Recaps

Ye Ting and the Argonauts reached Colchis seeking the Golden Fleece, but Aeetes set deadly trials before them. After Volcanion killed many heroes, Atalanta finally wore the beasts down, only for Mystra Academy mages to capture them.

• Ye Ting escaped Hippolyta after releasing her, rejoined the Argo, and sailed with the Argonauts to Bithynia, where they drove off the Harpies and crossed the Clashing Rocks.
• The Argo reached Colchis, where Jason negotiated with Aeetes and accepted a trial for the Golden Fleece, while Ye Ting learned that Mystra Academy protected the king.
• Jason and his companions explored Cytaea and learned that its mages worshipped Hecate before Aeetes set the Argonauts a trial involving fire-breathing bulls and warriors raised from dragon teeth.
• At the banquet, Medea kissed Ye Ting under Aphrodite’s influence, then fled with him after he brought her back to her senses, and Jason realized the trial’s terms also required defeating the Colchian Dragon.
• Aeetes revealed two artificial Volcanion for the first trials, and Lynceus and Nauplius died fighting them as Jason began to doubt the quest.
• Erginus, Peleus, and other Argonauts died or were gravely wounded as they fought Volcanion, until Atalanta exhausted the beasts and secured victory.
• As the Argonauts moved to kill the defeated Volcanion, Mystra Academy mages captured both with red-and-white balls.

Jason and the Argonauts won the Golden Fleece but lost it to Hecate’s Five Emperor Dragon, suffering devastating casualties. Aboard the Argo, Jason turned against the gods, while Ye Ting challenged Athena to resist the Olympians’ punishment of the survivors.

• Ye Ting explained Colchis’s hidden magical powers to Jason, who continued the quest despite suspecting Aeetes’s trial was a trap.
• The Argonauts faced the Dragon Tooth Soldiers, and Potes and several other heroes died before Atalanta defeated the remaining Spartoi with Ye Ting’s help.
• Medea lulled the Colchian Dragon to sleep, and Atalanta stole the Golden Fleece and delivered it to Jason.
• The Dragon caught the Argonauts and revealed her loyalty to Hecate and Mystra Academy, then fought them as the Five Emperor Dragon and killed many heroes.
• Jason returned the Golden Fleece to save the few surviving Argonauts, who sailed away grieving their fallen companions.
• Jason accused Hera and the other Olympians of using the Argonauts as expendable pawns, and the survivors began to resent the gods.
• Ye Ting confronted Athena about the doomed expedition, and Athena grieved over the heroes while admitting she could not prevent the Olympians from punishing the survivors.
• Ye Ting urged Athena to defy the Olympians, telling her that her own fear, rather than the rules, held her back.

Ye Ting helped Athena and the Argonauts resist the Olympian gods before traveling to Egypt, where he offered Nitocris help avenging her brother and began teaching her magic. He spared the Vizier so Nitocris could take her own revenge, while the ministers continued plotting against Ye Ting.

• Ye Ting revealed his identity to Athena, gained her secret cooperation, and helped the Argonauts survive the gods’ storm and the Sirens’ song.
• Alcinous allowed Medea to remain with Ye Ting after their wedding, and Medea took control of Talos so the Argonauts could reach Greece.
• Athena publicly protected the returning Argonauts, who killed Pelias and spread word of the gods’ betrayal as Ye Ting later sent the Calydonian Boar away.
• Ye Ting traveled to Egypt with Nahekt’s caravan, protected it from a sandstorm with magic, and entered Memphis as Thoth.
• Ye Ting offered Nitocris help avenging her brother, promised not to exploit her desperation, and began teaching her magic while earning the protection of Medjed.
• Nitocris introduced Ye Ting to the ministers, who dismissed him as a pretentious bard and plotted against him despite her refusal to send him away.
• The Vizier asked Ye Ting to help poison Nitocris, but Ye Ting spared him after his killing intent terrified the Vizier and the female slaves.

With Ye Ting’s help, Nitocris avenged Merenre II, purged Memphis’s corrupt officials, and rebuilt the city’s prosperity and military strength. She marched to reunify Egypt, and the arc ended as her army faced Meribre’s forces outside Herakleopolis.

• Ye Ting erased Vizier’s memories and encouraged Nitocris to learn magic and take revenge on the officials who had caused her brother’s death.
• Nitocris used Medjed’s Invisibility to infiltrate the conspirators’ homes and assassinated the officials responsible for Merenre II’s murder.
• Nitocris revealed the nobles’ crimes to the people of Memphis, then staged a public trial where accused officials exposed one another and faced punishment.
• Nitocris replaced corrupt officials, expanded farming, restored Memphis’s food supplies, and gathered an army as the people acclaimed her rule.
• Ye Ting recruited gifted Egyptians and trained them in rune magic, forming Nitocris’s War Mage Corps.
• Nitocris led her modernized army south, bringing cities and nomes under her control while gathering intelligence on Melibra Aheito at Herakleopolis.
• Meribre rejected Nitocris’s surrender demand and prepared for battle, but was dismayed by the strength of her army.
• Nitocris halted her troops before Meribre’s formation, and a mobile catapult launched a ranging shot into his rear ranks.