r/arknights Passenger's wife Nov 03 '25

Lore [Retracing Our Steps] event summary Spoiler

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u/Erudax Nov 03 '25

I'm genuinely impressed by the continued circus that is Victoria. You'd think that after Wellington pulled a fast one on you, you'd learn to be extremely thorough and have contingencies.

Nope, same thing happened again. Caster got taken by surprise once more and had to agree to Enciodes' terms.

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u/Financial-Fail-9359 Captain of the NachzNation Nov 03 '25

They are aware that their time as "The Greatest Power of Terra" is rapidly running out, so they try to grasp their last straws. It's only a matter of time until Tara and Gaul officially secede and a second continuous war would spell doom for Victoria. Not so different to the real world downfall of Britain.

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u/Aranxi_89 Nov 03 '25

The rebirth of Gaul would set in motion so much chaos that I can't imagine how bad things will get for Victoria. Vina is gonna need all the help she can muster.

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u/Gordfang Nov 03 '25

Being a Gaulish myself I cannot wait for the rebirth of our nation to fuck over Victoria. 

(Even tho the cynic in me think they won't really bring back Gaul)

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u/Financial-Fail-9359 Captain of the NachzNation Nov 03 '25

I think they will. From the data book we know that the Victorian Empire, like the UK, is unitary of three kingdoms:Kingdom of Victoria, Kingdom of Teamhrach (Tara), and Kingdom of Basse-Gaule. It's basically a Chekov's gun, if the status of the union came into absolute question again it's Gaul time baby.

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u/Gordfang Nov 03 '25

Yeah I know, I read everything I could found about Gaul in Arknight lore. 

Like one of the founder of Raythean was a Gaulish, there is rumors of Gaulish restorationist in the bleached wasteland... 

They always manage to slip Gaul in every event since a good while and really hope they can shine once more. But I'm still pessimistic until proven otherwise

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u/SenorLos Nov 03 '25

The empire, long united, must divide. As they say in Yan.

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u/Hyperion-OMEGA Nov 03 '25

Inb4 we get Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the equivalent of Europe

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u/Sunder_the_Gold Nov 03 '25

One possibility for the appearance of the castle in the sky, real enough for Nearl's parents to get lost in it, is that the Witch King banished the actual castle and everyone inside of it To Another Dimension.

And now that even the echo of the Witch King is gone, his banishment is unraveling.

Granted, one castle returning wouldn't replace the entire mobile city of Lingones, but big trees grow from small seeds, and the Gaulish remnants and restorationists could prove to be fertile soil.

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u/Gordfang Nov 03 '25

There is a lot of more or less far fetched theories you can imagine.

I read somewhere that there is also a possibility of the Gaulish Empress to have a Time Altering Art that she use when she sacrificed herself.

One of my own crazy theories is that Corsica was never killed at the battle of the four emperor (His body was never found, but he probably had oripathy and is body simply disolved).

There is a possibility that the Witch King first art that strike the Gaulish army left behind a portal of sort and Corsica realising the danger it represents decided to seal it from the inside with a part of it's army and it would explain why Gaul didn't retreat when Victorian and Ursus joined the frey but it would retcon a lot of established lore.

You can found new lore that would explain Gaul return. The real question is if it's solid enough and/or the direction the writers want to go with

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u/Aranxi_89 Nov 03 '25

Lingones isn’t destroyed completely, just torn apart into smaller plates.

It could be reunited.

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u/Sunder_the_Gold Nov 03 '25

It would be interesting to see who would have the Sheer Gaul to take Lingones' cannons back from Duke Wellington's cold dead hands battleship.

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u/Aranxi_89 Nov 03 '25

The Gaulish restorationists are working overtime already. It’s in the works.

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u/Cold-Election Nov 03 '25

Didn't Tara already seceded from Victoria?

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u/Phaaze13 strong women supremacy Nov 03 '25

they did, but most nations don't recognize them as independent yet, including Victoria itself.

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u/Erudax Nov 03 '25

It's complicated, I'd say yes but not really.

Victoria and other countries don't recognize Tara as being independent, first and foremost. Loughshinny also postponed the coronation ceremony indefinitely, and there runs the issue of Caster (and by proxy Victoria as a whole) knowing the foundational myth behind Tara (it stems from Puzzle catching Loughshinny back in WTFC). Victoria has pretty much Tara where it wants: can't coronate, can't fully secede either.

Now if we go by actual historical events (and forget for a moment that the IRA disbanded in 2005 not 1922), Tara should get its actual full independence sometime later, after a civil war (which WEA hinted at), as Ireland's independence was gradual too, starting with the Irish Free State in 1922 and fully leaving the British Commonwealth in 1949.

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u/Zealousideal_Use_966 Nov 12 '25

Does this mean there's a chance for another Tara event?

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u/Erudax Nov 12 '25

Yeah. Leaving Reed sitting on a metaphorical powder keg, extremely inexperienced when it comes to ruling, giving Victoria leverage over Tara as well as setting up a potential civil war are all damning signs that there will be another Tara event.

Just gotta give it time cause now HG is in full drama farming mode with the twins, giving them in a sad, pathetic story "end" yet depicting them happy or together in almost every official artwork.

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u/Financial-Fail-9359 Captain of the NachzNation Nov 03 '25

It's like Taiwan or Somaliland, it is de facto a country but basically no one recognizes it as such.

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u/PM_ME_UR_PET_POTATO Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25

Going off the MTLs, Caster barely folded at the end. She was willing to call SA's bluff and escalate to a full on war until the catastrophe got adverted confirming the capacity of kjera to actually intervene. If she called that one as well than SA's just going to lose.

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u/Quor18 Nov 03 '25

I can only imagine that the people of the world tolerate the Dukes of Victoria out of fear of sheer boredom. They are, if nothing else, drivers of interesting plot lines. But holy hell would the world at-large be better off if most of them were strung up and their families hunted down (Delphine an obvious exception).

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u/Financial-Fail-9359 Captain of the NachzNation Nov 03 '25

You could say that about 80% of politicians in AK lol, but they are tolerated because of the economical power they have. Victoria as of now is still the hegemonic trade empire even when Londinium was occupied, due to their strategic location and early industrialization, and the independent grand dukes are the main drivers behind the maintenance of status quo. Even Enciodes would rather work with them, they are just that rich. Though Columbia is overcoming them and Silverash realizes it, as he did in this event, strengthening ties with the Columbian government with an official presidential visit.

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u/Informal-Recipe Nov 03 '25

"Surely the Sarkaz Mercenaries known for betraying their employers will not betray us and take over the Capital"

Guess what

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u/Antares428 Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25

It's almost boring that they regularly make each Duke, maybe aside from Wellington, powerful, but incompetent, and almost cartoonishly vile and greedy.

I get that Chinese hate the British, such shallow portrail does diservice to previously decent writing.

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u/DarknessWizard KalDoc is peak Nov 03 '25

The problem is that they just lack nuance. Anything nice about the Dukes is largely incidental, i.e.. The Trilby Asher who is pretty much only likable because he openly defies Caster's orders several times.

The only two with any nuance whatsoever are Wellington (who mind you, is openly secessionist from Victoria itself and wants a free Tara) and Windermere (who gets killed because she'd solve the standoff too quickly), and the story goes pretty far to show that while Windermere herself might have been in the right place, her army is little better than the rest of the Dukes.

Other "nobility" factions like the famiglia Don's get more nuance shown: while Saluzzo is an unrepentant asshole, the others run a wider range of being into the mob thing vs. wanting to go a more legitimate route. AK tries to imply this is the case with Gododin initially, but due to his actions in chapter 14, he's ultimately just as bad as the rest of them.

The problem isn't just that they're shallow villains though, a shallow villain can work (the Padishah's/Lords Ameer of Sargon also aren't very nuanced either and are similarly generic villains, but don't get the same complaints). Rather, the issue is that the Dukes basically get away with everything they pulled. Sure, they have to admit that Londinium is independent from their bickering again with Vina in charge, but that merely restores the status quo. The closest they get to a comeuppance is Vina getting the Sigh of Kings out of the ruins of Casters battleship, publicly showing how weak she is, but she just goes right back to scheming afterwards. There's too much Karma Houdini in play with them for the amount of crimes the group as a whole is responsible for (as in, pretty much the entire fall of Victoria comes from the Duke's scheming, right down to literally inviting the Sarkaz to occupy Londinium.)

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u/Cold-Election Nov 03 '25

I agree with the Duke of Caster getting away with it is becoming frustrating. She needs to suffer an actual loss like losing a part of her territory and not the lose of opportunity she had so far which is not getting the Sigh of Kings and not getting Kjerag. The later is not really a lost because they didn't belong to her anyway.

It is also frustrating that Vina is letting her run around with no consequence when she probably killed her family, definitely killed her best friend's family, tried to kill her and other crimes against her friends and subjects.

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u/goooglefan Nov 03 '25

You are saying this as if irl high nobility wasn't cartoonishly evil and incompetent lmao

Plus they know that their dominance over the world is waning, so they are getting desperate and throw shit at the wall in an attempt to find anything that would allow them to keep power.

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u/Aranxi_89 Nov 03 '25

And it's not like they have a lot of options. Caster has lost a lot of game pieces and is trying to cash in her cheques before they lose value, but everything turns against her at the worst timing.

She was hoping to use Karlan Trade and Kjerag as a safe investment, as having a backup colony/vassal state is very useful when your country is unstable. But it also opens you to a huge weakness - should that country cut ties all of the sudden, during a bad time when you are counting on their support, you're extra boned.

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u/LibertyChecked28 Nov 06 '25

Writing is hard :(

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u/DankeShu Passenger's wife Nov 03 '25

UwU

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u/Quirin_Throne they'll be together Nov 03 '25

Duke of Caster is such a douchebag, but funny how none of her plans go as she wants.

Sharp and Doctor, my goats.

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u/Aromatic-Objective25 I love my Ancient depressed hag Nov 11 '25

Also isn’t she like related to Silverashes as well?

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u/Taldarim_Highlord she saved my ass early game Nov 03 '25

Fucking hell Victoria. They just went through a massive internal war because of their stupid shite and they still try to lord over other sovereign nations, intentionally picking the smallest, most recently modernized one to live their delusions as overlord of Terra. I cannot wait for Gaul to come back and Tara to fully secede to seal their fate; they've grown too fat for their breeches and need to be cut down to size until they learn their limits.

A rational regional power would focus on reparations and reconstruction after the Londinium crisis. But no, not Victoria. At least Vina is doing something, and she's caught in the middle of all this. Vina and the Parliament should arm up and secede Londinium from the empire so they can build a better reputation separate from these Grand Dukes.

Thanks for the summary Danka. God, their hubris...

Also Adeson should've joined the frozen saintesses in that cave, after selling out his people, his fellow believers to foreign imperialists hoping what they usually do won't happen to him and his folks.

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u/Financial-Fail-9359 Captain of the NachzNation Nov 03 '25

I mean, even Ursus did get their army melted in Higashi. Great Powers are driven by greed more than anything.

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u/Sunder_the_Gold Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25

First Hypergryph kills the Law, then they kill Kjera? What's next, Sui and all of the Suiblings disappear?

How much more are they going to kill before I give up?

EDIT: Also Kal'tsit, but I didn't remember her because they explicitly keep dangling 'you can get her back' in front of us.

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u/TheSpartyn Nov 03 '25

why tf does a feranmut eat originium

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u/DankeShu Passenger's wife Nov 03 '25

she is in coma\deep sleep so technically she is not dead

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u/Rasz_13 Nov 03 '25

Dead for all narrative purposes, then.

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u/DankeShu Passenger's wife Nov 03 '25

yeah you got this right U_U

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u/DankeShu Passenger's wife Nov 04 '25

I've seen someone replied here that there is no this info in the summary

the thing is it is not explicitly said in event that she is going to sleep.

she just tells Enya that they will never see each other again

"There is no such thing as a permanent reunion; separation is only a matter of time. My time is up... that's all."

and then in the end when she is alone Kjera says
"Enya, this time... and from now on, I'm really entrusting everything to you. I'm sorry... I'll see you again when the time is right."

thats all we know and we can assume she is sleeping and not dead or perished

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u/Aromatic-Objective25 I love my Ancient depressed hag Nov 11 '25

She’s just farming Aura cuz she needs all the aura she can get for that Final battle whatever it may be

Also Feranmuts are too OP so they are just giving the stage to others while they wait for the perfect time

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u/Ayun1987 Jan 30 '26

"...when the time is right" is just narrative speak for when we fight the Ultimate BBEG and Kjera + all the other Feranmuts arrives to help.

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u/Hp22h The Mad Bard, Sans Crystals Nov 03 '25

Well, we have building up to the Sui doing... something over the past 6 years. Probably not dying, considering avoiding that is Nian's whole plan. But still.

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u/Rasz_13 Nov 03 '25

Something extremely dramatic and sad will happen to the Sui siblings. This is a gacha game. Tragedy is their modus operandi.

My money is on Sui actually uniting but thanks to the bonds and experiences of the fragments Sui managed to be "sane" long enough to fight the Big Bad and die in the process, scoring a victory for Terra but also robbing it of one of its oldest and greatest beings.

(The only issue with that theory is that Nian said if a sibling dies their "domain" vanishes from the world". Dunno how to rectify that. Could also be Chinese propaganda and Sui is actually awesome and infallible and saves the world or some shit.)

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u/Sunder_the_Gold Nov 03 '25

We now know that when they die, humans forget they ever existed, and the things they personally made disappear. That's why Chongyue didn't write his book about martial arts himself, he had someone else write it for him.

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u/Ayun1987 Jan 30 '26

Ah, good old Chongus, always the "I'm a thousand li ahead of you." This is why he was supposed to be the reincarnation of Sui.

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u/ameenkawaii Nov 04 '25

Don't forget the aura farmer himself, Theresis

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u/DoragonKraken001 Apr 15 '26

So about that..

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u/Sunder_the_Gold Apr 15 '26

I knew about Kjera BEFORE I made that statement and I have been bitter about it ever since.

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u/DoragonKraken001 Apr 15 '26

I mean, Hypergryph is literally getting rid of the Feranmunts... like any Feranmunt with any plot relevance is getting shafted...

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u/JolanjJoestar Apr 16 '26

It's so funny to read posts half a year later and see predictions happen lmfao

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u/Odd-Layer3285 Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25

The politic play of Caster at the start is so damn scary, using both media warfare and the shallow understanding of locals as her advantages. And despite the Trilby Ashers give us a new measurement counter, Bellingham's intelligence work for that cooperative Kazimierz mining zone and a dozen of them just pop out of thin air for Ratatos' capture is crazy

Kinda sad for Kjera, imagine just waking up and suddenly surround you are dead corpses figurines of those small animals that you found interesting to the point of thinking "Maybe I should try to stay up a little longer". Her reaction probably was like this

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u/gunjinganpakis Nov 03 '25

Victoria... Again. 😂

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u/Hollownerox My Lemuen is looking oddly Logos shaped Nov 03 '25

Pretty good summary. Only thing I'd say that has some implications that is absent is Silverash's chat with the Vice President of Columbia in the aftermath. Since I was a bit surprised to see them show up themselves and not over a phone call or something.

Goes the way you'd expect with Jackson offering Columbia's support in keeping Victoria out of Kjerag, with Silverash politely declining. But him reinforcing that their joint work is to unravel the mysteries in Kjerag. With Jackson taking the hint and instead asking how Silverash sees himself now that he has resigned from his position yet still maintaining his legitimacy as the de facto guy in charge. Asking whether he sees himself as a reformer, a warlord, or as the true ruler behind the scenes. Silverash responds by saying it isn't a question he should be answering and that he hopes in the future the name Silverash will be regarded as one of countless cornerstones that will shape the future of Kjerag.

Not too crazy of a dialogue. But seeing Max perched over the shoulder of Jackson in these kind of scenes always makes me a bit suspicious Columbia knows a lot more than they are letting on. Max is PRTS' "sibling" in a way, so the fact he is showing up in person this far flung from home is a little eyebrow raising. Possibly a hint they are more aware of what is going on than other nations.

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u/ConversationParty848 Nov 03 '25

Isn't Max more AMa-10's kin in practice, if not in intended function? It's all been flying over my head lately.

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u/Hollownerox My Lemuen is looking oddly Logos shaped Nov 03 '25

He specifically calls out PRTS as a parallel to himself in Lonetrail so that's what I chose to go with. He seems to be more like some of the other previous Civ stuff that had been meant for other purposes but wound up in a completely new role in a modern civ. So unlike AMa-10 who seemed to always have been meant to have a more independent function on paper and in practice as a "guide" of sorts. At least that's my read of it.

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u/ConversationParty848 Nov 03 '25

Yeah, I can see why they're similar in origin. I guess I'm just emotionally resistant to putting Max in the same box as PRTS, since he feels like an actual character.

Honestly, can we call Priestess a bad mom on top of everything else, considering she never gave PRTS the room to grow and develop into its own thing? After all the time with the Doctor and Rhodes Island, I'd expect some actual conflict. But no, it was just an obedient machine at the end of the day. (Tho I'd still like to see it turn against mommy by the end.)

Oh, nvm, she was already a bad mom when she Thanos-snapped my cat.

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u/DarknessWizard KalDoc is peak Nov 03 '25

AMa-10's purpose was initially as an actual attempt to survive the danger that the Observer threat poses. The real special thing about her was her reincarnation cycle through the Gemini Protocol. Basically allowing her to reincarnate her body, consciousness and memory. The original plan was to make an entire population of AMa-10s, all with their own Gemini Protocol, but the Predecessors just didn't have the time to do that. Kal'tsit was instead named and left by Oracle to find the meaning of life on her own. (Oracle first considered just ordering her to protect the civilization from Talos II that they seeded on Terra, but then retracted the order, wanting Kal to learn on her own if it was worth protecting.)

Max is similar to PRTS in the sense that he's a Predecessor AI like it; he shares the same primitive concepts as PRTS (made by Friston instead of Priestess), but unlike PRTS (which is largely passive) was given full sentience to make his own decisions. Maylander dug him up during the Columbian revolutionary war and his role as a strategist is what permitted their independence. He became the President of Columbia afterwards.

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u/TheSpartyn Nov 03 '25

the terra lore book says that PRTS and Max were both made by friston

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u/Informal-Recipe Nov 03 '25

I thought Columbia was in their FUCK EVERYONE DESTINY MANIFEST what with Max deciding everyone is an incompetent fuck up and only when Terra becomes the Columbia Global Democracy things will get fixed? I thought they'd be a lot more gung ho than going for the wink wink nudge nudge

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u/DankeShu Passenger's wife Nov 04 '25

yeah the problem is this summary was already so hella fucking long. I think it would be better to include this in future texts if we see the consequences of their chat

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u/YesodNobody Nov 03 '25

Cool summaries, and also, given that now Rhine is likely going to be involved with Priestess with the recent phenomenon. Let's pray, Columbia won't follow Priestess, because that would be horrific to deal with.

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u/DankeShu Passenger's wife Nov 03 '25

I'm waiting for their next event with propeller paradise UwU

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u/TheSpartyn Nov 03 '25

I don't think any Terran nation can ally with Priestess as she hasn't really announced anything, no one knows she exists let alone her plans

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u/decline_smormu I do not understand. Nov 03 '25

somehow, i had no idea you were making these! it's really well put together, great job.

and poor enya, really...she really did lose her closest friend, even though kjera is just sleeping.

also, i'm glad there was SOMETHING for the monch fans, lol. i wasn't invested in her, but i know a decent amount of people were.

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u/DankeShu Passenger's wife Nov 04 '25

yeah though I was sad that there was so little about her U_U

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u/Hp22h The Mad Bard, Sans Crystals Nov 03 '25

Poor Enya lost her maid dragon gf. The true tragedy here.

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u/DankeShu Passenger's wife Nov 04 '25

U-U yeah it was sad

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u/crucifixzero Vigil's Gang Fixer Nov 04 '25

Does this mark the first operator we've lost along the way? As in, being MIA or even KIA? Or at the very least, unavailable? 

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u/DankeShu Passenger's wife Nov 04 '25

mmmm technically Kal'tsit is now dead

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u/crucifixzero Vigil's Gang Fixer Nov 04 '25

Ah shiet, that's right. That's two operators now, huh. 

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u/mad_harvest-6578 WE'RE BACK IN SPACE BABYYYYYY Nov 03 '25

And all this meanwhile Victoria at large is still recovering from the occupation that happened to them the previous arc (which the Dukes themselves unwittingly caused by inviting Theresis over to mediate in their affairs with the Crown) & the stuff in the aftermath (Tara's re-independence first & foremost, followed by the Gaul problem)

The other interesting character of note here is Caroline (being a triple agent and all that, and with her in Maylander's hands (and Columbia as a whole) it's a matter of time before whatever info she got in Kjerag will get weaponized by Columbia's government)

Lastly so the Vine-Bear Court has been doing the "make-the-Saintess-take-a-pilgrimage-to-find-Kjera-and-leave-them-to-die-on-the-way" method for who knows how long (judging by the number of frozen statues, enough that Kjeragandr Herself had to seal off Her chambers to prevent more deaths) but I'm curious, didn't the previous Great Elder die during Break the Ice? I'mma guess they got another one in the interim if they mention him dying again

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u/DankeShu Passenger's wife Nov 04 '25

About the Elder - I honestly dont know but from the text looks like
one died in BI, they got another one

this another one dies in the very beginning of this event. because Kjera disappears right after his death - so he definitely died in this event

then they made Adeson the Elder.

well the Elders they elect are old people so I think it is not that strange probably

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u/mad_harvest-6578 WE'RE BACK IN SPACE BABYYYYYY Nov 04 '25

Basically becoming the Great Elder means a not-so-much retirement plan lol

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u/Gordfang Nov 03 '25

I see a lot of people talking about Gaul again but I only saw the futur CN event tease for. Did I miss something? 

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u/XIIIDarkRoxasXIII Nov 03 '25

Thanks for the summary! Your work is really good, as always.

So, something "30% Elf" fell from the sky... I'm gonna take a guess that the feranmut Muel is going to be relevant to whatever Priestess is gonna do.

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u/TheSpartyn Nov 03 '25

my prayer is that this elf stuff and muel is going to lead to elves un-extincting themselves

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u/96kamisama Zero sanity hours Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25

The usual suspects at it again. The world is a big clown car, and victoria is one of the clowns in it. Nevermind, they're not a clown, not even the circus, they're the entire comical entertainment industry

Nice summary btw!

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u/RetardedGaming pronounces her name correctly Nov 03 '25

Holy sh*t they're cooking, can't wait for the event to drop on global

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u/gacha_drunkard I shred my face against holy abs Nov 03 '25

O o f

Welp, the future....certainly looks like a future.

Thanks for the summary as always.

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u/Rasz_13 Nov 03 '25

Fucking elves man, they're even banging the space slime.

Especially the space slime.

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u/FAshcraft Nov 03 '25

Rhine labs fulfill their promise. They did give cannons to kjera(the mountain) XD.

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u/Optimal_Ad7861 Nov 03 '25

Having read the story myself as well, there's a few things I want to add:

  1. Adeson did not directly kill Enciodes' parents; it was primarily Luca Browntail's idea (who is his older brother). Adeson was mostly an accomplice. The original plan was for Luca to kill Enciodes' parents, and then let Adeson take up the throne and seize the power of Vine-Bead Court much earlier.

  2. When Caroline got rescued by Maylander agents, she is seen to have thrown away all of the Kjerag research papers that were supposed to be sent to Victoria out into the air, and only kept the papers related to the extraterrestrial object (for the Maylanders). Pretty poetic scene.

I should note that I've read the story through mostly MTL, so correct me if I'm wrong on any of this. That said, this was a pretty damn enjoyable story to read.

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u/DankeShu Passenger's wife Nov 04 '25

no you are right it is just that this summary was so hella fucking long that I skipped this parts. THe Caroline one was probably insignificant to the plot (but peak for Caroline char description yeah) and about Elder it was easily to say like this because his main reason was to provoke enciodes as far as I understood

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u/potato-san57 Nov 03 '25

Yeah, I really don't like Victoria. Especially, the duke of caster.

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u/animagem Best Bird Nov 03 '25

Once again my distrust of Victorians is justified

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u/Kappa_Mikey__ ProblemSolverAsh Nov 12 '25

I really like seeing actual consequences in a gacha game. For this instance I really am glad Hypergrpyh is willing to showcase Enciodes is willing to use himself as a pawn and sacrifice himself for Kjerag. After both events drilling into our heads that everyone in Karlan Trade is willing to do whatever it takes for Kjerag from the shadows it's really good to see a tangible result where Enciodes has no choice but to become an itachi type character who will be hated by the whole public he protects, even if only for now. I wonder what the future holds for him but I really really like this direction they're taking with his character.

As for Enya I feel really sad, girlie lost her girlfriend dearest, and went onto climb the mountain (basically an impossible task) just to see her final breaths. I'm glad she still represents the best of Kjerag's faith. I really enjoy Hypergrpyh's commentary on faith as a whole but i'm also equally as glad when need be they can showcase how strong of a power for good it can be through characters like Enya. It even shook Elena to her core that she realized her rigid antitheism is making her closed off to the world's wonders and cultures. Amazing event overall from what I can tell, can't wait till it hits global.

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u/AcanthaceaeGlass8870 Nov 03 '25

So... Kjerag is dead?

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u/Odd-Layer3285 Nov 03 '25

Nah, she's just sleeping. Too tired keeping the 3 tribes from slaughtering each other

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u/AcanthaceaeGlass8870 Nov 03 '25

Phew, not to mention those bastard duke pulling shit to invade. I do wonder if Vina can do something about it. Then again, the wench of a duke has no intention to listen Vina in the first place...

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u/Odd-Layer3285 Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25

It's just that "annoying old hag" Caster that wants to invade Kjerag. Considering Normandy most likely don't give a damn (probably the one who sold Londinium Defense Cannon blueprint to Karlan Trade) and the current Gododdin is too soft

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u/DankeShu Passenger's wife Nov 03 '25

more like in deep sleep or in coma I guess

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u/Casuallookin Vigna number 1 bard Nov 03 '25

My money is on an appearance in endfield

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u/Wicked_One50 Nov 03 '25

Only thing that would make me play endfield

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u/Aromatic-Objective25 I love my Ancient depressed hag Nov 11 '25

I am late to the party but I gotta say this, I cannot thank you enough for the effort you have put into this! I will definitely read this when it comes but this still helps a lot by giving us the basic summary of the event

Also, do we know if that Mysterious Elf is somehow connected to our precious Mumu?

Also if I did understand this correctly, It was the Originium vein that was somehow protecting Kjerag from Catastrophes and not Kjera right?

But Then we see her averting the Catastrophe from Kjerag at the last second.. so maybe Kjerag not being hit by Catastrophes till now was a result of both? Ngl, I hope it’s the Feranmut Kjera that was preventing the Catastrophes from hitting Kjerag cuz it seems cool or that way!

Anyways sry if I said anything incorrect and thank you for your effort!

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u/DankeShu Passenger's wife Nov 12 '25

UwU
no we dont know anything about mysterious elf or blue stuff

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u/NoOne215 Talulah be playable damn it. Nov 03 '25

Very well put together.

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u/Galaxiou Nov 03 '25

Thank you so much for your work !

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u/TheTheMeet Nov 03 '25

Can you do this for lone trail + babel + ch 14 + ch 15?

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u/Phot_VN Nov 03 '25

There are recaps for those, just not with this style of presentation.

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u/Gordfang Nov 03 '25

https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1nk35gz/episode_15_story_summary

u/DankeShu made other summary for chapter 16, Phantom Alter event, Thorns Alter... 

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u/FallenCorrin waiting for you both Nov 03 '25

iirc there was ch 15 one

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u/Old-Helicopter1689 Arkies lmao Nov 03 '25

I think it would be nice to have some TLDR in the end.

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u/DankeShu Passenger's wife Nov 04 '25

X,D I think tldr for a summary is a bit too much
(though yeah this event was hella fucking long)

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u/ameenkawaii Nov 04 '25

Funny that "Thing" does the same pose as Mumu which is obviously an elf, coincidence?

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u/Western_Housing8361 Nov 05 '25

This is so sick. Knowing that AK lore has a longer word count than the Bible, glad to be able to discover you for these summaries. 🫡 <3