Recaps

As the Ebb Tide drained the Sea of the Moon, Elliot died trying to carry the Difference Engine Core to the Seabed, while the fleet and the Seabed survivors encountered the colossal Primordial Blood. Victoria and Lillian uncovered the Blood Lord’s plan to consume the moon, and Maeve’s attack drew the Blood Lord’s attention, leaving her in immediate danger.

• Elliot fled the dock as the Blood Vampires emerged from their cocoons, then dived with the Difference Engine Core as the Ebb Tide drained the sea.
• The ebb tide froze Elliot before he could reach the Seabed, and after his death, Lillian and Victoria recovered the Difference Engine Core and started the Difference Engine.
• Sidney led the fleet downward past increasingly immense Blood Vampires until the crew encountered a colossal being they believed was gnawing at the seabed.
• Sidney and Michel learned that [Casting Forge] wanted a [Vessel], while Victoria and Lillian followed the Dream Creatures toward the enormous [Primordial Blood].
• Lillian explained that the [Blood Lord] planned to drain the Sea of the Moon and consume the moon to claim its authority, and Victoria argued that the Great Being had guided them to turn the hunters into prey.
• Maeve charged at [Primordial Blood] and devoured its flesh, growing into a huge mass as Lillian and Victoria realized her attack had drawn the [Blood Lord].
• Lillian restored Victoria’s senses with her old form, then sent another piece to Maeve, who swallowed it and stopped moving as the [Blood Lord]’s flesh surged toward her.

Maeve’s attempt to parasitize [Primordial Blood] coincided with the fleet’s discovery of Honey Water, which changed the Dream Creatures and awakened the ships. Elliot returned in a [Vessel], helped [Casting Forge] strike [Primordial Blood], and reached the Courtyard with Victoria, leaving Lillian missing and Maeve’s fate uncertain.

• Victoria and Lillian watched Maeve resurrect beneath the Blood Moon, but [Primordial Blood] swallowed all three, and Maeve was crushed when Lillian lost control.
• Vanessa convinced Victoria that Maeve might have parasitized [Primordial Blood], while the fleet’s warning eased and the seawater turned into Honey Water.
• Elliot escaped the ice wall with a machine he built, then rode a drill sled through the glacier and followed spider silk across the seabed.
• Sidney’s fleet discovered that Honey Water changed Dream Creatures and made the ships come alive, while Sidney and Michel prepared [Vessels] to confront [Primordial Blood].
• Elliot took control of a [Vessel] and helped the fleet summon [Casting Forge] through Elsa’s corpse, and [Casting Forge] struck [Primordial Blood] on the seabed.
• Honey repeatedly resurrected and transformed Elsa, while Victoria admitted to Vanessa that she feared punishment for failing her mission.
• Victoria reeled in her spider silk and found Elliot, who learned that Lillian had become a snail and Maeve had been crushed, and Victoria realized he had engineered Maeve’s parasitism.
• Elliot and Victoria returned through the Rift to the Courtyard, where a Nightmare carried Elliot to the Difference Engine’s room and tossed Victoria into the Library.

Elliot rescued Elsa from Moonheart by developing her Honey Path and sheltered the Expedition Army in his Abode as the Sea of the Moon’s survivors gathered there. With Worms closing in again, he planned to use Elsa’s repeated deaths and accumulating corpses to displace the Honey and unleash it against them.

• Elliot discovered that his Difference Engine Core connected him to the Dream and learned that the Blood Lord had sent Primordial Blood to claim the moon’s Honey Authority, while Elsa’s contact with Honey had awakened the moon.
• Elliot guided the fleet and Dream Creatures through the battle against Primordial Blood, then used Elsa’s corpse and the believers’ records to find the living Elsa trapped beneath Moonheart.
• Elliot repeatedly commanded Elsa to return, guiding her upward during bouts of Permanent Madness until she struck the seabed, and he then helped her draw a Sacrifice Ritual and offered the Honey swirling around her.
• Elliot advanced Elsa along the Honey Path through repeated resurrection, chose her motherly Ascension, and helped her survive an unseen attacker that he identified as a Worm.
• Elliot warned Sidney and Michel that Worms threatened the fleet and led them into his Abode, where they discovered an enormous world and began moving the Expedition Army inside.
• Phoenix Everhart resurrected in the Abode and surrendered to Sidney, while Elsa used her Great Art to create a residence for the Expedition Army and astonished Sidney with her power.
• Victoria and Vanessa met Sidney and Elliot in the Library, where Victoria explained that the Great Being’s Authority seemed to encompass every Path, and Sidney then reported that the expedition had lost most of its manpower and might not return.
• Elliot unleashed a devastating Spirituality Pressure that killed the Worms around Moonheart, but they began to return, and Elsa resolved to keep resurrecting so her accumulating corpses could displace the Honey and become their weapon.

Elliot led the Expedition Army through Moonheart’s collapse while Elsa’s corpses multiplied and the [Honey] Authority emerged. The survivors reached the Sea of the Moon, and Elliot confirmed that the [Worms] remained beneath the Rift as Dorothea sought a chance to ascend.

• Elliot traced the Difference Engine’s countdown to the stolen Mechanical Era, then questioned Phoenix Everhart about the Hollow Cathedral and secured his help opening a passage to the Present World.
• Elliot brought Phoenix into the Abode and prepared the Communion’s believers and the Expedition Army as [Honey] surged through Moonheart and the [Casting Forge] struck down the [Primordial Blood].
• Sidney and the Fleet held the War Fortress against the rising waters and corpses, while [Nameless Justice] intervened once and then disintegrated.
• Elsa stopped the incoming corpses, and Elliot and the others gathered her multiplying bodies in the Abode as Maeve used [Shadow of the Lunar Eclipse] to torment and feed on [Primordial Blood].
• Elsa revived inside her corpses, helped Maeve regain her Rationality, and then reunited with Dorothea, who discovered the Abode’s waters and food had been sweetened by Elsa’s bodies.
• Dorothea used [Radiance] to open a temporary passage, and she and Elsa reached the Sea of the Moon, where Elliot suspected [Honey] had fused with Elsa’s corpses.
• Elsa sensed the [Worms] still beneath the Rift, and Elliot chose not to provoke them before leaving her with Nightmare to gather Cards.
• Elliot sent Dorothea to seek an opportunity for Ascension, and she met Victoria and Phoenix Everhart in the Sea of the Moon.