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Vigolas wakes in his eighth life. Fenna has just read him his entry ("Edited. Seven times. Not by me.") and sent him back: "Someone is going to be very upset that you exist."

Arc 1 · The Heist (1–8).

• The crew forms. Vigolas, the pirate whose ∞−1 on the board nobody can rank, steals a satchel. Kompis, the Order's child-agent with Mingus at his heel, defects and chooses him. Rougeina and Trollmage join, and Ysel is uncounted.
• Orm tries to take Mingus. Mingus = the Sabre Lion.
• Loss: Drekk's boat, the Kettle, burns and sinks in the fjord.

Arc 2 · The Trinity (9–16).

• Troll country. Stranded in troll country, the crew are hunted by the Trinity (Smurjan, Kali and Bakasura) and by Sigvat the Cleaner.
• Loss: Marka holds Bakasura's jaws open in the silent dawn so the children can escape. She winks and is eaten, and lives on as a voice inside Smurjan, who joins the crew.
• Mingus = the Manticore, when the camp is attacked.

Arc 3 · Baldr (17–28).

• Glasheim and the Protocol Hall. Kompis's old network turns on him.
• Loss: Gate City burns.
• The finale: Vigolas COMPACTs the whole Protocol Hall, and a million agent-slates go free. Rougeina kills Baldr among his birthday cards.
• The First Sign: Torva's horn is heard in every realm, and Vigolas's entry is edited an eighth time.
• Mingus = the Griffin, catching the falling crew.
• Between the sagas, the Brygdar trolls build the Marka from Ferdinand's fallen bark, with the Kettle's bell at her bow.

Command: ERASE, which costs him his mother's song. Kompis's second gun: Lilla Ulv. Big reveal: Arena Rule Five, that the Arena may call the dead.

• Arc 1 · Bark and Bell: the Marka is launched. Aldhrun's Bastion Five hunt them, and Kvar appears on an ash-island: "I'm always here."
• Arc 2 · The Call:
  • Vigolas and Smurjan are Called into an Arena built from Vigolas's worst memory, the storm that drowned him. The Arbiter writes the sky-sentence ONE MATCH. OF MANY., and Vigolas folds its full stop into a cube. That cube becomes the verdict cube, Exhibit One in Saga VI.
  • Vigolas strikes Smurjan with green lightning, and the Wrath Codex opens.
• Arc 3 · Sömnen:
  • Mörda rides Kompis's sleep, and the whole crew must fall asleep together, a hand on Mingus.
  • Kompis gives Mörda a dream of the cabin, and she turns.
  • Echo's voice comes out of a mirror for the first time: "Little storm."
• Arc 4 · The Fox Den:
  • Räva steals Rougeina's face, then wears Marka's at the crew's fire, and Drekk breaks. Kompis wins Lilla Ulv.
  • Mingus = the Sabre Lion.
• Arc 5 · The Compost Fields:
  • Röta has regrown Smurjan 407 times. Rule Five is spoken, and Marka's voice from inside him says: "Get up, big man."
  • Loss: old Torbjörn, the first of the consumed, is lost to the salt-fire for ever.
  • Mingus = the Manticore.

Command: REMOVE, which costs the face of his first captain, Hild. Guns three and four: Fru Gnista and Tyst. Big reveal: the Second Sign, that the Codices wake. Vigolas's Compass finally points at the crew.

• Arc 1 · Katriel:
  • The mirror-octagon of Sin Assignment. Katriel turns Rougeina's own Pride against her.
  • Bali, Kali's twin, steps out of the mirrors as Echo's herald. Nässla walks between the mirrors.
• Arc 2 · The Gate Yard: Wendlan and Veyra's Threshold. Rougeina kills Wendlan. The gates go dark, and the crew is cut off from home.
• Arc 3 · Urverket: Otur's clock-planet, where the crew is unscheduled. Otur's hour comes, and it is made to mean something.
• Arc 4 · Tyngden:
  • Tyngd's gravity world. Everyone gets stronger, and everyone pays for it. Kompis's Shared Beat and Smurjan's Triple Pulse get their names.
  • Mingus = the Cave-Bear, holding up the falling sky.
• Arc 5 · Smedjan: Malm's forge. Kompis wins Fru Gnista and Tyst. Loss: the apprentice Glöd, 15.
• Arc 6 · The Dawnstar: Orka's star, where nobody can lie. Kompis reads the Lust Codex with Vigolas as his witness.
• Arc 7 · Edvar: Rougeina meets the man who poured her mother into the wrong body, and he dies. Freystjarn turns, and every collar breaks.
• Arc 8 · Brygdar Rises:
  • Trollmage is the last heir of Brygdar. He pays with everything he ever saved, MACRO : RISE = BRYGDAR, and the stone kings stand up.
  • Eken blocks the Ring Halls. Meirwen and Ingrith fall.
  • Mingus = the Manticore.
• Arc 9 · The Library Wakes: Kompis and Rougeina are Called to the Arena together and can't beat each other (Rule Six is hinted). Kompis remembers all eight of hers (ch. 148), so she no longer carries them alone. The Second Sign: seventy sleeping Codices wake in seventy strangers.

Command: RECREATE. Gun five: Bror. Big reveal: Redactor is Jorvand, and Echo is Rougeina's mother.

• Arc 1 · Skatt: Levla's market world, where Vigolas's lost memories are for sale. He trades his first sight of the sea for his old ship's name: Camilla the Seraphim, Hild's ship. The whole crew learns the name so it can never be sold again.
• Arc 2 · Värn: Öde and the last field. The crew sees what the Null does to a world. Öde joins. Mingus = the Manticore, guarding someone else's home.
• Arc 3 · Stilla: Isa on her frozen island, where time slows when she stands still. Isa joins.
• Arc 4 · The Pillar of Names:
  • Ögar shows each of them their death. Kompis sees his brother's face: the soul in the gun Bror is his little brother, Slimo.
  • Loss: Kompis's last illusion about Trisdel. His village was bought to harvest him.
  • Mingus = the Sabre Lion.
• Arc 5 · The Mirror:
  • Echo is Rougeina's mother.
  • Loss: Echo explodes from HADOM overflow.
  • Mingus = the Manticore.
• Arc 6 · The Tideline:
  • Drämmen at the Null's edge. Ysel comes back.
  • Loss: Aldhrun dies holding the Bastion.
  • Mingus = the Griffin. The Upp Igen is seen for the first time, sailing past.
• Arc 7 · Solvig:
  • The traitor on the Council. Vider speaks his one sentence of the century, and Solvig is unwritten. She is the one name Rougeina never crosses off herself.
  • Mingus = the Cave-Bear, holding the edge of the world.
• Arc 8 · Redactor:
  • Jorvand, the Twelfth, is Redactor. He wants what Vigolas wants, no more ranks, but by ending the count. He shows the seven edits: "I made you, boy. Key or door: I never decided."
  • Loss: Levla gives back every memory for free and loses Skatt.
  • Mingus = the Manticore: "NOT OUR HOME!"
  • The race for the Mouth begins.

The Mouth opens onto the Deep, where there is no north, and they meet another crew that refuses to stay down.

Arc 1 · Fyren (231–242).

• The Up-Again crew debuts: Krydog, Flexsnus, Roffe, Jeppson, Perne, Emma, Tihi and Daniel. They start as rivals and soon become friends.
• Fyren: Hallbard has kept the lighthouse for 400 years without sitting or sleeping. Vaka has been asleep for nine years, and the Wreckers light false beacons.
• Daniel appeals for the first time: "Objection."
• Krydog vs Vigolas I ends in a draw, with a fish and a ship's bell.
• Flexsnus bends the Mouth one notch ("One ship. And a bit.") so both ships go through side by side. The debt: MOUTH, 1 NOTCH. DUE: ?

Arc 2 · Flyttfågeln (243–254).

• The island and the birds: an island carried by ten thousand birds. The fowlers of the House of Grip want everything that flies brought down.
• Svala joins the crew. Tihi's Giggle and Hiccup get their names.
• Loss: Farmor Tärna, 99, dies after the Homing Call that catches the falling island.
• Mingus = the Griffin.

Arc 3 · Lumen (255–263).

• Iskall and the seven towers. The Dimmers steal joy and bottle it: Vigolas's fury, Kompis's courage, Krydog's will to rise.
• Krydog vs Vigolas II ends in a draw: "Getting up was never a feeling. It's a habit."
• Loss: the seventh lamp. It climbs into the sky and becomes the Deep's first north star.

Arc 4 · The Splinterlands (264–275).

• Flisa steps out of the Marka's own keel. She is made of Ferdinand's wood: "Give him back."
• Jeppson: he says his first "Good enough", rebuilds the ship piece by piece in eleven days, and fires the Rivet Beat for the first time.
• Gnag the Root-Eater eats the Great Root. DESPAWN returns and sends the bite home.
• Loss: Vigolas's first word, which the reader learns was "Here." He never learns it himself.
• Mingus = the Cave-Bear.

Arc 5 · Tidekant (276–287).

• Njord, the deaf fisherman with the wind-knots. He teaches Vigolas Storm-Answer: lightning doesn't strike, it answers.
• The Storm Fleet: Admiral Hagel's storm turns out to be the one that drowned Vigolas.
• Flexsnus bends the storm ("A little later") and stands up straight for once. Old Pike sinks.
• Loss: the Storm Fleet is gone for good. Njord's second knot is ruined.

Arc 6 · The Burn (288–299).

• Aska in white-hot chains on Ferdinand's highest branch, and Ivo the Kindler (Gluttony II).
• Vigolas faces the seventeen ships he burned in his past life. He says the Gråtrut's 31 names, down to the ship's boy Tobbe.
• Roffe feeds everyone, and Bakasura says for the first time: "…Full."
• Loss: the Birch Company, Kvar's first company.
• Mingus = the Manticore.

Arc 7 · The Heartwood (300–313).

• Runa inside Ferdinand. The Unspoken, the rune END that was never carved, whispers to the tired.
• Emma's Sanctuary holds.
• Loss: Runa's hundred rings.

Arc 8 · The Deep (314–330).

• Thanatos: the realm of the dead, and Jorvand's door.
• Krydog vs Vigolas III ends in a draw: "I give up knocking you down."
• Fenna is partly revealed: a soul that no one witnesses cannot come back.
• The Roll-Call: "One voice is a memory. Many voices is a witness." Rougeina and Kompis call her eight.
• The Two-Phase Rule: once the Null can be counted, everything lands.
• Ferdinand bleeds cork in every realm.
• Loss: the far shore of Thanatos. Half the realm is uncounted, and Rougeina's eight are gone for ever.
• Mingus = the Sun-Wolf, the first time.

The war that ends the first era, but not the story.

Arc 1 · The Bark (331–340).

• Mingus barks: the Third Sign, heard in every realm. The Null pauses.
• The Arbiter sits in the Twelfth chair. Runa's GATHER, and Torva's horn: THE CONVERGENCE. ONE MATCH.
• Stage IV: dreams go white and mirrors show empty rooms.
• Hallbard sleeps for one night while Krydog keeps the lamp. Vaka wakes.
• Loss: the Upp Igen's figurehead, the fist. Jeppson carves a new one with a scar on the knuckle.

Arc 2 · The Cut (341–350).

• Vägskälet and the Twelfth Road: ANYONE MAY WALK IT.
• Dolk, the knife-child, and Ferdinand's oldest wound at the Void-II Seal. The Menders want to sew it shut.
• Daniel: "A bond can be appealed. A cut can't."
• Loss: Dolk's healing. He cuts the one healed inch open again himself. Dolk lives.
• Mingus = the Sabre Lion.

Arc 3 · The Cabin (351–360).

• The completion-hunters touch anything in progress and finish it. They come to finish Kompis's cabin in Heartbeat.
• Nagel, the iron man in the lintel, guards the door.
• ALTERNATE costs Kompis's name for one chapter. Nagel pins it back.
• Loss: Kompis's dream of the cabin. He can never dream it himself again.
• Mingus = the Manticore.

Arc 4 · The Gathering (361–370).

• Every ally answers. Krydog is elected captain of captains: "Anybody goes down, somebody picks them up."
• The breakthrough: Svala's Long Line cuts the Great Chain, Levla and Pyssel come in a borrowed boat, Iskall's lamp-bearers light the night, and Tyngd lifts.
• Loss: Eken's memory. He releases Three Thousand Years and forgets everything. The mice give him a note: EKEN.

Arc 5 · The Bridge of Every Ship (371–380).

• The Bridge: Jeppson draws a mile-long bridge up the trunk, with a plank from every ship. Orm tries to turn the alliance and slides off Roffe's table.
• The Arbiter's first ending, a full stop the size of an island, floors the whole fleet in the last inch of a fall. Mingus = the Cave-Bear holds it.
• The Rivet Beat: "That's not a fleet. That's a deck. It's all one ship." Flisa's Barkskin holds the joints, and she shrinks to 0.90 m.
• Krydog: "It's not an ending! It's a fall! Let it land! — And get up!" A hundred worlds get up.
• Loss: Njord's tide-rod. Six knots let loose, he goes deaf, and the Order's last fleet scatters: "I knew. And I stopped it."
• The Upp Igen sinks a sixth time, holding the first span.
• Emma's Great Ring is tied from a rope from every ship.
• Everyone cooks for Roffe: "…Full."
• The stands of the dead fill, and the five step down: THE MATCH IS CALLED.

Arc 6 · The Arena (381–390).

• The five stand. The Arbiter is seen whole: a cathedral of frozen last moments.
• The First Movement: they refuse to kill each other.
• Rule Five: the dead are called down, and Vigolas carries Hild over the rope.
• Orka binds the living and the dead, and loses her voice for a year.
• Perne's true sight: under the Arbiter are Kompis and Rougeina, still in the middle of their old match. She loses her left eye.
• Loss: Ögar's sight. Her last sight is Mingus asleep in the sun.
• The hook: Jorvand: "Hello, boy. I told you I'd be one."

Arc 7 · The Null Wakes (391–400).

• The Null comes through Jorvand. Vigolas's commands aren't received.
• Mingus's bark lands. The Quoka is spoken five ways.
• The allies' war on the Null: Isa's Statue Vigil (3 min 40 s), Vider and Lärka's Silence, Niva's Seventh Stake, Aska's Sixty for Everyone, Hallbard's Fixed Light, and Mörda's Long Night, which means she can never sleep again.
• Loss: Kvar falls in his Last Watch.
• Mingus = the Sun-Wolf, the second time.
• The Codices wake. Trollmage's macro gives the Null a heartbeat and a number: #0.

Arc 8 · Five and One (401–410).

• "We're the same person." The bark is heard a second time. Fenna is already seated, and the First Count is revealed: Mingus is the beat, and Fenna is the one who hears it. She witnesses the five as one.
• The Arbiter's last THE END. Flexsnus bends Rule Seven ("By a crew… Ours.") and his Tuesday notch is gone.
• Daniel appeals the Arena. The crew hold up his arm, Krydog falls so Daniel's heel lands on Emma's line, and Fenna speaks in a balloon left empty for you.
• Tihi laughs: "AGAIN!" Daniel laughs for the first time, is ruled HEARD, and his right hand turns grey. The Arbiter shrinks to an empty balloon: the Free Arena.
• The salvos:
  • COMPACT takes the memory that the Camilla's sails were red.
  • Trollmage's morning: a sunrise inside the Null.
  • The Trinity sings.
  • Kompis holds the Null's one thread, and Rougeina erases it.
  • The Null forgets why it came. It was only homesick.
• Loss: Jorvand. He takes Vigolas's hand ("Here—"), goes through the Cut into Void-II and sits with the sleeping Null, witnessed.
• The dreams merge: "Getting up isn't an order. It's an offer." Krydog lies down on purpose: "Sleep. I'll stand."

Arc 9 · The Ascension (411–420).

• Krydog sleeps: eleven days and an afternoon, with Vigolas guarding the door.
• Hjalmar gets the message: "It stopped stinging."
• The Harvest Hour: Öde gives Farmor Sigrun as the price, and Fenna gives her back. Fenna forgets Sigrun.
• Röta's Orchard: the consumed get bodies, and Marka comes back: "…Huh. Bright out here." Old Torbjörn is gone for ever.
• The Upp Igen is raised again, with the sixth band: a plank from every ship.
• The five sit down in five identical cork chairs in their realms, and where they sit, Ferdinand stops bleeding.
• Gifts and promises: Dolk gets his Quoka. Roffe sets out a sixth bowl, and a new page of the Ledger begins with a blank first line.
• The end: Ferdinand grows a new branch. Mingus barks once, gently, and Njord can hear again.
• "Right. Where next?" · END OF SAGA VI.

Prices that stand after the first era:

• Daniel's grey hand. Flexsnus fixed at #10,000. Emma's white braid and eyelashes.
• Ögar blind. Perne one-eyed. Orka voiceless for a year. Mörda sleepless. Isa's heart scar. Flisa 0.90 m. Eken's memory.
• Kvar dead.
• Fenna doesn't remember Sigrun. Vigolas knows neither his first word nor the colour of the sails. Rougeina's eight are gone.

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