Retracing Our Steps
Catastrophe descends upon Kjerag, plunging countless into calamity.
As hearts waver in terror, those who lurk in the shadows bide their time.
Meetings and partings, flames that light up the sky—the journey through the snow to find one's heart is long and fraught with peril.
The one who moves the pieces knows the price of a single misstep.
The loyal, the resolute, and those who relentlessly pursue the truth walk side-by-side.
After this farewell, the mountain winds of Kjerag will blow on, ever unchanged.
- OS-ST-1: Landslide (Interlude)On an ordinary day, Kjerag is struck by a Catastrophe for the first time in history.
- OS-1: Amidst the Wailing (Before Operation)The three clans initiate rescue operations after the Catastrophe, but they cannot prevent panic from spreading through the population. Enya realizes that Kjarr has gone missing.
- OS-1: Amidst the Wailing (After Operation)Gnosis goes to the Rhine Lab observation station to inquire about the cause of the Catastrophe. Elena discovers that observation records from before the Catastrophe have been altered, and a researcher, Carolin, has gone missing. Just then, an angry Kjerag mob surrounds the station.
- OS-2: Lovely Neighbors (Before Operation)The protest against the Rhine Lab observation station is dispersed. Victoria delivers a large shipment of aid supplies, but there seem to be ulterior motives behind the act of kindness.
- OS-2: Lovely Neighbors (After Operation)Enciodes works to maintain order under pressure, while Enya searches for the cause of the Catastrophe in the Hall of Writings. With the Great Elder's advice, she decides to embark on a Pilgrimage to calm the people.
- OS-3: Among Snowy Shrubs (Before Operation)The Victorian ambassador meets with Ratatos and expresses a desire to work directly with Clan Browntail. Attempts are made on the lives of the leaders of Clans Silverash and Paleroche, while Enya is also attacked by assassins during her Pilgrimage. She is rescued by a young huntress.
- OS-3: Among Snowy Shrubs (After Operation)The huntress Joanna takes Enya home and treats her injuries, but begins to keep her distance upon discovering that Enya is the Saintess. Arctosz suspects the Browntails of planning the assassinations, driving a rift again between the three clans.
- OS-4: Conjoined Lives (Before Operation)Ratatos meets again with the Victorian ambassador and drops a hint about eliminating Arctosz. Joanna and Enya break the ice, but they are once again attacked by assassins.
- OS-4: Conjoined Lives (After Operation)Joanna and Enya defeat the assassins with Degenbrecher's help, and discover a plot to implicate Paleroches in the murder of the Saintess. Ratatos draws out hidden spies by pretending to work with the Victorians, but dies in an explosion caused by the spies.
- OS-ST-2: A Pilgrimage, A Knell (Interlude)Ratatos's funeral is held as planned, and Sciurus takes up the leadership of the clan, leading to a thawing of the relationships between the three clans. The Duke of Caster puts pressure on Enciodes. Enya continues her Pilgrimage, searching for the truth behind Kjeragandr's disappearance.
- OS-5: A Lonely Winter's Night (Before Operation)Elena successfully restores the abnormal readings observed the night before the Catastrophe, and discovers that an extraterrestrial object had fallen on Kjerag. She leaves the observation station to seek the truth, and to find the missing Carolin.
- OS-5: A Lonely Winter's Night (After Operation)Elena encounters Enya in the Hall of Writings, and they decide to work together to find the cause of the Kjerag Catastrophe. Sciurus finds a message from her sister and learns that Ratatos has been working with Enciodes behind the scenes.
- OS-6: Emerald (Before Operation)Caster officially intervenes, demanding that the Trilby Asher investigate the secrets Enciodes is hiding in the mines. After Elena writes a letter to Gnosis about her findings, she, along with Enya and Joanna, head into the mine to find the crash site of the 'extraterrestrial object'.
- OS-6: Emerald (After Operation)The Vine-Bead Court interrogates Enciodes on recent diplomatic issues. The Victorians force their way into the mine to inspect it, and discover a large amount of scrap metal left over from failed attempts to recreate heavy weaponry.
- OS-7: Incense and Shadows (Before Operation)Gnosis and his team are preparing to arrest Carolin, who is suspected of stealing military secrets from Kjerag. Enciodes leads his men to the Vine-Bead Court to apprehend a traitor who has been colluding with Victoria. The tension is palpable, conflict threatening to break out with even the slightest touch.
- OS-7: Incense and Shadows (After Operation)Enciodes formally takes control of the Vine-Bead Court and arrests Elder Adso for colluding with Victoria. However, Caster turns the tables, publicly declaring that Karlan Trade is Victoria's greatest ally. Deep within the mines, Elena and her companions are disappointed to discover that their theories about the source of the Catastrophe are completely wrong.
- OS-8: Proclamation (Before Operation)Thanks to the shift in public opinion done at the Duke of Caster's instigation, Enciodes is forced to take a passive stance in Kjerag. A Victorian reporter is suddenly attacked and abducted while interviewing the people. When she awakens, she sees Ratatos, very much not dead.
- OS-8: Proclamation (After Operation)Enciodes resigns his post at Karlan Trade. As the new representative of Karlan Trade, Gnosis halts all collaboration with Victoria. Carolin is nearly killed by the Victorians after handing over her intelligence, but she is rescued by the Maylander Foundation.
- OS-ST-3: Road of the Heartseekers (Interlude)Caster personally leads her troops to Kjerag, letting all know of Enciodes's 'exploitative, dictatorial, wicked deeds'. Elder Adso encounters Enya's party atop Mount Karlan. The two of them debate religion, heading deeper into Karlan together to seek the truth.
- OS-9: Cold Steel (Before Operation)The Victorian army has a vice grip on Kjerag. Caster invites Enciodes aboard the Gloriana for talks. Enya's party arrives at the ruins, only one step away from learning the truth of Kjeragandr.
- OS-9: Cold Steel (After Operation)The people of Kjerag do not yield easily to Caster's military pressure. Degenbrecher is encircled by the Trilby Ashers as she protects Ratatos. Arctosz leads his men in facing off against their foe at the border. Enciodes carries out his final preparations in his factory.
- OS-10: By Kjeragandr (Before Operation)Enciodes climbs aboard the Gloriana alone to represent Kjerag in negotiations with the Duke of Caster. Enya and her retinue see a giant Kjeragandr statue and frozen Saintesses in the hidden cavern, before everyone is pulled into an illusion.
- OS-10: By Kjeragandr (After Operation)Enya, having bid farewell to Kjeragandr in the illusion, ascends Mount Karlan's peak. There she prays one last time for Kjeragandr's protection, dispersing the Catastrophe. Facing Enciodes's gambit and the tenacity of the people of Kjerag, Caster chooses to retreat.
- OS-ST-4: 'Arrival' (Interlude)The dust has settled, and subtle change comes quietly to the ways and cohesive form of Kjerag's faith. Rhine Lab continues its research into the extraterrestrial object, and Elena deciphers its message with Enya's help.