Pulled from a hopeless (if powerful) future back to the moment of Earth’s integration to try to improve the outcome, Serenity has met unexpected threats and unexpected allies - even friends. Everything is different this time.

It’s been nearly three years since the first Tutorial.

The obvious threats have ended, opening the way to less obvious threats. Some are from the outside while others have festered on Earth for centuries or even millenia. A’Atla’s rise was met with resistance, but it also gave opportunities which are already starting to reach places, even opening up low-grade magical items to people without large budgets. Few know or would believe how large the threat was; fewer still recognize the benefit to the entire planet for the fighting that happened in the shadows.

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Portals have opened to a few select marketplaces elsewhere, but travel is still rare and potentially dangerous. The potential is enough that many are heading out, trying to establish trade or even simply to see what’s out there. The world is opening up; many believe that additional markets will be opened soon.

The return of magic to Earth is waking old, long-lost secrets. One is already loose, growing its power as it hides from those who might stop it. The forces that once suppressed these dangers have grown brittle, for they have their own secrets that may prevent them from completing their ancient task.

One such ancient secret is Apollyon, whose curse has restricted the peacekeepers for centuries. One truth is revealed, but many more remain to be found. Serenity’s attention has turned back to another secret, one he does not understand: who sealed broken spirits into clay jars millenia ago? More importantly, who stole them and is releasing them - and why?