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Aina renames herself as Ainatar and has her coronation. She meets the forest goddess, who prophesizes some weird stuff is gonna happen. Maybe that Aina is pregnant? Then the lights go out and someone says that the games will now begin. Jeepers.

The goddess that visited Siiri and gave her help and hope turned out to be Loviatar's secret daughter and the one Siiri's mentor helped escape from Tuonela.

Siiri finally separated the part of her soul from her body she needs to and made a sort of clone, which went back to her village as a practice run. There, she found that the Christians were on the rise and trying to abolish their religion. Her brother was with them. On the other hand, Aina was attacked by a monster set out by one of the witches, but thankfully healed by Tuoni.

Siiri managed to unleash a part of her soul in the form of a bird, furthering her training while Aina found out that Loviatar was more or less using her to find her daughter.

Siiri found the shaman she was looking for by following a bear that was actually a part of his soul. Aina found out that the crow visiting her was actually the god of death who was imprisoned by the Witch Queen. Loviatar, one of his daughters, helped Aina set him free. Unfortunately, she had to marry him and stay in the underworld in order to do that and set the other human girls free.

Siiri, the main character, is introduced along with Aina, her best friend. Siiri seems to be the type of girl who definitely doesn't want to marry where Aina does. While they're preparing food for winter, a "creature" (presumably the goddess of death and decay I think) attacks the village.

Apparently, the guy Tarkhany captured isn't actually the one responsible for Caris' murder, though he did technically do it. He was just (allegedly) hypnotized into doing it.

Ophir starts developing a relationship with the kingdom of Tarkhany. They apparently have Berinth, the sister killer, in the dungeons and ready for execution by Ophir's hands. Harland tracks her down finally, and Tyr and Dwyn are in the process.

Ophir travels solo through the desert to reach Tarkhany, where Berinth supposedly is. Because everything is too hot for her and her (dog shaped?) companion, she creates a dragon to fly across the desert. Then she makes a somewhat intelligent humanoid to take the dragon somewhere hidden because she doesn't want to kill it.

Ophir is still keeping Dwyn and Tyr company but at a distance. At this point, she likes Tyr more than Dwyn. Harland found them at some point, but Dwyn knocked him out, and they fled soon after. Now, the kingdom is requesting help from Caris's supposed-to-be-husband's kingdom. He does NOT like Ophir.

Ophir found one of the men who aided in killing her sister and wrung some information out of him regarding her death and what the group's goal was. She learned they're aiming to reach godhood b using blood magic and royal organs. She learned that this cult was the same one associated with Dwyn and Tyr and that Dwyn was keeping secrets about her blood magic. After killing the guy, she confronted Dwyn.

Ophir discovered that her parents planned to wed her to Caris' fiance for the sake of joining the kingdoms. Obviously, she didn't want that since it would prohibit practically all her freedom. So, she fled the castle with Dwyn and Tyr, searching for the men who killed her sister. Now, they're trekking through the forest with Dwyn and Tyr constantly arguing while also competing for Ophir's affection.

Harland sees Ophir after being almost drowned and severely chastises her for being so reckless. Tyr stays hidden but agrees with him after he leaves and announces himself a bodyguard of sorts since Ophir gets into so much trouble. Ophir cares for none of it and turns to Dwyn for comfort despite knowing she might not be all she seems.

Tyr finally makes himself known to Ophir after invisibly following her (and everyone else) around the castle for a little bit to find out information. She went to her secret cave to test out her manifestation powers and succeeded until the tide came in and basically started drowning her. And Tyr saved her! Now they're uncomfortably talking to each other in her room.

The Blood Pact clan finds Tyr after he leaves the church in search of ways to gain more power. Most of them are former Reds who also left the church, all in search of the same thing. Soon, basically everyone learns that the key is the princesses in Aubade, who are descendants of the royal bloodline and may be able to wield the power to manifest. This is why Caris died from Berinth's pursuit of that power.

We focus on Tyr's backstory, finding out he abandoned the church of the All Mother after he saw Dwyn suck the life out of someone for the first time. She had more power than she should, and Tyr wanted to know how she got that since he was looking to gain new powers as well.

Telegonus returned from his journey having accidentally killed Odysseus, bringing Penelope and Telemachus with him. Circe questions both out of suspicion to discover that Telemachus was angry with Odysseus, who went a little crazy, and Penelope, who did nothing about it. Penelope wanted to go to Circe because now Athena is (probably) after Telemachus.

Circe protects Telegonus with extremely powerful spells surrounding the island and him, then gets to rest (generally) easy as he grows up. That is, until she finds out Hermes had been secretly visiting Telegonus and preparing Telegonus to leave the island. Although Circe was at first angry, she decided to let Telegonus leave like he wanted. But she would protect him first, even by taking the tail of a powerful god.

Circe's baby boy is born and doesn't meet the world with a smile. She faces what it's like to mother a mortal child: terrible. It wasn't until she found her fears were valid. Everything that threatened to harm him seemed too exaggerated, like the ridiculous amount of wasps and scorpions. Turns out Athena is trying to kill her baby!

Oh great, she's pregnant with Odysseus' child, who just left her island for good. The nice thing is that she's happy to have something of her own, which is... good? Maybe? I somehow see this not ending well.

Odysseus stayed with Circe for a pretty long time, and Circe managed to subtly convince him to stay. She enjoyed his company, reminding her of Daedalus. It was all fine and dandy until Apollo decided to show up and force a prophecy down her throat (literally) that showed Odysseus back on his travels.

Lots has happened. Daedalus and his son Icarus died, as did Pasiphae's daughter, all much to Circe's dismay and sorrow. She ended up back on her island, alone and, for once, lonely. Everything caught up to her. In this loneliness, a ship of men came to her, and she didn't defend herself against them until it was too late. Sometime after that, she finally met Odysseus.

Circe and Daedalus make a plan to contain the minotaur, deciding to trap it in a fortified maze. During dinner with him, Circe discovers Daedalus has a son, the very thing her sister held over him. After that, she confronts Pasiphaë about why she brought Circe there, and some generally awful things come up. Like Pasiphaë relationship with her brother and how she had to appease him. Yikes.

While in exile, Circe became friendly with Hermes in a casual way. She was also called upon by her sister to assist in her labor, which she surprisingly heeded, hopping on the ship that was sent for her and meeting Daedalus. Once there, she figured out her sister was harboring the first minotaur inside her, which ended up biting off her fingers... After that, Circe made a potion to keep its hunger at bay.

Circe turned the girl Glaucos had a thing for into a monster and then admitted it. Her father didn't believe her until her brother made an appearance, saying that the flowers she used didn't actually have power in general, but Circe subconsciously gave them power because she was a witch, the same as her siblings. Then, she was exiled for that, but she actually became happy! And she grew stronger with time.

Circe found the sap of some important flowers that gods/titans had fallen and fed to Glaucos as he slept. Her goal was to turn him into a god, and so she did. She wanted to be with him forever, to love him freely when she couldn't when he was mortal. The thing was, he became too cocky upon becoming a god and chose someone prettier than her. Ouch.

Lots of things have happened. Circe gains a brother and takes him in when no one else would. Finally, she connects with someone, caring for each other dearly and whatnot... Until he turns on her when he gains the favor of their father and leaves her to become a king. After his departure, she falls into the same routine until a human stumbles upon the shore where she typically was. Of course, she fell for him.

Prometheus is introduced with his act of stealing fire for the humans. He was charged with treason, and we get to see it first-hand through Circe's eyes. In front of her and the other Titans, Prometheus was punished by being whipped. After everyone grew tired of it, Circe stayed to talk with him.

Circe was a nymph born from her mother, a naiad, and the god Helios. Out of their children, she was the lesser of them. Not fit enough to marry a son of Zeus and only a mortal, which her parents ever frowned upon. So she stayed with her father, his palace emptied by day. She followed him around by night, waiting for his attention while her siblings followed their mother. They fit in with her, in the midst of gossip.