Chapter Summaries

The Sky Screen showed how the Five Great Sinners let the Khaenri'ah cataclysm spread and how the nations and their heroes fought the Abyssal monsters. The chapter ended with the audience honoring those sacrifices while Apep insisted the Dragon Sovereign Clan would have fared better.

• The Sky Screen condemned the Five Great Sinners for failing to stop the cataclysm and showed Gold Rhinedottir's black tide devastating the Seven Nations.
• Heaven's Principles sent six Archons to Khaenri'ah while the nations fought the monsters spreading through their lands.
• The Sky Screen showed heroes across the nations sacrificing themselves or sealing Abyssal threats, including Bosacius, Rosalyne, Ei, the Grass God, and the Hydro Archon.
• Natlan's warriors sealed most of the Abyss, while Mavuika merged with the Sacred Flame to support the future; the White Sand Emperor died fighting in Khaenri'ah as the Tsaritsa took the throne.
• The audience praised those who fought the Abyss, but Apep claimed the Dragon Sovereign Clan would have done better.

The Sky Screen showed the end of the Khaenri'ah Cataclysm and the Traveler's future role in deciding Teyvat's fate. It then followed Sandrone and Arlecchino as the Fatui prepared to evacuate Nod-Krai refugees, before Tartaglia discovered that their people had turned into monsters.

• The Sky Screen showed the Archon of Space and the Archon of Death destroying Khaenri'ah, sealing its gate, and leaving the Traveler to choose Teyvat's future.
• The gods discussed the devastation of the war, the threat of the Abyss, and what choice the Traveler might make.
• Sandrone read a fortune from a Hotel Debord cookie and mocked its advice to keep healthy habits.
• Arlecchino learned that many of Sandrone's people had fallen to monsters but ordered the survivors to join the evacuation team.
• Tartaglia told Arlecchino that the Tsaritsa had authorized an internal adjudication of Dottore and ordered him to help Nod-Krai's refugees.
• Tartaglia noticed that Fatui operatives had turned into monsters.

Arlecchino and Tartaglia fought off monsters and discussed Dottore’s experiments, which were spreading dangerous contamination from Nod-Krai. When Arlecchino revealed that Dottore had captured the Traveler, Tartaglia wanted to rescue him but agreed to finish his mission while Sandrone searched for the Traveler.

• Arlecchino and Tartaglia joined forces with the Fatui soldiers to defeat the monsters, and Arlecchino declined Tartaglia’s invitation to fight her.
• Arlecchino told Tartaglia that Dottore had stolen two Moon Marrow, created a third, and was experimenting with the power of the Three Moons.
• Arlecchino explained that Dottore’s experiments had mutated people, cursed those who fought him, and caused contamination to spread through Nod-Krai.
• Arlecchino told Tartaglia that the Traveler had been taken by Dottore, prompting Tartaglia to abandon his mission and try to go rescue him.
• Arlecchino persuaded Tartaglia to complete his mission while Sandrone searched for the Traveler, then asked Pulcinella to warn every nation about the spreading contamination.

Albedo investigated Dottore’s Energy Domain with Little Durin and theorized that elemental energy could dilute its pure Light Realm Energy. After confirming that Geo, Pyro, and especially Abyssal power weakened the Domain, Albedo asked Scaramouche for help testing another approach.

• The Angel God resolved to spread Nicole’s faith, while Tartaglia comforted Arlecchino about the possibility of a future crisis.
• Albedo met Little Durin beside the Energy Domain and began investigating how it was formed.
• Albedo theorized that elemental energy could dilute Light Realm Energy, and Nahida confirmed his explanation of the Akademiya amplifier and the theory.
• Albedo and Little Durin attacked the Domain with Geo, Pyro, and Abyssal power, with Abyssal power depleting its energy most noticeably.
• Albedo confirmed that elemental energy could dilute the Energy Domain and asked the watching Scaramouche to help with another test.

Scaramouche and Albedo investigated the Energy Domain and discovered that Dottore had transferred human souls into animals, leaving the people dead and their minds slowly overwhelmed by animal instincts. They left the domain and contacted Nefer to report what they had found.

• Albedo asked Scaramouche to help control Anemo energy, and their test successfully cut through the Energy Domain’s boundary.
• Scaramouche and Albedo entered the domain, where they found corpses with animals watching beside them.
• A bird spoke with the voice of a human, revealing that its former person had suddenly fallen and lost their human perspective.
• Albedo concluded that the domain was being used for experiments that switched human consciousness with that of animals.
• Scaramouche and Albedo returned outside, and Albedo used the Dodoco Communicator to contact Nefer.

Nefer infiltrated the Traveler’s consciousness to locate him, but Dottore detected her and trapped her until Nicole pulled her out. Nefer reported that she had a general idea where the Traveler was, and the Sky Screen then began a segment about angels, showing Nicole beneath Celestia.

• Albedo told Nefer that a controlled surge of elemental energy might break an Energy Domain and warned that Dottore was conducting dangerous experiments inside them.
• Nefer entered the Traveler’s consciousness, where Aether reflected on missing Lumine and his ordinary life with Paimon.
• Nefer went deeper into the Traveler’s memories and saw Dottore discuss Nasha Town and the possibility of recreating Khaenri’ah.
• Dottore noticed Nefer in the Traveler’s consciousness and trapped her, but Nicole severed the connection and rescued her.
• Nefer contacted Albedo and said she had a general idea where the Traveler was.
• The Sky Screen introduced a segment about angels and showed Nicole standing on a cliff beneath Celestia.

The Sky Screen revealed how Nicole defied Phanes’s punishment by sacrificing her voice while keeping her wisdom and strength, and Apep challenged the Three Moon Sisters’ choice to side with Phanes. After viewers reacted to Nicole’s story, the Sky Screen went dark and the Traveler wondered why they could not see.

• The Sky Screen showed Nicole questioning the forced choice between wisdom and strength and ascending toward the heavens after her kin urged her to find her own path.
• Nicole discovered a loophole in Phanes’s punishment and sacrificed her voice to retain her strength and wisdom while her kin became Seelie.
• Apep argued that Phanes was deceptive and could not bring Teyvat a happy ending, while the Three Moon Sisters said they still considered Phanes the lesser evil compared with Nibelung.
• Qian Renxue and Anya mourned Nicole’s fate, and Anya hoped to see her again someday.
• The Sky Screen went dark, and the Traveler asked why they could not see anything.

The Traveler confronted Dottore after Dottore had stretched a moment into a month and offered him a privilege tied to his status as a Descender. The scene shifted back to Columbina, who traveled to Starfell Beach just as Moon Hunter Raelir was resurrected and wondered whether to interfere.

• Dottore explained that he had slowed the Traveler’s time for a month to block Nefer from peeking into his mind, then argued that humanity could not understand outsiders.
• Dottore offered the Traveler a privilege that would restore him to the rank he was meant to hold, but the scene cut off before he answered.
• Columbina reviewed her trips into the past and noted that she had appeared near the Traveler each time.
• Columbina arrived at Starfell Beach as Moon Hunter Raelir was resurrected and recognized the events surrounding the Big Cannon.
• Columbina considered stopping Raelir’s resurrection, while Sonnet warned that changing the past could trigger a paradox.
• Columbina tried to decide what she could do as Raelir spoke about his body being scattered through time.

Columbina used her power to shield Hiisi Island from the Moon Hunter's Kuuvahki beam, then collapsed. As she dreamed of time spent with Sandrone, she asked about Sandrone’s connection to the Narbenkreuz.

• Columbina rushed to Hiisi Island and raised a golden Kuuvahki barrier, protecting its residents before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Sonnet and Apep watched Columbina suffer, while viewers realized that future Columbina had secretly protected Hiisi Island and aided the Traveler.
• In a dreamlike scene, Columbina woke at Sandrone’s home and shared coffee and pastries with her.
• Sandrone asked why Columbina had left her former home to join the Fatui, and Columbina questioned whether Sandrone would fulfill the wishes of the Narbenkreuz because of her connection to it.

Columbina traveled through the past from inside the Moon Cage, helping the Traveler find documents and discovering that Luonnotar was her anchor to Teyvat. With her power nearly exhausted, she entered what might be her final passage and arrived at the moment she created Luonnotar.

• In a dream, Sandrone rejected Columbina’s idea of a place where she could feel at home, and Columbina woke inside the Moon Cage.
• Columbina realized she had borrowed Kuuvahki from Hiisi Island and had been the mysterious helper who aided people in the past.
• At the Eternal Night Grave, Columbina used Kuuvahki to make the Moon Hunter documents appear for the Traveler, then spotted Luonnotar before being pulled back into the Moon Cage.
• Columbina identified Luonnotar as the familiar presence connecting her to the Traveler, and the Three Moon Sisters concluded that it was the anchor she had left behind.
• With her power nearly gone, Columbina entered another passage and returned to Hiisi Island, where the Three Moon Sisters realized she had reached the moment she created Luonnotar.

Columbina realized she needed the Three Moons’ full Authority to oppose Dottore, and revealed that Luonnotar was created from part of her soul to guide the Traveler. As Columbina went to face what lay ahead, Dottore tempted the Traveler with power and brought two helpless people before him.

• Columbina rejected returning to the past with her remaining power and decided she needed a force capable of opposing Dottore’s seized Authority.
• Columbina created Luonnotar from part of her soul and sent her to guide and help the Traveler.
• Columbina asked Luonnotar to stay by the Traveler and take him to the courtyard of Moon Prayer Flowers, where her lost past self needed help.
• Columbina brushed past the Traveler and Paimon as she headed in the opposite direction, leaving Luonnotar to continue with them.
• Dottore urged the Traveler to embrace the thrill of harming others and presented two helpless people before him.

The Traveler refused Dottore’s offer to become a less noble person, then tried to steal the Moon Marrow before Scaramouche rescued him. Outside the Energy Domain, Scaramouche explained that he had repaid an old favor and admitted he had planned to use his surprise attack to kill Dottore.

• The Traveler rejected Dottore’s offer, saying he could not kill innocent people or live as Dottore wanted.
• The Traveler stabbed Dottore from behind, but the attack did not hurt him, and the two fought.
• The Traveler used elemental powers to distract Dottore and tried to seize the Moon Marrow, but Dottore pinned him down.
• Scaramouche broke into the Energy Domain, grabbed the Traveler, and escaped with him while Dottore attacked.
• Little Durin and Albedo received the Traveler and Scaramouche outside the Energy Domain.
• Scaramouche told the Traveler he had repaid his debt from Sumeru and said he had originally meant to use his one-time surprise move to kill Dottore.

The Traveler returned safely after being rescued from Dottore, and the Sky Screen showed a lighthearted game that pinned labels on people from Teyvat and the Douluo Continent. Back at the Secret Archive, Sandrone discussed her research with Arlecchino and greeted the returning Traveler and companions.

• Scaramouche reassured the Traveler that he was not blaming her for losing the chance to learn whether Dottore could identify him, and the group reunited after escaping the Energy Domain.
• The Sky Screen paired people from Teyvat and the Douluo Continent with playful labels, including Kamisato Ayaka and Bibi Dong as traitors, Yelan and Qian Renxue as spies, and Paimon as a gluttonous tyrant.
• Arlecchino delivered the Tsaritsa's orders to Sandrone, who said Albedo's ideas had influenced her research into documents about Narzißenkreuz Ordo, Rene de Petrichor, and Jakob Ingold.
• Nefer announced the group's return, and Sandrone went to check that the Traveler had come back unharmed.

The Traveler returned safely and reunited with friends who had worried about him, then described Dottore’s abilities and ambitions. Sandrone revealed that Columbina was still alive and moving through a strange stretch of reversed time, leaving the group to figure out how to bring her back.

• The Traveler returned, and Sandrone, Arlecchino, Scaramouche, and the others welcomed him while Paimon tearfully embraced him.
• Little Durin explained that Scaramouche had entered the Energy Domain alone and rescued the Traveler.
• The Traveler told everyone what he had learned about Dottore and the Three Moon Sisters’ omnipotence.
• Sandrone shared her findings about Columbina, and the group concluded that she was alive and traveling through time flowing backward.
• Albedo and Little Durin considered the purpose and destination of Columbina’s path through reversed time.

Nicole explained the origins of the Three Moon Sisters and discussed where Columbina might emerge from the backward flow of time. In the Moon Cage, Columbina encountered Moon Hunter Raelir, who said he had abandoned his revenge after seeing Dainsleif and finding no way out.

• Nicole told the group that time had an endpoint and that Dragon King Nibelung had raised three moons, from which the moon goddesses were born.
• Apep accused the Three Moon Sisters of betraying the Dragon King, and Sonnet argued that they could not be blamed for failing to defend his territory.
• Columbina continued through the unstable Moon Cage, where Abyss-like energy sometimes appeared, and spotted Moon Hunter Raelir ahead.
• Columbina raised a barrier when Raelir stood up, but he said he no longer wanted conflict and that he had seen his old friend Dainsleif.
• Raelir recalled how hatred and rage had driven him to attack the Moon Cage and seek revenge, but he had found no way out.

Moon Hunter Raelir told Columbina how he had encountered Tholindis’s afterimage in the Moon Cage and asked her to deliver a message to his dead former lover. He cleared the Abyssal obstacles ahead, while Columbina agreed to try to pass on everything he wished Tholindis to know.

• Raelir explained that he had resisted the Abyssal power in the Moon Cage and seen an afterimage of Tholindis, whose soul he believed remained somewhere deeper inside.
• Raelir revealed that Dottore had collected his body fragments and resurrected him as part of a plan to claim the Yue Shen’s power.
• Raelir asked Columbina to deliver a message to Tholindis, and he offered to clear the Abyssal obstacles whether she accepted or not.
• Raelir said he wanted Tholindis to hear about his past and mistakes, and Columbina agreed to tell her whatever she thought was important.
• Raelir cleared the Abyssal power blocking the way, and Columbina told him that Dainsleif still considered him a friend despite having fought him.

Columbina found Tholindis and told her about Rerir’s regret and longing, then learned why Tholindis had entered the time-reversing space. Tholindis revealed that she had hoped to return to the past and prevent the Vinster King from meeting the Princess, believing that would spare Rerir from his misfortunes.

• Columbina reached Tholindis, who became agitated when she heard that Rerir was alive.
• Columbina told Tholindis that Rerir had been manipulated, regretted his mistakes, and had always missed her.
• Tholindis cried and explained that she had once researched the Moon Marrow at the Khaenri'ah Institute of Alchemy.
• Tholindis said she entered the reversing space to return to the day the Vinster King met the Princess and prevent the events that led to Rerir’s suffering.

Tholindis shared her research on the Land of Eternal Dead Silence with Columbina and encouraged her to change the past, then remained in the Moon Cage with Raelir. Columbina continued along the seemingly endless road until she collapsed and Sonnet appeared.

• Xiao Wu explained that the Abyss would have brought Raelir and Tholindis further suffering, even if Tholindis had not entered the Moon Gate.
• Tholindis told Columbina what she had learned about the golden power and suggested that Columbina might reach the era of Nibelung and change the past.
• Tholindis apologized to Columbina for what had happened to Raelir, and Columbina continued onward after wishing her well.
• Tholindis spoke to Raelir, and the Sky Screen showed them leaning against each other across different times before revealing them alone again.
• Aria reasoned that Tholindis would choose to remain in the Moon Cage with Raelir, while Shui Yue'er grieved over their fate.
• Columbina traveled onward until she exhausted her strength and collapsed, whereupon Sonnet appeared before her.

The group in the Secret Archive discussed Columbina’s uncertain fate and Sandrone’s need for more computing power to calculate how she might return. The watchers suggested Scaramouche, whose connection to Irminsul might help, but questioned whether he would agree to put his life in their hands.

• Nefer and Lauma summarized how the Moon had shattered and wondered why Columbina had been born on the ground instead of the Moon.
• Nefer explained that Sandrone’s formula detected four Moon Marrows but could not determine whether Columbina was alive or dead.
• Sandrone argued that only a true Moon God could suppress Dottore and said they needed to find a way to bring Columbina back.
• Sandrone told the group that her formula had stalled because she lacked the computing power to process information about the world’s future.
• Arlecchino ended the meeting, and the Sky Screen’s watchers suggested Irminsul might provide the needed power.
• Apep brought up Scaramouche’s ties to Irminsul, and Aria wondered whether he would accept the risk of helping Sandrone.

Scaramouche warned the Traveler about Dottore’s plans and revealed he was willing to wager his life to stop him. He proposed a costly way to provide Sandrone with the computing power she needed, then the Sky Screen announced Dottore’s funeral and showed an unfamiliar bespectacled person.

• Scaramouche told the Traveler that Dori had gone to Sumeru City to warn the nations and explained why Dottore was waiting before acting.
• Scaramouche admitted to Little Durin that he had wagered his life to take on Dottore, while the Traveler insisted on fighting to save Nod-Krai.
• Scaramouche asked whether the Traveler trusted Sandrone, then proposed that the three of them meet to discuss a costly solution to her need for computing power.
• The Sky Screen went dark and announced Dottore’s funeral, exciting viewers who hoped he would die before becoming a god.
• A gentle piano melody played, and an unfamiliar bespectacled person appeared, smiling warmly.