Recaps

Aaron helped restore Waukeen, forged new alliances, and returned to Cormyr to win the title of Shogun and prepare a northern expedition. The arc ends with his army marching into the Anauroch Great Desert under Operation Gaia.

• Waukeen reclaimed her divine power, while Aaron helped her create Grudge, a new Succubus Nun who became ruler of the Abyss’s forty-fifth layer.
• Waukeen freed Morgan from Mammon’s control, and Aaron made a deal with Raphael while Selûne and Waukeen fought over a Golden Apple.
• Aaron gave the Golden Apple to Selûne, who shared her first true kiss with him and arranged for him to marry Eleanor and Charlotte in Cormyr.
• Aaron freed Abdel and Sarevok from prison, extracted their Bhaal divinity, and transformed them into Daemon Princes under his Golden Law.
• Aaron returned to Cormyr, invested his wealth in the kingdom, and persuaded Alusair and the Kingdom Council to appoint him Shogun with authority to govern and campaign in the north.
• Aaron reconciled with Alusair and promised to marry her, then invested allies and nobles with lands and titles while recruiting Edict Knights for the campaign.
• Aaron made a Sacred Pact with Bahamut and secured dragon and paladin protection for Green Velar, then obtained an agility blessing and an alliance with the Air Elemental Army from Aqua.
• Aaron assembled about forty-nine thousand troops at Tifanton, ordered them into the Anauroch Great Desert, and named the campaign Operation Gaia.

Aaron gathered allies to fight the Zhentarim and their coalition, then led the Western Army into the Great Battle of Teshwave. The Western Army took Teshwave despite the Phaerimm’s arrival, while a new threat, the Dark Sun Prince, prepared to challenge Aaron.

• Maximian’s army crossed the Anauroch Great Desert, and Aaron’s forces defeated the Bedine civil-war factions before Harald submitted and became king.
• Aaron secured Eilistraee’s alliance against Lolth and gathered a vast coalition at Dagger Falls, while Khelben brought Fuzor’s peace proposal and the eastern forces assembled at Zhentil Keep.
• Manshoon marched the Eastern Army against Aaron, and Fiolena’s knights and Harald’s Bedine riders fought its vanguard before Aaron chose to strike the main force near Teshwave.
• Aaron launched the Great Battle of Teshwave, where the Western Army’s center advanced against the Zhentarim as orks battered Eleanor’s left flank and the Shade Enclave arrived over the Dragonspine Mountains.
• Aaron’s troops assaulted Teshwave with magic and heavy weapons, but the Zhentarim held their positions and Robert was gravely wounded while Fuzor’s Dark Army delayed its intervention.
• The Phaerimm attacked the Shogunate army as the Western Army took Teshwave, and Aaron survived their assault by killing one elder from within after transforming into a Bloodthirster.
• Charlotte used the Cubes of Torment to hinder the Phaerimm’s spellcasting, allowing the Shogunate army to regroup, while Jergal warned the Dark Sun Prince against challenging the Chaos Hellhounds.

Aaron helped defeat Cyric, claimed the portfolios of Murder and Strife, and became a god while Kelemvor took control of the Underworld. He returned to the mortal world, was proclaimed king, built a divine realm, and ended by asking Alusair to marry him as his forces surrounded Suzail.

• Kozef escaped into the battle against Aaron, but Aaron and the allied mages drove him back before Perturabo attacked and was sealed in an astral crystal.
• Aaron’s deception sent Lorgar, Kor Phaeron, and Erebus to Sigil, where the Lady of Pain killed them, while the Emperor appeared and said Guilliman needed help.
• The gods attacked Cyric’s hidden divine realm, and Xvim’s ascension briefly returned Bane to power before Reynard’s sacrifice helped Aaron claim Strife and become a quasi-deity.
• Mask’s betrayal brought Kelemvor back to confront Cyric, and Aaron helped defeat Cyric, taking the Phantom Crown as Kelemvor became king of the Underworld.
• The High God Council granted Aaron the portfolios of Strife, Murder, Phantoms, and Stockings and named him Lord of Reincarnation, while he concealed his ascension to prepare against Lolth.
• After the Moonsea war ended, Aegir and Aaron’s allies crowned Aaron king, and Aaron divided lands among his supporters while planning to marry Alusair alongside Eleanor and Charlotte.
• Aaron and the Emperor founded the Lands Between as a divine realm where Lorgar and Perturabo would fight, die, and reincarnate, while Aaron’s armies later paraded through Suzail.
• Aaron ordered his forces to surround Suzail and isolate the palace, then entered with his allies and knelt before Alusair to ask for her hand in marriage.

Aaron united Cormyr and assembled a broad alliance to attack Lolth, while Be'lakor and other enemies sought to exploit the conflict. The battle carried the Chosen into Lolth’s sanctuary, where Aaron’s spell and unexpected arrivals disrupted her ascension plan.

• Aaron secured Alusair’s signature on their marriage contract, ending the Obarskyr Dynasty and establishing the Sallyan-Obarskyr Dynasty, then learned that Be'lakor had killed Eldath.
• Aaron married Alusair, won Moradin’s support for an attack on Lolth, and helped Enrique Steelshadow lead the duergar revolt that became the Chaos Dwarfs.
• Aaron and his allies gathered armies around Menzoberranzan, where the Eilistraee Colossus broke the defenses and the city fell to the invading forces.
• Be'lakor, Malkizid, and Graz'zt entered the battle, but Aaron, Eilistraee, and Grudge killed Malkizid before Lolth trapped Menzoberranzan in a web and dragged it into the Abyss.
• Aaron summoned Chaos Daemons to fight in the Weave Pits, while Nastya confronted the slaughter Lolth’s schemes had caused and the six Chosen were revealed, including Eleanor.
• Aaron and the Chosen prepared to enter Lolth’s sanctuary as their allies fought across the Abyss, and Drizzt, Nastya, and Aaron faced Demogorgon, Graz'zt, and Orcus.
• Aaron’s Oracle of Change spell broadened Lolth’s requirements for her Chosen, while Abaddon and other unexpected entrants appeared in the sanctuary and disrupted Lolth’s ascension plan.