Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, death, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and sexual content.

Seraphena “Sera” Mierel fades in and out of consciousness in Dalos, City of the Gods, after the siege on the Shadowlands. Despite her terror and pain, her thoughts are consumed by Nyktos, whom she believes she saw in wolf form. She questions whether it was real or a hallucination. Kolis embraces her, trying to get the spirit of Sotoria, the human woman he loves, to speak through her again, while Attes and Callum clash over what to do about Sera. Attes says that they need to get help, while Callum urges Kolis to take the embers of life from Sera now.

As Sera teeters on the brink of death, Nyktos arrives and transforms into his true Primal form in a devastating display of power. He kills Hanan, the Primal of the Hunt, and injures Kolis, who warns Nyktos, his nephew, that he has started a war.

Kolis taunts Nyktos with how he killed Nyktos’s parents and took Sera. He then accuses him of treason for his defiance.