

Everyone lives happily together in their new kingdom, and Arawn leaves his sword at the stone monument overlooking the ocean. Arawn eventually does so in a formal ceremony in front of all the people, and Arthur succeeds the name Pendragon. In the aftermath, the group returns to Avalon, and Arawn has a vision of Pwyll telling him to make Arthur king. This in turn reveals the body of Lector inside, and Arthur finishes him off with one fatal stab. After Riannon comes out of the vision, she approaches Mercadis and recites the words, and it results in all of the monster’s body and power being stripped away. Primula also appears in the vision to urge her on and to tell her to save Arawn. In it, she sees herself with all of her friends in a green field, and she realizes that the answer has been inside of her all along. Arthur gets him back into the action though, and Arawn telling Riannon to believe in herself causes her to experience a sudden vision. Arawn, however, gets hurt in the process, and Riannon realizes that she can’t heal him. Unfortunately, she doesn’t know the words right now, and until she can figure it out, Arawn and Arthur use their swords together to try to stop the cannon. Ogam explains that the only way to stop it is with the Words of Power, and the only person who can recite them is Riannon. Mercadis’ first action is to use it’s electrum breath cannon to blow up a mountain range in the distance. Those dragons fly the group out of the tower, but they still have to deal with the gigantic Mercadis. Fortunately, when the floor under the group collapses, they are saved by dragons under the direction of Taliesin who is still alive. Arawn and Ogam identify this creature as Mercadis, the same creature that took Arawn’s life in the last war, and it grows even more powerful now. This shocks Lector and drives him mad, and after a giant creature suddenly emerges in the center of the room, Lector lets its flames engulf him. He’s able to avoid everything they throw at him, but Arthur doesn’t give up and manages to cut Lector’s cheek. Not about to let that happen, Arawn and company fight through Lector’s skeleton minions and then try to attack Lector himself. Lector’s goal now is to bring about the end of the world so that everything dies and turns into pure white ash. He’s also the one who killed Arthur’s father and tried to frame Arawn for it. Through the various rumors they had heard, Ogam and Octavia are able to figure out that they’re dealing with Lector, and Arawn identifies him as a White Angel.
