Chapter Summaries

Elufiel woke in a snowy forest far from Silvermoon City, where two gray wolves threatened her. After defending herself with holy magic, she wrapped herself in a cloak and set out to leave the unfamiliar woods and find her way back.

• Elufiel awoke beneath a tree in the freezing Green Forest as two gray wolves approached her.
• Elufiel blocked the wolves’ attack with Power Word: Shield and killed one with a holy spell, sending the other fleeing.
• Elufiel sensed that the magical web’s energy felt different from what she remembered.
• Elufiel took a red cloak from her storage bracelet, concealed her ears and face, and decided to leave the forest in search of Silvermoon City.

Elufiel rode out of Green Forest, driven by an overwhelming craving for Arcane energy, and encountered a young Arcane caster after he massacred a group of warriors and a divine caster. She lunged at him, but his Wind Wall stopped her and sent her falling into the snow.

• Elufiel rode her Chocobo toward the magic pulsing through the air, struggling to resist her addiction.
• A young Arcane caster killed the warriors and divine caster who had ambushed him near Wind Wolf Village.
• Elufiel heard the screams and smelled blood but continued toward the magic, unable to control her craving.
• The young caster noticed Elufiel approaching on her Chocobo and prepared a spell through his ring.
• Elufiel revealed herself as an elf and lunged at the young caster, but his Wind Wall blocked her and knocked her into the snow.

Elufiel fled after draining a human mage’s magic power, then entered a nearby human village to seek information. She learned that she was in Wind Wolf Village, on the southern border of the Halor Kingdom, and wondered whether she was still in Azeroth.

• Elufiel restrained a young human mage with Void Tendrils and drained his magic power by kissing him, but she released him when he attacked with spells.
• Elufiel fled on her Chocobo while the mage chose not to pursue her and headed toward Fairy Tale Town.
• Elufiel reached a village, concealed herself, and decided to enter despite the risks because she was cold and needed information.
• Elufiel struggled to understand the villagers, who thought she spoke a foreign language.
• A village woman told Elufiel that the settlement was Wind Wolf Village near Green Forest in the Halor Kingdom, and Elufiel asked where she could find a map.

Elufiel went to Fairy Tale Town seeking a map but met a mage who revealed she was on the Kanado Continent, far from every place she knew in Azeroth. She began to accept that she had changed worlds again, while the mage remained silent about her lost homeland.

• Elufiel arrived in Fairy Tale Town after declining a guide and learned that Paul's inn offered maps for adventurers.
• Paul watched a distinctive young mage drinking alone in his inn and considered speaking with him.
• Elufiel entered the inn, recognized the mage, and chose to approach him despite her suspicion.
• The mage warned Elufiel that the Holy See distrusted nonhuman intelligent beings and told her she was in the Halor Kingdom near the Green Forest.
• Elufiel asked about the continent and learned she was on Kanado, with no Kalimdor, Quel'Thalas, Maelstrom, or Silvermoon City.
• Elufiel accepted that she had changed worlds again and reminded herself that her elven strength could help her survive.

Elufiel learned that Odovish Snow was an Arcane practitioner who had encountered someone from another world, and he invited her to travel with him while teaching her Kanado’s language and customs. She accepted, but questioned why Arcane practitioners were considered evil and divine magic users respected.

• Odovish led Elufiel to a private room and activated a magic circle before revealing that he had met someone from another world who used spatial-temporal magic.
• Odovish asked whether Elufiel had also come from another world, and she asked if he would kill her for it.
• After realizing they struggled to understand each other, Odovish offered to teach Elufiel the language if she traveled with him.
• Elufiel accepted the invitation, introduced herself as Elufiel and Elur, and agreed to travel with Odovish Snow.
• Odovish warned Elufiel never to show admiration or sympathy for Arcane practitioners, explaining that Kanado respected users of divine magic.
• Elufiel asked why Arcane practitioners were considered evil and whether a divine magic user like her was simply a priest.

Elufiel explained her Blood Elf magic addiction to Odovish, who taught her about Kanado’s spellcasters, currency, and elf peoples. After Elufiel asked why the Drow had been exiled, Odovish questioned her own people’s history, and she began telling him about the Blood Elves.

• Odovish explained the difference between Arcanists, Divine Casters, priests, and mages, and Elufiel said she would judge the factions for herself.
• Elufiel told Odovish that she was a Blood Elf who suffered from magic addiction, and she described her people as the Sin'dorei.
• Odovish examined Elufiel’s gold coin and said a dwarf could recast it into currency accepted in Kanado.
• Paul served Elufiel and Odovish mushroom soup, roasted rabbit legs, and dry bread.
• Odovish described the Light Elves and Drow, including the Drow’s exile by the Elven Queen, which remained a mystery.
• Odovish asked why the Blood Elves had branched off from the Night Elves, and Elufiel began telling him their history.

Elufiel told Odovish about the Sin'dorei and their history with Arcane magic, and Odovish planned to take her to a gathering of independent spellcasters in Everlook Canyon. They traveled with Gelin through the Halor Kingdom, where Odovish explained the boy’s connection to her and Old Carl.

• Elufiel recounted how the Highborne’s reckless pursuit of Arcane magic led to disaster and said she had no particular hostility toward humans.
• Elufiel told Odovish that she understood Arcane magic better than anyone in Kanado, and promised to show him the truth hidden behind the Holy See’s blockade.
• Odovish explained that a gathering of spellcasters would take place in two months in Everlook Canyon, and booked rooms before giving Elufiel a package of local clothes.
• Elufiel and Odovish traveled across the Eastern Plains in a carriage driven by Gelin, an apprentice Odovish had taken in after Old Carl’s death.
• Odovish told Elufiel that Old Carl had found Gelin abandoned in Green Forest, taught him magic, and entrusted him to Odovish after the church targeted him.

Odovish explained Kanado’s major powers and the War of Light to Elufiel as they traveled toward Bitter City. They entered the city under the names Oli and Ivy, with Elufiel wearing an enchanted earring to conceal her elven ears.

• Odovish described the Sith Duchy, Halor Kingdom, and Podol United Kingdom and explained Halor’s close ties to the Holy See.
• Odovish said the War of Light marked the decline of arcane magic, while the faithful remembered it as a war that brought light to the world.
• As the carriage neared Bitter City, Odovish gave Elufiel an earring enchanted to hide her pointed ears from others.
• Odovish and Elufiel left the carriage, joined the line at the city gates, and registered under the names Oli and Ivy.
• After they passed through the gates, Elufiel questioned the name Oli, and Odovish handed her their entry plaques.

Elufiel discovered that candy she bought from an old woman carried a slow-acting curse, and Odovish urged her to dispel it before they investigated its source. Elufiel reassured him that she could remove the curse if it developed into an illness, leaving them in the city with the mystery of who had cursed the candy unresolved.

• Odovish explained that Adventurer's Guild identity badges were valid across the continent, and Elufiel asked whether his badge was fake.
• While Odovish examined herb stalls in Bitter City, Elufiel used his silver coins to buy candy from an old woman.
• After tasting a candy, Elufiel sensed a chronic curse spreading through her body.
• Odovish led Elufiel into a secluded alley, confirmed the curse with magic, and insisted on dispelling it before they searched for its source.
• Elufiel warned Odovish against exposing himself and said she could use Purify if the curse developed into an illness.

Elufiel and Odovish witnessed an old woman’s curse spread through the city after the church burned her at the stake. They fled before the city could be sealed and entered a forest on the way to Ata Town.

• Elufiel asked the knights who could lift the curse, but they denied it was a curse and accused her of interfering with official business.
• The knights arrested the old woman selling candy and tied her to a pyre in the square.
• As she burned, the old woman cursed the children of the people who had killed her son, and black smoke spread through the square.
• Elufiel shielded herself and Odovish while the Paladins gathered and invoked the Light God.
• Odovish warned Elufiel that the curse could draw powerful divine spellcasters, then led her out of the city before its gates were sealed.
• Odovish and Elufiel entered a forest shortcut toward Ata Town, where he cautioned her about wild beasts.

Elufiel and Odovish traveled to Ata Town, where Elufiel explained her mount space and answered the mage’s questions about magical spaces. After dispelling her curse with ease, she agreed to discuss what had happened during a walk through town.

• Elufiel summoned forest wolves for herself and Odovish to ride through the woods.
• Elufiel described her mount space as a parallel space sustained by magic, and Odovish connected the idea to a tale about ancient ruins in Kanado.
• Odovish thanked Elufiel for sharing knowledge that could help Kanado’s arcane studies and invited her to visit the ruins someday.
• Elufiel and Odovish arrived in Ata Town, where she observed that the curse had not yet spread there.
• Elufiel dispelled her curse while eating, then agreed to take a walk with Odovish so they could discuss the day’s events.

Elufiel and Odovish sought shelter in a chapel as rabid rabbits and infected townspeople attacked Ata Town. Elufiel challenged the priest’s claim that the infected were beyond saving just as the Light Barrier began to fail.

• Elufiel reflected that she could not judge a mother’s violent revenge after her child had been killed and branded a demon, stirring Odovish’s memories of his own revenge.
• Rabid, red-eyed mountain rabbits rushed into Ata Town, and their bites turned victims into attackers.
• Odovish said they were surrounded, then led Elufiel toward the chapel as townspeople gathered behind its Light Barrier.
• Elufiel questioned the value of the townspeople’s prayers when the barrier’s energy continued to run out.
• The priest declared the infected irredeemable and ordered Eli to kill them, but Elufiel insisted they could recover if the curse was dispelled.
• Eli demanded proof from Elufiel, while Odovish warned that the barrier was close to breaking; Elufiel asked what would remain to save the priest then.

Elufiel identified and killed the rabbit carrying the curse, ending its spread and allowing the townsfolk to defeat the remaining rabbits. The paladins arrived only after the fighting ended, while Eli, wounded and succumbing to infection, was left without anyone willing to approach him.

• Elufiel left the barrier and used a powerful divine spell to bring down the crazed rabbits and infected people around her.
• Eli rushed outside to protect Elufiel, killing rabbits and knocking infected townsfolk unconscious as she moved through the crowd.
• Elufiel found and killed the rabbit that was the source of the curse, then told the townsfolk the remaining rabbits could be killed safely.
• A sturdy young man tested Elufiel's claim by killing a rabbit, and the townsfolk joined the fight while Odovish took the dead rabbit for special cleaning.
• The paladins arrived after the townsfolk had killed the rabbits, while the wounded Eli felt his mind slipping and the crowd kept its distance.

Elufiel and Odovish left Ata Town after helping resolve the curse and gathering Moon Soul Grass, with Eli traveling alongside them. On the road to Gryphon City, Eli told Elufiel about his life and his mercenary work.

• Elufiel used Purify to free Eli from the curse, and Odovish showed a Temple of the Stars identification plaque to a paladin.
• Elufiel asked whether the mountain rabbits' fur could make a cloak, and Odovish spent two days collecting Moon Soul Grass in Ata Town and its surroundings.
• The town mayor gave Elufiel a mountain rabbit pelt cloak in thanks, and Eli departed with her and Odovish.
• Odovish bought a carriage and drove Elufiel away from the mayor's chatter while Eli rode beside them toward Gryphon City.
• Eli told Elufiel that he was a high-ranking mercenary whose group's headquarters was in Gryphon City, and explained that Father Wayne had raised him after his mother died.

Elufiel questioned Eli about Paladins and asked Odovish about acquiring a gryphon, then insisted she could handle the dangers of seeking wild ones. Odovish diverted the carriage toward Gryphon City and stopped to camp, where Elufiel told him she needed to replenish her magic power.

• Elufiel agreed with Eli that becoming a Paladin would have been an arduous life and asked Odovish whether Gryphons could be bought.
• Odovish explained that Gryphons in Gryphon City could only be rented and offered to take Elufiel to see wild flocks in the mountains.
• Eli warned that the mountains and their Arcane casters were dangerous, but Elufiel insisted she could escape trouble and dismissed his fears.
• Odovish took a long detour toward another gate to Gryphon City, and Elufiel realized he had avoided the usual road because of Eli.
• Odovish stopped the carriage to camp for the night, and Elufiel said she needed to replenish her magic power, prompting him to ask awkwardly if she meant as before.

Odovish explained the Sanctuary and the Temple of the Stars to Elufiel while crafting an enchanted gem to ease her mana addiction. After Elufiel struggled with her self-disgust, Odovish summoned Yano to distract her, and she told him about warlocks in Azeroth.

• Elufiel denied that her earlier behavior was intentional and asked Odovish to make enchanted items to ease her mana addiction.
• Odovish described the Sanctuary's conflict with the Holy See and said fewer than a hundred divine casters remained there.
• Elufiel accepted the enchanted gem but became absorbed in its magic and confessed her shame about her addiction.
• Odovish summoned Yano, and Elufiel cheered up as she played with the wind elemental.
• Elufiel explained that warlocks in Azeroth studied demonic power, summoned demons, and fought alongside their allies.

Odovish brought Elufiel to Gryphon City to wait for Goliath, and began explaining his origins as the son of a woman from the lost city of Pandor. The story shifted to the past, where a young emperor set out to investigate the undead disaster threatening Emerald City.

• Odovish said he wanted to see Azeroth after hearing Elufiel speak about it.
• Odovish and Elufiel arrived in Gryphon City and went to Goliath's home, where Sharon told them Goliath was away dealing with bats.
• Elufiel asked Odovish who he was, and he explained that Snow was his middle name and that he had been born near Pandor.
• Odovish recalled his mother's stories about Pandor and the locket she had left him with portraits of his parents.
• In 17635 of the Continental Calendar, the Itarigis Empire's new Spell Saint emperor began a journey to uncover the truth behind Emerald City's crisis.
• Undead emerged beneath Emerald City's western district, overwhelming its defenses and causing residents to question the Arcane practitioners.

Theodore Weston investigated the destruction of Emerald City and found Fidas Darren’s diary, which revealed that Darren had turned to undead magic after Susan and their child were lost. As anti-Arcane sentiment spread, Theodore traveled to Pandor to seek help and encountered Lucia, the future ruler of the Snow Family.

• Theodore Weston reached the ruins of Emerald City and found a damaged diary bearing the name Darren.
• Theodore read Fidas Darren’s entries about his love for Susan, her disappearance, and his attempts to bring her and their child back from death.
• Theodore suspected Darren had not intended the devastation and recognized that the Holy See was using the disaster to spread rumors against arcanists.
• Theodore warned the Empire and mage towers to prepare for war, then traveled north toward Pandor to seek aid from a magical item.
• Near Pandor, Theodore encountered Lucia riding a silver dragon, and she took interest in the young emperor of the Itarigis Empire.

Theodore met Duke Snow to discuss an ancient prophecy and the rising conflict between Arcane and divine arts, then set out with Lucia to investigate the Undead near Emerald City. Lucia began using the Mourner’s Harp at the Softsong Hills, where she heard whispers from the dead.

• Theodore and Duke Snow discussed the Sanctuary’s turmoil and the prophecy that had preceded Grand Theurgist Rodney’s death.
• Theodore asked to borrow the Mourner’s Harp to learn what had happened in Emerald City, and Lucia offered to accompany him.
• Duke Snow approved their journey and promised support from Pandor while Italigis monitored registered Arcane casters.
• Theodore and Lucia followed the Undead’s trail to the Softsong Hills, where they found a dense aura of death but no attackers.
• Lucia played the Mourner’s Harp as Theodore traced a defensive magic circle around her, and she began hearing whispers from the dead.

Lucia experienced Darren the Spell Saint’s memories through the Mourner’s Harp and learned how the Holy See’s attack destroyed his wife and child and turned Emerald City into a massacre. She told Theodore what she had witnessed, while the chapter’s historical account described the opening battles of the War of Light and Italigis’s planned counterattack.

• The Mourner’s Harp trapped Lucia in Darren’s memories of his pregnant wife’s death at the hands of the Holy See’s Heresy Inquisition.
• Lucia witnessed Darren offer his soul to the Dark God to revive his wife and child, only for the Holy See to destroy them again and attack him.
• Darren’s grief unleashed the Undead across Emerald City, and Lucia struggled to escape the horrific memories.
• Theodore held Lucia as the Mourner’s Harp’s strings trembled, and Lucia woke and told him about Darren, Susan, and the Holy See’s conspiracy.
• The Holy See launched the War of Light, and Italigis suffered a devastating defeat while Alchemy City faced an indecisive assault.
• Italigis gathered Grand Arcanists and prepared a counterattack with two forbidden spells in the Softsong Hills.