Chapter Summaries

At the Tarot Club, Cyril revealed the Royal Family’s cooperation with the Demoness Sect and shared dangerous secrets about the Kings of Angel. The gathering ended with Cyril advising Alger to secure an Ocean Songster characteristic before buying the Potion formula.

• Audrey and Fors thanked the Fool’s blessed, and Cyril explained that the Demoness Sect and the Loen Royal Family had cooperated, while Queen Mystic disrupted the True Creator’s descent ritual and rose to Sequence 2.
• Audrey apologized for not obtaining more of Roselle’s Diary, and Fors provided three pages for Klein to read.
• Derrick described how the City of Silver’s Chief broke the Fate Loop and identified Amon and Ouroboros as the Angels of Time and Fate.
• Cyril warned that most of the other Kings of Angel were alive, then revealed that Adam was the Angel of Imagination and still led the Twilight Hermit Order; he gave Fors a suggestion to prevent her from recalling the information outside the Fool’s divine kingdom.
• Cyril told Alger that the Ocean Songster Potion formula cost 5,000 pounds and advised him to find a matching Beyonder Characteristic or Mystical Item before purchasing it.

At a Tarot Club gathering, Emlyn learned about tainted Vampires in the City of Silver and arranged potential trades for their Beyonder Characteristics, while members exchanged information about other ingredients. The gathering ended with Cyril offering a batch of Beyonder Characteristics for sale, leaving the others imagining how he had obtained them.

• Derrick told Cyril that trouble had delayed his return to the City of Silver and that recruiting a Vampire-hunting team would take a few more days, prompting Emlyn to clarify Sanguine distinctions and ask about the Vampires there.
• Cyril offered to buy Vampire Characteristics from Derrick and resell them to Emlyn, while Alger told Emlyn about a Sanguine Baron's Characteristic held by a pirate and estimated it would cost four to five thousand pounds.
• Emlyn gave Audrey prices for Elder Tree Fruit and Mirror Dragon blood, and Audrey accepted his offer; Emlyn also found a source for Meteorite Crystal, while Alger said he might find Lava Octopus Blood Crystal at a gathering at sea.
• Audrey explained that transactions were completed through sacrifices and prayers to Mr. Fool, then Emlyn received the ritual instructions and surveyed the Tarot Club members.
• The World offered Audrey a lead on a Psychiatrist's residual Characteristic, which she accepted, and Cyril announced that he had a batch of Beyonder Characteristics to sell.

At the Tarot Club, Cyril traded Beyonder Characteristics and offered Audrey a future Mystical Item, then learned of a disguised Loen officer expected at Dock 13. Afterward, Emlyn judged Cyril a dangerous killer, and Cyril met Cheryl at her bar, where she complained that his reputation was driving away customers.

• Cyril offered several Beyonder Characteristics for sale, and Alger bought the Seafarer Characteristic while Audrey reserved a Mystical Item made from the Disciplinary Paladin Characteristic.
• World agreed to sell Cyril a Faceless Characteristic, and Cyril explained that false auxiliary ingredients could substitute for missing Potion ingredients if a Visionary twisted reality and illusion.
• After the Tarot Club ended, Cyril burned nearby spirits with golden flames, spoke with a woman in an orange priest's robe, and received a message about a disguised Loen military officer appearing at Dock 13 the next morning.
• Emlyn recalled the Tarot Club and privately decided that Cyril was bloodthirsty and dangerous, while considering the other members and their potential.
• Cyril traded the Faceless and Seafarer Characteristics, then visited the Bay Bar, where Cheryl revealed that she owned it and blamed his fearsome reputation for driving away customers.

Cyril visited a rival bar, where a woman explained the history of Elves on Sonia Island before a drunken Elf-blooded man attacked her and was incapacitated by unseen spirits. After Cyril cleared lurking spirits from the street, he confronted an Elf who had followed him and learned that her group had rejected the man as not being true kin.

• Cyril arranged with Cheryl to sell several characteristics and have others forged into mystical items by an Artisan.
• At Frost White Wind Bar, Cyril questioned the bartender and a woman about Feynapotter rule and the history of Elves on Sonia Island.
• A drunken man with Elf blood interrupted the woman's story, and unseen forces damaged his Mind Body after he threatened her.
• The woman identified Cyril as Randolph, a renowned Bounty Hunter, and suggested he take the incapacitated man to the police for a bounty.
• Cyril left the bar and used golden flames to destroy nearby Undead and Nature Spirits.
• Cyril confronted an Elf who had followed him, and she said the drunken man was only an ordinary human with a little Elf blood, not one of her group's true kin.

Cyril rejected the Elves’ attempt to recruit him through marriage, then traveled to Sonia Island and followed a gray-clad man to a hidden bar. There, Cyril clashed with the man and Olivia, and recognized the man as a follower of the Mother Goddess of Depravity.

• Cyril refused the Elf’s offer to join her race by fathering an Elf descendant and escaped her wind blades.
• Cyril received a letter urging him to return to Backlund for a family reunion, learned that Edefana was recovering from a curse, and had her create an avatar for him.
• Cyril’s recurring dark-mire dream resisted divination, and an unmarked portrait led him to watch a gray-clad man arriving at Golden Fishing Port.
• Cyril secretly followed the man to a bar where Olivia and the Elf were waiting, but the man exposed him and trapped him with transparent walls.
• Cyril seized Olivia as a hostage, but the gray-clad man’s curse weakened his grip and Olivia blasted him away.
• The gray-clad man struck Cyril, who escaped the blow with a paper figurine and identified the man as a follower of the Mother Goddess of Depravity.

Cyril fought Olivia and a gray-clad follower of the Great Mother in a bar, then escaped after a devastating explosion. A Silver Knight and a military officer arrived, and the officer began preparing a purge of the active Elves on Sonia Island.

• Cyril used Dawn Armor and a greatsword of dawnlight to wound Olivia, then unleashed Storm of Light against her and the gray-clad man.
• The gray-clad man drained Olivia to restore his strength and attacked Cyril, but struck a lifelike portrait instead of Cyril himself.
• Cyril hurled a blue flaming spear through the gray-clad man's seals, causing an explosion that destroyed the bar and apparently killed Olivia and the follower.
• A Silver Knight arrived and questioned Cyril, who identified the dead man as a Gifted follower of the Great Mother; the Silver Knight let Cyril leave, citing an oracle from the God of Combat.
• A military officer learned that the Elves had grown more active and said the Empire would likely organize a purge of their strongholds on Sonia Island.
• The Twilight Sword Squad arrived at the ruined bar.

Cyril learned that the Mother Goddess of Depravity would seek to reclaim him, then joined Klein aboard the White Agate while pursuing his Scribe potion digestion. In Backlund, the Machinery Hivemind questioned Arrodes about the angels’ clash, but the mirror revealed only cryptic images.

• Cyril asked Adam about a believer of the Mother Goddess of Depravity and learned that she wanted to give birth to him again, while Adam said the High-Dimensional Overseer opposed her and fate correcting him.
• Cyril refused to choose who should become the Calamity of Destruction, then confirmed Adam had left by tossing a Gold Horn and divining.
• Cyril and Haven arrived in Midseashire and agreed to prepare a story before facing Cyril’s parents’ questions.
• Cyril found Klein aboard the White Agate, explained that following him could help digest his Scribe potion, and played a harmonica as flying fish leaped from the sea.
• Archbishop Horamick Haydn and the Machinery Hivemind questioned Arrodes about the royal family’s angels; the mirror showed multiple angelic figures confronting one another and later revealed a crimson figure surrounded by flame-like lights.

Cyril boarded the White Agate under the name Randolph Carter and joined Klein and Captain Elland after they encountered a fish-man on deck. The group gathered for a meal of fish-man meat and wine, while Cyril’s supposed Lucky Coins drew Klein’s skeptical attention.

• The Machinery Hivemind captain failed to answer Arrodes, was struck by green lightning, and left with wild curly hair and charred patches.
• Cyril met Captain Elland outside his quarters and paid for a first-class cabin under the name Randolph Carter.
• Cyril sensed activity on deck, and Elland explained that former adventurers were hunting a fish-man after arranging for the patrols to stay away.
• Elland shot the fish-man, and Cyril joined Klein and two children before giving the children two Gold Horns he falsely called Lucky Coins.
• Cyril admitted to Klein that the coins were not specially blessed, though his Spirituality could detect them nearby because he often used them for Divination.
• Elland invited Cyril and Klein to share fish-man meat and stories, then poured his Sonia Blood Wine for himself and Cyril.

Cyril joined Captain Elland, the passengers, and crew for dinner on the White Agate, where talk turned to Bansi Island and the bounty on the Mystic Queen. A letter from Trissy arrived by messenger, and Cyril concealed his powers while easing Klein’s fear and entertaining the children, as Krivis and Elland each tried to interpret what they had witnessed.

• Elland explained that the White Agate would sail from Damir Port straight to Tiana Port and could not approach Bansi Island because the Church of Storms had barred access to its waters.
• Cyril said he hoped to visit Bansi Island and finish what the Church of Storms had failed to do, while Elland announced that the Loen authorities had raised the Mystic Queen’s bounty to two million pounds.
• At dinner, a letter appeared before Cyril, and Edfana’s malice terrified Klein until Cyril used Immunity to Fear to calm him.
• Cyril read Trissy’s letter asking for clues about her next Sequence, then burned it and used his powers to chill Danton’s tea and warm Donna’s.
• Krivis recognized Cyril as a powerful Beyonder, while he and his companion chose not to reveal that they knew his identity.

Cyril and Klein traveled aboard the White Agate while Tobias gave Trissy the Demoness of Affliction potion formula and asked her to spread his Lord’s name. At Damir Port, Cyril destroyed the wanted posters bearing his likeness and reunited with Danitz, who had mistaken Klein for a bloodthirsty monster.

• Cyril and Haven joked about Mr. Glay’s repeated stories during a visit to a villa in Constant City.
• Cyril sensed a subtle gaze while reciting a poem aboard the White Agate, and he told Klein that Elland and the former adventurers had recognized him.
• Tobias appeared before Trissy, gave her the Demoness of Affliction potion formula, and asked her to quietly spread his Lord’s name in the East District.
• The White Agate reached Damir Port, where Elland told his first mate to pretend not to recognize Cyril and avoid unnecessary trouble.
• Cyril spotted his and Queen Mystic’s wanted posters, then destroyed every poster bearing his likeness in the port.
• Danitz met Klein in an alley and said Klein had seemed like a bloodthirsty monster, while Cyril recognized Danitz and teased him.

Cyril confronted Medici Sauron Einhorn, who was possessing Ince Zangwill, after the evil spirit trapped a family in overlapping nightmares and unleashed ghosts. Cyril drove Ince away, saved the family, and found a torn notebook page where he had vanished, leaving him to wonder whether Fate or an Author had influenced Medici’s choice.

• Klein questioned Danitz about White Shark, then left; Cyril asked Danitz about high-bounty pirates and learned that Admiral Disease and one of Admiral of Hell’s captains were nearby.
• Cyril sensed danger near the docks and arrived as Krivis, Uludi Blanche, and his family were caught in frightening dreams and surrounded by undead.
• Cyril recognized Ince Zangwill as the vessel for Medici Sauron Einhorn, who claimed he had come to greet Donna and Danton.
• Cyril used Exile to drive Ince away, then imprisoned and burned the remaining ghosts and undead.
• Cyril returned Danton’s Gold Horn after using it to soothe the family, and Uludi thanked him before taking everyone back toward the White Agate.
• Cyril found a torn notebook page where Ince had vanished and wondered whether Fate or an Author had caused Medici to choose Ince.

Cyril investigated Ince Zangwill’s cryptic message and learned that the Red Angel evil spirit sought a sacrifice on Bansy Island to draw power from the City of Calamity. Back aboard the White Agate, Tobias began recounting his past, including his service to the God of Death and the origins of his contamination.

• Cyril used a Crystal Ball to examine Ince Zangwill’s note, found that its message had been deliberately obscured, and destroyed it.
• Captain Elland and the Blanche Family thanked Cyril, who refused their payment and explained how Donna and Danton could use their Lucky Coins to contact him.
• Danton told Cyril he had seen a man held by a three-mouthed monster, while Krivis said his memories remained fragmented and unclear.
• Cyril reasoned that Medici had tried to use him to escape the struggle within the evil spirit, then recorded Ince Zangwill on Bansy Island and learned that the group planned to use 0-08 to create a deadly story.
• Tobias told Cyril he had followed the God of Death, participated in the Pale Disaster, and later gained a Weather Warlock Beyonder Characteristic that he believed had been corrupted from the start.

Tobias recounted surviving the Pale Disaster and learned that Azik Eggers was alive, while Cyril proposed using Adam’s help to confront Tobias’s other self. Aboard the White Agate, Klein, Danitz, Cyril, and Tobias encountered one another as a pirate ship approached, leaving Cyril considering how to salvage its loot.

• Tobias told Cyril that he had served as a Balam Empire legion commander, escaped the Pale Disaster, and obtained a Weather Warlock characteristic from the fallen God of Death.
• Cyril told Tobias that Azik Eggers was alive and suggested they enlist him to deal with Tobias’s other self, with Adam providing support.
• Tobias went on deck, where Klein noticed him and Danitz boarded the White Agate; Tobias then recognized a Demoness and made her lead him toward her room.
• Cyril joined Klein and Danitz for lunch, told Klein that Tobias might help Azik recover his memories, and noticed a pirate ship approaching.
• Captain Elland ordered the passengers back to their cabins, while Cyril asked Danitz how they could salvage the pirates’ loot if the ship sank.

Cyril destroyed the Red Skull Pirates’ ship with a single Flame Spear, and the White Agate’s crew salvaged the pirates’ valuables. The chapter ended with Captain Elland bringing Cyril the recovered loot and offering to pay the pirates’ bounties in advance.

• Cyril transported himself, Danitz, and Klein to the bow, where his authority compelled the White Agate’s crew to lower their rifles.
• Cyril identified the approaching ship as belonging to the Red Skull Pirates, whose captain and first mate had modest bounties.
• When the pirates tried to flee, Cyril infused a harpoon with azure flame and hurled it, splitting their ship in two and sinking it.
• Cyril asked Captain Elland to organize the salvage and offered him a tenth of the recovered goods; Danitz explained the costs and risks of maintaining pirate ships.
• Danitz told Klein about famous ghost ships, including the Black Emperor, the Whispering Eater, and the Blue Avenger.
• Elland brought Cyril valuable salvage and reported that the pirates’ captain, “Sea Wolf” Jensen, and first mate, “One-Eyed” Anderson, had bounties of £900 and £500.

Cyril hosted Klein, Azik, and Tobias, who helped Azik recover memories and explained the fall of the Four Emperors and the Pale Disaster. As they reached Bansi, Tobias sensed a transforming Wraith, and Cyril revealed their plan to hunt a true Angel.

• Elland offered Cyril a share of the salvage or the pirates’ heads, and Cyril let him take the heads while keeping the Beyonder Characteristics for Elland’s crew.
• Klein and Azik arrived at Cyril’s room, and Cyril summoned Tobias, who recognized Azik and discussed his unstable condition and lost memories.
• Tobias recounted Azik’s past and warned that remembering too much could restore his former cold nature.
• Tobias told Klein and Cyril that the Four Emperors fell one after another and described how the God of Death and the Primordial Demoness unleashed the Pale Disaster.
• As the ship reached Bansi, Tobias sensed a Wraith transforming on the island, and Cyril said they would hunt a true Angel.
• Azik sensed that a higher power was interfering with the Spirit World, while Tobias asked everyone to join his legion so he could gather power and protect them.

Tobias, Azik, and Cyril joined forces against the other Tobias while the battle threatened the White Agate. Azik then confronted Ince Zangwill on Bansy Island, where the evil spirit possessing him realized Azik was only wielding the power of a Saint.

• Tobias used the Conqueror characteristic to enlist Azik's Undead in his temporary army, while Klein glimpsed the strange, blood-red battlefield through Tobias's vision.
• Azik summoned the Bronze Gate and a projection of the River Styx; Tobias found the enemy and unleashed a power that drove the sea and living things toward death.
• Cyril protected the White Agate from decay and calmed the waves, while Klein learned from Elland that angels were fighting nearby.
• Cyril used a recorded ability to push the White Agate away from the Fog of War as the battle between the two Tobiases sent immense waves across the sea.
• On Bansy Island, Ince Zangwill used 0-08 to write a story that would bring a powerful Spirit World Creature to help him escape, then let the evil spirit in him fight Azik.

Klein, Cyril, and Azik confronted Ince Zangwill and the evil spirit Medici Sauron Einhorn, but both escaped by different means. As Tobias’s battle with the Terror Giant continued, a will awakened from the Weather Warlock characteristic appeared and tried to claim the giant.

• Miss Messenger dropped Ince Zangwill before Klein and Cyril, and Azik began using the Language of the Dead to pull Medici Sauron Einhorn from Ince’s body.
• Klein struck Ince and Medici with Frenzy and Mental Piercing, but Medici unleashed the City of Cataclysm’s aura and fled into the Spirit World, while Ince used 0-08 to escape with a Spirit World creature.
• Azik chose not to pursue either fugitive, then warned Klein and Cyril that Tobias was likely to lose unless they found a way to support him.
• Cyril told Azik that another helper was available and prepared to use the Harmonica as Tobias’s fight against the Terror Giant continued.
• Tobias used Mind Deprivation infused with War Cry to hinder the Terror Giant, which recovered and hurled a flaming spear at him.
• A black-robed will emerged before the Terror Giant, revealed itself as a fragment awakened from the Weather Warlock characteristic, and urged the giant to become the second Nether Emperor.

Tobias used Salanger’s crown and mental attacks to subdue the Flame Giant, but the Lord of Storms’s lightning destroyed the contaminated Weather Warlock characteristic before Tobias could recover it. After the battle, Azik left to process newly recalled memories, while Klein dealt with Creeping Hunger’s bloodthirsty effect.

• Tobias overwhelmed the Flame Giant with mental attacks, and Salanger’s crown began awakening a second will inside him.
• Tobias called on Leodero, and the Lord of Storms unleashed a lightning storm that devastated Bansi Island and destroyed the contaminated characteristic.
• Cyril pulled Tobias into a deeper dimension with a Black Curtain, where Tobias prayed to a great existence for help and survived the lightning strike.
• Tobias returned to the White Agate, confirmed that the Lord of Storms had destroyed the characteristic, and left before the Church of Storms could arrive.
• Azik told Klein that his newly recalled memories were cold and death-filled, then departed to process them.
• Cyril noticed Klein suffering Creeping Hunger’s bloodthirsty effect, and Klein decided to put it above Gray Fog to air out.

After Klein absorbed the abilities of a conquered witch, Medici obtained the Weather Warlock characteristic from the ruins of Bansi and escaped. A Church of Storms Saint boarded the White Agate, forcing Klein to warn Danitz, who tried to decide how to hide.

• Tobias gave Klein the living-dead witch as payment, and Klein fed her to Creeping Hunger after divining that she had not been tainted by sin or killed innocents.
• Cyril told Klein that one other Conqueror characteristic was with Amon and another lay underground in Trier, while Klein demonstrated the witch’s black-flame and frost abilities.
• Medici caught the Weather Warlock characteristic in Bansi, absorbed it, and left for the Spirit World as Ouroboros arrived too late to meet him.
• Cyril woke to a powerful spiritual sweep over the White Agate, and Ace Snake of the Church of Storms arrived aboard the ship.
• Klein warned Danitz that a Church of Storms Saint was on board and advised him to disguise himself or seek Randolph Carter’s help.
• Danitz decided to use makeup to blend in before attending the captain’s mass, while Klein privately doubted his disguise skills.

Aboard the White Agate, Klein and Cyril encountered Spellsinger of God Ace Snake while the ship hurried toward Tiana Port. At the Tarot Club, members arranged several transactions, and Cyril proposed selling three Vampire characteristics to the Sanguine for ten thousand pounds, which Emlyn accepted.

• Cyril disguised himself as Sherlock Moriarty and explained that the disguise was partly meant to take advantage of Ace Snake's recognition of the detective and partly because he found it fun.
• Ace Snake recited a prayer that soothed the dining room, recognized Sherlock Moriarty, and continued to the lower cabins while Klein and Danitz worried over his piercing gaze.
• The White Agate's attendant explained that spoiled supplies had left the ship with poor food, and the captain had ordered the ship to speed toward Tiana Port.
• At the Tarot Club, Audrey agreed to buy Elder Tree fruit and Mirror Dragon blood from Emlyn, while Derrick arranged to exchange Vampire characteristics for Radiant Spirit-Contract Tree fruit and two mystical items through Cyril.
• Alger offered Emlyn a Sanguine Baron's inheritance for four thousand five hundred pounds and told Fors he had found Lava Octopus blood crystal for eight hundred pounds; both considered the purchases.
• Cyril offered Emlyn ten thousand pounds for three Vampire characteristics, and Emlyn accepted the deal.