Recaps

After Ince Zangwill’s plot killed Dunn and Klein in Tingen, Klein revived, identified Ince as his enemy, and left for Backlund. There he established himself as a private detective, advanced Audrey to Mind Reader, and began investigating the disappearance and murder of Zerrell.

• Klein and Leonard confronted Megose and her unborn child, but Dunn sacrificed his heart to bind them, and Klein destroyed the threat before a pale hand killed him and stole Saint Selena’s urn.
• Ince Zangwill used the events in Tingen to obtain Saint Selena’s ashes and advance to Sequence 4, while Leonard, Benson, Frye, and Brett buried Klein and Melissa placed his copper whistle in the grave.
• Klein revived in his coffin, divined that Ince had killed him and was in Backlund, then secretly visited Benson and Melissa before leaving Tingen.
• Klein arrived in Backlund, rented a house on Minsk Street, and decided to work as a private detective after noticing men pursuing a red-eyed boy on the subway.
• At a Tarot Gathering, Klein read Roselle’s diary and explained the conservation and transfer of Beyonder characteristics, while Alger agreed to gather information about the Secret Order.
• Alger sacrificed a Rainbow Salamander pituitary gland to The Fool, who bestowed it upon Audrey, allowing her to drink the Mind Reader potion and advance.
• Klein took Ian’s case to find the missing detective Zerrell, discovered that men sent by Meursault were waiting at Zerrell’s home, and located Zerrell’s corpse in a sewer.
• Klein learned that Zerrell’s spirit had been dealt with and concluded that a Beyonder was involved, so he decided to tell Ian to go to the police.

Klein’s search for Ian Wright drew him into a dangerous contest with Intis ambassador Bakerland, while Audrey arranged an assassination through Xio and Fors. The arc ended with the Shepherd killing Bakerland and Sergeant Faxin warning Klein to beware of strangers.

• Klein investigated Meursault’s murder, learned that Bakerland had ordered him to find Ian, and reported the killing to the police.
• Klein bought a Hunter Beyonder Characteristic at a secret gathering, traded it to Black Snake for a dangerous black ear, and turned the ear’s power into the Words of Filth charm.
• Audrey accepted Klein’s mission to kill Bakerland, gathered information about the ambassador, and asked Xio and Fors to find an assassin.
• Klein followed Doragu to the Cragg Club for Mary Gale, arranged protection from Maric’s associate, and later saw a mysterious woman appear in his mirror.
• Ian told Klein that Detective Zerrell had been a Feynapotter spy and that Intis agents had ambushed him after Zerrell’s death, leading Klein to plan Bakerland’s assassination.
• Bakerland’s agents pursued Ian and the manuscript while a Rose Bishop emerged from Irene and killed her during Bakerland’s interrogation.
• The Shepherd trapped Bakerland, overcame his defenses, and killed him before escaping the embassy, while Sergeant Faxin warned Klein to stay safe and beware of strangers.

Klein survived Rosago’s attempt to seize his body, investigated a dangerous underground sanctuary, and created The World as his Tarot Club identity. As he pursued new clues in Backlund, he sold potion formulas and obtained a Beyonder weapon for Derrick.

• Klein disrupted Rosago’s control with a Words of Filth charm, killed him, and channeled his spirit above the gray fog to learn Seer pathway formulas and warnings.
• Klein and his bodyguard searched Rosago’s belongings, concealed his corrupted Beyonder Characteristic, and learned that Bakerland had been assassinated by the Aurora Order.
• Klein accepted Miller Carter’s commission to investigate the underground structure beneath his house, where he and his bodyguard found shrines to several deities and fled an evil spirit.
• Klein created The World using Rosago’s Eye of All-Black and introduced the identity at the Tarot Club, where he read Roselle’s diary and arranged exchanges of information, formulas, and materials.
• Klein tested the Azik Copper Whistle and discovered that it animated recently deceased corpses without requiem rites unless his spirituality suppressed it.
• Klein agreed to protect Mike Joseph during his investigation of the murders of women, helped him follow Lopez, and learned that she had warned someone not to send anyone to Capim.
• Klein attended another Beyonder gathering, sold the Bard and Light Suppliant formulas, and bought the Hurricane Axe for Derrick.
• Klein sent the Hurricane Axe above the gray fog, and Derrick performed the ritual to receive it.

Klein helped expose and kill Lanarvus, then advanced to Magician after the Tarot Club secured the needed ingredients. A Blood Moon brought Fors into the Club, and Klein took on a new case when a spirit haunted Adol.

• Klein investigated Macht Pound’s connection to an underground structure and helped Sharron collapse its entrance, while Xio searched for Lanarvus after Williams’s death.
• Klein spotted Lanarvus at the Dockworkers’ Association and warned the Nighthawks that he carried the True Creator’s divinity.
• The Nighthawks raided Lanarvus’s hideout, but he escaped into the sewers, where Klein killed him and left tarot cards around his corpse.
• At the Tarot Club, Klein described the poverty in Backlund’s districts, arranged with Alger to obtain ingredients, and learned from Derrick about a Devil’s advancement ritual and the Fallen Creator.
• Klein used Lanarvus’s badge to glimpse a future gathering at Babur Valley, while Audrey received two drakes as presents for Susie.
• Alger and Derrick supplied the ingredients Klein needed, and Klein prepared and drank the Magician potion successfully.
• During a Blood Moon, Fors suffered mysterious ravings and called on the Fool, who relieved her pain and invited her to join the regular Tarot Club gatherings as Magician.
• Klein began preparing to act as a Magician, then accepted a job guarding Adol and destroyed the invisible spirit haunting him.