Recaps

Lumian and Anthony Reid’s investigation into General Philip’s apparent death led them to suspect his connection to evil-god worship, but the Dreamseekers charity burned before they could question anyone there. After Anthony recommitted himself to the investigation, Lumian reported to Madam Magician and decided to seek clues from Gabriel among Trier’s struggling artists.

• Anthony Reid questioned Annesi and learned that Philip had warned her of strange changes to his body before his death, but the apparent Beyonder Characteristic later vanished; Lumian suspected Philip had faked his death.
• Lumian and Anthony Reid arrived at the Dreamseekers charity and found Number 11 engulfed in flames, with no one calling for help inside.
• Lumian challenged Anthony Reid to continue investigating despite the danger, and Anthony said he could not give up pursuing the truth and revenge.
• Lumian reported the night’s events to Madam Magician, who warned that destiny’s interwoven strands could affect the others and said the Tarot Club would make further attempts.
• Lumian considered possible links among painters, novelists, and readers, then decided to visit Gabriel and ask about unknown artists behaving strangely or making unusual remarks.

Lumian searched for playwright Gabriel and found his empty apartment, where a strange disturbance led him to suspect an unseen creature. He put on the Mystery-Peering Glasses to investigate.

• Lumian asked patrons at the Third-Rate Writer bar where Gabriel lived and learned Gabriel had been missing for several days.
• Rabet led Lumian to Gabriel’s apartment and told him about underground writers who produced novels for an exploitative boss.
• Lumian picked the lock, entered Gabriel’s apartment, and found the playwright’s manuscript and belongings but no sign of him.
• Lumian noticed cold water and dust in a mug, suggesting Gabriel had been gone for at least a day, then read his unfinished script.
• After the mug mysteriously returned to its previous position, Lumian suspected an unseen creature and took out the Mystery-Peering Glasses.

Lumian investigated Gabriel’s disappearance and discovered that Gabriel had become an invisible, untouchable monster after writing about his lost lover, Safali. Meanwhile, Franca joined the Witch Sect and was tasked with identifying an item the Iron and Blood Cross Order had smuggled into Trier, which she suspected might be connected to the silver mirror she had found.

• Lumian used the Mystery-Peering Glasses and the Eye of Truth to glimpse Gabriel, who smiled and waved before vanishing.
• Lumian read Gabriel’s unfinished script and realized that its female lead combined his own and Charlie’s experiences, while the story’s romance was based on Gabriel’s relationship with Safali.
• Lumian searched Gabriel’s apartment for clues about his corruption, then asked writers at the Third-Rate Writer bar where Gabriel had been; they said they had last seen him at an exhibition two days earlier.
• Bruns Soren told Franca that she had passed the Witch Sect’s assessment and become a full member, then offered her the Pain potion formula in exchange for identifying an item smuggled into Trier by the Iron and Blood Cross Order.
• Franca connected the smuggled item to the earlier tunnel incident involving Christo’s missing brother and recalled the antique pure silver mirror she had obtained.

Franca formally prayed to the Primordial One under the Black Witch Clarisse’s supervision and saw a disturbing reflection of her former self, while Lumian investigated Gabriel’s visits to Trier’s art exhibitions. Franca was tasked with watching Gardner Martin for signs of an impending move, and Lumian spotted someone familiar at the Future Impression exhibition.

• Franca told Bruns Soren what she knew about the Mirror World incident, then met Bruns’s teacher, the Black Witch Clarisse.
• Clarisse taught Franca part of the Primordial One’s honorific name; during the prayer, a vine’s eye reflected Franca as her former self, Franco Roland.
• Clarisse said the honorific name had two secret lines and gave Franca a statue, instructing her to watch Gardner Martin and contact Bruns if the Iron and Blood Cross Order acted unusually.
• Lumian reviewed reports that Gabriel had been visiting galleries in search of a particular painting and updated Madam Magician on his investigation.
• Lumian went to the Future Impression exhibition at the Trier Arts Center and saw a familiar figure.

At an art exhibition, Lumian used the Mystery-Peering Glasses and saw signs that Ludwig was more dangerous than he had realized. Meanwhile, Jenna encountered the strange little boy again, who offered her a Lucky Gold Coin as payment for help.

• Ludwig told Lumian he had come to the exhibition to learn about art, and Baron Brignais assigned him an essay about the visit.
• Lumian examined the paintings through the Mystery-Peering Glasses and saw their hidden realities, including Ludwig’s face beginning to change when the boy looked toward him.
• After recovering from the glasses’ effects in the washroom, Lumian noticed a bizarre painting and wondered whether Gabriel might have acted strangely while alone there.
• Jenna met the little boy outside the Old Dovecage Theater, and he said she had encountered him before the other choices.
• The little boy offered Jenna a gleaming gold coin called a Lucky Gold Coin as payment for her help.

Jenna received strange instructions from Will to enter Underground Trier and rob the first person she encountered, while Lumian uncovered a connection between an ominous painting, Safali, and the missing painter Claude Pierre Auguste. Franca followed a cloaked visitor from Gardner Martin’s residence, and Jenna waited by an underground river as someone approached.

• Jenna learned that Will was Loenian and agreed to follow his directions in exchange for a lucky coin.
• Lumian used the Mystery-Peering Glasses and recognized Safali in the face-filled painting, then decided to inform Madam Magician about painter Claude Pierre Auguste.
• Franca concealed herself in Gardner Martin’s garden and followed a mysterious cloaked man after he left the residence.
• Jenna entered Underground Trier at ten, followed the tunnels to an underground river, hid beside it, and heard footsteps approaching.

Lumian dreamed that Gabriel warned him Trier was in danger and revealed that he had willingly gone with Safali to the Hostel. Elsewhere, Franca discovered a possible link between the Iron and Blood Cross Order and the Carbonari, while Jenna ambushed and captured a mechanically modified monk carrying painting supplies.

• Lumian dreamed that Gabriel warned him to leave Trier, explained that Safali had taken him to the Hostel, and said he wanted to remain with her.
• Franca followed a cloaked man into Underground Trier and recognized the Carbonari’s three-lamp symbol beside a suspicious shifting mist.
• Franca felt the Classical Silver Mirror vibrate as the cloaked man entered the mist, and she stayed back while the stone door closed.
• Jenna concealed herself by the underground river and attacked a monk whose face was made of mechanical parts, overpowering him with black flame and Darkness Spells.
• Jenna searched the unconscious monk’s Grayish-White Cloth Bag and found canned paint and painting brushes.

Jenna survived an attack by a monk whose mechanical body came alive, while Franca uncovered evidence of a planned riot involving the Carbonari, the Iron and Blood Cross Order, and monks from Deep Valley Monastery. Lumian learned he might have a close connection to the Hostel, and the three investigators compared their discoveries as concern about Trier’s safety grew.

• Jenna found paints and brushes in an unconscious monk’s bag, but his mechanical body mutated and attacked her, forcing her to flee with Bloodsucker's Arrow embedded in her chest.
• Franca connected the strange mist near a hidden cave to earlier evidence and suspected the Iron and Blood Cross Order, the Carbonari, and monks from Deep Valley Monastery were conspiring to cause a riot.
• Franca decided to report her findings to the Tarot Club, the Witch Sect, and the authorities through 007.
• After Gabriel warned Lumian in a dream, Madam Magician told him she had not noticed the influence and suspected Lumian had a close connection to the Hostel.
• Lumian remembered Maip Mayer as a possible cause of that connection and wondered if it could help him locate the Hostel.
• Franca and Jenna reported their discoveries to Lumian and Anthony, and Lumian worried that problems in multiple major Churches could threaten Trier.

Lumian and Anthony Reid decided to stay in Trier despite the coming disaster, while Lumian reported three possible avenues of investigation to Madam Magician. Franca went to visit Gardner Martin, and Jenna received a Lucky Gold Coin from Will before falling into a collapsing underground cavern.

• Lumian advised Anthony Reid to leave Trier, but Anthony explained that he would stay and help protect the people he knew.
• Lumian wrote to Madam Magician about investigating the monasteries, reaching the Hostel underground, or taking action against Gardner Martin, and she agreed to handle the monasteries while urging caution with the other leads.
• Franca set out to visit Gardner Martin, while Jenna stayed behind with a bag of paints intended for Will.
• Guided by a dream, Jenna found Will underground, gave him the paints, and received the Lucky Gold Coin as payment.
• As Jenna tried to find her way back to the surface, tremors shook the underground passage and the ground collapsed beneath her, sending her falling into the depths.

At Deep Valley Quarry, Horamick Haydn and the Machinery Hivemind confronted the heretic Claude, while Danitz helped attack a Carbonari hideout in Underground Trier. Jenna fell into a strange place resembling the Golden Rooster Inn and spotted the missing playwright Gabriel with an unfamiliar woman.

• Horamick Haydn led the Machinery Hivemind into the quarry, where they found Claude transformed into a mechanical giant and learned he sought to open Fourth Epoch Trier.
• Claude showed the Machinery Hivemind a terrifying vision of faces threatening their civilization, then Horamick and the others attacked him.
• Danitz rejected a sailor's question about helping the Intis government, then blasted open the stone door to the Carbonari hideout.
• Jenna fell through darkness and landed before a version of the Golden Rooster Inn, where she saw Gabriel embracing an unfamiliar woman.

Jenna found herself in a fake version of the Market District, where people repeated fixed routines and the Breeze Ballroom had been replaced by a dangerous darkness. After killing her double and evading a search, she prayed to Mr. Fool for help, and Lumian awoke with warmth in his chest.

• Jenna spotted Gabriel at the fake Golden Rooster Inn and realized the surrounding Market District was an artificial world populated by people repeating fixed routines.
• Jenna saw that the Breeze Ballroom was missing and that a profound darkness occupied its place, then fled when glowing figures began searching the streets.
• Jenna disguised herself by killing her double in Apartment 601 and taking her clothes, fooling a searcher that inspected the apartment.
• Jenna prayed to the Eternal Blazing Sun without getting a response, then used the Lucky Gold Coin to pray to Mr. Fool for help.
• Lumian awoke in Room 207 of the Golden Rooster Inn with a faint warmth in the left side of his chest.

Lumian woke in a distorted version of the Market District and realized he had been pulled into the Hostel, where Mr. Fool’s seal and a dangerous interference prevented him from receiving help. He encountered Gabriel and Safali in Room 207 and learned that Safali was known there as Room 12.

• Lumian found Mr. Fool’s seal triggered and realized the sunlit Market District around him was an unreal, corrupted place connected to the Hostel.
• Lumian performed a ritual seeking Mr. Fool’s help, but hostile interference disrupted the response and forced him to end the ritual.
• At the Sacred Heart Monastery, Magician and Justice discussed drawing Lady Moon out, then Magician sensed a fluctuation in the seal and an uncertain revelation from Mr. Fool.
• Lumian hid on Room 207’s ceiling as Gabriel and Safali inspected the room, then met Gabriel privately and learned that Jenna had also entered the Hostel.
• Safali confronted Lumian, explained that love had kept her from becoming a complete monster, and revealed that her name in the Hostel was Room 12.

Lumian questioned Safali and Gabriel about the Hostel, then devised ways to escape and searched for Jenna. He deduced that the replica was reconstructed like a painting and found Jenna hiding in Fake No. 3 White Coat Street, where she recognized his familiar voice.

• Lumian learned that the Hostel contained Rooms 2 through 13, that three fairies and their servants watched over the area, and that only Market Avenue and its surroundings lay within an invisible boundary.
• After Safali and Gabriel left, Lumian considered ways to contact the outside world or escape, but decided to find Jenna first.
• Lumian disguised himself, checked his Safe House on Nightingale Street, and noticed that its traps and stored items did not match the real version.
• Lumian realized the replica resembled a painting made from external observations and reconstructed key rooms.
• Jenna prayed with the Lucky Gold Coin, then continued impersonating her fake self until Lumian arrived at her apartment and spoke to her.

Lumian joined Jenna in the painted world and helped her conclude that it was cut off from the real Spirit World. As they investigated the black hole and the ritual’s possible purpose, they encountered a woman who resembled the Hostel’s artist’s model Safali.

• Lumian told Jenna that Mr. Fool had sent him to save her, then listened as she described how she had reached the painted world.
• Jenna and Lumian concluded that the Hostel and nearby streets formed a painted world, and her Magic Mirror Divination confirmed that it could not reach the real Spirit World.
• Lumian said they should inspect the black hole near the Breeze Ballroom while considering other escape plans.
• Lumian speculated that the painted world was part of a ritual intended to affect reality and possibly open the entrance to Fourth Epoch Trier beneath the Ballroom.
• As Lumian and Jenna left No. 3 White Coat Street, they saw a woman resembling Safali, who said their meeting was ordained by destiny.

Lumian and Jenna escaped the loop on White Coat Street by unleashing the aura of Alista Tudor, then ran toward a disturbance near Breeze Ballroom. Elsewhere, a painter was seized by a skeletal hand underground, while Franca woke to find Gardner Martin missing.

• Lumian realized Spirit World Traversal could not take him and Jenna beyond White Coat Street, and suspected Vazan Sanson was trapped inside Room 7.
• Lumian knocked the woman serving as Room 7 unconscious with his Heng-Ha Art, triggering the loop to restart and confirming that attacking her reset it.
• Lumian activated the Blood Emperor's brand, shaking the painted world and cracking the barrier around White Coat Street, then escaped with Jenna and headed toward the rumbling near Breeze Ballroom.
• In an underground cavern, two painters entered the mural of Market Avenue as cracks spread through the painted scenes, while a skeletal hand seized the remaining young painter's ankle.
• Franca woke at Number 11 Springwater Street and found Gardner Martin gone, then dressed and went to check the dark, silent corridor.

Franca found that the people and guards at Number 11 Springwater Street had become headless and fled to report the change. Meanwhile, Lumian and Jenna reached the black hole by the Breeze Ballroom, where two winged Painters called Lumian “Room 1” and welcomed him back to the Hostel.

• Franca found a headless couple in the valet's room, then saw a headless maid and guards and discovered that the suits of armor and weapons had vanished from the villa.
• Franca left Number 11 Springwater Street to report to Madam Judgement and inform Bruns Soren and Clarisse.
• Flame Danitz led his sailors through an underground mine and found a cavern that had served as a rebel hideout, but he could not tell where the rebels had gone.
• Anthony Reid learned from his dockside informant that a general strike with weapons distribution was planned for the next day, then found Lumian's room silent and empty.
• Lumian and Jenna used flames and Spirit World Traversal to reach the black hole near the Breeze Ballroom, but a crystalline barrier enclosed the area.
• Two winged Painters appeared above Lumian and Jenna, and the man welcomed Lumian back to the Hostel as Room 1.

Lumian and Jenna fought two Painters near the Breeze Ballroom, but the Hostel residents converged on them as an ancient skeletal hand emerged from the darkness. Elsewhere, Angoulême learned that the Breeze Ballroom stood over a former seal node where the dead of Fourth Epoch Trier had once escaped.

• Jenna used Bloodsucker's Arrow to form dark wings and distract the two Painters while Lumian teleported behind the man in red trousers and knocked him unconscious with the Heng-Ha Art.
• The woman in the blue beret conjured an image of Aurora, but Lumian attacked her with fireballs; she turned intangible, then struck Jenna and shattered her into mirror shards before Jenna reappeared by the darkness.
• Lumian and Jenna saw Safali, Room 12, Room 7, and other Hostel residents approaching, while Gabriel followed Safali with a vacant, pained expression.
• A rust-stained skeletal hand reached out from the darkness at the Breeze Ballroom, while an ancient skeleton and other dead crawled from a swamp-like opening beneath the mural in the cavern.
• Angoulême reviewed reports of unrest and Sleeve Sword's questions, then learned from his superiors that the old cemetery beneath the Breeze Ballroom had been a seal node where Fourth Epoch dead once emerged.

Angoulême connected the old cemetery’s leak to the Evil God Cults’ plans and urged his superiors to investigate, while Franca discovered that Jenna and Lumian had both vanished. Magic Mirror Divination revealed that Jenna and a figure resembling Lumian were trapped in a Painted World near the Breeze Ballroom; after Franca reported this to Madam Judgement, cannon-like sounds rumbled from northwest Trier.

• Angoulême suspected the Evil God Cults might be trying to bypass the old cemetery’s seal and advised his superiors to send a team, preferably led by a Saint, to inspect the leak.
• Franca learned from Anthony Reid that Lumian had disappeared and found Jenna’s room empty, with the Grayish-White Cloth Bag also gone.
• Franca’s divination could not locate Jenna or Lumian, so she summoned Arrodes and learned Jenna was in a Painted World near the Breeze Ballroom alongside someone who appeared to be Lumian.
• Arrodes asked Franca embarrassing questions about her feelings for Jenna and Lumian, and Franca admitted she had fantasized about both.
• Franca reported the disappearances and the Painted World finding to Madam Judgement, then heard cannon-like rumbling from northwest Trier.

Albus Medici's forces attacked the Boulevard District as Magician and Justice learned that the disaster had begun early and moved to seize Lady Moon and locate the painted world. In Market Avenue, Lumian used the old bones' power to attack the rooms and fairies, then rushed toward the Breeze Ballroom's original location.

• Albus Medici watched headless corpses reanimate as soldiers and sent them into the night alongside Trier's Garrison Troops.
• Magician and Justice concluded that the rebellion was poorly coordinated, then Magician sent the Sacred Heart Monastery into a dark void while they prepared to act.
• After reading Judgement's letter about the painted world, Magician told Justice they needed to control or eliminate Lady Moon and find the painted world.
• Lumian summoned a brutal aura that made the old bones bow to him, then directed them to attack the rooms and fairies on Market Avenue.
• The old bones' attacks injured the Painter in red trousers, while the other rooms evaded or deflected the fireballs.
• Lumian grabbed Jenna and charged toward the Breeze Ballroom's original location.

Lumian and Jenna entered the Painted World’s darkness, where a ritual transformed Lumian into a three-headed, six-armed figure with an angel’s level and drew him toward a sealed door to Fourth Epoch Trier. As the ritual’s other conditions began unfolding across the city, a military mutiny erupted and a newborn’s cry filled Trier with sunlight.

• Lumian and Jenna fell through the darkness toward an ancient iron-black door as the Hostel’s other rooms manifested around them.
• Lumian temporarily acquired an angel’s level through the Hostel’s mystical connections, becoming a three-headed, six-armed giant while Termiboros remained sealed inside him.
• Lumian realized the evil god believers had created the Hostel to use his angel’s level to open the seal leading to Fourth Epoch Trier, but their ritual was incomplete and he could not pull away from the door.
• Angoulême de François heard cannon fire over Trier and suspected a military mutiny had begun while Purifiers were scattered across the city.
• Lady Moon spoke to Magician and Justice as a baby cried, turning the Sacred Heart Monastery into a blazing sun and awakening citizens across Trier.

A sudden ritual plunged Trier into chaos as the Market District’s Painted World and real streets flipped places, while Lumian was held against a mysterious door that began to open. As the city shook and divine powers stirred, Alger invoked the Tyrant card and brought torrential rain to the sunlit sky.

• Angoulême, Imre, and Valentine saw Trier abruptly shift from night to afternoon as explosions and fires erupted across the Market District, and Angoulême rushed toward the destruction.
• Gardner Martin revealed that the Iron and Blood Cross Order had launched attacks across the district to complete a ritual, while Albus had been sent to Erato District and Lumian remained a concern.
• The Painted World and real Market District flipped places, the seals around Breeze Ballroom weakened, and Lumian was held against a bloodstained door that began to open as Trier shook.
• Count Puyver felt summoned to Red Swan Castle’s underground labyrinth, and Alois followed him in silence.
• Franca and Anthony Reid saw the bizarre daylight and felt a citywide effect; Franca’s Primordial Witch statue and Ancient Silver Mirror reacted as she suspected a nearby High-Ranking Witch pathway presence.
• Magician and Justice endured the Eternal Blazing Sun’s power at Sacred Heart Monastery, while Alger invoked the Tyrant card and summoned torrential rain over Trier.

Alger’s storm confronted the forces around the Breeze Ballroom as Lumian and Jenna were pulled through the mysterious doors into a strange city. Count Puyver entered the corrupted seal beneath Red Swan Castle, and Lumian and Jenna arrived outside what Lumian suspected was Fourth Epoch Trier.

• Alger invoked Emperor Roselle’s image and summoned a vast storm over Trier.
• The president and vice president of the Iron and Blood Cross Order protected Gardner Martin and Olsen, then entered the distorted double doors at the Breeze Ballroom.
• Count Puyver entered the Bronze Coffin and plunged into the bloodstained entrance beneath Red Swan Castle; Alois summoned Snarnana Einhorn, who followed him inside.
• The ancient silver mirror reflected Franca’s Primordial Witch statue, engulfing Franca and Anthony Reid in darkness before falling out of the Painted World.
• Lumian and Jenna passed through the mysterious doors and arrived outside a mist-shrouded city, where Lumian suspected they had reached Fourth Epoch Trier.

After the Hostel ritual ended, Lumian and Jenna fled from the giant and Fourth Epoch Trier while the other Hostel rooms and their occupants began to collapse into monstrous forms. As the Painted World faded, Magician and Justice sensed that the corruption underground had weakened and realized that either Mr. Fool or the God controlling the anomaly might be responsible.

• Lumian saw that he had returned to normal, found no sign of the other Gift-Bearers nearby, and led Jenna away from the giant and the city to seek shelter.
• In the Fake Market District, Safali warned Gabriel that the Hostel rooms would cease to exist after the guests left, then transformed into blood dragonflies and urged him to run.
• Gabriel returned to Safali, embraced and kissed her as the dragonflies consumed them both, and their remains transformed amid the rain and sunlight.
• Angoulême, Valentine, and Imre returned to the Breeze Ballroom area as sunlight engulfed the mutating bodies and the Painted World began fading away.
• Magician and Justice spotted Lady Moon entering the unstable darkness and iron-colored gate, then hesitated to follow her.
• Justice sensed that the underground calling had weakened, and Magician considered whether Mr. Fool or the God controlling the underground anomaly had reduced the corruption.

Saint Viève and Saint Bonaventure intervened as the unstable ritual around the Sacred Heart Monastery collapsed, while a mysterious woman used a golden lamp to learn that Lumian’s father needed another compatible corruption to achieve balance. Franca and Anthony Reid entered a Mirror World and found a way through a light gate, while Lumian and Jenna discovered Gardner Martin speaking with the supposedly dead General Philip.

• Saint Viève entered the collapsing seal, Saint Bonaventure guarded the area, and a woman with a golden lamp heard that Lumian’s father needed another compatible corruption to establish balance.
• Franca and Anthony Reid found themselves in a mine tunnel in the Mirror World and passed through a light gate after finding no other exit.
• Lumian and Jenna ran through the stone ruins but returned to the edge of the same city, where Lumian considered performing a ritual to replenish his spirituality.
• A cloaked man emerged from a mirror fragment, and Lumian recognized him as the Carbonari member he and Franca had encountered.
• Gardner Martin met the cloaked man and asked why he was still wearing his cloak; Jenna used Mirror Magic to reveal that the man was General Philip, who was believed to be dead.

Lumian uncovered that Gardner Martin and the supposedly dead General Philip had conspired to arrange the Hostel ritual and exploit the Market District, while keeping Lumian close as its intended target. As Gardner and Philip approached Fourth Epoch Trier, Franca and Anthony confronted them, and Count Puyver ran toward the rampaging Vermonda Soren.

• Lumian connected Gardner Martin's ties to General Philip with the Hostel ritual and realized they had planned it together with the Painters and other Evil God Cults.
• Lumian concluded that Gardner had backed Hugues Artois and admitted him to the Iron and Blood Cross Order to fulfill the ritual, while keeping Lumian nearby as a target.
• Jenna stopped her Mirror Magic and heard Gardner tell Philip that they should enter Fourth Epoch Trier and that he regretted losing the chance to use Lumian.
• Franca and Anthony emerged from a mirror fragment and recognized Gardner Martin and General Philip, bringing the four face-to-face.
• Count Puyver ran toward Vermonda Soren, who had lost control and gone mad underground.