Recaps

Roland returned to Gotham with Superboy-Prime and learned that Bruce faced a Supreme Court case over Heroes Inc., while Jason warned him not to interfere. That night Damian stopped Fury from attacking a television station, and in Metropolis Lex Luthor offered Bruce kryptonite as protection against Superman, only to learn Bruce already had a larger supply.

• Roland and Superboy-Prime finished cleaning up the ocean, and Roland explained to Superboy-Prime how Aquaman had ended up with the Moye Sword while The Flash had given his sword to him.
• Jason told Roland that Bruce had been accused of subverting the government and that the Supreme Court was divided, but Bruce and Mayor Kane had both warned Roland not to interfere.
• Roland returned to Gotham and joked with Jason about secession and becoming emperor before learning that Jeanne d'Arc had caught giant squid in the Gotham River.
• Damian interrupted Fury's televised attack on Gotham City and defeated him, while Jason arrived and confirmed that Fury was injured rather than dead.
• Lex Luthor offered Bruce kryptonite and sought Wayne Industries' help with a project, but Bruce said he already had a larger piece.

After Bruce was acquitted, the Bat Family flew home, but Poison Ivy’s revived Dragon Flower crippled their plane. Roland arrived to rescue them, then accidentally tore the aircraft in half.

• Lex Luthor promised to help Bruce sway the Chief Justice, and Bruce was found innocent after the hearing.
• The Bat Family boarded a plane, where they discovered Poison Ivy and her revived Dragon Flower.
• The Dragon Flower grew wildly, damaged a turbine, and knocked out the pilot while the team struggled to contain it.
• Nightwing used an oxygen candle containing sodium chlorate to weaken the Dragon Flower, but the plane began to plunge.
• Roland arrived and promised to save everyone, then flew into the plane and split it in two with his shoulder.

After saving the passengers of a crashed plane with giant birds, Roland brought Nightwing and the others to Metropolis, where he showed off his new life-creation ability and gave Dick dubious dating advice. The group ended the day dining at an expensive hotel on Batman’s tab, while Roland’s advice about Poison Ivy threatened to reach Jeanne d'Arc.

• Roland used Formless Creation to make giant birds that caught the passengers of the divided plane, then stopped the hurricane that threatened them with help from a janitor.
• The Mother of All tracked down the janitor and punished him, while Lucifer watched and celebrated his loyalty to Roland.
• Roland explained to Superboy-Prime that he had learned to create life, then arrived at the Metropolis airport with Nightwing and the others.
• Roland caught Poison Ivy with a giant plant and claimed he had lent it to her so he would have an excuse to talk to her again, prompting him to lecture Nightwing about dating.
• Batman revealed that Jeanne d'Arc was listening on speakerphone, and the group went to dinner at a Metropolis hotel, where Roland and the others feasted at Batman’s expense.

Roland rode to Los Angeles with a mysterious truck driver who turned out to be the firstborn of humanity, then discovered the driver had a connection to Lucifer and Lilith. The driver went upstairs at the Time Bar and was promptly thrown back down the stairs, leaving Roland to wonder about the building’s structural quality.

• Roland accepted a ride from a strange truck driver and traveled through the rain toward Los Angeles, where they encountered and killed a vampire.
• Roland found cursed, rotten crops in the truck’s cargo compartment after the driver left him in Los Angeles.
• The driver visited Lucifer at the Time Bar, where Lucifer identified him as the firstborn of humanity and discussed his connection to Roland.
• Roland arrived at the bar and greeted Lucifer, Maze, Amenadiel, and Officer Chloe, then the driver went upstairs to see Lilith.
• The driver tumbled down the stairs bruised and swollen after an angry commotion upstairs, and Roland remarked on the bar’s structural quality.

Cain brought Roland to England in 1591, where they encountered Andrew Bennett and the night Cain first made him a vampire. After Andrew left Mary a letter renouncing their relationship, the chapter ended with him collapsing outside her mansion, unable to approach her.

• The Mother of All agreed to take back Cain’s power if he removed every trace of himself from his progeny, and opened a portal to England in 1591.
• Cain and Roland arrived during a storm and found Andrew Bennett trapped beneath his overturned carriage as Cain prepared to attack him.
• Roland destroyed Cain’s wolf form with a punch, and Cain revealed that he was the biblical firstborn of man and the Progenitor of vampires.
• Cain’s blood transformed Andrew into a vampire, and Roland restrained him while Cain let him drink a deer’s blood.
• Andrew regained his senses and went to Mary’s mansion, where Mary read his letter saying he could no longer be with her.

Roland and Cain discussed Bennett’s tragic history as Mary searched for him and learned he had become a vampire. At Plasenshe Palace, Mary found Elizabeth’s diary, which revealed how she became a vampire and seized the English throne; the chapter ended with her coronation as Mary I.

• Roland asked whether Bennett was still alive, and Cain explained that a vampire hunter’s attempt to kill him had freed Cain from his seal.
• Mary threatened banker Tom until he told her that Bennett had become a vampire and wanted her to live without him.
• Mary decided to search the palace records for information about vampires and went to Plasenshe Palace.
• Mary found Elizabeth’s hidden diary, which recounted Elizabeth’s rejection by Henry VIII, her drinking Cain’s blood, and her schemes against the royal family and Court Magicians.
• Elizabeth’s diary described how she gained the Privy Council’s support, eliminated her rivals, and was crowned Queen of England as Mary I.

Mary searched for a way to become human so she could stay with Bennett, while Cain and Roland watched over her and intervened at Mary I’s manor. The story left Mary becoming a vampire after Bennett gave her his blood, as Cain and Roland prepared to leave.

• Mary left Plasenshe Palace to investigate Mary I’s diary, while Cain and Roland arrived and defeated a court mage and two knights who confronted them.
• Cain and Roland followed Mary to Mary I’s manor, where Roland subdued the headless Blaho and Taska and Cain restored them to life.
• Mary searched the manor for Mary I’s secrets, and Cain told her that vampires could not become human again.
• Mary knelt outside Bennett’s study for days, refusing food and water until Bennett finally gave her his blood.
• Mary’s hunger overwhelmed her, and she drank from Bennett’s wrist as Cain explained that she would be unable to resist vampire instincts like Bennett could.
• Cain said Mary would later create a brood of vampires and spark a war between vampires and humans, then he and Roland prepared to leave after altering the vampires’ Progenitor.

Cain gave up his powers and settled into life as Roland's butler, while Roland agreed to help Jason Blood investigate the worldwide vampire uprising. In New York, Andrew Bennett fought his former lover Mary and her vampire army, and Constantine intervened as Mary escaped.

• Cain woke from a nightmare in Lucifer's bar, then asked the Mother of All to take back his powers; she changed his hair and eyes as the abilities faded.
• Roland brought Blaho, Tasca, and Cain to Roland Cathedral, where Bronze Tiger arranged rooms for them and Cain slept in the attic.
• Jason Blood told Roland that vampires were appearing worldwide and a friend was caught up in the chaos; Cain declined to help, so Roland agreed to investigate.
• Andrew Bennett killed newly turned vampires in New York and confronted a girl he had bitten, then mourned as he read a letter from Vampire Queen Dusk, his former lover Mary.
• Bennett met Mary by the Hudson River and refused to join her war against humanity; they fought as Mary's vampire allies surrounded him.
• Mary fled as red mist, but Constantine shot her with a silver bullet, and Bennett recognized him overhead.

Roland and Constantine helped Bennett reach Mary, where Bennett killed them both to end their centuries-long pursuit, and Michael took their souls to Heaven. Constantine later asked to leave Mucous Membrane, while Michael blamed him for corrupting his daughter and vowed to punish him.

• Constantine used magic and a shotgun to kill Flint, then Roland rescued him from the vampires and drove off a demon demanding Constantine's heart.
• Roland restrained Mary as Bennett fought through her vampire brood and pierced both their hearts with a blood spear.
• Michael appeared and took Bennett and Mary's souls to Heaven, where they reunited and Bennett proposed to Mary.
• Michael discussed punishing Constantine with his daughter, who then left Heaven to play with Thaddeus Ross.
• Constantine visited Mucous Membrane after a long absence and asked the band to let him leave.

Constantine quit his band and joined Roland in a scheme to reclaim his heart and overthrow Hell’s three kings. Roland recruited Wasteland Diana to become a new king of Hell, while the plan’s next steps remained unresolved.

• Constantine left Mucous Membrane and told Roland he planned to go to Hell for his heart and dethrone all three kings.
• Satan learned that Michael had visited Earth and worried that Heaven might move against Hell.
• Disguised as Raphael, Roland convinced the Second of the Fallen to conspire against Satan using the Spear of Longinus and the Ark of the Covenant.
• Roland revealed his disguise after Constantine was captured, then visited Wasteland Diana and asked her to become a king of Hell.
• Wasteland Diana agreed to rule for a century or two, and Roland suggested Jason and Artemis's daughter Moon as her successor.

Roland manipulated Satan, the Fallen, and Elaine into a confrontation that left Hell split apart and its three rulers displaced or dead. He arranged for Wasteland Diana, Constantine, and Owlman to take over Hell’s authority, while Satan and the two Fallen ended up ruling Trigon’s former territory in another dimension.

• Roland told Wasteland Diana that she could seize Satan’s authority, then warned the Third of the Fallen and Satan about the Second’s plot against him.
• Satan agreed to confront the Fallen, believing the Second wanted Constantine for himself and planned to betray the Third.
• At the Three Kings’ meeting, Satan attacked the Second and Third, then banished them; Michael arrived and killed Satan after mistaking the Spear of Longinus for a threat.
• Roland discovered that the apparent Michael was Elaine, who had split Hell in two with her sword, and persuaded her to let Diana, Constantine, and Owlman replace the former rulers.
• Roland took Elaine to the Time Bar, where Lucifer accused him of manipulating events in Hell.
• In another dimension, Satan reunited with the Second and Third of the Fallen and told them to rule Trigon’s former territory until they could return.

Satan stayed on Earth while Wasteland Diana, Owlman, and Constantine ruled Hell, where Roland helped enforce contracts and collect taxes. After Hell was brought under control, Doctor Roman proposed that Roland use his increased Magic to pursue the First Magic, Denial of Nothingness.

• Satan made the Second and Third of the Fallen swear allegiance and told them to find women and father children so they could return to Hell.
• Wasteland Diana and Owlman discussed the dangers of ruling Hell and decided to control its Demons through laws, contracts, and an army.
• Roland led two Legions through Hell to force the Demons to sign contracts that included laws and a one-percent Magic tax.
• Owlman and Wasteland Diana drafted sweeping new taxes, while Constantine offered indebted Demons work at his Succubus Cabaret.
• A month later, Roland rested at Roland Cathedral as Jeanne d'Arc and Doctor Roman discussed his increased Magic and the First Magic.

Doctor Roman taught Roland about the Root and the First Magic, then used Black Jeanne trapped in a mirror to motivate him to create an Ether body. Roland succeeded in bringing her out, and she answered his summoning as an Avenger before he and Jeanne d'Arc fought over the contract.

• Doctor Roman explained the Root and how the First Magic could turn nothing into something, then began teaching Roland to make Ether blocks.
• After days of fruitless lessons, Jason suggested making the study more engaging, and Doctor Roman obtained a mirror showing Black Jeanne trapped in the Mirror World.
• Doctor Roman used Black Jeanne's image to spur Roland to learn, while Jeanne d'Arc confronted Jason and Doctor Roman over their plan.
• Roland spent six days learning the First Magic and created an Ether body to bring Black Jeanne out of the mirror.
• Black Jeanne declared herself an Avenger and offered Roland a contract, then attacked him with Roar, O My Wrath!, while Jeanne d'Arc answered with Crimson Lotus Saint.

Roland and his companions attended Lex Luthor’s New Lex Tower press conference, where Luthor praised human progress and warned against dependence on Superman while publicly crediting Roland. The conference ended with Luthor keeping Mercy’s role secret, and he invited the group and Clark Kent to his office, where Roland discovered a hidden door to Luthor’s laboratory.

• Roland reversed time to stop Jeanne d'Arc and Jeanne d'Arc Alter from attacking again, then celebrated learning the first magic with Dr. Roman.
• Roland, Dr. Roman, Jason, and Kara visited New Lex Tower for Luthor’s press conference.
• Luthor delivered a speech about humanity’s future and the dangers of relying on Superman, then praised Roland as someone who raised humanity’s limits.
• Roland tried to solicit donations for his church, used Mass Memory Erasure on the reporters, and threatened a reporter who had insulted him.
• Luthor showcased Mercy in shifting metal armor but did not explain her role, then invited Roland’s group and Clark Kent to his office.
• Roland found a hidden door in Luthor’s office and learned that it led to Luthor’s secret laboratory.

Roland and his companions visited Metropolis, where Lex Luthor promoted Mercy, before Roland proposed turning the Justice League into idols. In Gotham, Jason and Nightwing captured a brainwashed member of the Order of St. Dumas, prompting Roland and Batman to head to Judas Island to protect Jean-Paul Valley.

• Lex Luthor discussed Mercy and LexCorp's superhero plans with Roland and Superman, then hosted them for a meal at Luthor Tower.
• Mercy's popularity rose with LexCorp's promotion, and Roland suggested the Justice League debut together as idols; Jason and Nightwing rejected the idea.
• Jason and Nightwing encountered a masked woman who attacked them with flaming sword energy, captured her, and brought her to Roland Cathedral.
• Roland learned the woman was a brainwashed member of the Order of St. Dumas and that an unseen mastermind was planning to attack Jean-Paul Valley.
• Batman joined Roland as they traveled to Judas Island, where Jean-Paul Valley recounted the gruesome deaths of saints to Brother Umberto.

Paul tried to resist the Angel of Death inside him while helping Brielle Aniel, who claimed that people were hunting her for hearing the Lord’s voice. When armed pursuers reached the monastery, Brielle took Paul’s sword and revealed herself as the angel Sariel, leaving the monks facing her sudden attack.

• Paul stopped a fisherman from assaulting Brielle and endured a beating while resisting the system’s urges to kill him.
• Brielle told Paul that her family had been slaughtered and that she had come from Paris seeking Jean-Paul Valley, the Angel of Vengeance.
• Paul rejected Brielle’s story as a possible trap, but Brother Umberto urged him to hear her out.
• During prayer, Paul saw the Angel of Death’s form and learned that the system’s history remained largely unknown.
• The Angel of Death warned Paul that trained pursuers were on the monastery roof, and Paul armed himself and left to confront them.
• Brielle seized the Sword of the Angel of Death, declared herself Sariel, and attacked the monks as another Sariel questioned who she was.

Batman and Roland helped free Briel from Sariel’s influence while the Angel of Death fought off Babalel’s attempt to take her. After the group captured the attackers, the Angel of Death explained that Briel’s powers came from hidden programming, leaving her to question whether the Lord had truly guided her.

• Roland repeatedly dunked Briel in the church’s baptismal font until she identified herself as Briel and Brielle Aniel.
• The Angel of Death fought Babalel, who claimed the Knights Templar wanted to protect Briel and rebuild their order, then hurried back to the church when Babalel warned her companions were in danger.
• Batman revealed himself at the church, and his crimson force knocked Babalel and the other abductors unconscious.
• Roland trapped the unconscious attackers in a psionic cage, and Batman, Roland, and the Angel of Death settled in for the night.
• The Angel of Death told Brielle Aniel that the Order of Saint Dumas had programmed him and may have done the same to her, and promised to find a way to remove her programming.

Batman, Roland, and Sariel discovered that Mephistopheles and other former Princes of Hell were behind the trouble, then Roland defeated Rahab. Rofocale revealed that the demons had provoked Roland into slaying a serpent so he would take over someone’s position, though the chapter left the identity of that person unclear.

• Batman suspected that the Angel of Death and the demon Rofocale were connected to the Seven Princes of Hell, and Sariel wondered whether his former companions were involved.
• Mephistopheles appeared and warned Sariel to take Roland away, but Roland resisted Mephistopheles’s illusion and grabbed him.
• Rahab emerged from the bay to attack the church, and Roland struck him down and cut him in two with a blade of seawater.
• Rofocale arrived and asked Roland to hear him out, while Sariel realized the demons had deliberately arranged the confrontation.
• Rofocale explained that they had provoked Roland into slaying Rahab because serpent-slaying symbolized order overcoming chaos, and Roland concluded someone was trying to hurry him into taking over their position.

Roland fought Bitter Demon King Yin Chen, then faced Leviathan and Behemoth after they joined the battle. He defeated the monsters with overwhelming power, and Lucifer served him Ziz as a feast before Roland planned to return to Jeanne d'Arc.

• Yin Chen rose from the sea and challenged Roland, who learned that his Sea of Chaos could break his arm and swallow his attacks.
• Sariel and Rofocale watched Mephistopheles fall victim to Yin Chen's poison, while Leviathan and Behemoth appeared to join the fight.
• Roland banished Behemoth into the Warp, but the monster escaped and charged him as Leviathan attacked from behind.
• Roland combined Lorgar's Warp essence with the First Magic and a million-horsepower Magnetic Field Rotation, destroying the area around the beasts with his Selfless Demon Blade.
• Lucifer revealed that he had cooked Ziz together with Behemoth and Leviathan, and Roland joked about the elaborate feast before saying he would replenish his mana with Jeanne d'Arc.

Roland feasted on Lucifer’s Ziz as the Angel of Death reclaimed control of Paul and learned the Knights Templar had taken Brielle. Paul confronted Sister Carl at the monastery, discovered her ties to his past and his father, and asked her to join him in stopping the order.

• Lucifer served Roland the Ziz, and Roland ate the entire bird while Lucifer predicted the world was nearing its end.
• A Templar persuaded Brielle to leave the monastery with him, and the Angel of Death and Paul struggled over control of Paul’s body.
• Rofocale pulled Duma’s soul from Paul, and Paul accepted his own guilt before drawing Duma back in and transforming into the Angel of Death.
• The Angel of Death learned that Brielle had been taken and followed Sister Carl’s phone call to a monastery where she had laid Brielle on an altar.
• Sister Carl revealed that Ludovic had adopted her as part of a plan to free Paul from his fate, and she attacked him before he subdued her.
• The Angel of Death asked Carl Valley to join him in confronting the Knights Templar and said she would understand his claims about Roland when she met him.

After spending six months shut away with Jeanne d'Arc, Roland remained absent as Darkseid attacked Earth and fought Superman. Meanwhile, Michael opened the first six of the Seven Seals, and Roland heard a summons to a Holy Grail War in another universe.

• Jeanne d'Arc translated Roland's words to Jeanne d'Arc Alter as a proposal to become intimate, and Jeanne d'Arc pulled Roland into a room.
• Six months later, Jason and Astra attended Jonathan Kent's one-month birthday celebration at Superman's home, where the heroes wondered why Roland had not emerged.
• Darkseid arrived through a Boom Tube and attacked Earth, prompting Superman to fight him while Jason and the other heroes prepared to retaliate against Apokolips.
• Superman and Darkseid continued their battle inside a void in space, while Superboy-Prime offered to take the others to attack Apokolips.
• Michael opened the first six seals in Heaven, alarming Lucifer, who objected that Roland was missing.
• In another universe, Roland heard a familiar voice and a ritual summoning him to a Holy Grail War.

Roland manifested as a Savior in Fuyuki and reunited with Jeanne d'Arc, who warned that the Holy Grail War held unusual dangers. As the summons began, Waver called forth Lord El-Melloi II as Zhuge Kongming, while Tokiomi Tohsaka summoned the goddess Ishtar, who recognized him as her father.

• Roland appeared before Jeanne d'Arc as a Savior, and she used a Command Spell to make him look younger.
• Jeanne d'Arc told Roland they were in Fuyuki and warned that the Servants and the Einzbern Family posed problems in the war.
• Waver prepared three chickens as sacrifices and summoned Lord El-Melloi II, who manifested as Zhuge Kongming instead of Alexander the Great.
• Lord El-Melloi II identified a divine spirit nearby and told Waver they needed to establish a Caster workshop.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka summoned the goddess Ishtar, who greeted him by saying, "Dad?"

Ryunosuke Uryu summoned Caster, but Gilles de Rais appeared and killed him before Francesca fused the two Servants and sent them to make trouble. Kariya Matou summoned BB instead of a Berserker, Kiritsugu Emiya summoned an Assassin who called himself Emiya, and a woman in a Jaguar costume discovered that her Master was a baby.

• Ryunosuke Uryu summoned Caster, but Gilles de Rais appeared and beheaded Ryunosuke before Caster could react.
• Francesca revealed herself, explained that she expected Jeanne d'Arc to enter the unusual Holy Grail War, then fused Caster and Gilles de Rais into one Spirit Origin.
• Kariya Matou descended into the Worm Cellar and summoned BB, who used a slot machine to make Zouken Matou disappear.
• Kiritsugu Emiya received a scabbard as a Holy Relic, summoned Assassin instead of the King of Knights, and learned that Assassin called himself Emiya.
• A woman in a Jaguar mascot costume found a baby with Command Spells and realized that the baby was her Master.

Kayneth summoned his sister Reines as the Pseudo-Servant Sima Yi and learned that Waver would inherit the Archibald family after his death. Meanwhile, Ritsuka and Mash entered a new Fuyuki Singularity in 1994, where Ishtar and BB were already clashing as Kirei and Rasputin fled.

• Kayneth summoned Reines, who revealed that she was a Rider-class Pseudo-Servant named Sima Yi and told him he would die in the Holy Grail War, with Waver later taking over the Archibald family.
• Reines greeted Lord El-Melloi II and the younger Waver when they arrived to form an alliance with Kayneth.
• Da Vinci briefed Ritsuka, Mash, and several Servants on a Singularity in Fuyuki set ten years before the one they had previously investigated, and they prepared to retrieve its Holy Grail.
• Ritsuka, Mash, and Lancelot arrived in Fuyuki, where the bridge collapsed and a strange light streaked across the sky.
• Rasputin carried Kirei across the river while Ishtar pursued them, blaming Kirei for killing Tokiomi; BB then appeared with Sakura and challenged Ishtar.
• Ritsuka watched Ishtar and BB face off and wondered whether she could ask Kishinami Hakuno to take over.

BB used Ten Crowns to escape Ishtar, then summoned Ritsuka and Mash to the Matou residence and recruited them into her faction. BB briefed them on the unusual Holy Grail War’s participants and revealed that Jeanne d’Arc had summoned a Servant of the Savior class.

• BB taunted Ishtar about the Tohsaka and Matou families, then used Ten Crowns to disappear with the others as Ishtar recognized the Authority behind her skill.
• BB contacted Ritsuka through her phone and told her that arriving with Berserker had already made her part of the Holy Grail War, so she should ally with BB at the Matou residence.
• Ritsuka and Mash traveled to the Matou residence, where Ritsuka pretended to be Sakura’s child before clinging to BB and persuading her to take them in.
• BB introduced Kirei Kotomine and Rasputin, then briefed Ritsuka and the others on the Masters and Servants gathered at the Matou, Hyatt Hotel, Tohsaka, and Einzbern residences.
• BB identified Gilderoy as roaming with Francesca hidden somewhere and explained that Jeanne d’Arc had summoned a Servant whose class was Savior.