Recaps

Garos brought Lothern under Aura’s rule after defeating its forces and secured treaties with neighboring kingdoms. He then traveled to the Fey Wilds, helped Vera defeat Mosiro, and returned to investigate the Frenzied Flame’s source.

• Garos refused Lothern’s New Federation treaty, condemned Theo’s violations, and captured King Torfin, who later pledged Theo’s submission to Aura.
• Garos ordered Samantha to attack Lothern’s garrison, prompting Lothern to declare war and both armies to gather on the Lain Plateau.
• Garos shattered Lothern’s defenses, then defeated Raymond and four Crown Ranks in battle despite a resurrection-denial barrier.
• Valesia surrendered Lothern to Aura, and Garos imposed vassal terms while allowing Lothern to retain its name.
• Garos and Sorog secured favorable treaties with Ribos, Matena, and Cambrook, while Garos ordered Aura’s capital moved to the Lain Plateau.
• Vif brought Vera’s request for help, and Garos entered the Fey Wilds, where Mosiro attacked him in the Red Emperor’s form.
• Garos defeated and sealed Mosiro with Vera’s help, then arranged trade and cooperation with Vera and Hollis’s fae communities.
• Garos found that the Fey Wilds weakened his Frenzied Flame resistance and returned to the Material Plane, suspecting its source lay there as frenzied creatures mined blood-red ore on a distant planet.

Garos led the coalition against the Abyssal invasion, then fought Abaddon after a second rift opened in the Northern Frontier. He survived the battle, rejected Varta’s demand for the Tear of Immortality, trained in Seroel’s dream domain, and returned from the Fey Wilds to Bernardo.

• Garos united Romania’s states under a wartime treaty and joined the other factions in attacking the Demon Fortress around the first Abyssal Rift.
• Garos destroyed the fortress, the rift, and the Archdemon’s exposed limbs with Dragon Emperor, Other Dimension, then proposed dividing Middle-earth among the four powers.
• Garos learned that Galkro and Salia were expecting a child, met Seroel of Viridia, and agreed to discuss cooperation between their kingdoms.
• A second Floating City crashed in the Northern Frontier and opened another rift, where Garos and the assembled Legends confronted Abaddon.
• Garos defeated Abaddon and claimed the Tear of Immortality, refusing Varta’s offer to buy it after accusing him and the other leaders of withholding aid.
• Garos destroyed the second rift, rejected Lamorien’s proposal to kill the human Crown Ranks, and trained against powerful enemies in Seroel’s dream domain.
• Garos returned from the Fey Wilds to Bernardo by tearing open space, while Vera decided to feature the feat in her Red Emperor Story.

Garos awoke from his long slumber, reached Crown Rank, and brought much of Atlant under Aura’s rule while Reinhart overcame his fear and rose to Destiny Rank. After saving Laria from the Rage Tide, Garos traveled to Orotara to meet Seroel in person.

• Holden asked Garos to destroy failing Floating Cities, and Garos accepted the bargain, destroyed two falling cities, and helped Holden stabilize the rest.
• Garos entered a fifty-year slumber, but Varta and Afra led an assault on the sleeping Red Emperor, whom Garos awakened and defeated after reaching Crown Rank.
• Garos crushed Varta’s soul, forced Celine to submit, and later discovered that his evolved traits had made him far harder to kill.
• Reinhart faced Red Emperor Pale Star in a duel, lost, and was spared, and Garos then welcomed Reinhart’s loyalty and planned to use his return to strengthen Aura.
• Garos compelled Atlant’s Eastern Alliance and Southern Domain nations to sign the Integration Treaty, bringing three-quarters of Atlant beneath his rule.
• Garos sent Reinhart to help the Helmode Dragon Brood repel Metal Dragons, then left a Star-Self to guard Aura and traveled to Orotara.
• Garos rescued Laria from the Rage Tide, absorbed the Frenzied Flame from the battlefield, and cleared the major Rage Beast hordes before heading to the Greenwild Kingdom.
• Garos entered Emerald Royal City in human form, where Seroel greeted him and offered to show him around.

Garos pursued meteorites to master his Fury Curse mutations, fought Halduen, and became entangled in the growing conflict over the Dragon Race and Orotara. After Nausir hired him with a meteorite as payment, Garos returned to battle the Orcs in his new Ashen Annihilation Form, where he defeated Claude and devastated their army.

• Garos absorbed the Frenzied Flame from a meteorite, developed the Sky-Rending Form, and killed Halduen after taking over his duel with Seroel.
• Garos recovered in the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm, trained Gabriel, and learned that Lamorien had become a Storm Dragon apostle who ruled through forced worship and Blood Tax.
• Garos sent Reinhart to investigate Lamorien, then arranged for Aura to secretly support western resistance groups while Nausir agreed to hire him for a meteorite.
• Garos broke the Orc advance at Blackstone Wasteland, received a Rage Meteorite from Elarian, and visited Seroel, who gave him territory for his descendants.
• Garos transformed into the Ashen Annihilation Form and discovered that it sacrificed physical defense for faster, more destructive Dragon Breath.
• Garos joined Nausir’s coordinated counterattack at Blackstone Wasteland and insisted on fighting at the front.
• Garos shattered the Bloodskull Wall, defeated Claude, and devastated the Orc formation with Dragon Breath and Dragon Aura Bombs.