Callisto

Chronicle

01e01

With Sima, questioned the monster trainers Argus Saravor and Bellamy Crue about their whereabouts on the night of Dartan Winterfrost’s murder.

07e03

Eavesdropped on Tremere and Invictus, and was psionically pushed out of the dining room by Janus Ilaris. In negotiations, Stormcloud revealed that his sword’s pommel was the Arkenstone, which he realized Hyperion had given him. In the flameskull fight, his sun blade’s pommel exploded with energy, and he struck the final blow.

07e05

Swung down to the plant with his whip, but couldn’t pierce its casing. When Orbach tried to slip away, Cal tripped him with his whip.

12e01

Returned to HQ to find his sword, the Arkenstab, stolen.

12e05

In the shared dream, he was shocked to see Janus Ilaris and refused to swear an oath with the ghost; instead he swore the oath of exile with the satyr Orsob, over a cup of tea.

12e06

Traded sendings with Tybalt: the Book had been found on the forest floor and the Queen was deathly ill; Cal reported the passages bored into the Tree, the mushroom woman’s infection of the Queen, and Freki’s accidental blow, and kept him updated on the ritual with Enoki.

12e07

Carried up the Tree with Ozborn by Oz’s winged monkey, towing Callie. Over sendings, Tybalt told him Sima had been found dead in the druid’s lair while another Sima had been captured. He recognized the hamadryad as Phoebe, and was surprised she did not recognize him, or seem to know Hyperion.

12e10

Stayed by Phoebe, helping her to her feet when she woke. He argued for warning Tybalt first, especially about whether Sima might be another doppelganger, but agreed to go for the Book on two conditions: they would go to Tybalt as soon as they were done, and destroy the Book immediately.

12e11

Lashed the illusory Tybalt with his whip and pulled him into melee, then was possessed by Janus and whipped Sartus out of the room, until Phoebe dispelled the possession and healed him.

12e12

Adamant that the Book had to be destroyed, he pressed Ozborn to stab it, and finally tried to whip the Hornblade away from him. Afterward, he sensed Celes’s doubt about her inspection of the Book, prompting her to find a last trace of evil in it.

13e01

Asked the elves for a locator spell for his sword, but couldn’t remember the result. Freki confronted him about his behavior, and they buried the hatchet.

13e03

Grabbed his sword back from Talos’s hand, in a flash that melted the snow around him.

13e04

Failed his save against Talos’s soul-pulling attack; Talos seemed to tap into Cal’s power. He ran Talos through, but Talos rose again. Naming the war price, Cal kept his sword, and handed back Talos’s axe, sensing his relief.

14e00

Suggested using the Arkenstone, which had burned Mallory, as the focus to heal him. Resisting an intruder in his mind, he lost control of the stone’s explosion of healing light, but managed to redirect its sacred fire, and Mallory was saved. Later he cut the sticky strands joining Cassandra to the monkey.

14e01

Felt the Arkenstab pulsing with more power than ever, with a shock of cold, like vengeance, whenever he grasped it; sparring with Cassandra, he learned that it synergizes with divine casting. At Evershroud, he incinerated the creature that had posed as Malachai.

14e02

Knowing Lady Nightshade was supposed to be undead, though she didn’t seem to be, he held back to see what would happen.

14e03

Caught Lady Nightshade’s severed head like a basketball. In the study, he realized the figures on the divine chart were the guests of Invictus’s auction, and recognized Gaia’s symbol from a letter his father Hyperion once received. In the basement, he spoke with the despondent butler guarding Invictus’s chamber.

14e04

Found the Celestial Hand’s chamber free of undead, its seven coffins holding only dust, and took the Hand with his whip; his sword glowed brighter near it. He promised to kill Invictus in exchange for good information, but couldn’t do it wholeheartedly; instead he pulled the compulsively stabbing Ozborn away, and threw Malachai out the front door, where he died.

14e05

Resisted the ghouls’ paralysis and Malak’s “You’re ESPECIALLY naughty!”, then unleashed a burst of radiant light from his sword that drove one vampire off as mist and destroyed several ghouls and ghasts.

15e00

Swung a petrified creature into a ring of undead, then hurled it. At Bilbo’s, he explained that he was raised among giants on the glacier, given to his new father, Hyperion, to honor his birth father; he asked Bilbo about the Triumvirate and the Brucolac.

15e01

Slept through most of the evening, then caught the invisible Bilbo with a lash of his whip.

15e04

Charged Enoch. In Sophie’s hideout, he struck the cursed sword from her slack hand with a remarkably well-aimed blow, freeing her from it; he picked it up with his whip and, after an uncomfortably long pause, dropped it into the portable hole. Outside, he was surrounded and grappled by vampires.

15e05

Rested with the others and divided the hunt’s winnings before setting out for the Soulbound Rest.

15e07

Peeked into the sarcophagus and found the Brucolac, on whom the Death Tyrant seemed to be feeding; when it burst out, a look passed between them that left Cal, uncharacteristically, not wanting to kill it, until Bec dispelled the charm. Touching the middle stained glass window, he saw Moradin forging the Arkenstone into a sword. Left alone with the Brucolac, he asked, “What now, uncle?”, and was let go.

15e08

Left behind in the chapel, he found the teleport circle trapped by the Brucolac, who bit him, only for his blood to frost over. Twice he felt time reset. He set the Brucolac on fire, survived a finger of death, and, when the Brucolac swallowed him whole, whipped his sword in with him. Vondal used the Flux to pull him back out, as his sword pierced a weak spot, and he then struck the Brucolac again.

15e09

Slashed the void Goratrix left behind, opening a rift that drew in Goratrix’s ghost, bringing him a moment of deep fulfillment. He whipped Vondal out of the ghost swarm before Callie teleported them out. At HQ, he showed Mallory Lady Nightshade’s head.

16e03

Stabbed the flesh-beast, setting it aflame with holy fire, but the fire followed a stream of light to Cassandra: he had stabbed her shadow. When Cassandra invoked divine lightning from within the beast, it was sucked into his sword, which crackled with it. Afterward, he stabbed her shadow again when it seemed off, setting it right.

16e04

Slipped past Eeoram up the tower stairs, finding Lorelei on a throne with nearly frozen spirits waiting to petition her. After the Great Old One’s gaze, he woke screaming, knowing himself but not his friends.

16e05

Vondal’s reshaping of the madness left him unable to speak. He whipped a shadow creature into Audreth’s aura, where it became a “CopyCal,” whose wounds he would share.

16e08

After the agents rejected Megaera’s bargain, the Flux gave him tusks, stinky mushrooms on his skin, and the stamina to fight on even when disabled, but halved his wisdom. At the gate to the Afterworld, he tried to whip the other Vondal, who glided away.

17e00

Carried the exhausted Freki into the dorm, and warned Vondal that squeezing the Flux out of Lorelei might be really bad. He showed Mallory the magic items from Invictus’s estate and Lady Nightshade’s head, and raised his vision of Moradin speaking to “Mother.”

17e01

Chose to destroy the cosmically evil items from Invictus’s ritual room rather than barter them. He cut off his tusks, which Ayinalef healed, and read the Manual of Gainful Exercise with Freki. He noticed that Amisa and Sissae, a changeling without an anchor and an anchor without a changeling, did not connect, and talked with Sissae about the white crane tattoo.

17e02

Asked whether Grimma’s oath ended with her death. At Grohnea’s cottage, he lassoed a huge toad for the hungry plant Claudius, who took a liking to him. He told the others about the Storm Stables and Rhyzophus, and asked Callie to send to his father, Hyperion.

17e03

Went ahead alone to talk to the lookout Jorik Iceshield, whom he knew as an honorable figure of the Ordning; Jorik showed him the exploded giants inside the Storm Stables, but refused to believe Hyperion had sent him, his twitching eye betraying an enchantment. In the fight that followed, Cal toppled Magna Frostbeard with his whip, and his sword absorbed her lightning.

17e05

Recalled Rhyzophus as a paranoid schemer. In the hot spring chamber, he recognized the alluring Dreamwalker Verthandi from his youth, was briefly charmed, then broke her enchantment and attacked her, withstanding Skalfang’s axe.

17e06

Inhabited by Hugin’s spirit, he became a furious flying were-sheep with stretchy, whip-like tentacle legs, lashing the corrupted storm cloud, chasing Rhyzophus, and engulfing the lackey Ormar in a fireball from his sword in tentacle form. When he knocked Ormar unconscious, his rage subsided and he changed back.

17e07

Calmed out of his were-sheep rage with help from Kavaki and Freki, he carried Rhyzophus’s head into the Storm Stables to cow the cultists, rolling it into the goliath Mira and claiming the authority of Hyperion’s son. Mira swore herself to his and Hyperion’s service. With Jorik and Magna barring the gate, he presented the head to the assembled giants, cleaving the challenger Thok’s head in two, and the giants bowed. He began judging them individually, starting with a talk with the goliath Ulgrim Bearwalker about a just punishment for treason.

17e08

Asked Kavaki to help get the rampaging behirs back in their pens. Refusing to feed the giants to the behir brood mother, he gave Rhyzophus’s surviving followers a redemptive quest instead: to destroy the vampires’ food source by freeing the halflings of Xaryuvia and dealing with the beholders that control them. Bound to him by an oath Ulgrim administered, they accepted.

17e09

When Ulgrim suggested seeking out Theia, the Titan of Brilliant Vision, Cal knew her as Hyperion’s estranged wife, whose name was forbidden, and that seeking her could anger Hyperion and even get him disowned, but unhesitatingly gave his blessing.

18e00

Impressed by what Cal’s allies said of his conduct, Mallory promoted him to team captain on a probationary basis: “This is an important role. Take it seriously.” He finished the Manual of Gainful Exercise.