Recaps

Klein watched Xio’s covert investigation and prepared safeguards while she and Fors tried to mislead the people probing their dreams. The next morning, Herabergen Rambis confronted Audrey and ordered her to arrange a meeting with Xio and Fors so he could hypnotize them.

• Klein spotted a concealed investigator watching Xio and decided to wait rather than intervene, while arranging charms for Tarot Club members to summon The World if needed.
• Xio returned to Fors without detecting anyone following her, and the two spent the evening together in their apartment.
• An angel’s blessing protected Xio and Fors from dream intrusion, but an intruder entered Xio’s dream; she controlled her memories and left misleading details about the warehouse incident.
• Audrey traveled to the Loen Charity Bursary Foundation with Susie, Annie, and her bodyguards, when Herabergen Rambis appeared in the carriage and hypnotized them.
• Herabergen told Audrey to arrange a meeting with Fors and Xio so he could hypnotize them.

Herabergen Rambis hypnotized Audrey and altered her behavior, but Susie helped her notice the change and she recovered her memories by praying to Mr. Fool. Klein suspected Adam was using the investigation to probe the Fool’s involvement and resolved to keep Audrey clear of the coming confrontation with Herabergen.

• Herabergen Rambis hypnotized Audrey in her carriage, suggesting she praise the princes, forget his visit, and avoid key positions at the Church of Evernight’s grand Mass.
• Audrey visited Glaint unexpectedly, then asked Susie whether her behavior had been abnormal; Susie pointed out that Audrey had changed her plans without warning.
• Audrey recognized her reluctance to seek help as a sign of hypnosis, hypnotized herself into making daily prayers, and prayed to Mr. Fool, recovering her memories of Herabergen.
• Audrey told Klein what had happened, and he called it fate’s test and told her to face it.
• Klein reasoned that Adam’s probing might be driven by concern about divine descent and decided Audrey must not be connected to the next move against Herabergen.
• Audrey went to the directors’ lounge to find Dawn Dantès.

Audrey sought Klein’s advice after Herabergen Rambis hypnotized her and ordered her to investigate Xio and Fors. At a Tarot Club gathering, the members discussed how to handle the demigod without drawing suspicion from the Psychology Alchemists, and learned that the group was connected to the Hermits of Fate.

• Audrey told Klein about Herabergen Rambis’s orders, and Klein advised her to consult the other Tarot Club members.
• Audrey convened a small gathering and told the members that Herabergen had hypnotized her and ordered her to hypnotize Xio and Fors.
• Audrey revealed that she had recommended Xio and Fors for membership in the Tarot Club, surprising both women.
• The members discussed ways to locate and deal with Herabergen while keeping the Psychology Alchemists from suspecting Audrey.
• The World warned the members that the Psychology Alchemists were connected to the Hermits of Fate and that Mr. Fool did not want to provoke the organization.

The Tarot Club planned to mislead the Psychology Alchemists and protect Xio and Fors from Herabergen Rambis, with Audrey arranging to meet the Evernight Church’s archbishop and break their hypnosis. After Audrey hypnotized Xio and Fors at Viscount Glaint’s residence, Herabergen appeared beside her, revealing he had been watching all along.

• Fors and Xio feared the consequences of Adam’s attention, while Audrey and Alger discussed using the Evernight Church to disguise the Tarot Club’s involvement.
• Alger proposed that Audrey meet the Evernight archbishop and that Xio pray at a nearby church; The World suggested Audrey burn her feather ornament after Herabergen left and then use his charm.
• The Tarot Club agreed on a plan for Audrey to hypnotize Xio and Fors into leaving Backlund, then wait for Xio to pray before taking further action.
• At Viscount Glaint’s residence, Audrey questioned the hypnotized Xio and Fors, then told them to leave Backlund and released them from the hypnosis.
• As Audrey left the study, Herabergen appeared inside the residence and praised her, catching her completely by surprise.

Audrey tried to keep Herabergen Rambis from discovering her plan while waiting for Xio and Fors to reach an Evernight cathedral. When Rambis uncovered her suspicions and attacked her mind, Audrey invoked an angel’s blessing and the chapter ended with him stunned by the golden light in her eyes.

• Audrey decided not to rush her plan and answered Herabergen Rambis's questions while hoping Xio and Fors would reach the cathedral.
• Audrey told Rambis that Xio had acted on her own while investigating Viscount Stratford and her father's death, and that Xio and Fors were protected by an unnamed existence.
• Rambis praised Audrey's hypnosis, promised to give her the Dreamwalker potion, and tried to lower her resistance to love and marriage before preparing to leave.
• Rambis noticed Audrey's fear and the absence of her shape-changing accessory, then suspected she was hiding something and invaded her mind.
• Audrey resisted Rambis's psychic assault and reached into her pocket as he intensified the attack.
• An ancient word, “Fate,” rang in Rambis's ears, and Audrey's emerald eyes turned brilliant gold.

Audrey used the Fate Siphon charm to reverse her confrontation with Herabergen Rambis, hypnotized him into forgetting their encounter, and arranged for Gehrman Sparrow to ambush him. When Herabergen appeared beside her in the garden, her song calmed him as the ambush began.

• Audrey exchanged fates with Herabergen Rambis using the Fate Siphon charm, gaining control of his mind long enough to hypnotize him.
• Audrey instructed Herabergen to wait at Glaint's residence, forget their meeting, and calm down when he heard her singing.
• Audrey prayed to Mr. Fool to alert The World Gehrman Sparrow, prepared her mental defenses, and went to the garden to await Herabergen.
• Audrey burned a feather and used a summoning charm, but Gehrman Sparrow did not appear before Herabergen arrived beside her.
• Audrey hummed “Manor Under the Moon,” calming Herabergen as an enormous crimson moon and a black-clad figure appeared above the garden.

Herabergen Rambis transformed into his incomplete Mythical Creature Form and attacked Gehrman Sparrow through both the physical and mental worlds. Klein’s Angel’s Embrace protected him from the invasion, and he used the encounter to test whether the gray fog held a hidden consciousness before preparing a Lightning Storm to counter Herabergen’s invisibility.

• Herabergen Rambis transformed into a grayish-white Dragon and unleashed Dragon Might that afflicted everyone around the garden with abnormal mental effects.
• Audrey Hall hypnotized herself to avoid seeing the Mythical Creature Form, then left the garden after an illusion made the battle disappear from her view.
• Herabergen identified Gehrman Sparrow’s island of consciousness as a Marionette’s and followed its Spirit Body Threads to locate the real body.
• Klein’s Marionette redirected Herabergen’s mental invasion toward the gray fog, where Herabergen found no consciousness and Klein’s Angel projection repelled his subsequent attack.
• Herabergen withdrew and used Psychological Invisibility, but Klein summoned Creeping Hunger’s recorded Lightning Storm to attack the whole area.

Gehrman Sparrow and his marionettes coordinated their attacks to seize control of Herabergen Rambis, but the Manipulator infected Klein with a contagious Mental Plague. Klein used Qonas Kilgor’s powers to restrain the illness and keep Herabergen Rambis paralyzed, though the Dragon began recovering.

• Gehrman Sparrow exposed Herabergen Rambis with a Lightning Storm, then used Creeping Hunger’s amplified Slow while Winner Enuni began manipulating the Dragon’s Spirit Body Threads.
• Qonas Kilgor amplified Enuni’s control, but Herabergen Rambis shook off Slow before control was established; Klein struck him with a Spirit Control Bullet, paralyzing him long enough for Enuni to gain initial control.
• Herabergen Rambis’s Mental Plague infected Klein through Enuni, causing violent shifts in his mood and threatening to make him lose control of his marionettes.
• Klein used Qonas Kilgor’s Distortion to lessen the illness, then fired another amplified Spirit Control Bullet to prolong Herabergen Rambis’s paralysis.
• Klein fired a third Spirit Control Bullet before the Dragon could recover, but Herabergen Rambis returned to normal as its amplified effect ended.

Klein turned Herabergen Rambis into a Marionette and, with Arianna’s help, questioned him about George III and the Psychology Alchemists. The interrogation revealed that the group’s president had several identities and that George III sought something in the Blood Emperor ruins, but Herabergen could not remember what it was.

• Klein made Herabergen Rambis his Marionette and used him to remove the Mental Plague afflicting Klein and the surrounding area.
• Arianna questioned Herabergen, who said a world-engulfing war was coming and that George III had gained a higher level through the Psychology Alchemists’ help.
• Herabergen said George III needed to become more talented to overcome the Three Great Contracts, but he did not know how the process worked.
• Herabergen identified the Psychology Alchemists’ president as having identities including Barros Hopkins, Bailey Delair, and Eric Drake.
• Herabergen said George III wanted to control something in the Blood Emperor ruins through sacrificial rituals, but he could not recall what it was.
• Klein asked Herabergen about the Spectator pathway’s potion formulas, then agreed not to use him as a Marionette or make an item from his Beyonder Characteristic until its mental imprint was removed.

Klein abandoned Herabergen Rambis’s marionette, received the demigod’s purified Beyonder Characteristic, and sacrificed a dangerous Sealed Artifact to the Evernight Goddess. The ritual revealed the Sequence 3 Scholar of Yore formula and advancement ritual, while Klein later explained Herabergen’s plan to Audrey above the gray fog.

• Klein relinquished control of Herabergen Rambis, and Arianna erased the demigod’s corpse and removed the mental imprints from his Beyonder Characteristic.
• Arianna warned Klein that the ice-blue cylinder came from the cosmos and could corrupt anyone who carried it, then advised him to sacrifice it to the Evernight Goddess.
• Klein sacrificed the cylinder and received the Scholar of Yore potion formula, learning that its ritual required him to separate himself from reality for at least three hundred years before drinking the potion.
• Klein left the concealed garden as Audrey watched, and later met her as The World above the gray fog.
• Klein told Audrey that Herabergen Rambis had investigated whether Xio and Fors were being directed and tried to keep Audrey from obstructing the princes’ attempt to divide the three major Churches.
• Audrey said that her Fate Siphon charm had helped her hypnotize Herabergen and that her Hypnotist potion seemed to have been fully digested.

Klein offered Audrey Beyonder Characteristics from Herabergen Rambis and explained the king’s plan and the Hermits of Fate’s desire for a world war. After learning about the Hounds of Fulgrim and Demonic Wolves of Fog from Arrodes, Klein began considering how to use the creatures’ properties to find them.

• Klein offered to sell Audrey a Dreamwalker characteristic for eight thousand pounds and a Hypnotist characteristic for Susie for four thousand pounds, and Audrey agreed to pay before Friday.
• Klein told Audrey that King George III sought to become a demigod through rituals in the Blood Emperor’s ruins, while the Hermits of Fate wanted a war spanning the world.
• Audrey left the space above the Gray Fog, and Klein began transforming Herabergen Rambis’s Beyonder Characteristic into a potion inside an isolated glass bottle.
• Klein summoned Arrodes, who explained that Hounds of Fulgrim lived in gaps in history and that few Demonic Wolves of Fog remained, all skilled at anti-divination and deceit.
• Klein reasoned that materials related to Demonic Wolves of Fog might help him use the Law of Beyonder Characteristics Convergence to draw out Hounds of Fulgrim.

Klein questioned Arrodes about the king’s secret and the whereabouts of Katarina and Trissy, then received a warning that he should be careful. Xio and Fors planned their next steps, while Klein used the Gray Fog to subdue the mysterious bottle with the Unshadowed Crucifix.

• Klein asked Arrodes about the king’s secret, Katarina, and Trissy; the mirror showed the Blood Emperor’s ruins for the first two questions and darkness for the last.
• Arrodes warned Klein to be careful and showed him a vast night sky before Klein ended the exchange.
• Xio and Fors learned that the problem had been resolved, then agreed to return to East Borough and hide once Xio obtained the Judge potion formula.
• Xio asked Fors to lend her money for a button she wanted to buy, and Fors agreed.
• Klein checked the bottle above the Gray Fog, heard it offer wishes in exchange for gold coins, and inserted the Unshadowed Crucifix to suppress it.

Klein separated a pure Manipulator Beyonder Characteristic from the mutated glass bottle, then attended afternoon tea and considered the danger surrounding the Blood Emperor’s ruins. The chapter ended with Sharron’s message that they would act at ten that night.

• After three hours, Klein removed the Unshadowed Crucifix from the mutated glass bottle and discarded the precipitated Manipulator Beyonder Characteristic above the Gray Fog.
• At afternoon tea, Macht praised Hibbert’s growing maturity, and Klein agreed to invest ten thousand pounds in Portland Moment’s machinery laboratory after professional checks.
• Klein warned Portland Moment that the laboratory needed protection from industrial spies and foreign sabotage.
• Macht told Klein that Major General Qonas Kilgor remained missing, and Klein worried about threats connected to the Blood Emperor’s ruins.
• Reinette Tinekerr delivered a letter from Sharron saying, “We act at 10 tonight.”

Klein sent Sharron a warning and gave Reinette Tinekerr a charm as he prepared for the night’s events. Meanwhile, Emlyn and Maric began targeting Rose School of Thought agents in Backlund, but Charlie Lake’s signal alerted another operative before the attack’s outcome was revealed.

• Klein reminded Sharron to keep things under control in Backlund and gave Reinette Tinekerr a Yesterday Once More charm and payment.
• Emlyn White and Maric watched Charlie Lake’s bookstore and planned to trace the Rose School of Thought’s intelligence network through three agents.
• Emlyn wore the Rose’s Vow ring so Earl Mistral could share Maric’s briefing with the Sanguine participants.
• Charlie Lake resisted an attack in his bedroom with a Purification charm, but supernatural forces killed him and silenced his screams.
• A Southern Continent maid noticed frost on Charlie Lake’s gas pipes, while a neighboring agent saw the half-drawn curtain signal an emergency and stood up.

Mistral, Sharron, and Nibes found an abandoned restaurant trap that unleashed a blood-red moon and threatened to force reproduction on those nearby. The red moon faded after an unseen intervention, and Sharron concluded the targets had not been warned by the Mother Tree of Desire.

• A maid sent word of Charlie Lake’s accident through a face that appeared on her arm, while a bat flew away from the bookstore.
• Mistral and Sharron gathered above the restaurant, and Nibes sealed it off with his enormous wings.
• Mistral unleashed a glass orb that illuminated the restaurant, then tore away its roof and revealed a wireless receiver, a telegram, and a strange figure soaking in wine.
• The figure’s wine formed a red moon that threatened Sharron, Mistral, Nibes, and Klein’s marionette with sinister reproductive effects.
• The red moon suddenly dimmed and vanished, and Mistral and Sharron determined the targets had left at almost the same time they arrived.
• Sharron told Mistral that the Mother Tree of Desire had not alerted the targets to danger.

After a failed attempt to capture a Rose School of Thought demigod, Klein suspected the apparent trap had concealed a secret and urged Sharron and Maric to investigate cautiously. He then received Audrey’s request to complete a Beyonder characteristic transaction and planned to explore Groselle’s Travels.

• Mistral and Sharron concluded that the Rose School of Thought had likely detected the danger through another means, and withdrew before the authorities arrived.
• Klein watched Sharron disappear, learned from Reinette Tinekerr that she could not see what had happened, and left the area.
• Emlyn told Maric that the operation had failed to find its target, and they decided to leave the vicinity.
• Klein proposed that the Rose School of Thought’s improvised trap had concealed a secret, and advised Sharron and Maric to monitor its members carefully.
• Audrey prayed to Mr. Fool to deliver twelve thousand pounds to Mr. World for Beyonder characteristics, and Klein told her to begin the sacrifice.
• Klein resolved to explore Groselle’s Travels as part of his effort to prepare for the increasingly tense situation.

Audrey drank the Dreamwalker potion and explored the Mind World before mastering her new abilities. Above the gray fog, Klein asked Leonard for help entering the dreams of people from several ancient eras, leaving Leonard stunned by the dangerous prospects.

• Audrey received Mr. Fool’s blessing, drank the Dreamwalker potion, and saw a vision of the peaceful future she hoped to create.
• Audrey observed dream bubbles around islands of consciousness and glimpsed the Sea of Collective Subconscious before waking herself.
• Audrey learned that Dreamwalkers could guide and modify dreams, and could traverse between nearby dreams to move covertly.
• Klein met Leonard above the gray fog and asked him to help with several dreams.
• Klein named a Loen soldier, a Fourth Epoch noble, a Third Epoch Ascetic, and a Second Epoch elf and giant, prompting Leonard to suspect he would need Pallez’s help.

Klein recruited Leonard and Audrey to explore the dreams of people preserved in Groselle's Travels, hoping to uncover secrets of the past. The three entered the book’s snowy world and set out to investigate Snowman, an Ascetic from the Third Epoch.

• Klein asked Leonard for blood and arranged to explore dreams with him and Audrey on Sunday night, warning Leonard not to tell Pallez Zoroast about the plan.
• Leonard used Klein’s conversational techniques to mislead Pallez about the dream exploration, but Pallez noticed that Leonard was hiding something.
• Audrey practiced cutting her skin to provide blood for the ritual, while Klein prepared the blood, the Lies mask, and the Unshadowed Crucifix.
• Klein summoned Audrey and Leonard above the gray fog, explained that their targets were inside Groselle’s Travels, and brought them into its world with their blood.
• The group arrived in a snowbound city, where Klein identified Snowman as their first target and planned to investigate him before Mobett.

Klein, Audrey, and Leonard entered Snowman’s dream to uncover what he knew about the Angel Kings. Snowman recited scripture about the Ancient The Sun God and the eight Angel Kings, then revealed that Evernight cultists were hiding in the diocese.

• Leonard used his Nightmare ability to put Snowman to sleep, and Audrey brought Klein and Leonard into Snowman’s dream.
• Audrey reshaped the dream’s altar into a vision of the Ancient The Sun God surrounded by the Angel Kings.
• Snowman described the Angel Kings, identifying the Dark Angel as the Lord’s left hand and deputy ruler of heaven, Adam as the eldest son, and the Angel of Time as the second son.
• Audrey inferred that some Angel Kings had followed the Ancient The Sun God from weakness while the Angel of Wisdom had likely joined from a hostile faction.
• Snowman declared that Evernight cultists were hiding in the diocese, according to an oracle from the Kings.

Klein, Audrey, and Leonard explored Snowman’s memories before entering Mobett’s dream, where Leonard tried to use his connection to Pallez Zoroast to gain Mobett’s trust. Mobett recognized Pallez as his great-grandfather and revealed that he was an Angel, while Leonard began questioning him about the Zoroast Family.

• Klein connected Snowman’s report of surviving Giants in the Northern Ridge Mountain Range to the Feysac people and the God of Combat.
• Audrey guided Snowman through his vow to become an Ascetic, and Klein acknowledged his devotion before they moved on.
• Mobett complained in his dream about the cold and Siatas taking up most of their bed, then went to drink at a tavern.
• Leonard introduced himself to Mobett as Pallez Zoroast’s student, but Mobett guessed that Leonard was Pallez’s host for Parasitism.
• Mobett explained that Pallez was his great-grandfather and that he had not seen him for perhaps two thousand years.
• Leonard told Mobett that Pallez had nearly been killed by Amon, then asked why the Zoroast Family had not been as cold and evil as other great Solomon Empire nobles.

Klein, Leonard, and Audrey questioned Mobett about the Solomon Empire, the Zoroast Family, and the cosmos. The discussion ended with them entering Siatas's dream and hearing her ask Mobett to move her unborn baby into his body.

• Mobett explained how anchors and Beyonder Pathways shaped the behavior of high-Sequence beings, then described Pallez Zoroast and identified his portrait in the dream.
• Mobett listed the Solomon Empire's great families and described the era's political balance among the emperor, the gods, and their allies.
• Mobett said Duke Bethel Abraham was a powerful angel who might become a god, and shared the Abraham Family's three rules for wandering the cosmos.
• Mobett recalled that the True Creator's believers smoked and said Medici and Ouroboros followed the True Creator, while Bethel seemed to believe only in himself.
• Audrey led Klein and Leonard into Siatas's dream, where Siatas asked Mobett to steal her unborn baby into his body, and Audrey offered to handle the situation.

Klein, Leonard, and Audrey explored Siatas's dream to learn about the Second Epoch, discovering that the ancient gods' alliances and wars differed sharply from familiar histories. The dream identified Salinger and Olkina among the ancient gods' followers, linking them to major figures of the Fourth Epoch.

• Audrey reshaped Siatas's dream into the Elf King's palace, where Soniathrym condemned Ormir for betraying the ancient gods and causing Lilith's fall.
• Cohinem said Lilith had also brought down Kvastir and Flegrea, while Soniathrym revealed that Ormir was seeking human allies and admitted he had visited the Giant King's Court to punish him.
• Siatas's memories showed that the five great races had once divided dominion during a relatively peaceful period, and Klein and Leonard discussed how little recorded history revealed about the era.
• Audrey asked which subsidiary gods had survived the ancient gods' downfall, and Siatas named Salinger and Olkina among those who joined other powers.
• Klein recognized Salinger as the Death Emperor and Olkina as the Blood Moon Queen, wife of the Night Emperor.

Klein, Audrey, and Leonard explored Siatas's memories of elven history and customs, then entered Longzel's dream to learn potion formulas. They arrived at Groselle's home, their final stop before searching the book's collective subconscious for the secret behind its existence.

• Siatas recounted the elves' history, describing the Age of Sprouting, the Age of the First Gleam of Fire, and the Twin Age, and confirmed that the Eastern Continent had been the site of the Giant King's Court.
• Audrey guided Siatas's dream to a memory in which Queen of Calamity Cohinem said the Western Continent might exist as a homeland for some elves, while Siatas's own homeland was where her king, queen, and family lived.
• Klein, Audrey, and Leonard left Mobett and Siatas's bedroom and saw Longzel on the street; Klein confirmed that Longzel had been a soldier from Loen over a century earlier.
• Audrey and Leonard helped Klein enter Longzel's dream, where Longzel tried to embrace his mother in a dream of Backlund but could not touch her.
• Audrey obtained the Judge and Punisher Knight potion formulas and guided Longzel into a happy dream with his family.
• Klein, Audrey, and Leonard reached Groselle's home to obtain information from his subconscious before searching the book's collective subconscious.

Klein, Audrey, and Leonard explored Groselle’s dream to learn about the Giant King’s Court and then entered the Sea of Collective Subconscious. They discovered a suspicious restriction surrounding the Forest of Decay before encountering a violent demigod-level giant phantom.

• Audrey guided Groselle’s dream and learned a route into the Giant King’s Court through the Forest of Decay and the Desolate Tunnel.
• Klein, Audrey, and Leonard questioned why only Giant King Ormir could enter the place where his parents were buried, and suspected it held another secret.
• The three passed through a palace door in the dream and descended a staircase into the Sea of Collective Subconscious.
• Audrey repeatedly used Placate to soothe the group and Groselle’s subconscious as they crossed the silent Mind World.
• A demigod-level giant phantom emerged from the sea of shifting lights and spread its madness toward Klein, Audrey, and Leonard.

Klein, Leonard, and Audrey crossed the Sea of Collective Subconscious, purifying a dangerous giant imprint and avoiding further hazards. They came upon a vast city at the center of a deep-sea pit, which Audrey identified as the City of Miracles, Liveseyd.

• Klein controlled the group’s emotions and used an illusion to shield Leonard and Audrey from the giant phantom’s terror.
• Leonard used his Spirit Warlock ability and Audrey used Placate to weaken the phantom’s influence.
• Klein purified the giant imprint with the Unshadowed Crucifix, and Audrey calmed the group after they saw its true form.
• Audrey explained that the Sea of Collective Subconscious had no universal core region, so Klein used divination to choose their route.
• Klein, Leonard, and Audrey explored the sea and discovered a deep-sea pit containing a vast city that Audrey recognized as Liveseyd.