Freljord City.
• Sejuani concluded that the Winter's Claw's growing population and limited productivity demanded a winter war for supplies.
• Sejuani weighed raiding the Avarosans against attacking Demacia, then ordered someone to fetch Sylas.

Sylas led Winter's Claw through a hidden glacier route into Demacia, hoping to provoke an assault on Silvermine City, while Sejuani and General Hunchar each waited for the other to make a costly move. The standoff shifted when Garen Crownguard arrived with reinforcements from the Dauntless Vanguard.

• Sylas persuaded Sejuani to launch a southern campaign and promised a quick route to Silvermine City.
• Sylas and ice mages guided Winter's Claw through glacier crevasses across the Dragon Ridge Mountains, and the raiders looted nearby villages.
• Sejuani rejected Sylas's calls to attack Silvermine City and instead raided villages to gather supplies and draw out its defenders.
• General Hunchar reinforced Silvermine City's defenses, evacuated nearby villages, and requested help from the Dauntless Vanguard rather than risk an open battle.
• Sejuani grew frustrated with Hunchar's refusal to fight and considered attacking the city walls.
• Garen Crownguard arrived at Silvermine City leading an elite Dauntless Vanguard force.

Garen arrived in Silvermine City and planned to trap the Freljordian raiders while the Fearless Vanguard crushed them in battle. He challenged Sejuani’s forces to buy time, but Sylas stepped forward to duel him and revealed that he had once been a Demacian.

• Garen and Hunchar agreed to block the glacier gap and force the Freljordians into a decisive battle west of Silvermine City.
• Garen volunteered to challenge the Freljordians and draw their attention while Demacia built its defenses.
• Sejuani learned that Garen had challenged her, and Sylas recognized the Crownguard name as belonging to his enemy.
• Sejuani gave Sylas permission to duel Garen and handed him a Winter’s Claw banner.
• Garen and Sylas met between their forces, and Sylas revealed that he could understand Garen because he used to be a Demacian.

Sylas defeated and gravely wounded Garen in a duel, using Garen’s magical greatsword against him, then captured Demacia’s battle standard and withdrew. Sejuani ordered the Winter’s Claw army to stop raiding and besiege Silvermine City, while Hengchaer tried to restore the city’s morale as news of the invasion reached the Northern Third Legion.

• Sylas exploited Garen’s momentary hesitation to bind him with Nullstone chains, but Garen fought back and accused him of betraying Demacia.
• Sylas copied Garen’s magical greatsword and used it to strike him down, then demanded to know why the Magic Seekers had never imprisoned him.
• Garen’s warhorse disrupted Sylas’s attempt to kill him, allowing the Fearless Vanguard to rescue Garen and retreat toward Silvermine City as Sylas took the Demacian banner.
• Sejuani ordered the Winter’s Claw forces to assemble and march on Silvermine City after their raids and Sylas’s victory weakened the defenders.
• Hengchaer rallied Silvermine City’s soldiers by promising reinforcements and noble titles for those who distinguished themselves in the defense.
• The Northern Third Legion had only just received word of the large-scale Freljordian invasion.

After learning that Winter's Claw had invaded Silvermine City, Lux worried that General Robes would waste Freljord City's resources on a scorched-earth plan. Karya showed her how to block the plan by guaranteeing Galio could defend the city, leaving Robes to strengthen the Third Legion's defenses instead.

• Lux identified Winter's Claw as the force attacking Silvermine City and worried about the danger to its villages.
• General Robes declared an emergency and proposed that Lux's administrative staff help clear the countryside around Freljord City.
• Lux decided she could not reveal her Freljord intelligence network to Robes, but also did not want the city to bear the costs of a scorched-earth plan.
• Karya advised Lux to appear protective of Freljord City's development and use Galio as the basis for guaranteeing its defense.
• Lux realized that Robes could not challenge her guarantee or carry out the plan without her support, so he would have to rely on the Third Legion's defenses.

Lux refused General Robes’s scorched-earth policy and devised a way to reinforce Silvermine City quickly after learning that Garen had been gravely wounded and a Northern Second Legion unit was stranded. She took Galio and a team of Hextech users toward the city, leaving Robes to defend Freljord.

• Lux held firm against General Robes’s arguments, and Freljord’s forces instead patrolled the Dragon Ridge Mountains with Hextech users observing the glaciers.
• A letter from General Hunchar reported that Garen had been gravely wounded and that a stranded unit northwest of Silvermine City needed guides to help it retreat.
• Lux rejected Robes’s renewed scorched-earth proposal and announced she would take Galio to rescue the stranded soldiers and drive back the Freljord invaders.
• Robes saw Galio come to life and accepted Lux’s plan, while warning her to proceed cautiously.
• Lux and the Hextech users charged Galio with magic, gathered supplies and herbalist guides, and set off toward Silvermine City as Galio flew away.

Luxanna gathered Hextech users to charge Galio and flew with them toward Silvermine City, where Garen’s forces needed urgent support. As Lux meditated during the long journey, a roar suddenly rang in her ears.

• Luxanna summoned most of the Hextech users to charge Galio for the flight to Silvermine City.
• Beroba installed a temporary Nullstone passenger cabin in Galio’s chest so Luxanna and seven Hextech users could travel with him.
• Galio took off with Luxanna and the others while Shyvana guided him east along Dragon Ridge Mountains.
• Luxanna helped the Hextech users prepare for battle and used Sona’s incense to steady her mind.
• Luxanna closed her eyes to meditate, then heard a sudden roar call, “Storm!”

Lux and the Spellcasters survived a terrifying encounter with the Old Gods after using spirit-communicating incense. As Winter’s Claw struggled to breach Silvermine City, Sejuani persuaded Udyr to contact Volibear for help.

• Lux entered a chaotic storm in the Spirit Realm, but Karya woke her and the other Spellcasters before they became lost.
• Karya explained that the incense had contacted all spirits, including Freljord’s Old Gods, and reassured the Spellcasters that the Great Serpent of Lunde had been a powerful beast.
• Hengchaer’s defenders repelled Winter’s Claw’s attacks on Silvermine City’s harbor by breaking the ice beneath the attackers.
• Sejuani concluded that conventional assaults could not take Silvermine City and decided to seek aid from the Old Gods.
• Udyr warned Sejuani that contacting Volibear was dangerous, but she persuaded him to attempt it, and he took out incense.

Sejuani reluctantly allowed Udyr to call on Volibear after Winter's Claw's mages failed to freeze the Nullstone-lined harbor defenses. As Demacia awaited reinforcements, Luxanna sent word that she was bringing Galio to rescue Garen and the detached force, and arrived with Shyvana at their mountain hideout.

• Sejuani ordered Winter's Claw's spellcasters to reinforce the ice, but Sylas explained that the Nullstone walls absorbed their magic and prevented it from freezing.
• Udyr lit the Ionian incense and called upon Volibear's power, as Sejuani and Sylas heard a thunderous voice ask who had called upon the storm.
• Hunchar visited the wounded Garen, who agreed to support the Savage-Resisting Knights and learned that Luxanna was coming to reinforce them.
• A Dragon Rider delivered Luxanna's letters: she planned to reach the detached force and block the Freljordians' retreat, while telling Garen she was coming to save him.
• Galio and Shyvana found the detached force in a mountain hollow, where the soldiers recognized Galio and cheered as he prepared to land.

Lux arrived with Galio to support Borga’s divided force and chose to turn back toward Silvermine City for a counterattack. With Karya’s guidance, she seized temporary control of the troops and began leading them east, leaving their morale improved but the campaign’s outcome unresolved.

• After three days of retreat, Borga’s soldiers argued over whether to keep withdrawing or counterattack, and Borga struggled to control the dispute.
• Galio brought Lux to the force, where she introduced herself and heard Borga explain the troops’ condition.
• Lux chose to counterattack and followed Karya’s advice to secure command by challenging dissenters to duels.
• Lux defeated nine objecting squad leaders in a one-against-many duel, then sent messengers to announce the counterattack.
• Lux turned the force east toward Silvermine City and promised benefits to raise morale among the soldiers.

Lux discovered that followers of the Old Gods had joined Winter's Claw and sent Shyvana to scout them, while the Lost Ones launched a devastating assault on Silvermine City. The Silverstream River flooded the harbor district, and lightning killed Hengchaer, leaving the city in danger without its commander.

• Lux and Karya identified traces of lightning on the destroyed supplies as evidence of the Old Gods' followers, and Karya warned Lux not to assume they could be countered by Galio.
• Lux slowed the army and sent Shyvana to scout toward Silvermine City.
• Hengchaer spotted the Lost Ones carrying fragments of a Dragon Rider's armor and realized the missing Dragon Rider had likely been killed.
• The Lost Ones danced and called on Volibear's power, breaking upstream structures and sending the Silverstream River surging toward Silvermine City's harbor walls.
• Lightning struck Hengchaer and his guards on the command platform as the flood battered the harbor district, leaving the Northern Second Legion without its commander.

Volibear’s followers unleashed a catastrophic flood that overwhelmed Silvermine City, while Garen struggled to restore order and defend the city. As the Jewel of the North stood exposed and vulnerable, Shyvana reported its perilous condition to Lux.

• The Lost Ones destroyed dams and waterways along the Silverstream River, while Volibear’s lightning shattered glaciers and sent a massive flood downstream.
• The flood breached Silvermine City’s harbor defenses, sparking panic and deadly stampedes as residents fled toward the central district.
• Garen learned that Hengchaer and the senior officers had been killed, then ordered troops to organize the evacuation and protect the city’s districts.
• Garen recognized that his relatives had used concern for residents’ livelihoods as a pretext to oppose stronger defenses, but he had no time to confront them.
• Garen arranged temporary shelter for refugees and realized the flooded harbor district left Silvermine City dangerously exposed.
• Shyvana reported Silvermine City’s dire condition to Lux as Lux carefully led her troops forward.

After a flood left Silvermine City exposed, Garen rejected his relatives’ plan to appease the Freljordians and seized their estates’ supplies for the defense. Meanwhile, Karya planned a surprise attack timed to Winter’s Claw crossing the river, with Lux and Shyvana aiming to kill Sejuani and break the enemy army.

• Garen’s relatives urged him to trade supplies for peace, and he smashed a bottle over his uncle’s head before declaring that he would defend Silvermine City.
• Garen ordered the Fearless Vanguard to seal the banquet hall and help him take control of the nobles’ estates and property.
• Shyvana returned with news of the flood, and Karya explained to Lux that Winter’s Claw could not attack until the river calmed.
• Karya proposed hiding their three thousand troops near the crossing, bluffing that Sejuani had been killed, and using Hextech to make the force sound larger.
• Karya told Lux and Shyvana to wait apart from the battle and strike Sejuani as she tried to restore her army’s morale, and Lux agreed.

Sejuani led Winter's Claw into Silvermine City's harbor district by crossing the Silverstream River, while Lux prepared a surprise attack with a hidden Demacian force. After Garen's defenders were pushed back, Lux's army appeared behind the warriors still crossing, leaving Winter's Claw caught between two forces.

• Sejuani reluctantly agreed to the Lost Ones' demand that Winter's Claw wait for the current to ease before swimming across the river.
• Lux placed three Hextech lookouts on West Mountain and rallied her exhausted soldiers to attack Winter's Claw as it crossed.
• Garen organized Silvermine City's defenses and ordered his troops to meet Sejuani's first wave in the harbor district.
• Sejuani led mounted warriors across the river, and the Lost Ones broke through the Demacian line long enough for Winter's Claw to secure a foothold.
• Garen retreated toward a new defensive line as more Winter's Claw warriors crossed, but Lux's hidden army appeared behind those still in the river.

Lux led a surprise attack that routed the Winter's Claw forces at Silvermine City, then ambushed Sejuani as she crossed the river. Udyr embraced Volibear's power to save Sejuani but died stopping Lux, while Galio's arrival helped secure a costly Demacian victory.

• Lux led Demacian troops in a surprise assault on the Winter's Claw warriors waiting to cross the river, driving many into the water and causing widespread chaos.
• Lux and the Demacians shouted that Sejuani was dead, prompting Sejuani to turn back across the river and rally her fleeing warriors.
• Lux rode Shyvana into an aerial attack and used a Light-forged spear to grievously wound Sejuani and kill Steelmane.
• Udyr accepted Volibear's power and held off Lux's attack long enough for Sejuani to disappear, but he was consumed by the heavenly light.
• Galio landed in the river beside Lux, scattering the Winter's Claw warriors and breaking their resistance.
• The surviving Winter's Claw forces fled in disarray, and Silvermine City won the battle at great cost.

Ezreal and Kassadin traveled through Shurima and into Khar'sai, where they fought strange Void creatures on their way to Icathia. As a giant eyeball trapped them in an apparent time loop, a mysterious voice announced that someone had triggered the time lock again.

• Kassadin led Ezreal through an ancient underground aqueduct to a hidden oasis, where he refused to let Ezreal publicize its fragile ecosystem.
• Ezreal told Kassadin that his parents had gone into the desert and never returned, and Kassadin shared how the Void had destroyed his own home and family.
• Kassadin and Ezreal reached Khar'sai and set out for Icathia, intending to destroy the Void cult's holy land and collect specimens.
• The pair discovered that burrowing Void beasts hunted by sound and touch, then encountered an eyeball creature whose remains crumbled into sand.
• A giant eyeball pursued Kassadin and Ezreal, erased their laser and a boulder with its purple beam, and drove them to hide among cliff walls.
• Kassadin saw the wall dissolve and reform while Ezreal ran through repeating motions, and a voice said that someone had triggered the time lock again.

After Silvermine City’s battle ended, Lux reunited with Garen and proposed a way to make their relatives help fund the city’s recovery. At a banquet, Garen used their relatives’ greed and past support for bribing the invaders to pressure them into financing a forward fortress near the Dragon Ridge Mountains.

• Galio ferried the victorious soldiers across the Silverstream River while harbor residents cheered and Lux reunited with Garen in Silvermine City.
• Garen asked Lux to help reconcile with the Crown Guard relatives whose estates and warehouses he had seized, and Lux proposed pressuring them to contribute to reconstruction.
• Garen hosted the relatives at a banquet, announced plans for a forward fortress north of Silvermine City, and suggested taxes might rise if the city lost its frontier status.
• The relatives loudly opposed higher taxes and urged Garen to protect Silvermine City’s tax privileges, revealing their willingness to cooperate for their own benefit.
• Garen announced that the relatives would fund the fortress and reminded them that someone had proposed bribing the Freljord barbarians to withdraw, leaving the nobles stunned.