Recaps

Elliot and the Communion expanded the Hearthfire District, rescued Maeve, and turned a refugee crisis into a show of the Communion’s power. With the nobles preparing to oppose them, Elliot investigated Ascension methods and let Vanessa examine him to fulfill her task.

• Flora arrived in Saint Clair with Alice, and Elsa welcomed the refugees and the Mourning Poetry Society as Damian learned how the city’s relief efforts had failed to stop its misery.
• Elliot advanced Flora and Vanessa through the Difference Engine, giving Flora [Grafting] and Vanessa the Philosopher’s Stone, while Flora’s practice caused a series of mishaps.
• Elsa, Simon, and Dorothea located Holly, who agreed to meet Elsa in three days after Elliot proved the Lord had set its sights on her.
• Elliot and the Communion rescued Maeve from [Primordial Blood], and Simon opened a huge passage that let the Expedition Army’s fleet enter the Courtyard and establish shipyards.
• The Communion prepared for a wave of refugees and defeated the nobles’ attempt to sow disorder when Elsa’s [Honey] healed the sick and won the crowd’s loyalty.
• Elliot learned that the nobles could raise a vast army, investigated their supernatural strength and Ascension methods, and disguised himself as a recruit so Vanessa could examine him.

Elliot advanced Vanessa and the Communion’s preparations, witnessed Crawford’s bloody coronation, and sent the first fleet into the Misty Ocean to search for Holly. After the Dawn returned with Holly’s egg, Elliot turned to Clara’s possession ability as a possible way to save Dorothea.

• Elliot advanced Vanessa through Ascension and chose Philosopher’s Stone, and Part Two as her permanent talent, then used Elsa’s sacrifices to grow the Communion.
• Elliot discovered that the Philosopher’s Stone could create machines with wills, and he ordered the Communion’s ships to undergo mechanical classes after they secretly changed their own repairs.
• Elsa built a Holy Communion Plate to enable mobile sacrifices, while Elliot and Simon opened a passage from the Sea of the Moon and launched the Dawn toward the underground shipyard.
• Elliot confronted Alvin at the Council, then watched Crawford seize the blood-covered Crown and use the coronation ritual to kill nobles under the Empire’s contract.
• Elliot prepared Allen and Dorothea for the Deep Sea expedition, chose their new talents, and sent them with Vanessa aboard the Dawn.
• The fleet lost contact in the Misty Ocean, where Dorothea’s crows died and opening a passage tore apart her existence, but Elliot guided the Dawn to surface near the Imperial Capital.
• Elliot sent the Dawn back under the water to search for Holly, then used an empty Vessel as a beacon to bring it home with Holly’s egg.
• Elliot learned that Dorothea could not be healed while frozen in Elsa’s Amber and arranged for Clara to undergo a sacrifice so she might gain a healing or resurrection ability.

Elliot and the Communion revived Dorothea, cured Victoria’s madness, and advanced Maeve to the Seventh Rank. After Victoria’s madness erupted again, Elliot calmed her, and Holly hatched sharing a body with Theresia and revealed that Evil Entities had escaped into the sea.

• Elliot used the Communion’s gathered Rationality to help Clara devise a way to heal Dorothea, then kept Dorothea spinning with a steam engine so her crow meals could continue.
• Phoebe’s temporary healing ability revived Dorothea, and Elliot’s group used it to cure Victoria of Permanent Madness at the Imperial Palace.
• Elliot learned that Michel’s head had become a Relic, and Michel proposed using his ability to join his corpse and suppress the Throne.
• Maeve returned from the Sea of the Moon, advanced to Seventh Rank through Blood Moon Ascension, and used [Lure] to make diners appreciate Dorothea’s cooking.
• Victoria’s madness erupted at the canteen, killing Maeve and Flora before Elliot used [Hypnosis] to restore Victoria’s clarity.
• Holly hatched as a mermaid sharing her body with Theresia, and she told Elliot that Evil Entities had escaped into the sea through an undiscovered underwater exit.