Recaps

Vanessa solved Victoria’s Trial while Elliot prepared the Hearthfire District for the Theresia Festival, whose blood moon transformed civilians into monsters. Elliot and the Factory Guard rescued survivors, but Theresia’s Purification erased the massacre from public memory, leaving the survivors sheltered in a church as the city burned.

• Vanessa solved Victoria’s riddle, earned the Coat of Arms, and learned it could help her survive the Theresia Festival.
• Elliot rejected the Old Duke’s offer to gain power through sacrifice and organized the Factory Guard to protect the Hearthfire District.
• Xiao saw the blood moon reveal monsters, and Elliot realized the Empire had let [It] turn civilians into sacrificial offerings.
• Allen, Flora, Maeve, Vanessa, and the Factory Guard fought to rescue civilians as the monsters overwhelmed the district.
• Elliot and the Machine Priests led survivors to the factory, while Simon returned from the Dream World after the Abode rejected his spirit.
• Vanessa gathered monster corpses and healed wounded Believers as the Theresia Festival began and Theresia rose above Saint Clair.
• Theresia’s Purification killed the monsters, and the Difference Engine recorded the end of the Second Era before Chi rejected the change.
• Elliot found that the massacre had been erased from public memory, promised to remember the dead, and began recruiting workers into Vanessa’s Faith.
• Simon and Maeve sheltered with Phoebe, the Factory Guard, and Priest Adam as Theresia’s flames swept the street outside.

Elliot expanded the Factory’s influence while his allies faced growing dangers linked to the Dream World. After Dream Creatures disrupted Vanessa and Dorothea’s abilities and attacked Elsa, Elliot was left to seek answers from his father, who had gone on an expedition.

• Elliot advanced Maeve through several ranks and welcomed the Factory workers’ acclaim, while the Old Duke gave him authority over Hearthfire District production and a schedule of engagements.
• Vanessa entered a moonlit street in daylight, saw a monstrous vision, and learned from Victoria that Spirit Vision could expose her to dangerous projections of the Dream World.
• Sia entered the Dream World, where Maeve and Xiao introduced her to its supernatural community and recorded her abilities as they searched for a Dream with a Blood Moon.
• Maeve, Simon, and Flora became trapped in a house filled with shifting illusions, while Elliot realized their experiences differed and enlisted Vanessa’s help.
• Elliot advanced Dorothea and chose [Mirror Secret Art], after which Dorothea’s body entered the Dream World and fused with Sia before returning to the Factory.
• Victoria warned Vanessa that Dream Creatures could trap their victims in dreams, and Elliot connected the Dream World’s turmoil to Vanessa’s and Dorothea’s loss of control.
• A Lord of Dreams invaded Elsa’s dream, but after Elliot sent her out and back in, Elsa found its corpse and saw its power flow into her box.
• Victoria examined Elsa’s remains while hypnotizing Vanessa, and Elliot learned that Sidney refused to see him and that the Old Duke had gone on an expedition.

Elliot and his allies investigated the Blood Moon, Maeve’s path to Ascension, and the limits of the Difference Engine while Elsa took charge of the Communion. Victoria urged Elliot to support her Abode and join an expedition, but their conversation left him questioning how history could be changed and what price it demanded.

• Elliot learned that the Theresia Festival had gone wrong and saw Vanessa, Dorothea, and Elsa beginning to lose control, while Flora woke to find her heart replaced by a black hole.
• Elliot advanced Flora to the second rank, then formed a supernatural squad as Elsa’s resurrection absorbed the power of slain Lords of Dreams.
• Elsa returned to the Hearthfire District, learned that she had fused with Sia, and gradually established herself as the Communion’s Cult Leader while Vanessa was away.
• Elliot discovered that Maeve’s ritual had summoned the Worm and sent Vanessa to seek Victoria’s advice, while he prepared to protect Maeve and investigate the Secret Histories.
• Victoria explained the Blood Moon’s impossible history and the dangers of supernatural Ascension, then tried to keep Vanessa as her knight in the Library.
• Vanessa and Dorothea discussed Maeve’s Ascension and the Genesis School’s return, while Elliot wondered whether sacrifices would lead him toward the same corruption he feared.
• Elliot and Vanessa found that [The Thinker] could not access dreams or altered history, and Elliot visited Victoria with Secret Histories as a gift.
• Victoria told Elliot she was building an Abode to shelter him and his allies, gave him Michel’s invitation to an expedition, and explained that rewriting history required immense power and cost.

Elliot uncovered the cruelty and secret aura behind the Blood Feast, then asked Victoria to investigate Evan’s loss of control. Vanessa accepted Victoria’s offer to become her Knight, while Maeve’s investigation uncovered two unexplained corpses and the Communion considered recruiting the Golden-Haired Dog.

• Vanessa convened the Communion, where Eleanor warned that Phoenix Everhart had reappeared and Dorothea and Elsa confronted each other over the search for their missing father.
• Elliot decided to attend the Blood Feast with Evan, learned that Evan belonged to the Sterling bloodline, and entered the banquet among heirs of the Seven Holy Families.
• Elliot discovered that the banquet’s secret aura stimulated its guests and that the nobles consumed people’s memories and flesh as entertainment.
• Elliot left the Blood Feast with Cora after challenging Tobias’s treatment of people, but Evan vanished from Cora’s sight, leading Elliot to ask Victoria to examine him.
• Victoria trapped Evan for examination and told Elliot that Vanessa’s Investiture as her Knight was ready, while Elliot considered how the Sterling Family could support Victoria’s Library.
• Elliot and Vanessa brought Victoria into Dream Entry, where she escaped her golden cocoon, explored the Abode, and carried its furnishings back to the Library before asking Vanessa to become her Knight.
• Victoria prepared Vanessa for the Imperial Investiture, while Elliot learned that his [Path: Glimmer] Card’s Ascension had failed for lack of two Important Historical Nodes.
• Maeve reported that one corpse had descended beneath the Royal Waterway and another had spread across Saint Clair, while the Communion considered recruiting the Golden-Haired Dog and Maeve recalled Elsa’s monstrous Nightmare Form.