Recaps

Aaron defeated the Davis forces, gained Blackstone Manor, and continued exploring the Dream World as its supernatural powers grew clearer. There he watched Xiu and the children become entangled with the Black Sun Cult, ending with Lin transformed after escaping the High Priest.

• Theodore declared the Davis Family’s attempt to dissolve Colin’s sacred marriage pact an act of war, and Aaron awakened immense power in the Dream World.
• Aaron led his squad to victory at Widow’s Bay, killed the knight Saliba, and captured Roan Davis before raiding Davis Castle.
• Theodore conquered the Upper Green Forest, made Aaron a vassal, and granted him Blackstone Manor after Colin married Sylvie Davis.
• Aaron explored a ruined city in the Dream World and found Xiu sheltering Aike and Lin from the monsters of the Cataclysm.
• Black Sun Cultists abducted the Shelter’s residents, and Aaron learned that their rituals offered a dangerous supernatural path called the Unburnt.
• Colin accused pregnant Sylvie of carrying Aaron’s child, while Lady Sonia intended the pregnancy to prolong Colin’s humiliation.
• Xiu tried to escape the Black Sun Cult with Lin, but the High Priest captured her and sacrificed her and other prisoners in the Eclipse Ritual, transforming himself into a Dark Beast.
• Lin escaped the High Priest’s attack on Aike’s cottage, and Aaron found her transformed into a young woman.

Aaron cleansed Lin and Olivia of corruption, helped Lin establish the Light of Redemption, and confronted threats from both the Black Sun Cult and the Wild Wolf Bandits. After Aaron’s forces defeated the bandits, Colin faced the fallout from his missing weapons and Elaine’s pregnancy.

• Aaron answered Lin’s prayer, cleansed the corruption that had transformed her, and promised to protect her in exchange for her knowledge of Crimson.
• Aaron tried to strengthen himself through rituals and herbal preparations, then helped Sylvie recover after childbirth and secured the freedom to choose whom he would marry.
• Lin offered Aaron Crimson essence, established the Light of Redemption, and recruited Olivia after Aaron rescued her from a deadly transformation.
• Aaron exposed Mika’s assassination plot, helped Knight Yiman capture Jon Davis, and approved a second permanent altar for Lin’s growing congregation.
• Mas attacked Lin’s group, but Lin and Olivia defeated the Black Sun cultists and recovered the Light-Devouring Stone and occult materials.
• Lin gazed at the Crimson Moon and began transforming, but Aaron cleansed her and Olivia, leaving them with the Scepter of Flesh and its dangerous side effect.
• After Wild Wolf’s bandits murdered Old Kru and his family, Aaron raised a force, pursued them into Emerald Territory, and helped corner and defeat them with Knight Yiman.
• Aaron showed Knight Yiman the bandits’ military-grade weapons, while Colin learned from Feli that the missing supplies could not be hidden and heard Elaine’s news that she was pregnant.

Aaron overthrew Colin, conquered Green Forest and Northland, and later prepared to abdicate as the occult disasters worsened. Lin and Olivia led the effort against the Black Sun Cult, while Aaron tried to turn the Fate-Ruling Gods against the Crimson Sun and help his believers reach it.

• Lin killed the Priest with the Scepter of Flesh, then joined Olivia in killing the High Priest of the Black Sun Cult and escaped as the Black Sun ignited the cultists.
• Colin poisoned Theodore and seized control of Sothoth Castle, but Aaron revealed his Green Banyan powers, killed Colin and his followers, and took authority as Count of Green Forest.
• Aaron led Green Forest’s forces against Kagash, defeated its armies, killed Anthony II and Prince Theon, and forced the kingdom to accept his terms.
• Six years later, Aaron ruled a prosperous Green Forest and Northland but found his spirituality nearly exhausted and could not reach his dream consciousness.
• Lin and Olivia rescued Ymir and exiles from the Black Sun Cult, then learned from Ymir that the Fate-Ruling Gods were binding fate and threatening humanity’s free will.
• Aaron used his remaining mysterious energy to spread a fate-born rumor that the Fate-Ruling Gods needed the Crimson Sun’s authority, stirring Transcendents across the dream world.
• After Theodore refused Aaron’s offer of more years and died, Aaron appointed Xia Ya Baron of River Valley, exiled Sean, and named Ginny Duchess of Frost Wolf.
• Aaron prepared to abdicate to Ginny as darkness engulfed Diat, then strengthened Lin, Olivia, Ymir, and Abner so they could witness occult beings and perform a ritual to the Crimson Sun, which did not answer.

After centuries of sleep, Aaron emerged into a transformed world, rebuilt his supernatural abilities, and investigated a Chrysalis-path impostor who had replaced Hark Benjamin. He joined a secret gathering seeking occult knowledge, where reports of Age Controller influence unsettled him.

• Aaron sealed himself in an icy tomb, and centuries later awoke when Lowell and Bill broke the ice, dying from its supernatural chill.
• Aaron reached Green Forest City, learned that the New Era had begun, and awakened his own spirituality through the Radiance Method.
• Aaron sought Clark Das’s guidance, became a Radiant through the sunflower ritual, and learned how the Spirit Realm and occult paths worked.
• Aaron hired Sylvia and investigated her former employer, discovering that an impostor had replaced Hark Benjamin in April.
• Aaron entered the Benjamin home, defeated and killed the fake Hark, and found Jack’s incomplete Secret Lore of the Chrysalis.
• Aaron joined Clark Das at a secret gathering as Rapier and asked for knowledge about the Age Controllers and materials aligned with Yao.
• Jazz revealed that a Chrysalis-path extraordinary had impersonated Hark Benjamin, while the attendees discussed the Age Controllers’ role in the founding of the Invis Kingdom.