Chapter Summaries

The Tarot Club discussed the destruction of Bansi Island, where the Lord of Storms killed the God of Weather in a battle involving several Angel-level beings. Alger tried to deduce Fate’s hidden affiliations, while the meeting ended with the members sharing news from Backlund and the sea.

• Alger asked about Bansi, and World revealed that the dead sea and ruined island were only the aftermath of a battle fought offshore.
• Cyril explained that the Church of Storms had not solved Bansi’s underlying pollution and said the Lord of Storms had destroyed much of the island and killed the God of Weather.
• Cyril named the Angel-level participants, leaving the Tarot Club members shocked and prompting Klein to realize that several of them were fallen or weakened Angels.
• World asked the members to help him buy a wireless telegraph receiver, and Fors offered to try.
• Audrey, Fors, Emlyn, and Alger shared news about Backlund’s investigations, the lingering effects of the Great Smog, and conditions at sea; Alger suspected World was a Blessed and wondered who supported Fate.

At a Tarot Club gathering, Cyril revealed that he had killed a Loen officer corrupted by the Great Mother, while Klein considered seeking an Angel’s help with contaminated Beyonder characteristics. After the White Agate reached Tiana Port, Cyril and Klein continued toward Bayam under the watch of concealed Mandated Punishers, and a storm gathered as the port came into view.

• Alger recounted the escalating dispute between Loen and Feysac over an assassinated officer on Sonia Island, and Cyril said he had killed the corrupted Loen officer.
• The Tarot Club members speculated about the Great Mother, then ended the gathering after Mr. Fool predicted that they would take on new appearances the following week.
• Klein considered asking Tobias to help remove contamination from a Beyonder characteristic, while Cyril met Ace Snake aboard the White Agate and reported suspicious passengers.
• The White Agate docked at Tiana Port, where Danitz worried that Gehrman Sparrow might collect the 3,000-pound bounty on him; Ace Snake left, but concealed Mandated Punishers remained aboard.
• Cyril stayed in his room to paint as the White Agate sailed on, and the ship reached Bayam the next afternoon beneath gathering storm clouds.

Klein let Danitz go, but the pirate was attacked by Steel Mavity and later followed Klein and Cyril for safety. Meanwhile, Emlyn arranged a trade for Vampire characteristics and offered the payment and a Radiant Spirit-Contract Tree fruit to Mr. Fool, leaving Klein to wonder why everyone had more money than him.

• Klein told Danitz he was free to go, and Cyril said he planned to stay in Bayam and watch events unfold as a Scribe.
• Emlyn agreed to buy three Vampire characteristics from the Sanguine for 12,000 pounds and considered how to fund a Baron inheritance without selling his dolls.
• Steel Mavity attacked Danitz, but Cyril frightened him into fleeing before Klein and Cyril healed Danitz and heard his unfinished last words.
• Klein declined to pursue Steel Mavity because it was raining, and Danitz followed him and Cyril for protection.
• Emlyn obtained a Radiant Spirit-Contract Tree fruit and sacrificed it along with the anonymous accounts to Mr. Fool, who sent him the three Vampire characteristics.

Derrick advanced to Solar High Priest, Audrey drank the Psychiatrist potion, and Cyril continued preparing for his plans while consulting Edefana and commissioning mystical items from Bock Griffin. Cyril later met Klein in Bayam and discussed the supposed key to Death’s Treasure before returning through the Spirit World.

• Derrick drank the potion and advanced to Solar High Priest, testing his new abilities and noting his strengthened physique and improved sun and holiness spells.
• Audrey brewed and drank the Psychiatrist potion, gaining heightened hearing and the ability to sense minds and consciousness across the Hall estate.
• Cyril reclaimed his avatar, discussed Edefana’s condition, and used Mystical Reenactment to help contain the Great Dragon’s surging darkness.
• Cyril visited Bock Griffin and offered Beyonder Characteristics as payment for crafting mystical items; Bock revealed he had left the Moses Ascetic Order.
• Cyril met Klein in Bayam and discussed Admiral of Iceberg’s supposed key to Death’s Treasure, agreeing that it was likely not a true key to the God of Death’s treasure.

Edefana discovered that Groselle's Travels was connected to an ancient dragon and asked Cyril to bring him to the book's world. In Bayam, Cyril sent Edwina Danitz's warning about the Admiral of Blood, while Klein prepared to seek the Hanged Man's help in hunting Steel Mavity.

• Mistral told Nibis that Emlyn had obtained three Vampire Beyonder Characteristics, and Nibis planned to send them to the Duke of the Full Moon to verify their origins.
• Edefana told Cyril to trade for Groselle's Travels, explaining that Herabergen's gaze had warned him away from the book and asking to accompany Cyril aboard the Golden Dream.
• Cyril agreed to send Edwina Danitz's message warning that the Admiral of Blood was targeting the key, and Edefana delivered it using his messenger.
• Danitz asked Cyril to pass along his warning and objected to Cyril sharing his sketch with Edwina, but Cyril refused to alter it without extra payment.
• Gehrman Sparrow asked Cyril about hunting Steel Mavity and the Admiral of Blood; Cyril suggested involving the Hanged Man, then Klein prayed to the Fool for a hint and sent the request to the Hanged Man.

Alger met with The World to offer cooperation, while Edwina learned Danitz had been attacked by Steel Mavity and that Admiral of Blood Senor was targeting the Golden Dream. Cyril met the hermit Eric Drake, who asked about Bansi, and Cyril revealed that the God of Weather had been corrupted.

• Alger interpreted The Fool’s message as a chance to establish his loyalty and arrange a meeting with The World.
• Edwina received drawings showing Danitz’s attack and learned that Senor was targeting the Golden Dream, though her divination indicated Danitz was safe.
• Alger met a young man he believed was The World and offered him a Tarot reading.
• Cyril and Danitz ate grilled fish, and Cyril recognized Anderson Hood as the man Danitz had quoted.
• Eric Drake appeared beside Cyril and put Danitz to sleep before asking about Bansi and the Lord of Storms’ destruction of the sea region.
• Cyril told Eric that the God of Weather had been corrupted.

Cyril interrupted Eric’s dream interrogation of Klein and drove Eric into the Nation of the Evernight, after which Klein escaped the dream and found Eric still sitting in his room. The chapter ended with Klein asking Cyril what had happened to Eric.

• Danitz woke from a dream, while Cyril wondered whether Eric had probed Danitz’s memories and might investigate Gehrman Sparrow.
• Klein met Alger for a divination, revealed the Wheel of Fortune card, and left the café as Alger considered the encounter a test.
• Eric drew Klein into a dream, questioned him about Bansi, and explained the abilities of Dreamwalkers.
• Cyril entered the dream, used Mystical Reenactment with the Dark Sacred Emblem, and caused Eric to vanish into the Nation of the Evernight.
• Klein escaped the dream and found Eric sitting motionless in his room, then asked Cyril whether Eric was dead.

Klein and Cyril killed Eric Drake’s body and recovered his Demigod-level Beyonder Characteristic, while Klein considered the Goddess’s role and his own exposure. Later, Cyril stole the Sealed Artifact Eternal Dream during a Mandated Punishers operation and intervened when Klein and Danitz were overwhelmed by Steel Mavity’s group.

• Cyril burned Eric Drake’s body after Eric’s unconscious form began to transform, and Klein collected the Beyonder Characteristic that remained.
• Cyril gave Klein a Dark Sacred Emblem as protection and explained that Eric was a colleague’s separated identity whose true body remained in the Mind World.
• Klein took the Sequence 4 Manipulator Characteristic above the Gray Fog and released the Nightmare soul from Creeping Hunger to make room for Steel Mavity.
• Cyril watched a Mandated Punishers operation at Danitz’s house, stole the Sealed Artifact Eternal Dream, and vanished.
• Huntley struck Danitz with lightning as Steel Mavity’s group cornered him and Klein, but Cyril arrived, drove back the Werewolf, and confined the battlefield.

Cyril and Klein fought Admiral of Blood Senor, Steel Mavity, and the Werewolf after Cyril trapped them beneath Sun Holy Water and imposed supernatural rules on the sealed area. Klein and Cyril killed Mavity and escaped with Danitz, while Senor survived and fled just before Sea King Jahn Kottman arrived.

• Cyril opened a golden Sealed Artifact and summoned Sun Holy Water, freeing Klein from Senor's Wraith Possession and weakening the attackers.
• Huntley used wind and vines to shield himself and trap Cyril's group, while Cyril's rules and Klein's attacks turned the fight against Senor, Mavity, and the Werewolf.
• Senor's misdirected attack killed Huntley, and Cyril pinned the golden box to Senor before killing Mavity with a Death attack.
• Lightning shattered Cyril's Closure, so Klein gathered Cyril, Danitz, and Mavity's corpse and escaped with them as Cyril weakened the storm's effects.
• Senor escaped with Mirror Blink after lightning struck him, and Jahn Kottman arrived and decapitated the surviving Werewolf.

Klein and his companions escaped the Church of Storms, while Klein’s divination connected Eric Drake to the Nation of the Evernight and the name Adam. Senor sought help from Shanks to endure the backlash from his luck-enhancing artifact, but a Sea King attacked them in Bayam.

• Klein knocked out a tenant, and Cyril used a psychological suggestion to keep him from remembering their intrusion before leading Klein and Danitz through a Door.
• Klein sensed a powerful presence passing through the Spirit World, then used Creeping Hunger to consume Steel Mavity’s corpse and soul.
• Cyril interfered with divination and tracking, then concluded that Senor would likely survive his misfortune but suffer a severe backlash afterward.
• Klein’s divination showed a dark-misted town and a spired church, where figures cried out Adam’s name amid whispers of Hornacis and Flegrea.
• Senor asked Shanks for help with the backlash from Luck Balance, but a Sea King attacked them with lightning, wind, and a wave of decay.

Klein and Cyril killed Senor after Shanks’s attack was disrupted by Jahn Kottman, and Klein grazed Senor’s abilities and Spirit Body. The chapter ended with Nibis asking Emlyn to arrange a larger, long-term trade in contaminated Moon pathway Characteristics for the Sanguines.

• Sun Holy Water purified the area as Shanks’s curse and Jahn Kottman’s lightning struck a Mystic Puppet, leaving Jahn injured and his curse aura fading.
• Senor used Mirror Blink to escape Shanks, but the rules forced him out of the Mirror World and Cyril imprisoned him with transparent liquid.
• Cyril’s Ferryman ability weakened Senor, and Klein arrived and helped kill him with Creeping Hunger’s abilities.
• Klein grazed Senor’s Spirit Body and devoured his corpse, but learned he had not obtained the flesh-and-blood magic needed to claim Senor’s forty-two-thousand-pound bounty.
• Shanks concluded Senor had died and resolved to find a replacement for the Rose School of Thought’s maritime informant, while Jahn Kottman searched Bayam for the Rose School of Thought.
• Nibis told Emlyn that the Duke of the Full Moon wanted more contaminated Moon pathway Characteristics, and Emlyn said the supplier should be able to provide them.

Cyril and Klein dealt with the aftermath of Admiral of Blood Senor’s death as the authorities raised the bounties on Cyril, Danitz, and Gehrman Sparrow. With Danitz newly worth 5,000 pounds and under surveillance, Cyril took him away from the inn and planned to use one of Danitz’s properties in Bayam.

• Cosmi questioned Nibis about buying Sanguine characteristics, and Nibis warned him not to investigate the organization behind the purchases.
• Cordova Royer reported Senor’s death and the recovery of Sealed Artifact 2-166 to Sea King Jahn Kottman, while Jorgory confirmed that a Grade 1 Sealed Artifact would arrive soon.
• Cyril gave Danitz Steel Mavity’s head for the bounty, and Klein revealed that he had killed Admiral of Blood Senor the previous night.
• Danitz explained that his captain could use abilities she had seen, while Klein left to practice acting as a Faceless on Simim Island.
• Cyril encountered Alger, and Alger later saw new bounty notices for Randolph Carter, Danitz, and Gehrman Sparrow before Cyril’s wanted poster burst into flames.
• Cyril rescued Danitz from surveillance near the Azure Wind Inn, confirmed Danitz’s bounty had risen to 5,000 pounds, and decided to take him to one of his Bayam properties.

Cyril and Danitz settled into Danitz’s empty house, where Cyril created and magically stabilized furniture before entering Danitz’s dream to speak with Edwina. Klein later joined the dream, and Edwina began judging how best to answer his questions while Danitz endured the gathering’s awkward antics.

• Cyril filled Danitz’s empty house at 14 Fragrant Tree Avenue with furniture made from Fantasy, then planned a ritual to keep it from disappearing.
• Cyril sensed Edwina’s will enter Danitz’s dream and used a doorway to join them, where he asked to learn her modified Dream Divination spell.
• Edwina agreed to send Cyril the spell’s knowledge and asked him to protect Danitz, then taught Danitz the spirit descent ritual.
• Klein entered Danitz’s dream, and Cyril created drawings that poked fun at Danitz and the awkward silence between Klein and Edwina.
• Edwina asked Klein about his education and explained that she needed to gauge his knowledge before answering his questions.

Cyril killed Latitia, an out-of-control Beyonder who had hidden the Book of Calamity inside her body, then discovered that the book was connected to the Sea God Kalvetua’s growing instability. He gave the book to Edfana, who said she could alter the lingering will of Cohinem within it.

• Cyril broke into Latitia’s room and fought through her storm of ice, fire, and lightning before killing her and retrieving the Book of Calamity from her body.
• After burning away the room’s residual spirituality, Cyril escaped the inn as Latitia’s companions discovered her corpse and decided to flee Bayam and the sea.
• Cyril returned to Number 14 Fragrant Tree Avenue, where Klein told him that Kalvetua had lost control and that the resistance was hunting adventurers who had taken something from the Sea God’s ruins.
• Cyril showed Klein the Book of Calamity and said he would explain more after studying it, then summoned Edfana with his Harmonica.
• Edfana recognized the book as connected to Cohinem and said she could alter the spirit’s lingering will; a violent wind carrying calamity swept through the room.

Cyril and Edefana sealed Cohinem’s will inside the Book of Calamity, while Alger reported signs of trouble surrounding Sea God Kalvetua to the Church of Storms. After a sudden storm revealed a new ability in Cyril, Klein arrived and asked him to locate Kalvetua’s ruins through the Spirit World.

• Edefana quieted Cohinem’s will in the Book of Calamity and proposed turning the book into a living Sealed Artifact; Cyril entered a dream to witness Cohinem’s past.
• Alger received the World’s report that the resistance forces had taken the Book of Calamity, were selling a strange bone sword, and that Sea God Kalvetua was out of control.
• Alger told Bishop Jorgory about the stolen relic, the bone sword, and the Sea God’s apparent troubles, prompting Jorgory to report the matter to Kottman.
• Edefana sealed Cohinem’s consciousness and the Book of Calamity, then offered to use hypnosis and the fragments of Cohinem’s spirit to help Cyril control it.
• Cyril experienced and reproduced a sudden localized storm, then Klein asked whether he could use the Spirit World to locate Sea God Kalvetua’s ruins.

Klein summoned Red Light Aiur Moria, who agreed to help him find Kalvetua’s ruins and conceal the Sea God’s fall from Ayan Kottman long enough for Klein to claim its remains. As Kalvetua neared its end, Klein anticipated that witnessing the catastrophe might complete his Scribe Potion digestion, then joined the Tarot Club meeting.

• Klein asked Cyril about contacting Red Light Aiur Moria and recruiting a messenger, and Cyril explained the rituals and suggested ways to find one.
• Klein summoned Aiur Moria, who located Kalvetua through information in the Spirit World and offered to delay Ayan Kottman’s response and block his divination after Klein claimed Kalvetua’s remains.
• Aiur Moria offered to become Klein’s messenger, but Klein declined and asked instead how to summon an ordinary Spirit World Creature.
• Cyril observed the storm around Bayam and concluded that Kalvetua would not survive the night, while he wondered whether witnessing the Sea God’s fall would finish digesting his Scribe Potion.
• At the Tarot Club meeting, Audrey apologized to Mr. Fool because she had been unable to obtain Roselle’s Diary from the Psychology Alchemists.

At the Tarot Club, Emlyn failed to secure a Vampire Characteristic or the Sanguine Baron inheritance and asked how to make money. The members learned that Sea God Kalvetua was collapsing after the Book of Calamity was stolen, while Cyril revealed that he possessed the dangerous artifact; the gathering ended with Alger suggesting Emlyn hunt wanted criminals for their spoils.

• Emlyn asked Derrick about buying stronger Vampire Characteristics, but Derrick said he could not hunt stronger Vampires or hire help yet.
• Alger told Emlyn that he could not arrange the Sanguine Baron inheritance until he left Bayam, which depended on Sea God Kalvetua's impending death.
• Alger explained that Kalvetua was a sea serpent worshiped in the Rorsted Archipelago and was making a final attempt to destroy Bayam before the Sea King defeated it.
• Cyril revealed that the Book of Calamity contained a Sequence 2 Beyonder Characteristic and part of Queen of Calamity Cohinem's will, and explained how its removal had caused Kalvetua to collapse.
• Cyril said he had obtained the Book of Calamity after its previous holder lost control, and the Tarot Club realized he possessed a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact.
• Emlyn asked how to make money quickly, and Alger advised him to hunt wanted pirates or criminals and collect their bounties and possessions.

At the Tarot Club, Emlyn considered borrowing money to become a Potions Professor, while the members discussed Backlund’s poor, pirate rumors, and the supposed key to Death’s Treasure. After the gathering, Klein offered to take Cyril to witness Kalvetua’s death, then discovered the powerful mystical items Cyril owned as Cyril opened an illusory door.

• Cyril offered Emlyn a loan to advance to Sequence 6 and become a Potions Professor, and The World and Justice also offered loans before Emlyn said he would think about it.
• Fors shared that Backlund’s poorest districts had filled with outsiders again and that evil cults were targeting the lower classes, prompting The World and Cyril to debate whether people could change the worsening conditions.
• Alger reported that Admiral of Blood Senor had died after ambushing Danitz, and Cyril said the rumors about the key to Death’s Treasure were false; The World explained that a true key would likely be a concept rather than an ordinary object.
• Audrey connected The World to Danitz’s mysterious helper and wondered whether The World’s true identity was related to Mr. Fool.
• After the Tarot Club ended, Klein told Cyril that Red Light Aiur Moria had supplied the ruins’ Spirit World coordinates, and Cyril agreed to witness Kalvetua’s death to help digest his Scribe potion.
• Klein’s Spirit Body entered Cyril’s room and saw his powerful mystical items, including a Phantom Core that seemed to be at Demigod level, before Cyril opened an illusory door with a transparent crystal.

Cyril entered the ruins where the dying Sea God Kalvetua was hiding, recorded its condition, and struck it with Mind Breath before taking a transparent crystal. Kalvetua’s final eruption threatened Bayam, but Sea King Jahn Kottman suppressed the storm and waves.

• Red Light Aiur Moria guided Klein and Cyril through the Spirit World to the ruins where Kalvetua was hiding.
• Cyril used a Magic Mirror to view Kalvetua, then received a Paper Angel blessing and entered the ruins while Klein watched from above the Gray Fog.
• Cyril recorded the Plague Storm and used Mind Breath to stun Kalvetua before taking a transparent crystal and escaping to the Spirit World.
• Kalvetua unleashed a storm that threatened Bayam, and Jahn Kottman used a Grade 1 Sealed Artifact to suppress the catastrophe.

Cyril’s Plague Storm destroyed Kalvetua’s remaining mind, and he and Klein waited until the Sea God died before entering the ruins. They subdued the maddened high priest, but after Kalvetua’s will possessed him, he transformed into a grotesque monster and lost control.

• Cyril’s Plague Storm accelerated Kalvetua’s collapse, and he summoned Klein while they waited for the Sea God to die.
• Cyril confirmed Kalvetua’s death, then stopped the charging Sea God guards and Klein purified their bodies with the Sun Brooch.
• Cyril forbade the desecration of Kalvetua’s corpse and weakened its lingering wraith remnants, causing its Beyonder Characteristics to gather at a tooth in the pillar.
• Kalvetua’s remaining will tried to possess the high priest, while the Plague Storm drove him and the Sea God guards mad.
• Klein attacked the high priest with Wraith Shriek, ice, and golden Air Bullets as Cyril imprisoned and struck him with his abilities.
• The high priest transformed into a tentacled, scaled half-wolf, half-fish monster and completely lost control.