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  1. 01
    First disappearances

    Vanishing Point

    People disappear inside a city park. The search parties sent after them vanish too, turning an isolated mystery into a growing crisis.

  2. 02
    Blind containment

    The Quarantine

    The government seals the park and deploys the army. The Spill is kept from the public, but nobody in command understands what they are containing.

  3. 03
    Political diversion

    Divided Attention

    Fionn, secretly the country's Magiarch and publicly the director of MSF, is trapped by internal political strife when the Spill needs him most.

  4. 04
    Internal coup

    The Takeover

    Fionn is murdered. Helena takes control of MSF, frames her stepdaughter Lynleit for the killing, and drives her into exile.

  5. 05
    Unseen conflict

    Unknowing Convergence

    Government agents, police, private investigators, the Church, and independent figures are pulled into the Spill without knowing that magic is real.

  6. 06
    Return from exile

    Clear Her Name

    Lynleit works from outside the system to expose Helena, restore her name, and reclaim the agency her father left behind.

  7. 07
    A smaller MSF

    The Real Mission

    MSF contracts into a focused Spill response agency. Its remaining members slowly discover magic and the true purpose behind the organization.

  8. 08
    Conflict resolved

    After the Spill

    The Spill is contained and the struggle for MSF is settled. The people involved are left to rebuild around truths they can no longer ignore.

  9. 09
    Unexpected succession

    Lynleit Disappears

    Once the immediate crisis has passed, Lynleit vanishes without explanation and leaves Kyrien in charge of MSF.

  10. 10
    A non-Magus director

    Kyrien's Burden

    Kyrien inherits an agency built to confront magic despite not being a Magus himself. He struggles to lead MSF and make decisions inside a world he cannot perceive as its Magi do.

  11. 11
    Years later

    The Return

    Lynleit reappears as an elusive figure outside MSF. She refuses to rejoin, explain herself, or reveal the son she had with Kyrien and kept secret from him and everyone else.

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