Recaps

Isaac and the Expeditionary Force helped Gwen lead the Resistance Army out of the Northern Territory and brought its survivors to Blood Port, while the campaign against Bazel remained unfinished. Back in Castel, Theus helped Nora regain control of her body, and Grisha began preparing wounded refugees for relocation.

• Theus kept his suspicions about the prince’s identity secret while the Mystic Society investigated, and Granny and Isaac reached the Northern Territory to warn Gwen about the gathering Transcendents.
• Isaac and Gwen led the Resistance Army out of Slading Fortress, fought Imperial troops and Dragonfang’s forces, and were nearly overwhelmed before Nora and the Expeditionary Force arrived.
• Bazel opened the White Bone Sanctuary’s jar, and its ash melted him, Lina, and his army before Castel’s airships bombed the remaining enemy forces.
• Alexei’s medical teams escorted the Resistance Army south, where Gwen learned Nora was alive and chose to stay in the Northern Territory while Bazel remained at large.
• Grisha and the wounded Resistance Army arrived in Blood Port, where Grisha shared food with his companions and declared, “This is Castel.”
• Nora agreed to rejoin her head and body, and Theus’s blood created a bond that let her briefly control her body before the connection failed.
• Grisha agreed to Zoe’s trial to prepare wounded soldiers for relocation, then boarded a ship for Castel as the Resistance Army’s wounded came to trust the Banshees.

The Expeditionary Force fled the White Calamity as its animated bones pursued them, while Theus and the Northern Territory prepared a fortress defense. Theus reached Gwen through the Mind Link as she fought the swarm, and learned she was close to weakening Bazel’s will enough to control him.

• Grisha left a letter for Gwen and went toward Blood Port, while Gwen and Hodge searched for Count Bazel and then evacuated camp after finding a warning.
• The White Calamity swallowed the camp and pursued the Expeditionary Force with bone hordes that revived in the mist, forcing the soldiers to fight while marching toward a train.
• Hodge’s force boarded the train, but the bones and fog surrounded it until Castel’s airships arrived to evacuate the soldiers, and Gwen saw a white-haired girl destroy a gigantic skeleton.
• Grisha met Hunter and agreed to help him reach the front lines, while Zoe and Gaia separately told Theus that they had gained Transcendent abilities without rituals.
• Hunter, Grisha, and Nora encountered Ignati and the Silent Temple delegation, then took them toward the Resistance Army’s camp.
• Theus arrived at the fortress with the Banshees and prepared its defenses with Alexei as the White Calamity approached.
• Theus used [Return] to enter the White Calamity and connect with Gwen, while the soldiers fought the advancing bones and mist at the fortress.
• Ash ordered the army to hold the fortress, and Theus directed them to keep firing as little Gwen told him she was close to weakening Bazel’s will enough to take control.

The Expeditionary Force drove back the White Calamity, while Theus and Alexei began shaping the Northern Territory and Duke Alvaray chose to seek a future in Castel. Bazel was captured and brought to trial, where his attack on Theus revealed a possible danger, as Castel’s growing devotion prompted Theus to strengthen scientific education and the Silent Temple priests remained unconscious.

• Theus ordered the Expeditionary Force to hold the Northern Territory fortress, and Ash led the soldiers against the White Bones until the mist withdrew.
• Ignati revealed that the Silent Temple had caused the White Calamity and that its Buriers intended to die destroying it, then led them into the fog.
• The White Calamity returned the injured Buriers, and Theus arranged for their treatment while directing Alexei to develop the Northern Territory through schools, factories, and military production.
• Hunter escorted Duke Alvaray through Blood Port, where Alvaray saw its industry and prosperity, then encouraged him to seek work in Castel after the Tribunal confiscated most of his lands.
• Theus returned to the Northern Territory and found that the mist had transformed Bazel into a skeletal giant, then ordered him taken to Blood Port for trial.
• At the Tribunal, Bazel attacked Theus with a bone shard, but Ash crushed Bazel’s head and the bone vanished against Theus’s hand, and Richard later found darkness when examining Theus for Pollution.
• Theus warned Gaia that religious devotion could undermine science, ordered more scientific education, and expanded schooling with new textbooks and senior classes.
• Gwen received a letter from Theus and learned that the Silent Temple priests still had not awakened.

Gwen traveled to Castel, where she raised the sunken wrecks into the Steel Ark and found a new place among Castel’s people. The Ark joined Castel’s shared will and awakened the Soul of Myriad Machines, while Gwen went to the Silent Temple hospital with Nora.

• Gwen left the Northern Territory by train and learned how Castel’s schools, factories, and railways had changed Blood Port.
• Gwen and Nora missed their scheduled ship, so Gwen leapt aboard a cargo vessel and caught Nora before she fell into the sea.
• Theus questioned Bazel, who blamed Lina for influencing him, and then warned Gwen that Lina was in the white mist.
• Gwen soothed the ship souls in the Shipwreck Zone, and the wrecks assembled into the Steel Ark as Castel’s forces rushed to investigate.
• The Steel Ark reached Castel without causing Pollution, and Gwen told Jeremiah she wanted to fight and see blood spill before her sword answered her will.
• Theus asked Gwen to sail the Steel Ark and involved her in Richard’s research while arguing that Castel should build its own scientific system.
• Theus’s Mind Synchronization spread across Castel and joined with the Steel Ark’s will, awakening the Soul of Myriad Machines.
• Gwen went with Nora to the Silent Temple hospital as Castel’s people cheered her arrival and the Hospital Knights struggled to treat the priests’ illness.