Recaps

Shirou tried to persuade Sakura to help save Messmer, but Caren attacked him when he stood between them. Sakura finally agreed to help, and Caren left the Matou Residence wondering why Shirou had endured the blows to protect a stranger.

• Shirou told Sakura that Messmer would disappear when the Holy Grail War ended and asked her to help prevent things from getting worse.
• Caren entered the room with a dagger and demanded that Shirou move aside, warning him that Sakura's Servant threatened the world.
• Shirou refused to let Caren hurt Sakura, and she repeatedly wounded and kicked him as he continued to block her path.
• Sakura stood up and agreed to help, asking Caren to stop hurting Shirou.
• Caren put away her dagger and left the Matou Residence, puzzled by Shirou's willingness to suffer for Sakura.

As the apocalypse engulfed Fuyuki, Kayneth completed the ritual that transformed Iskandar into a godlike king and summoned his Heroic Spirit army. Young Gilgamesh equipped the tens of thousands of warriors with Noble Phantasms, leaving them ready for one final battle.

• Kiritsugu Emiya watched the fiery sky as Kayneth announced that the ritual was complete.
• Iskandar ascended beyond the limits of a Heroic Spirit, inherited Zeus's power, and revealed tens of thousands of loyal Heroic Spirit soldiers.
• Iskandar comforted Waver and promised to conquer him the next time they met.
• Young Gilgamesh gave Iskandar several Holy Grails to sustain his army and opened the Gate of Babylon.
• At Iskandar's command, his warriors armed themselves with Noble Phantasms from Gilgamesh's treasury.

Kayneth and the Masters strengthened Iskandar and his army with their Command Spells before the army advanced into the Great Hollow to battle the six-winged seraph. Young Gilgamesh’s bombardment and a Persian general’s use of Indra’s Thunder destroyed the seraph’s two Divine Serpents, while the seraph remained within the flames.

• Kayneth told the Masters to use their Command Spells to enhance the fighters, and Waver spent all three to make Iskandar a true god, strengthen his army, and command his king to return alive.
• Iskandar led tens of thousands of Heroic Spirits toward the Great Hollow as Young Gilgamesh sent a barrage of Broken Phantasms to clear a path through the flames.
• The army confronted the six-winged seraph, and Iskandar ordered his fighters to attack the two Divine Serpents charging at them.
• Young Gilgamesh opened his treasury’s golden gates and fired ten thousand cannons loaded with Noble Phantasms at the Divine Serpents.
• A Persian general hurled Indra’s Thunder at the wounded Divine Serpents, using its advantage against dragons and serpents to make them dissipate.

Iskandar and his army charged the Seraphim through the flames of judgment, while the Seraphim summoned Famine and transformed into the Beast of Wrath. Iskandar challenged the Seraphim’s claim that humanity lacked agape, but it dismissed the bonds he described as limited personal love and vowed to burn them away.

• Iskandar ordered his army to advance, and tens of thousands of Heroic Spirits charged the Seraphim through flames that burned their Spirit Origins and legends.
• The Seraphim invoked divine judgment, and Famine emerged on a white horse to drain the magical energy of those it targeted.
• The Seraphim swallowed Famine, took its principle, and transformed into the Beast of Sodom, Beast 666, the Beast of Wrath.
• Wounded at the head of his army, Iskandar asked the Seraphim why his soldiers still followed him and why the boy had spent all three Command Spells to bring him back alive.
• The Seraphim called those bonds limited personal love and said humanity had to burn away its partiality and be reborn in the fire.

Iskandar, King Hassan, Sakura, Proto Saber, and their allies fought Angel’s Beast of Sodom in the Great Hollow, using a Command Spell and a combined assault to bring it down. Seraphim then declared that humanity’s choice had to be made by everyone together, leaving Proto Saber believing they had failed.

• Iskandar rejected Angel’s belief that burning everything would save humanity, and King Hassan appeared to confront the Beast of Solma.
• Sakura used her Command Spells to make Messmer stop and awaken, giving King Hassan the opening to strike Seraphim and bestow death upon the angel.
• Young Gilgamesh lent Proto Saber the holy-sword prototypes from the Gate of Babylon, and Proto Saber unleashed their combined power as Iskandar led the surviving army in a final charge.
• Their attacks destroyed the Beast of Sodom, but Seraphim returned and said that humanity’s choice had to be made by everyone together.
• Messmer and Seraphim reached an agreement, and Proto Saber knelt in despair, thinking they had failed.

After completing Fort Haight’s quest, the player reunited with the Duchess and accepted her offer to become his Witch, gaining a second steed and crafting notes. He headed for Stormveil Castle with her, then encountered the Tracker at the gate and received a gesture after repeatedly trying to start a conversation.

• The player killed the traitors and the knight captain at Fort Haight, then received Horace’s Badge from the Tracker outside the Church of Elleh.
• The Duchess offered to become the player’s Witch, and the player accepted before receiving her Twin Steed Whistle.
• Melina appeared at the Site of Grace, exchanged an awkward warning with the Duchess, and called herself the player’s temporary traveling companion.
• The Duchess gave the player her crafting notes, allowing him to make sleep arrows and a harpoon that defeated the Mechanical Shrimp without it attacking.
• The player reached Stormveil Castle Gate and repeatedly pressed E on the silent Tracker until he acquired the “What Do You Want?” gesture.

After the heroes failed to defeat Messmer, Shirou used his final Command Spell to try to summon Miquella, the saint Kayneth believed could exploit Messmer’s weakness. The spell appeared to fail, leaving Shirou alone with the glowing mark as the others watched from the ruins.

• Proto Saber and the exhausted survivors watched Iskandar’s army disperse as the flames in the Great Hollow began to die.
• Tokiomi, Kayneth, Waver, Irisviel, Shirou, Sakura, and Kiritsugu faced the likely defeat in despair.
• Kayneth told Shirou to use his final Command Spell to summon Miquella, whom he believed could defeat Messmer.
• Shirou walked to the edge of the ruins and called for Miquella three times using the Command Spell.
• Nothing appeared, and Shirou lowered his head, believing the summoning had failed.

Miquella appeared before Shirou after Shirou’s prayer succeeded where his Command Spell had failed. He explained that God had allowed humanity to cheat in an unfair test so they could discover that its rules could be challenged, leaving the Masters to consider how they might become independent of God’s protection.

• Miquella comforted Shirou and explained that his prayer, rather than the Command Spell, had brought him there because Shirou continued to believe.
• Miquella told the Masters they had chosen the right path, then revealed that God had allowed him to come and that cheating was permitted in the unfair exam.
• Miquella explained that testing all humanity through Fuyuki alone could never let the participants represent everyone, and that God wanted them to recognize the flaw in the rules.
• Miquella used Sakura’s answer about learning that fire burns to explain why people must discover truths for themselves.
• Miquella told the Masters that they could question, challenge, and rewrite God’s rules as they began to become independent.

Miquella put his plan to awaken humanity to the test by sending the world into dreams of their deepest desires. As the dreams began to burn and people neared awakening, Messmer attacked Miquella, while Trina feared she would suffer alongside him.

• Miquella argued that a few people awakening first could begin a change that everyone else might eventually carry forward.
• Miquella used the moon and Trina’s Noble Phantasm to put the world to sleep, giving each person a dream of the world they most longed for.
• Miquella judged the dream experiment successful and considered how connected dreams might support his plans for the Lands Between.
• Miquella provoked Messmer by calling her his sister, and she pinned him with her spear and engulfed him in flames.
• Miquella sent firelight into everyone’s dreams, causing their beautiful dreams to burn as he prepared to wake them.

After Melina and Duchess brought the Tarnished to Roundtable Hold, he explored the hub and met its residents. A Blood Glintstone led him to a Recusant’s request in Leyndell, and he revived Fia before she left.

• Melina and Duchess invited the Tarnished to Roundtable Hold, and he accepted.
• Sir Gideon Ofnir welcomed the newcomer but sent him to Moore, who gave him Spellproof Dried Liver and explained the Hold’s purpose and shop.
• The Tarnished explored Roundtable Hold, meeting its smith, the young master, D, and a Demi-Human tailor, while learning that two guarded doors required recognition.
• A Recusant recognized the Blood Glintstone and asked the Tarnished to steal another from Hassan of the Great Caravan in Leyndell.
• The Tarnished gave a Flask of Crimson Tears to Fia, who thanked him and staggered away.

The player learned more about the Death Knights and received Spirit Ashes from Melina and the Duchess before struggling through Stormveil Castle. He reached a church, met Rogier and the cross-dressed Godrick, and left with a suggestion to study True Magic in Liurnia of the Lakes.

• D warned the player to avoid Fia and explained that the Death Knights followed Godwyn and sought to eliminate immortality.
• Melina gave the player Doll Soldier Spirit Ashes, and the Duchess gave him Stormhawk Spirit Ashes.
• The player repeatedly died to Stormveil Castle's defenses before reaching a quiet church inside.
• Rogier introduced himself and revealed that the girl beside him was His Highness Godrick, whom he was teaching True Magic and combat.
• The player bought magic and Ashes of War from Rogier, who recommended the True Magic Academy in Liurnia of the Lakes and asked why the player had come to Stormveil.

The player fought through Stormveil Castle, defeated the two Smithing Golems guarding Rykard, and challenged the overworked lord with Rogier's help. Rykard overwhelmed them with an endless barrage of incantations, leaving the player struggling to survive.

• The player chose to challenge Rykard, and Rogier offered his help and explained that Stormveil Castle would be the reward for defeating him.
• The player navigated Stormveil Castle's traps and ambushes, then discovered that attacking the Smithing Golems' dark red back gems exposed their weak points.
• After several deaths, the player defeated both golems and entered the hall, where Rykard paused his paperwork to accept the challenge.
• Melina and Duchess appeared, and Rykard nervously begged them not to join the fight because he feared Messmer's reaction.
• The player summoned Rogier, but Rykard's relentless golden and gravity-based spells soon killed Rogier and left the player scrambling to survive.

Miquella’s Dreamscape trial ended as fear and fire roused the sleeping people, and Miquella gave Messmer his Noble Phantasm before dissolving. With the Seraphim gone and her promised power still undelivered, Messmer was left weakened and wondering how to get home.

• Trina struggled to maintain Miquella’s Dreamscape as fire spread through the dreams and frightened people awake.
• Messmer recalled her contract with Dove and realized that becoming an Empyrean had made her need the promised Seraphim power.
• Miquella began dissolving into golden motes and transferred his Noble Phantasm to Messmer as a parting gift.
• Miquella’s Noble Phantasm ended the trial, stripped away the angel’s power, and caused the Seraphim to depart.
• Messmer was left weaker than when she had been summoned and wondered how she would return home.

Messmer was eliminated by Proto Saber’s Excalibur, bringing the Fourth War to an end. Back in the Lands Between, Horace confronted Messmer about making a dangerous deal with Dove and urged him to tell Horace before taking such risks, while Messmer’s deep self-loathing left Horace worried for him.

• Horace found Messmer hiding something and started to take her home, but Proto Saber’s Excalibur struck before they could leave.
• Messmer was eliminated, the Fourth War ended, and Fuyuki City returned to normal as Dove departed.
• Messmer returned to the Lands Between and tried to flee when Horace confronted him about secretly making a contract with Dove.
• Horace warned Messmer that other gods could deceive and endanger him, and asked him to say who he was meeting before making another deal.
• Messmer stayed silent because he believed his choices and risks should not burden anyone else, while Horace worried that Messmer’s self-loathing was the real danger.

The player defeated Rykard, took Stormveil Castle, and cleared out its hired defenders before riding into Liurnia. At a mausoleum, he defeated the vigil knight Engvall, whose ashes let him summon the fallen knight, and learned more about the Storm King.

• The player changed to bleed weapons and defeated Rykard, who surrendered when his health fell below half, leaving the player Stormveil Castle and Rykard's Remembrance.
• The player discovered that Stormveil's hired soldiers and knights still attacked him, then spent several days clearing the castle and farming the Banished Knight Set.
• The player rode north into Liurnia and encountered Engvall, a vigil knight guarding the Storm King Mausoleum.
• The player fought Engvall for nearly ten minutes and defeated him, obtaining ashes that could summon the knight's spirit.
• Duchess explained that Engvall had been one of the Storm King's two famed knights and suggested the player might later earn Sir Oleg's recognition as well.

After leaving Storm King's Mausoleum, the player was overwhelmed by Doll Soldiers and tried to steal armor from the Inquisitor Knights at Lakeside Outpost, but they arrested him and sent him to Leda's Prison. He escaped his cell with Torrent and began fighting his way down the corridor.

• The player struggled past ambushing Doll Soldiers on the road to Liurnia, relying on Torrent to outrun them.
• At Lakeside Outpost, the player attacked seven Inquisitor Knights for their armor but was overwhelmed by their shields, spells, chains, and cannon.
• The knights incapacitated the player, shackled him, and transported him to Leda's Prison, where fast travel and summoning a Witch were unavailable.
• The player spoke with Leda and Thiollier and learned that Leda had used deadly poison to deal with supposed traitors, while Thiollier claimed she had dragged him into it.
• The player spotted a prompt to summon his mount, and Torrent crashed through the cell door; after the attack restriction lifted, the player fought down the corridor.

The player escaped Rebeca Prison, met Ranni at the Ranni Club headquarters, and agreed to work for her. Blaidd then sent the player back into the prison to meet one of the club’s powerful members.

• The player freed Thiollier and Leda, who argued over loyalty to Miquella and Trina before Leda invited the player to serve Miquella.
• The player fought out of Rebeca Prison, collected runes and Inquisitor Knight armor, and emerged in Lakeside Town, where Melina and the Duchess appeared at a site of Grace.
• The player approached the giant blue-haired doll and met Blaidd, who introduced her as Ranni, the Moon Princess.
• The player agreed to work for Ranni and received the Caria Crest, whose description mentioned Princesses Ranni and Hötter.
• Blaidd told the player to meet a Ranni Club heavy hitter at Rebeca Prison, so the player returned inside along the route they had just escaped.

The Tarnished found Rykard working as a prisoner and failed to stop him escaping, then tracked him to Mohg’s Tender Paradise. Rykard bribed the Tarnished to leave him there, but gave them a letter to deliver to Iji.

• The Tarnished fought Rykard in Rebeca Prison with Blaidd’s help, but Rykard escaped through a hole in the wall.
• Smith Iji asked the Tarnished to bring Rykard back, and Blaidd admitted he had helped him escape unintentionally.
• The Tarnished found Rykard relaxing with dancers in a private room at Mohg’s Tender Paradise.
• Rykard explained that his mother had tricked him into becoming a warden and clerk at the prison.
• The Tarnished agreed to help Rykard stay free and received Hero’s Runes, Rykard’s Reserve Wine, and Rykard’s Handwritten Letter for Iji.

The player learned how Iji’s old friend Adam had betrayed him to protect his child, helping Iji understand the truth and move past years of confusion. After leaving Iji, the player tried to enter Raya Lucaria Academy but found it under tight lockdown and spotted Patches near the guarded town.

• Rykard asked the player to tell Iji that he would return in a few days, and the player delivered his letter to Iji and received Somber Smithing Stones.
• Ranni told the player that Iji had once been trusted by the royal family but had been brought low by a friend’s betrayal, and she explained that Blaidd was her shadow and Miquella had given him his appearance.
• Iji explained that his friend Adam had fled after receiving a medallion, so Iji had sealed him on a cliff, and the player told Iji what they had learned about Adam in the mountain hollow.
• Iji thanked the player for revealing why Adam had betrayed him, accepted that Adam had acted to protect his child, and gave the player Somber Smithing Stones.
• The player found Raya Lucaria Academy under lockdown, failed to find a way through its defenses, and spotted Patches hiding near the patrolling soldiers.

The player used Patches’s misleading permit to gain entry to Albinauric Village, then convinced Albus to send Latenna and reinforcements to Academy Gate Town. After Latenna exposed the player as a fake messenger and attacked, the player defeated her and faced a choice.

• The player kicked Patches down a slope, then paid him 5,000 Runes for a map to a supposed Academy permit.
• The player fought through Crystal Cave, defeated the Bloodhound Knight, and obtained an Albinauric Village Entry Permit instead of an Academy permit.
• The player showed the permit to Albus and persuaded him to send Latenna and Albinauric reinforcements to Gate Town.
• Latenna escorted the player through the guarded entrance, then sent the reinforcements away and accused the player of not being a royal messenger.
• The player defeated Latenna after learning to evade her rapid arrows and close the distance, then hovered over the [Violate] option among the choices.

The Tarnished reached Raya Lucaria Academy, where Thops revealed that the professors had stolen his research on deflecting True Magic and erased his name. Seeking justice for him, the Tarnished asked Ranni and Sellen for help, but both said they could not challenge the Academy; Sellen warned her apprentice to stay out of the matter.

• The Tarnished forgave Latenna, showed her the Caria Crest, and received an Albinauric Bow.
• The Tarnished fought through Raya Lucaria Academy and found Thops in a secluded room.
• Thops confessed that professors had stolen his research and gave the Tarnished his original manuscript as proof.
• The Tarnished showed Thops's manuscript to Ranni, who praised the theory but said she could not remove the professors.
• The Tarnished asked Sellen for help, but Sellen said she had little influence at the Academy and warned her apprentice away from its corruption.

The player sought help for Thops after the academy denied him justice, then asked Patches to investigate the professors. The player bought Thops’s staff, which he had given Patches as collateral, and set out to pursue the case through unofficial channels.

• Tracker agreed to take over Thops’s case but warned the player that investigations could take many years without results.
• Thops admitted that he could not accept the academy’s treatment and agreed to let the player help him.
• Melina suggested asking the masters and Rennala, while the Duchess advised using information from merchants who operated in gray areas.
• The player searched Limgrave, found Patches hiding in the grass near the Lake-Facing Cliffs, defeated him, and chose to forgive him.
• Patches offered information about the professors, and the player found that Thops had pawned his only valuable possession, his glintstone staff, to fund the investigation.
• The player bought Thops’s staff from Patches.

The player sought Master Azur to help Thops, but Inquisitor Knights blocked access, so the player returned Thops's staff instead. After Thops completed a magic-deflecting barrier and joined the player, they fought through Raya Lucaria Academy and defeated Moongrum by pushing him off the lift.

• The player paid Patches 10,000 Runes for news that Lusat had returned, then met Lusat, who gave the player a letter and directed them to find Azur on the Weeping Peninsula.
• The player found Azur surrounded by Inquisitor Knights enforcing martial law and returned without reaching him.
• The player returned Thops's Glintstone Staff, and Thops later completed his research, giving the player notes on Thops's Barrier and an Ash of War version.
• The player chose to fight into the Academy, dying repeatedly to its traps and enemies before reaching the library entrance and facing Moongrum.
• The player summoned Thops, whose barrier deflected Moongrum's ranged magic, then maneuvered the knight toward the lift until he rolled off and fell.

The player and Thops defeated Rennala, who then heard Thops’s petition and established a classroom to support the Graven Stones’ research. Thops gave the player the Graven Stones’ Ideology Runes before wishing them well on their journey.

• The player summoned Thops and defeated Rennala’s two phases with his Barrier’s help.
• The player showed Rennala Lusat’s letter, and Thops presented her with a petition signed by the Graven Stones.
• Rennala established Thops’s Classroom and promised to provide resources for its research.
• The player received Rennala’s Remembrance and Rennala’s Azure Glintstone, then returned to Thops.
• Thops gave the player Thops’s Ideology Runes and called them his lord.

The player investigated the Frenzied Flame after Master Azur warned that it mattered more than any other business. They found its effects in Castle Morne, learned that Irina’s father and Tracker’s subordinates had been involved, and discovered the first signs of the flame at the Church of Elleh.

• The player met Irina and Tracker on the Weeping Peninsula, agreed to investigate Irina’s father’s arrest, and went to Castle Morne using Horace’s Medallion.
• The player fought through maddened soldiers whose attacks built up a Madness meter and summoned Tracker to defeat a Maddened Inquisitor Knight.
• Tracker identified the enemy’s power as the Frenzied Flame and asked the player to keep it from the Duchess, while the player found a Frenzied Flame Sacred Seal in the lighthouse.
• Irina recognized the Sacred Seal’s power as familiar and broke down when the player identified it as the Frenzied Flame.
• Master Azur explained that the Frenzied Flame was first discovered at the Church of Elleh, where several Inquisitor Knights met a terrible fate, including Tracker’s subordinates and younger sister.