Recaps

Marba investigated the rebels, then led an army toward their suspected core while the Soul Returners escalated their attacks on Fir City. The game opened the city to players, and Willow arrived to strengthen the attackers before leaving to aid another town.

• Marba investigated Fir City’s infiltrators, took command of half the Holy Crusaders, and secretly worked with the players as Duma.
• Duma helped Mysterious Goblin steal camp documents, while players set fire to knights’ encampments and the Treant Hunters clashed with Holy Crusaders.
• Gorn led an assault on the players’ supply station, but the Dragonborn escaped with Good Times Don't Last as the Soul Returners began organizing revenge.
• Do Some Farm Work hired fighters for a suicide attack plan, and Soaring Sky 3638 set the Eighth Order’s camp ablaze before respawning in Black Locust Town.
• Marba discovered that rebels could resurrect and visited Duma, but their conversation was interrupted by a sky attack on Fir City.
• The players bombed knights’ barracks and set Fir City’s cathedral towers on fire, bringing down one of its bronze bells.
• Marba left Fir City with nearly five thousand elite Holy Crusaders to strike the rebels’ core near White Wax Town, while Willow tracked psionic energy to Black Locust Town.
• The game opened Fir City to players, and Willow buffed more than a hundred Soul Returners before teleporting away to help attackers in another town.

The Soul Returners fought their way into Fir City as Marba's Holy Crusaders pursued their own attack, while Ed and his allies turned the cathedral's victims into a new force. The arc left Motley charging Marba's troops as Duma, disguised as Marba, prepared to intervene.

• The players crossed the tunnel into Fir City, fought their way out of a packed house, and seized the wall above the tunnel exit while Marba's troops entered the Verdant Corridor and suffered heavy losses to the bees.
• [Clear Soup Master] let Adelaide take control of his transformed body, and Adelaide fought Antiya Lisi in the cathedral, bringing down its twin towers before Antiya Lisi killed him.
• Marba's force was harried by Gungnir's hit-and-run attacks, and Marba revised his plan to target the rebels' core while giving his soldiers Symbiotic Tree seeds.
• Antiya Lisi turned nearly a thousand Holy Crusaders into half-treants, while players and Treant Hunters fought across Fir City and Enzo helped restrain a Treant Hunter.
• Willow Seretima created an automatic buffing array at the tunnel and traced strange Psionic Energy north toward the Verdant Corridor, where she warned Ed that its caster was heading to Valhalla.
• Ed learned from Willow about Duma's history, while Motley received a quest-like message, removed his Symbiotic Tree, and rallied the Stained Ones into the Wild Hunt.
• Marba led his special forces through Tree Worship Church territory and encountered Motley and the Wild Hunt, while Duma disguised as Marba prepared to fight.

Ed defeated Duma’s forces at Valhalla, then recruited Duma and learned the extent of his powers and history. As Ed and Duma traveled to Fir City, [Howling Pothos] fought Antiya Lisi while Adelaide refused to rescue him.

• Marba defeated Motley, and Ed used Parasitic Boston Ivy to reassemble a dead Wild Hunt cleric as Ed identified Marba as Duma.
• [Medieval Evangelion] discovered Fir City’s defenses had changed, and Ed announced missions to reinforce Valhalla, hunt Holy Crusaders, and attack Fir City.
• Marba led his Holy Crusaders toward the Shattered Castle as players pursued, and Ed restored the castle before ordering the Soul Returners to attack.
• Marba trapped Ed, the Holy Crusaders, and the players behind a wall of Life-Claiming Camphors, but Ed created a Resurrection Tree that let players revive and reenter the battle.
• Ed made the Holy Crusaders’ Symbiotic Trees abandon them, while Seraphina uprooted the Resurrection Tree and used dragonfire to kill Duma in his Marba form.
• Duma reappeared in his demon form, accepted Ed’s employment contract, and explained how the last Demon King’s assassination had left him leading the demons who stayed with him.
• Ed appointed Duma commander of the Soul Returner Legion and gave him access to the Root Network, then traveled with him through the Depths of the World to Fir City.
• Antiya Lisi attacked [Howling Pothos] in Fir City, but Dragon Transformation resisted his toxin, and Adelaide refused to rescue [Howling Pothos] and told him to die so Adelaide could track Antiya Lisi after his revival.

Ed and the Soul Returners defeated Antiya Lisi’s forces and took control of Fir City, then dealt with prisoners, fleeing officials, and the aftermath of the fighting. The arc ended with Enzo restored to human form and Ed learning how other races had grown stronger before the Demonic Tide.

• [Howling Pothos] used Ed’s blessing card and Antos’s power to fight Antiya Lisi, but Antiya Lisi trapped the Blood Corpse and absorbed the grand duke before escaping the battle.
• Ed returned to Fir City with Duma, spread his Root Network, and established Resurrection Trees that helped the players defeat the half-treants.
• Ed found Antiya Lisi’s corpse and took the seed and Territory Secret Pact from it while a young cleric watched from nearby.
• The players captured the remaining Holy Crusaders, and Gorn’s forces were surrounded and defeated after the rebels exposed Antiya Lisi’s death and attacked with burning oil.
• Ed and the players interrogated prisoners, learned Howard was trying to flee and destroy the archives, and had Nuolun capture him before Ed removed his symbiotic plant.
• Ed assigned Howard and Gorn to guard the cathedral towers and considered how to help the Pure Ones grow stronger.
• Ed offered to reverse Enzo’s tree transformation, and Enzo chose to become human again so he could see his family.
• Duma described how humans, demons, and elves had grown stronger before the Demonic Tide, and Enzo awakened as a human.