Recaps

Lumian uncovered the Bliss Society’s plan to restore Suzanne Mathis, protected Charlie, and learned painful truths about Aurora from Madame Pualis. As the election neared, he and Franca attacked Black Scorpion Roger, but Roger escaped into the Land of the Undying after reviving his fallen allies.

• Susie awakened Lumian’s memories of Raymond and Ava’s deaths and his conversation with Termiboros, while Lumian asked Madam Magician about the angel sealed inside him.
• Lumian and Franca captured Louis Lund, who revealed Madame Pualis’s history, her connection to the Great Mother, and her address in the Noel District.
• Lumian and Franca discovered that Suzanne Mathis’s followers had abducted Charlie, killed Rentas, and planned to leave Charlie for Suzanne, who was recovering underground.
• Lumian protected Charlie and helped Jenna prepare for the authorities’ investigation of the Old Dovecage Theater, while Charlie accepted a clerical job from Angoulême.
• Madame Pualis told Lumian that Aurora had attacked her during the Castle assault, leaving Lumian shaken and determined to search Aurora’s Witchcraft Notes for answers.
• Lumian used Fallen Mercury to take a fate of fainting from a dying vagrant and give him the fate of encountering the Montsouris Ghosts.
• Lumian disguised himself as Aersai and entered Roger’s home with Franca, but Roger escaped into the Land of the Undying after Franca and Lumian killed Castina and Harman.
• Roger revived Castina and Harman with blood, forcing Franca and Lumian to fight the dead souls before Roger retreated into a wall.

Lumian advanced to Pyromaniac and struck back at Hugues Artois’s circle after a factory explosion killed and injured workers. Elodie died after her treatment became unaffordable, and the arc ended with Jenna reporting that Julian had gone mad.

• Lumian and Franca defeated Roger, uncovered his prison of drained captives, and escaped with Harvest Sacrifice after killing him and Aersai.
• Lumian finished digesting his Provocateur potion, learned that Mr. K wanted him to infiltrate the Iron and Blood Cross Order, and began gathering ingredients and funds to advance.
• After Roul died from a contaminated handkerchief and Madame Michel killed herself, Lumian traced the infection to Tibert, a campaign worker for Hugues Artois.
• The Goodwell Chemical Factory exploded, badly injuring Elodie, and Lumian saved her with a Healing Potion while Jenna and her family struggled to pay for treatment.
• Lumian drank the Pyromaniac potion, disguised himself as Bonno Goodwell, and killed Tibert in his office before escaping.
• Elodie died after learning how long and costly her recovery would be, and Jenna resolved to confront Bonno Goodwell with Lumian and Franca.
• Bonno confessed that Rhone and Tibert had persuaded him to cause the factory explosion for insurance and rebuilding funds, and Angoulême arrested him while seeking evidence against Hugues Artois’s circle.
• Jenna found Julian distressed and blaming himself for Elodie’s death, then told Lumian and Franca that he had gone mad.

Lumian survived the Bliss Society’s Shadow Tree ritual with Franca’s help, while Jenna killed Hugues Artois and the Tarot Club’s place in Lumian’s life became clearer. Later, Lumian buried Mad Flamang and completed a dangerous underground mission for Gardner Martin, leaving Franca to suspect Gardner was testing him for the inner circle.

• Charlotte Calvino lured Lumian into the Shadow Tree, where Suzanne Mathis revealed the Bliss Society’s plan to sacrifice him and the angel sealed inside him.
• Lumian used the Montsouris Ghosts’ arrival and a starlight gate to escape the tree’s inner space, then pushed Franca out of the wilderness as the Shadow Tree attacked its trapped victims.
• Jenna stabbed Hugues Artois to death and escaped after Seventh Bureau agents shot her, while Lumian and Franca killed Charlotte and Lumian destroyed Suzanne Mathis with Fallen Mercury.
• Madam Magician rescued Lumian and suspected an outside accomplice was covertly influencing fate, while Lumian connected the possibility to the Sufferer from his dreams.
• Franca explained the Tarot Club to Lumian, and Lumian later buried Mad Flamang’s ashes before finding Earthblood ore among his belongings and learning it could be a key to Fourth Epoch Trier.
• Lumian agreed to meet Hella and then accepted Gardner Martin’s secret mission to collect a case from a trader in Underground Trier.
• Lumian, Christo, and Simon took the case from the limbless Olsen and escaped a headless monster, after which Gardner accepted the suitcase and had Olsen observe Lumian and his associates.
• Franca suspected Gardner had used the mission to test Lumian for the inner circle, while Lumian agreed to keep helping Christo and Simon analyze future assignments.

Lumian joined the Iron and Blood Cross Order while enduring its corrupting tests, and chose a Lucky One characteristic after killing a Werewolf. He and his allies investigated Deep Valley Monastery as Mr. Poet interpreted Lumian’s dream, linking its symbols to Aurora, Termiboros, and a faction that had sabotaged the descent ritual.

• Lumian discussed his guilt and recovery with Susie and the lady, then revisited memories of Cordou Village while Madam Justice urged him to study Aurora’s notes.
• Franca took Jenna to an underground Trading Gathering, where they considered a commission to find Pink, the missing gatekeeper of Deep Valley Monastery.
• Gardner Martin tested Lumian overnight at No. 13 Market Avenue, where Lumian resisted three anomalies and learned they could corrupt his beliefs.
• Gardner Martin initiated Lumian into the Iron and Blood Cross Order, explaining its plans to overthrow the government and explore Fourth Epoch Trier for the Blood Emperor’s remains.
• Franca and Jenna found a hidden cavern containing human limbs at Deep Valley Quarry, then Jenna agreed to inform on the monastery to Imre and Valentine.
• Lumian visited the Church of The Fool, heard Gehrman Sparrow named as an Angel of Redemption, and fought a mermaid before Flame Danitz invited him to join his team.
• A Werewolf attacked Lumian, who killed him and chose a Lucky One Beyonder characteristic from Gardner Martin as his reward.
• Madam Magician brought Lumian to Mr. Poet, who interpreted his dream as revealing Aurora’s fate, Termiboros’s influence, and a sabotaging faction, and Lumian later woke in a marketplace on the Stars Plateau.