Chapter Summaries

Neuvillette explained that the third stone tablet foretold the trial of the Hydro Archon, while the All-Devouring Narwhal was the true source of Fontaine’s disaster. The whale attacked the Opera Epiclese, but Tartaglia drove it back into the rift, and Neuvillette revealed that it was drawn to the blood of Fontaine’s people.

• Neuvillette explained that the stone tablets showed Fontaine’s people putting the Hydro Archon on trial and that their attempt to prevent the Prophecy was helping fulfill it.
• Neuvillette identified the All-Devouring Narwhal as the source of the disaster just as the Opera Epiclese began to shake.
• The All-Devouring Narwhal burst through a fissure, and Neuvillette’s Hydro attacks and barrier failed to stop it from lunging at fleeing Fontaine citizens.
• Tartaglia unleashed his Legacy of Evil, hurt the All-Devouring Narwhal, and forced it to retreat into the rift before following it inside.
• Neuvillette told the Traveler and the others that the whale was an outsider consuming Primordial Sea energy and that Fontaine people’s blood attracted it.
• Navia and the others realized that Tartaglia’s presence had delayed the whale’s attack and suspected the hidden Hydro Archon had been manipulating events.

As Fontaine faced the seemingly unstoppable whale, the Oratrice began Furina’s execution, revealing Focalors as the true Hydro Archon. Focalors explained that she had devised a plan to deceive the Heavenly Principles and save Fontaine while allowing the Prophecy to come true.

• Neuvillette told Paimon and the others that the whale had absorbed so much Primordial Sea energy that it might survive even Teyvat’s destruction.
• Navia, Lyney, and Clorinde insisted they would keep fighting, while the Traveler recalled Nicole’s advice and realized Furina might know more.
• The Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale activated, and Neuvillette said the execution was beginning.
• The Oratrice sealed the courtroom and revealed Focalors, disguised as Furina, beneath a greatsword formed from Indemnitium.
• Focalors told Neuvillette that she had planned to deceive the Heavenly Principles so Fontaine could be saved while the Prophecy still came to pass.
• Apep considered whether Focalors had the courage to defy the heavens.

Focalors explained that she separated her human self, Furina, and cursed her to impersonate a god for five hundred years to deceive the Heavenly Principles. The Traveler encountered Furina onstage and saw how fearfully she struggled to maintain her role.

• Focalors told Neuvillette that she had created Furina as her ideal human self by separating her divinity from her spirit.
• Focalors explained that her curse kept Furina alive and forced her to play the Hydro Archon so the prophecy would appear to come true.
• Neuvillette recognized the cruelty of Furina's five hundred years of loneliness, while the Angel God discussed immortality's burdens with Qian Daoliu.
• The Traveler approached Furina on the empty stage, but Furina did not recognize them and insisted that Fontaine's people were watching her performance.

The chapter revealed how Focalors first met Furina and asked her to impersonate the Hydro Archon to protect Fontaine from the Prophecy. It left Furina beginning her five-hundred-year task, while observers learned she had faced it without support from Focalors.

• Furina’s hidden wish for the stage to go dark was revealed, and the Traveler switched off the spotlights and took a seat in the audience.
• Focalors appeared in the mirror and explained that Fontaine’s Prophecy could not be avoided, but that Furina’s suffering could give everyone a chance to be saved.
• Furina accepted that she might have to suffer to save Fontaine’s people.
• Candace corrected Nilou’s belief that Furina and Focalors had communicated over the years, and Dehya explained they could not risk exposing their plan to the Heavenly Principles.
• Focalors told Furina to impersonate the Hydro Archon forever and explained that she only had to act like the god people imagined.

Furina gave her first speech as Fontaine’s new Hydro Archon, but the crowd doubted her until she acted like the imposing god they expected. With the people reassured, she prepared to begin her speech again while carrying the burden of Fontaine’s fate.

• Focalors told Furina she would need to resist her humanity for countless years until a grand trial saved everyone.
• Furina delivered a modest inauguration speech at the Opera Epiclese, promising to guide Fontaine and pursue justice.
• Fontaine’s citizens questioned whether Furina was truly a god, and Furina feared their doubts would doom them to the Prophecy.
• Furina adopted an imposing persona and presented her earlier speech as a performance, winning the crowd’s approval.
• Furina felt relieved that the people accepted her and prepared to give her speech again.

Furina’s repeated performance as Fontaine’s Hydro Archon showed her public duties, secret investigation into The Prophecy, and private exhaustion. Nahida recognized that Furina had endured the same routine for hundreds of years, and the Sky Screen ended on the contrast between her public smile and her solitude at bedtime.

• Furina delivered a speech proclaiming that she could judge even the gods, earning the audience’s applause.
• Apep objected that Furina had no right to judge the gods because she was created by a usurper.
• Furina handled court reports and met Deotile, remembering his son and offering to visit her people at home.
• Furina secretly studied hydrological reports about The Prophecy and learned that the Fontaine Research Institute had found no workable solution.
• Furina privately admitted that playing the Hydro Archon left her exhausted and uncertain when her days would end.
• Nahida compared Furina’s repeated routine to the 168-loop Sabzeruz Festival and noted that Furina had endured it for hundreds of years.

Furina endured centuries of loneliness while pretending to be the Hydro Archon, and the Sky Screen showed her struggling with whether to confide in the Traveler. Nefer predicted Furina would protect her resolve, and Furina ultimately chose not to open up.

• Furina forced herself to smile through tears while receiving a descendant of her follower, then privately wondered how much longer she could endure.
• Thoth, Nefer, and Jahoda discussed Furina’s suffering and whether her perseverance made her worthy of being called a god.
• Furina’s inner thoughts revealed that she still believed playing the Hydro Archon was the only way to save Fontaine and urged her reflection to succeed.
• The Sky Screen showed Furina weighing whether to confide in the Traveler, while Nefer explained that doing so could weaken her defenses.
• Furina chose not to confide in the Traveler, preserving the resolve she had maintained for five hundred years.

Focalors explained how she deceived the Heavenly Principles by hiding her consciousness in the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale and storing enough Indemnitium to destroy the Hydro Archon's throne. Her plan would save Fontaine from the Prophecy by returning the Hydro Dragon's authority to Neuvillette, and the chapter ended with Apep reflecting on Focalors's resolve and Neuvillette's bond with humanity.

• Furina told the Traveler she was calm and asked them to witness her until the curtain fell.
• Focalors revealed that she had hidden her consciousness in the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale and had spent five hundred years accumulating Indemnitium.
• Focalors explained that the Oratrice was designed to destroy the Hydro Archon's throne and return the Hydro Dragon's authority to Neuvillette.
• Focalors told Neuvillette not to cry, while Apep voiced her respect for Focalors's resolve.
• The chapter noted that Neuvillette had become part of Fontaine's human society and cared for Melusines rather than the Vishaps.

Focalors sacrificed herself to destroy the Hydro Archon Throne, return the Hydro Dragon’s authority to Neuvillette, and make Fontaine’s people true humans. Neuvillette pardoned Fontaine and joined the Traveler to confront the Star-Swallowing Whale, while the Five God Kings learned the whale might be someone’s pet.

• Egeria explained that survival and existence were the justice Fontaine needed, and Neuvillette realized Focalors had arranged his role over five hundred years.
• Focalors danced and was executed, destroying the Hydro Archon Throne and returning the Hydro Dragon’s authority to Neuvillette; she left Furina a message urging her to live happily as a human.
• Neuvillette declared Fontaine’s people pardoned, washing away their sins and making them true humans who could no longer dissolve in Primordial Sea Water.
• Neuvillette asked the Traveler to help execute the Star-Swallowing Whale, and they entered the Primordial Sea to fight it.
• Neuvillette struck the whale and stripped away some of its Primordial Sea power, then shared part of the Dragon Sovereign’s authority with the Traveler to search for a way to reach its core.
• The Five God Kings watched the battle, and one of them revealed that the Star-Swallowing Whale might be someone’s pet.

Neuvillette and the Traveler defeated the Star-Swallowing Whale, and Skirk revealed that the flood in Fontaine meant the Prophecy had come to pass. Focalors's sacrifice kept Fontaine's people from dissolving, Wriothesley organized rescues, and the flood began to recede as the Prophecy ended.

• Neuvillette suppressed the Star-Swallowing Whale's black knight, and the Traveler destroyed its core before Skirk captured the whale and Tartaglia.
• Skirk explained that she was Tartaglia's master and named Surtalogi as her own master, while Witch M Anya and Scaramouche discussed his Khaenri'ahn connections.
• Skirk warned that the whale's power had triggered Fontaine's Prophecy, and Neuvillette said Focalors had already deceived the Heavenly Principles.
• The flood covered Fontaine, leaving Furina alone at the Opéra Epiclese, while Focalors's sacrifice prevented the people from dissolving.
• Wriothesley sent the Fortress of Meropide's ship to help the Spina di Rosula rescue survivors, and the flood began to recede after the battle ended.

Neuvillette explained how Focalors’s plan saved Fontaine by turning its people into true humans, then answered questions about Tartaglia, Fontainian births, and Furina’s life after the prophecy. The chapter left Furina living alone after leaving the Opera Epiclese, while observers considered the ancient Fontainians’ extinction and Focalors’s sacrifices.

• Furina saw that Fontaine had survived the prophecy, then left the Opera Epiclese and moved into a small house by herself.
• Neuvillette told the Traveler and Paimon that Focalors destroyed the Hydro Archon Throne, allowing him to use the dragons’ authority to make the Fontainians true humans.
• Neuvillette explained that Tartaglia had awakened the Star-Devouring Whale in the Abyss, but he could not say whether Focalors had deliberately used the trial verdict to buy Fontaine time.
• Neuvillette revealed that Oceanids blessed at the Fountain of Lucine became new Fontainians, and Tighnari, Collei, Sethos, and Cyno realized the ancient Fontainians may have disappeared through intermarriage with them.
• Neuvillette said Focalors had left Furina an explanation, after which Furina said she was exhausted and needed rest.

Neuvillette explained how he would continue serving Fontaine as Iudex and replace the Oratrice, while discussing the Gnosis and Skirk’s revelations about the Third Descender. After Fontaine’s story concluded, Ouyang Kong used the people’s faith in Focalors to bring her back, and she awoke in another world.

• Neuvillette said he would personally conduct trials and use Pneuma-Ousia Energy to power Fontaine after the Oratrice and Indemnitium ceased functioning.
• Skirk told Neuvillette that the Gnosis was made from the remains of the Third Descender, and agreed to ask her master about the Descender through Tartaglia.
• Neuvillette and the Traveler set aside the mystery of the Gnosis and reflected on Focalors’s sacrifice as Fontaine’s crisis came to an end.
• Ouyang Kong gathered the people’s faith in Focalors and gave it physical form, bringing her back to life.
• Ouyang Kong told Focalors that she had saved Fontaine and introduced her to Greater Lord Rukkhadevata and Nahida.

At the Dragon Graveyard, Ouyang Kong and the others watched the Sky Screen reveal Teyvat’s ancient history, including Nibelung’s preparations to save his homeland and his eventual corruption by the Abyss. The chapter left them confronting the scale of the Abyss’s power and the Heavenly Principles’ role in shielding Teyvat from it.

• Focalors accepted her new life, and Ouyang Kong told her that Fontaine’s people now knew of her sacrifice.
• Ouyang Kong led Focalors, Nahida, the Silver Dragon King, Di Tian, and the Five God Kings to the Dragon Graveyard, where they saw the scattered remains of the Dragon Sovereign Clan.
• The Sky Screen showed Nibelung refusing a chronicler’s offer to flee Teyvat and raising three moons, from which Canon, Sonnet, and Aria were born.
• Nahida said Irminsul’s records called the Three Moon Sisters traitors, while Focalors avoided learning more because she feared attracting the Heavenly Principles’ attention.
• Apep wept at the sight of Nibelung and denounced the Three Moon Sisters as traitors.
• The Sky Screen showed Nibelung returning from the stars corrupted by the Abyss, and Ouyang Kong and the others realized the Heavenly Principles’ Eggshell protected Teyvat from its power.

The Sky Screen showed Phanes defeat the Elemental Dragon Kings, reshape Teyvat, and punish humans with Sky Nails, while the Three Moon Sisters debated whether to oppose them. After Dragon King Nibelung returned corrupted by the Abyss, he imprisoned the sisters and transformed the Three Moons into Orbital Weapons, beginning the Second Throne War.

• Phanes defeated the seven Elemental Dragon Kings with the Four Shades, created the Eggshell around Teyvat, and used Sky Nails to punish humans who challenged the rules.
• The Three Moon Sisters argued over Phanes' cruelty, and Sonnet, Canon, and Aria agreed to stop remaining silent.
• Dragon King Nibelung returned corrupted by the Abyss, awakened Xiuhcoatl, and summoned Apep after learning how powerful Phanes was.
• Nibelung imprisoned the Three Moon Sisters beyond the Moon Gate when they refused to help transform the Three Moons into Orbital Weapons.
• Nibelung transformed the Three Moons into Orbital Weapons, starting the Second Throne War, the War of Funerary Flame.

The Sky Screen showed the War of Funerary Flame, in which Phanes defeated Nibelung and began purging the Abyssal corruption threatening Teyvat. Zibai sacrificed herself to protect the people of Lang-Gan from a Sky Nail, but Istaroth preserved her at the moment of death and sealed her three divided forms away for a chance at revival.

• Phanes shattered two of the Three Moons and battled Nibelung while the Four Shades fought the corrupted Dragon Kings Apep and Xiuhcoatl.
• Nibelung's final attack wounded Phanes and destroyed Nibelung, scattering Abyssal corruption into Teyvat; Phanes repaired the Eggshell and began cleansing the corruption with Sky Nails.
• Istaroth warned Zibai that Phanes would destroy Lang-Gan to purge the corruption, but Zibai chose to face the Sky Nail and protect its people.
• The Sky Nail shattered Zibai's Canopy and pulverized her, though some people of Lang-Gan escaped because of her actions.
• Istaroth froze Zibai's time at the moment of her death and used the Method of Severing Three Corpses to divide and seal her in three places, preserving a chance for her revival.

The Sky Screen revealed the fates of Zibai’s three corpse gods, including how Ziqiao became Liyue’s White Horse Immortal. It then showed Columbina meeting the imprisoned Three Moon Sisters, who began explaining the Primordial One and the first Descender.

• Greater Lord Rukkhadevata and Focalors learned that Ziju was sealed in the Frost Moon, Zizhi slept in a bronze carriage in the Chasm, and Morax freed Ziqiao from a scroll and made a contract with her.
• Nahida and the others questioned how Morax had known Zibai before the Archon era and wondered what he was hiding.
• Sonnet met Columbina in the Three Moon Sisters’ prison and recognized that she had the power of a Moon Goddess.
• Sonnet introduced Columbina to Canon and Aria, and Canon explained that the Dragon King Nibelung, the Primordial One, had imprisoned the Moon Goddesses.
• Canon and Aria told Columbina that Nibelung had created them to maintain Teyvat and that the first Descender, the ruler of Celestia, had later arrived; Columbina identified him as the Heavenly Principles.

Aria and Canon explained how the Three Moon Sisters witnessed the Heavenly Principles’ conflict with Nibelung and revealed that only the Frost Moon remained, leaving the sisters unable to survive outside the Moon Palace. As they resolved to help Columbina, Ouyang Kong and the Archons concluded that the Heavenly Principles had protected Teyvat from the Abyss, though the struggle to secure its future was not over.

• Aria explained that the Three Moon Sisters hesitated to oppose the Heavenly Principles until they learned he punished living beings who sought power.
• Columbina asked about the War of Funerary Flame, and Ouyang Kong told her that the Heavenly Principles won while Nibelung perished.
• Columbina learned that the Eternal Moon and Iridescent Moon had been shattered and that the Frost Moon was hidden in the False Sky, meaning the sisters’ divine bodies would fade if they left the Moon Palace.
• Aria and Canon comforted Columbina and resolved to do everything they could to help her.
• Ouyang Kong asked Nahida, Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, and Focalors to consider whether Teyvat would have been better if Nibelung had won.
• Greater Lord Rukkhadevata and Focalors said the Heavenly Principles’ Eggshell had protected Teyvat from the Abyss, while Nahida argued that the world still needed a future beyond its restrictions.

Columbina learned that the Lunar Distance Force in Nod-Krai was her own power, scattered across the region when she died, and sought the Three Moon Sisters’ Authority to help her friends. She proposed escaping the prison by dying there and being reborn in the future, but the sisters questioned how she could communicate her plan or make it work.

• Columbina learned that the Three Moon Sisters had never encountered Lunar Distance Force and believed it was her own power, not an ancient force of Nod-Krai.
• Columbina asked the sisters for their Authority, and Aria warned that combining their powers could tear Columbina apart and that no Moon God could leave the prison alive.
• Greater Lord Rukkhadevata concluded that Nod-Krai’s Lunar Distance Force was the power Columbina released when she died, while Nahida explained how a god’s power could spread after death.
• Columbina told Sonnet, Aria, and Canon that she planned to die in the prison and be reborn in the future with her friends’ help.
• The sisters questioned how Columbina’s future friends could learn of her plan when no moonlight could escape the prison.

Columbina explained that she planned to leave her soul in the prison and turn her body into moonlight to protect Nod-Krai until her soul returned. The Three Moon Sisters agreed to sacrifice themselves to help her, and Sonnet asked Columbina to open her eyes and cherish her friends when she returned to the future.

• Columbina explained that a fragment of her soul could connect her to the future and guide her friends to her.
• Columbina revealed that she would turn her body into moonlight to protect Nod-Krai and asked the Three Moon Sisters to help.
• Aria, Sonnet, and Canon agreed to give everything they could to help Columbina return to her world.
• Columbina explained that she covered her eyes because she had once rejected a world she believed was full of lies.
• Sonnet asked Columbina to open her eyes more often and look at the world and her friends when she returned to the future.

Columbina inherited the Three Moon Sisters’ authority, sent them back to reality, and gave up her body to illuminate ancient Nod-Krai. The Sky Screen revealed that Sonnet survived the destruction of the moons through the Abyss, becoming the Crimson Moon, while Ouyang Kong led the Silver Dragon King and Di Tian toward Father God.

• Canon, Aria, and Sonnet transferred the Three Moons’ authority to Columbina, making her the world’s only Three Moon Goddess.
• The sisters asked Columbina to send them back to reality, where their bodies began to fade after the shattered moons appeared before them.
• Columbina sacrificed her body, turning it into moonlight that granted ancient Nod-Krai Lunar Distance Force, while her phantom soul remained in the Lunar Prison.
• After Canon and Aria vanished, Sonnet accepted the Abyss’s power to survive and became the corrupted Crimson Moon.
• Jahoda mourned Sonnet’s fate, and Ouyang Kong agreed to take the Silver Dragon King and Di Tian to see Father God in the deepest part of the Dragon Graveyard.