Combined epilogue spanning 5-20 years: Petro/Suzanne at New Haven with daughter Sarah, Anna teaching, Martin letter update, Hank at northern sanctuary, Marcus helping refugees. Twenty years later: memorial dedication at ruins, Church formal apology, Sarah choosing healing path.

Tellus is attacked by Imperial forces with nuclear bombs despite Darius's belief in a merciful plan. Only 4 cities have defenses; the other undefended cities are obliterated. Three armored Emperor's Blood soldiers are dropped to hunt Darius.

The team launches the assault on the central site - a natural stone amphitheater where Aram and the remaining cultists guard the culminating ritual. Petrillo and Cara breach the eastern perimeter with the allied Hunters, including grown legacy children.

Frieda processes Arthur's love confession and Dominick's sacrifice plan in the minutes before battle. Gratitude and fury war inside her as she briefs the team with clinical precision on the three-point breach of the refugee camp.

Team assaults Belphegor's main position. Haatim coordinates defense as Belphegor commits full force. Abigail pushed to maximum power, crosses corruption threshold for seven seconds. Belphegor retreats satisfied — the trap was about measurement, not victory.

Ren discovers an underground pre-Immaculate shrine containing a green boneglass column during the eastern push, guided by his figurine. He brings Callum to assess it, and touching the column reveals a vast, patient divinity wholly distinct from Verada.

Gregory speaks every name of the 8,000 fallen in a harrowing hours-long memorial service. Bryce, Mina, and Abigail offer eulogies for Lyria. Mina then presents the completed reflection technique—tracing its development across months of battle data—demonstrating it could kill Void Walkers with...

Sera completes eleven hours of dais calibration, solving the seventh harmonic alignment problem. In the corridor afterward she breaks down, realizing she is building a coffin. Asha finds her and offers practical perspective: not a coffin but a foundation.

Fossick commandeers post-war supply logistics. Ren helps with inventory, finding relief in concrete, countable work after weeks of unanswerable questions. Fossick's tally reveals the army's material reality. Ren laughs for the first time since the Crucible — real laughter, not dark humor.