Recaps

Horace Loux secretly prepared a refuge for his tribe, gained dragon power and forged a fate that guided him to Liurnia. There, he encountered Rellana at the Church of Vows, defeated her in combat, and treated her wounds, leaving their relationship unsettled.

• Horace Loux urged Hoarah Loux and Marika to pursue their goals while arranging for the tribe’s vulnerable members to migrate west, and he led an envoy to Belurat before proposing a strike against Bayle the Dread.
• Horace Loux and Hoarah Loux hunted dragons on Jagged Peak, killed Bayle, and consumed dragon hearts, while Horace Loux secured Froesanks’s loyalty and help for the tribe.
• Horace Loux used the Gate of Myriad Laws to seek a safe route to Liurnia, then staged a blood ritual that restored many shamans and gave him enough energy to forge a fate tied to the Moon Boat.
• Hoarah Loux stayed behind with Marika and took the name Godfrey the Golden, while Horace Loux led the refugees through the mist into Liurnia and established a defended camp.
• Horace Loux investigated the Church of Vows, met Miriel and Rellana, and explained that his people needed land and peace as he explored his strange connection to the twin moons.
• Rellana challenged Horace Loux, who defeated her with Bayle’s Tyranny after she used both sorcery and pyromancy, and she asked him to kill her after admitting defeat.
• Horace Loux carried the injured Rellana to the church and treated her wounds despite her protests, while Miriel suggested she might help the refugees connect with Caria.
• Rellana threatened to kill Horace Loux when she recovered, then fainted in anger before he could question her.

Horace Loux built Lakeside Town into an autonomous power within Caria, helped Rennala take control of the Academy, and investigated the Formless Mother’s influence on him. His diplomatic mission to the Golden Dynasty reunited him with Godfrey and brought him into the royal family’s efforts to heal the shamans and help Messmer.

• Horace Loux reconciled with Rellana and secured Caria’s support for his tribe, then founded the Order of the Great Rune Knights and the Blood Sorcerer Order.
• Horace Loux established Lakeside Town, negotiated for Academy artisans, and burned the contract that had tried to bind him to Caria through Rellana.
• Horace Loux supported Rennala’s takeover of the Academy, became Caria’s marquess, and negotiated judicial and administrative authority for Lakeside Town.
• Horace Loux discovered that the Formless Mother’s power was changing him, imposed a vow against Golden Order incantations, and searched Caria’s records and the Academy library for answers.
• Horace Loux learned that mastering the corruption might require creating his own blood moon, while Rellana grew increasingly drawn to him.
• Horace Loux helped Caria enact legal reforms and sent a diplomatic delegation with Rellana to the Golden Dynasty, where he reunited with Godfrey and met Marika.
• Horace Loux treated the rescued shamans and persuaded Marika to let them recover in Liurnia, then used Great Runes to ease the serpent’s pressure on Messmer.
• Godfrey and Marika left Horace Loux to review Golden Dynasty paperwork, border disputes, and a report about an Erdtree sapling.

Horace investigated the Eternal City, learned to shape a Blood Moon, and secured a route to aid Caria while his relationship with Rellana came to a head. The arc ended with their wedding bringing Carian and Golden Dynasty guests together, and Horace learning more about Godwyn’s upbringing and Froesanks’s life in Leyndell.

• Hesa secretly took Messmer and Melina from Leyndell to Caria, where they settled in under Horace’s care as Marika and Godfrey accepted his explanation.
• Rennala tasked Rellana with investigating sorcerers persecuting Albinaurics, while Horace confronted dangerous Formless Mother rituals and offered Albinaurics a village or a chance to join his knights.
• Rennala opened a portal to Nokstella after Horace pledged loyalty to Caria, and the Night Witches gave him access to their records and Nokstella’s Moon in exchange for investigating the spreading rot.
• Horace used Nokstella’s Moon to form a Blood Moon from the Formless Mother’s crimson mist, then left Nokstella to continue his research and investigation.
• Rennala revealed she was considering Horace as her prince consort, prompting Rellana to recognize her own feelings, and Horace proposed to her at the Church of Vows.
• Horace and Rellana exchanged rings, and Rennala helped plan a Carian wedding followed by a second ceremony in Leyndell, while Godfrey prepared a grand procession.
• Horace returned to Lakeside Town and considered how to handle resistance to Albinauric patrols and attacks by giant lake creatures, while officials struggled with mounting work.
• Godwyn arrived at the wedding on Fortissax, and Godfrey and Marika followed with their battered delegation, and Horace learned that Froesanks had helped raise Godwyn among the ancient dragons and might be able to visit Caria.

Horace consolidated Caria’s alliances while investigating the Formless Mother’s blood and the danger gathering in Leyndell. After establishing his Law of Restraint and becoming an Empyrean, he returned to a capital shaken by an attack and learned that Alberich’s new blood-sensing power could help expose its spies.

• Hesa and Rellana married with Rennala’s blessing, and the wedding banquet brought knights from rival factions into duels.
• Horace offered Seluvis his patronage, considered Caria’s military and political needs, and later welcomed Gaius’s captured creatures while preserving Messmer’s Melina dolls.
• Horace accepted a jar of Marika’s blood from the Formless Mother, then entrusted it to Miriel for safekeeping as Messmer and Melina sought help for Gaius.
• Horace and Rellana traveled to Leyndell, where Godfrey introduced them to Crepus and the Black Knife Assassins, and Horace obtained a sample of Alberich’s blood glintstone.
• Froesanks showed Horace the Amber Egg and explained how it could make him an Empyrean, so Horace declared a Law of Restraint that let beings compete for succession in thousand-year cycles.
• Horace resonated the Blood Moon and blood glintstone with the Amber Egg, transformed, and formed a Great Rune as the Membrane Church attacked Leyndell.
• Alberich survived his transformation and hunted Black Knife Assassins, while Godwyn and Fortissax repeatedly tried to enter the storm around Placidusax.
• After returning to Leyndell, Horace heard Alberich describe his blood-sensing abilities and learned that Gideon Ofnir had been collecting the assassins’ bodies.