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♆ Childhood (Sylva, Ravus, Gentiana, Pryna, Umbra)
♆ Oracle training
♆ Lucian visit *
♆ Tenebrae falls *
♆ Imperial custody
♆ Covenant with Shiva (Ifrit, Ardyn) *
♆ Ravus joins the imperial army
♆ Writing to Prompto
♆ Oracle ascension *

KINGSGLAIVE
♆ Treaty announcement
♆ Car diplomacy, meeting Regis again
♆ Talking with Nyx
♆ Talking with Glauca
♆ Air..ships....
♆ Back to the Citadel
♆ Ravus, Regis, Ring, Escape *
♆ The king is dead, Long live the king...
♆ Car and foot chase
♆ Hiding with Nyx
♆ Nyx is a Big Damn Hero
♆ Burning Man! *
♆ Nyx puts on the ring *
♆ Escaping with Libertus now
♆ Splitting from Libertus

GAME
♆ Meeting with Gentiana, planning her next steps
♆ Covenant with Titan, passing through Lestallum *
♆ Covenant with Ramuh
♆ Returning to Tenebrae (Gentiana, Ravus) *
♆ Talking with the Secretary & public (Ravus) *
♆ Covenant with Leviathan *
♆ Ardyn *
♆ Protecting Noctis, passing on *
♆ Ravus at the End

DAWN OF THE FUTURE
♆ Waking up and meeting Sol (157-175)
♆ Getting to an outpost (175-191)
♆ Speaking with Bahamut, a new mission (191-195)
♆ Traveling to Lestallum with Sol (195-211)
♆ Dreaming of Gentiana, talking about faith * (211-227)
♆ Her power grows and frightens (227-236)
♆ Going to rescue Aranea, meeting Aera *
♆ Losing control and being bound (237-262)
♆ Gentiana reveals the truth and escaping * (262-273)
♆ Meeting with Ardyn (Episode Noctis) * (273-275, 313-325)
♆ Sovereign of the Scourge, Teraflare (325-357)
♆ “This may be our last farewell, so permit me to say this. Noctis, I want to live with you.” * (357-371)
♆ Goodbye, Gentiana * (371-372)
♆ A wedding and a funeral * (373-376)

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- Sol contacts Biggs, and learns that Aranea and her party are exploring Solheim ruins where Niflheim Magitek was stored. However, they are surrounded by daemons and unable to escape. Sol wants to go save her, but Aranea has ordered that the ruins be sealed up without any rescue attempts. Sapphire Weapon (a similar unit to Diamond Weapon) is down there.
-Luna wants to stage a rescue attempt with Sol, to help “because she wants to help”. Sol admits that she’s Solara Aldercapt Antiquum from the Niflheim imperial family, and thus related to the people who murdered Luna’s mother. Luna doesn’t care.
-Luna realises the ruins in question are a temple in which she once trained, and thus she knows a hidden way in. Inside, she sees a statue of Aera Mirus Fleuret, and is given visions from Aera’s memories of Ardyn as a healer. Luna realizes her new power is the same as Ardyn’s, and that in addition to fighting daemons, it can be used to “heal” Starscourge by sucking it out of people, as well as reverting recently-turned daemons back into their original form. Aera explains Ardyn’s fall and rejection of his fate before asking Luna to save him.
-Within the ruins they find a giant sword and spear that Luna thinks belongs to Odin, one of the 24 Messengers, used in the Great Astral War. The wrathful Infernian, Ifrit, tried to destroy mankind, and the struggle between humans and gods turned into a war of god against god. This displeased Bahamut, who was above the other gods, and he attempted to destroy all the other gods and Eos with them. Shiva, Titan, Leviathan and Ramuh defended Eos from Bahamut’s attacks, but were exhausted by the conflict and fell into sleep.
-Sol notes that this is different from the myths that she heard, but Luna was taught by Gentiana herself.
-They run into Biggs and Wedge, who scold Sol for coming after being told not to. Luna insists it’s necessary for them to enter as part of her duty as Oracle (even though that’s a lie). Ahead they find daemons, followed by a large cave containing the Sapphire Weapon. They defeat the Weapon, but Luna absorbs a large amount of daemonic energy doing so.
-They realize that, even though Aranea should be nearby, she didn’t come to assist her daughter. They then run into a silver-haired daemon carrying a spear. Aranea had given the order for the ruins to be sealed because she had already begun turning.
-Luna embraces daemon Aranea and turns her back into a human. Unfortunately, this proves to be the tipping point in turning Luna herself into a daemon. When Aranea regains her senses, she immediately attacks Luna to protect Sol from the “daemon”.
-Luna is bound and taken to Lestallum, where the Hunters and Kingsglaive try to decide what to do with her.

Fighting a bigass daemonic robot! Badass!

How did Lunafreya meet the heir to the imperial throne? Who knows! But she doesn't seem like a bad girl, and they have a good relationship with each other.

Aranea is known by name more than face, but Lunafreya would be aware of her holding a high rank in the army.

Ardyn's past is revealed, and it is not all that surprising, somehow . . .

Some extra details since I have book now . . .

-Sol does urge Luna not to help, since absorbing daemons is hurting her body.
-The joke about last words before going off to die comes around again; this is not the first instance, but Luna does comment on it to Sol.
-Sol shares her final day in Nifelheim. How Ardyn destroyed the empire, the death of the Emperor...
-On seeing murals of former Oracles, Luna wonders how much pain their smiles hid, reflecting on her own time as Oracle.
-Luna notes that her healing as Oracle is not on par with Ardyn's ability to draw scourge out of people. Hers only bolsters people's innate ability to heal themselves. She realizes her new power can heal on top of harming.
-Luna does see Mira killed, oops. She also sees Ardyn chained up at Angelgard.
-Luna was not curious about going to off-limit areas of the temple that hid part of Solheim's ruins. We follow the rules here in Tenebrae!
-Luna can see better in the dark and spots weapons that Sol cannot.
-Upon discussing the history of the Great War of Old, Lunafreya wonders if humans or gods wanted to cover up that chapter of the past. She questions if 'gods deserve our faith'.
-In the fight, Luna does the close-up work while Sol fires off grenades. Sol attacks its red orb, a weakspot, while Luna tries to pull the daemonic energy from it. This involves Luna getting batted away by the machine several times.
-Using what she learned from seeing Ardyn in the past, she takes Aranea's scourge to heal her.
-After healing Aranea, Luna is revolted by her new appearance and unable to communicate or move before being knocked out by Aranea.

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Aranea, Aera, and A Daemon

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