Chapter Summaries

Cyril secured the God of Weather’s agreement to let Edefana separate his personalities, while Jahn Kottman investigated the pictures Cyril had distributed around Bansy. Edefana began the separation after the God of Weather handed over a corrupted War Bishop Beyonder Characteristic and explained his devotion to the City of Calamity.

• Cyril warned the God of Weather that he would leave Bansy unless they agreed to a deal, and the God of Weather accepted with the City of Calamity as witness.
• Edefana arrived in the dream and swore an oath before the God of Weather, who had raised a stone stele and unleashed disasters across the dreamscape.
• Jahn Kottman learned that the damaged pictures had gone to people connected to bloody sacrifices, and he suspected their painter was concealing his purpose in Bansy.
• In the Mirror World, Edefana explained how he would separate the God of Weather’s personalities, while the God of Weather insisted that both carried the City of Calamity’s corruption.
• The God of Weather gave Cyril a corrupted War Bishop Beyonder Characteristic, described his Lord as the Calamity of Destruction, and Edefana began separating a younger version of him.

Cyril and Tobias traveled to a hidden ritual plaza beneath Bansy Harbor to reach the Rift of Rules and prepare to act against the God of Weather’s corruption. As the cultists’ ritual neared completion, Jahn Kottman arrived nearby, while Cyril and Tobias remained concealed.

• The God of Weather taunted Tobias, who had separated from him, and insisted that they would eventually merge again.
• Hermes visited Cyril’s cabin, questioned Steve about Randolph Carter and other Angels, then left to search the island; Alger redirected his ship toward Bansy Island.
• Tobias told Cyril that an altar left by his former self could connect them to the Rift of Rules, and signed a contract with Cyril lasting until the Apocalypse.
• Cyril took Tobias through an Illusory Door into Bansy Harbor and concealed them with Psychological Invisibility.
• Cyril and Tobias reached the edge of a ritual plaza, where God of Weather believers, including two Medici descendants, performed a ritual that was nearly complete.
• Jahn Kottman arrived at the street above the plaza with a brass-colored nautical clock and noted the God of Weather’s cultists were active.

Cyril and Tobias escaped the destruction of the God of Weather’s ritual site after the Lord of Storms struck, but Cyril learned that the God of Weather and the City of Calamity remained intact. The chapter ended with Steve’s Painting Scroll badly damaged and fading.

• Cyril used a Painting Scroll to invoke the Lord of Storms, prompting a red-haired follower of the God of Weather to attack the papers and Steve.
• The Lord of Storms’ lightning killed the red-haired man and annihilated the underground plaza, while Cyril and Tobias escaped through an illusory door.
• Jahn Kottman arrived at the devastated site, and Alger and his crew felt the terrifying force of the lightning from Bansi Harbor.
• Cyril’s Divination revealed that the God of Weather had survived and the pollution from the City of Calamity remained unresolved.
• Tobias explained that the God of Weather had separated him to strengthen his own connection to the City of Calamity, which might itself be in trouble.
• Steve pleaded for help as his Painting Scroll, scorched by flames and lightning, began to fade and break apart.

Cyril used a ritual to bring Steve above the dimensions, restored the Painting Scroll, and returned it with Steve intact. He and Tobias planned to leave Bansi for Backlund, while Klein discovered that the Red Priest pathway led to a higher level called Calamity of Destruction.

• Steve asked Cyril to preserve his mind and memories, and Cyril said he might still be able to save him.
• Cyril opened a ritual gate above the dimensions, brought Steve and the damaged Painting Scroll through, and restored the scroll with his spirituality.
• Cyril returned Steve to reality and told Tobias he planned to leave Bansi for Backlund; Tobias agreed to go and asked him to watch for uncontaminated Hunter pathway ingredients.
• Cyril told Tobias he could reclaim the War Bishop characteristic if they found a way to balance its corruption, but Tobias preferred to advance afresh.
• Klein examined the Red Priest card and discovered the Calamity of Destruction potion ingredients and ritual, realizing he had uncovered a secret about the world's highest level.

Cyril arrived in Bayam to contact the Moses Ascetic Order while storing the corrupted Red Priest card above the Gray Fog. At the Tarot Club gathering, the members discussed trades and Alger reported that a blood sacrifice and the Church of Storms’ response had devastated Bansi Island.

• Cyril explained to Klein that the Red Priest card’s corruption had appeared as information and that its gathering effect made it dangerous to carry, so Klein kept it above the Gray Fog.
• Cyril reached Bayam, disguised himself, and used a coded drink and message at the Fragrant Leaf Bar to contact Born Walker’s superior.
• Cyril returned to his inn, prepared a Wall of Spirituality, and joined the Tarot Club gathering.
• Audrey traded two pages of Roselle’s Diary for Mr. Fool’s protection during the final round of her Psychology Alchemists’ assessment.
• Fors arranged to trade cash with Cyril for a Spirit Eater’s Stomach, while Alger offered news from Bansi instead of a trade item.
• Alger reported that the Church of Storms had sent the Sea King to Bansi, where a corrupted Deep Blue Church bishop had participated in a revived blood sacrifice and an Angel-level force had apparently struck.

At the Tarot Club, Cyril explained that Bansi Island’s bloody sacrifices stemmed from the corrupted God of Weather, whose recovery had made him more powerful than Gade II. The meeting ended with the Fool warning that madness and corruption could increase one’s strength, prompting Derrick to wonder about the secret history of the Ancient Gods and the Almighty.

• Alger described the Church of Storms’ search on Bansi Island and the disruption to the Rorsted Archipelago, while Cyril warned that the island’s deeper problems might remain unresolved without the Lord of Storms’ direct intervention.
• Cyril refused to reveal more about Bansi Island without payment and asked the Tarot Club to find Hunter Pathway characteristics and materials from Sequence 9 to Sequence 5; the members offered to help.
• The World asked Derrick to research the Eight Ancient Gods’ authorities, powers, and characteristics, offering information about outside True Deities or evil gods in return.
• Cyril explained that the corrupted God of Weather had influenced Bansi Island’s former worship and secretly turned the local Storms bishop into a cultist, and said the God’s recent recovery made him stronger than Gade II.
• The Fool said that the madder they were, the stronger they became, and added that corruption could also be drawn upon as power; Derrick wondered whether this revealed a deeper secret about the Almighty.

At the Tarot Club, the members discussed the Almighty and the strange weather on Bansy Island before the gathering ended. Back in Bayam, Cyril met Ohaiz of the Moses Ascetic Order, who offered him Reader Potion ingredients and asked him to record what he had learned.

• Klein suggested that the Almighty stood above the ancient gods, and Derrick recited the full Honorific Name worshipped by the City of Silver.
• Alger described Bansy Island's unusually calm weather, while Cyril speculated that the God of Weather remained there and might be restrained by the Church of Storms.
• After the Tarot Club ended, Cyril considered changing identities in Bayam, but sunlight and a golden carriage announced Ohaiz's arrival.
• Ohaiz asked Cyril about the God of Weather, the Medici Family, and an ancient book; Cyril claimed he had digested the Mystery Pryer Potion and could recall only fragments of the book.
• Ohaiz told Cyril to write down the secrets and remembered knowledge, then cast a Night Veil over the room as Cyril began writing.

Cyril negotiated Hermes’s help influencing Ohaiz in exchange for information about Bansy Island and a future favor, then learned that Klein’s nightmare came from contamination carried by the Red Priest Card. They agreed to use a Spectator’s hypnosis to make Klein forget the dangerous information.

• Cyril gave Ohaiz information from Bansy Island, and Ohaiz offered the Warlock potion after Cyril copied the ancient book’s knowledge.
• Cyril negotiated with Hermes for a psychological suggestion affecting Ohaiz, trading Bansy Island secrets and a future favor for the help.
• Ohaiz delivered the Melee Scholar potion ingredients and gave Cyril an address for sending the copied knowledge.
• Hermes implanted the requested suggestion in Ohaiz, and Cyril told him the true secrets of Bansy Island.
• Klein awoke from a nightmare, traced its source to the Red Priest Card, and met Cyril above the Gray Fog to discuss the contamination.
• Cyril proposed recording a Spectator’s hypnosis to make Klein forget the dangerous information, and planned to seek one the next day.

Cyril brought a living Painting Scroll to life, translated Roselle’s Diary for Bernadette, and helped Edefana counter the Chaos Sea’s contamination with another contamination. After recording Edefana’s abilities, Cyril heard that Admiral of Iceberg’s Golden Dream was being hunted over a treasure key.

• Cyril poured a failed potion onto his Painting Scroll, bringing its eye-covered creature to life, and Steve introduced himself as its senior servant.
• Cyril visited Bernadette, translated Roselle’s Diary, taught Chinese characters, and recorded the Mystical Reenactment of Ugly Duckling with her.
• Cyril summoned Edefana, who explained that City of Calamity contamination had eased the Chaos Sea’s influence but worsened his physical condition.
• Cyril used his starlight power against Edefana’s dragon-form contamination, creating a temporary deadlock that left Edefana feeling more relaxed but looking older.
• Cyril asked Edefana to record several mental abilities, including Demigod-level Mind Deprivation or Spiritual Breath, and Edefana agreed.
• At the Fragrant Leaf Bar, Cyril heard that Admiral of Blood’s Tree of Flesh and Blood was pursuing Admiral of Iceberg’s Golden Dream for a Giants’ treasure key.

Cyril confronted “Great Shark” Jorg in a Bayam bar, where their argument turned into a fight after Jorg’s gauntlet distorted Cyril’s emotions. Cyril outmaneuvered and fatally wounded Jorg, leaving the bar in chaos.

• Cyril and Jorg compared their bounties, while “Iron” Mavity entered the bar and challenged them both before heading toward its back room.
• Jorg’s black gauntlet stirred aggressive impulses in Cyril, who resisted the effect until the two began fighting.
• Cyril evaded Jorg’s gauntlet strike and used a Flash to blind everyone in the bar.
• Cyril used Combat Hypnosis, the Interrogator Ring, and a Sword of Dawn to pierce Jorg and leave him dying.

Cyril killed “Great Shark” Jorg and fought “Iron” Mavity at Fragrant Leaf Bar, forcing Mavity to flee while building the reputation of his Randolph Carter identity. He returned to his inn with Jorg’s Beyonder Characteristic and black glove, whose origins and powers he learned through divination.

• Cyril killed Jorg with the Sword of Dawn and arranged for the bar owner to exchange Jorg’s head for the bounty and cover the bar’s damages.
• Mavity summoned ghosts and attacked Cyril, but Cyril dispelled the spirits and used his Dawn Armor to withstand Mavity’s deathly strike.
• Cyril used a Paper Figurine Substitute to evade Mavity’s charge, then wounded him with Mental Piercing and the Sword of Dawn.
• Mavity fled through the crowd, and Cyril let him escape, expecting him to spread word of Randolph Carter’s power.
• Cyril collected Jorg’s Beyonder Characteristic and black glove, then returned to his inn through the Mirror World.
• Cyril divined that the crystal held a Sequence 7 Seafarer characteristic and the glove a Sequence 6 Baron of Corruption characteristic, with powers that could darken and corrupt its wearer.

Cyril reflected on the Seafarer glove’s mental corruption, then created Randolph Carter from a portrait and summoned Klein and Audrey to arrange guidance for hypnotizing Klein. Meanwhile, Fors prepared to advance to Trickmaster after finishing her manuscripts and began mixing the potion.

• Cyril stored the Seafarer Beyonder Characteristic and glove, then brought Randolph Carter to life from a portrait, but sent him back when he proved unable to paint.
• Cyril met Klein above the Gray Fog and offered to use his recorded Spectator hypnosis ability to make Klein forget part of the Red Priest card’s contents.
• Klein summoned Audrey, and she agreed to provide theoretical guidance while Cyril prepared to hypnotize Klein.
• Fors told Xio she planned to advance that night and explained her connection to her teacher Lawrence and her desire to understand the Full Moon Ravings.
• Fors took out the Spirit Eater’s Stomach and her other prepared ingredients, then mixed them into the Trickmaster Potion.

Fors prayed to Mr. Fool before advancing, while Klein learned from Cyril about the abilities and weaknesses of Desire Apostles. The next morning, Cyril saw his new 8,000-pound bounty in the paper and passed a sheriff’s registration search in Bayam, where officials were looking for an unidentified dangerous person.

• Fors worried that her colorful Trickmaster Potion might have been prepared incorrectly and prayed to Mr. Fool for good luck before advancing.
• Klein asked Cyril about Desire Apostles, who could manipulate desire and emotions, and learned that the Three Great Churches were prepared to hunt one in Backlund.
• Cyril read that the Church of Storms had placed an 8,000-pound bounty on Randolph Carter after he killed Jorg and defeated Mavity.
• Cyril read that Bansy Harbor would be closed for renovations and surmised that it was being rebuilt after the recent events.
• Two Sheriffs conducted a resident registration at Cyril’s inn, checked his papers, and left without discovering anything amiss.
• The inn attendant told Cyril that the search was for a dangerous person, and Cyril decided the search probably was not about him.

Cyril had Edefana destroy two Mystical Items and cleanse the mental imprint from one Beyonder Characteristic. In Backlund, Fors joined Lawrence’s lessons and learned about a coming Beyonder gathering; in Bayam, Cyril met Dimitri as a sudden storm broke over the sea.

• Cyril asked Edefana to destroy a compass and a black gauntlet, and Edefana cleared the compass Characteristic’s lingering mental pollution.
• Edefana explained that powerful, self-aware mental imprints could remain in Characteristics belonging to Demigods and above.
• Lawrence introduced Fors to Owen as his student and began teaching them occult knowledge after Fors revealed she had advanced to Trickmaster.
• Lawrence invited Fors and Owen to a Beyonder gathering that weekend, and Fors considered bringing Xio, Miss Audrey, and Viscount Glaint.
• Cyril watched a standoff between pirates and official forces in Bayam, where Dimitri introduced himself and reported the Sea King’s return.
• Thunder suddenly broke over the sea as the sky darkened and lightning filled the clouds.

Cyril witnessed the Sea King destroy a pirate fleet, then escaped a Church of Storms enforcer while Dimitri fought him. After finding Dimitri alive but the music box unexplained, Cyril decided to trade it to a Demigod from the Moses Ascetic Order and give it to the Church of Storms if it proved too dangerous.

• The Sea King used a storm and silver lightning to destroy the pirates gathered outside Bayam's harbor, while Cyril recorded the scene by painting.
• Dimitri told Cyril that local resistance fighters had organized the pirates, then a Church of Storms enforcer arrived and attacked them.
• Cyril escaped into the Mirror World and secretly watched Dimitri put the enforcer to sleep before the Sea King arrived and destroyed Cyril's mirror shard.
• Cyril divined that Dimitri was still alive and, suspecting he had deliberately approached him, began investigating the music box Dimitri had left behind.
• Cyril consulted Klein above the Gray Fog and decided to trade the music box to a Demigod from the Moses Ascetic Order, or give it to the Church of Storms if necessary.

Cyril left a story, a letter, and Dimitri’s music box at a quiet villa, while Klein pressed Emlyn to negotiate a lower price for ingredients needed to advance. Ohaiz gave Cyril Ferman’s Warlock Notes and ordered him to return to East Balam, but Cyril later went to Ohaiz’s villa under cover of night.

• Cyril placed the copied story and letter, along with Dimitri’s music box, in a villa’s mailbox, and a spirit retrieved them after he left.
• Klein visited Emlyn at the Harvest Cathedral and learned that the Thousand-Faced Hunter’s pituitary gland and blood would cost 2,800 pounds; he asked Emlyn to negotiate a discount.
• Ohaiz arrived in Cyril’s room, gave him Ferman’s Warlock Notes, and told him to return to East Balam with him in two days.
• Cyril examined the notebook’s spells, complained that Ohaiz’s offer was stingy, and went out to continue acting as a Scribe.
• After night fell, Cyril traveled through the Mirror World to the area near Ohaiz’s detached villa.

Cyril entered Ohaiz’s dream to investigate the music box and found Ohaiz battling Baros Hopkins, a Dream Weaver. The dream shattered into a deeper one, where the Hidden Sage’s projection appeared and unleashed Knowledge Chasing, harming everyone who saw it, including Klein.

• Cyril watched Ohaiz’s villa from the Mirror World while Ohaiz worked on spells and fell into a deep sleep beside the music box.
• The music box began playing, and Cyril entered a dream; he called on Klein for help before entering Ohaiz’s dream.
• Cyril found Ohaiz facing the Great Dragon Baros Hopkins in a ruined city, and Ohaiz’s attack began destroying the dream.
• The dream shattered, dropping Cyril into a deeper dream where angelic figures turned into living knowledge and pursued its inhabitants.
• The Hidden Sage’s projection appeared in the dream, and its Knowledge Chasing harmed Cyril, Klein, and the other dreamers.

Klein rescued Cyril from a dream overwhelmed by the Hidden Sage’s aura, and Cyril returned to his body in the villa’s Mirror World. He found Ohaiz losing control and attacked him with recorded abilities, unleashing a destructive storm of light and lightning across the villa.

• Animated Knowledge and the Hidden Sage’s aura drove Cyril, Ohaiz, and Baros Hopkins toward losing control in the dream.
• Klein pulled Cyril above the Gray Fog, and Cyril argued that Adam had been watching over them before asking Klein to divine Ohaiz and Baros Hopkins’s condition.
• Klein divined that it was time for Cyril to leave, and a twelve-pair-winged angel shielded Cyril as he returned to his body in the Mirror World.
• Cyril froze the music box, waking Ohaiz, who showed signs of losing control as eyes sprouted from cracks in his body.
• Cyril used a recorded Mind Breath to halt Ohaiz’s collapse, then unleashed a Storm of Light that destroyed part of the villa.
• Cyril summoned silver-white lightning over the villa and its surroundings, waking people across Bayam as he watched from beyond the storm.

Cyril escaped the Hidden Sage’s assault after collecting Ohaiz’s remains, then reasoned that Adam had likely arranged the encounter as a warning. Jahn Kottman recovered from contamination at Sea Wave Cathedral and identified the King of the Black Throne as a likely suspect, vowing to pursue him.

• Cyril fled repeated lightning and mental attacks, gathered charred remains into the Mirror World, and returned to his inn after obscuring his trail.
• Cyril concluded that Adam had likely orchestrated the dream encounter to warn the King of the Black Throne away from investigating him, then restored his spirituality and Teleported away.
• Jahn Kottman received a baptism from a gray-haired bishop, who purified the contamination and evil god’s aura affecting him.
• Jahn reported that a Scribe or Traveler had killed a demigod while a Spectator near losing control interrupted his pursuit, and the bishop suspected Baros Hopkins, the King of the Black Throne.
• Jahn declared that he would show the intruders who ruled the Beyonder world of the Rorsted Archipelago, while the bishop urged him to recuperate.

Cyril brought the dangerous Mystical Item formed from Ohaiz’s Beyonder characteristic to Klein’s home, and they investigated the dream in which Ohaiz and a Dream Weaver fought after the Hidden Sage’s projection appeared. Cyril left the item with Klein for safekeeping and learned from Bernadette that an angel or higher existence would need to seal it to make it usable.

• Cyril arrived at Klein’s home with the crystal ball containing an eye, and Klein helped him seal it in an iron box.
• Cyril and Klein went Above the Gray Fog, where Cyril learned that Ohaiz’s Mystical Item carried severe negative effects and Klein suffered contamination while divining.
• Klein manifested Ohaiz’s dream, revealing that the Hidden Sage’s projection appeared and that Ohaiz and the intruding Dream Weaver attacked each other in madness.
• Cyril explained the crystal ball’s risks, including attracting the Hidden Sage, causing Knowledge Chasing, drawing lightning, and attacking if it was not fed new knowledge.
• Cyril left the crystal ball with Klein and asked Bernadette how it could be made safer.
• Bernadette told Cyril that its existing Mystical Reenactment spells would be lost if it were remade, and recommended having an angel or higher existence seal it.