Act 5 Episode 2: An Aurora of Anima Burns Away the Sky

2025-07-17

The Circle and their mustered forces march towards Kamthahar! After one or two extra stops along the way! One planned, at the court of Blood Nail to gather allies and use Somnia's dreamwalking to spy on their foes and plan an opening strike. The rest of them...not planned at all. The Sidereal's curse on Spider is not so easily broken, and Prasad's borrowed Second Circle Sorcerers are bringing in a big problem of their own. And, beyond any of that, don't look at those lights in the sky. At least, not without an exorcist on...

Lythander gets a cooking class from (arguably) the most dangerous woman alive and gets a really, really, REALLY bad night's sleep! Aura has a heart-to-heart about the nature of power and violence and change, and also finds yet another nightmarishly dangerous foe underneath the Dreaming Sea making advances on everyone! Gavel discovers the problem with immortals and how a lifespan of millennia can mess with your prioritization skills and finally admits out loud that she has friends! Meteor, still convalescing from her defeat in Madara, makes her move to thin the danger pool: but this could backfire on...everyone!

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