Valeyard6282/zephyr's Storyline for Fortnite Season 1- Season 8

This is Valeyard6282's- also known as zephyr's- theory for all of Fortnite. It is an original idea created by myself that fully explains the storyline of Fortnite from lore taking place before Season 1, all the way through the cosmic plotlines of aliens and interplanetary manipulation to the mystical storylines of Ragnarok and the Lords of Shadows. Enjoy!

## The Storyline

### **The Apex Protocol (Save the World)**

Our story begins in the real world- our world, Earth. Full of flesh and blood humans, Earth falls victim to deadly storms that consume 98% of the planet. The storms ravage the land and take nearly the entire population with the them. Monstrous Husks take their place and attempt to kill who is left on the last 2%. The defenders are our heroes. This event is known as The Apocalypse. The true and final end to humanity. A genius scientist called Doctor Vinderman goes past the point of no return and initiates the Apex Protocol. Why does this sound so familiar? Well a skin released in Season 4 was an orange android-like superhero called Vertex. Most would assume he was an irrelevant movie character like much of the Season 4 arsenal. No. Vertex is actually one of the most important characters in the whole story. The Apex Protocol is the initiation of a digital pocket universe created by Vinderman. Vinderman called this world Athena- hence why Battle Royale's game files are titled "Athena". Athena is a digital pocket universe. It is another universe existing within our own. However, it was created digitally- so blue pixels replace the red blood of humans. The conscience and essence of participants in the endgame of humankind are absorbed into the program. Avatars of these people appear in this new reality, this new universe. Vinderman dons orange armor and becomes known as Vertex. Vertex is so important because he is the creator of this entire universe. He is Fortnite's "god". One of the heroes, a woman called Ramirez, decides to go into Athena along with Vinderman. The people who went in, desperate to escape The Apocalypse, are within the universe of Athena forever. They can never leave. This one way trip is either a blessing or a curse. Especially being that years later the storms were somehow reversed and humankind was saved by the heroes. Earth returned to normal, but a new world was being brewed up in the dense universe created by Vertex

### **Athena (Season 1)**

Athena is a pocket universe. Just like our own, it is endless. Vinderman only coded for an archipelago of islands also known as Athena. This would be the home of humanity. However, Vinderman was forced to consult AI to develop enough matter in this universe to make it an actual universe. The AI developed millions and millions of planets, dense with life. It created other lands of the same planet as the Athena Archipelago. There were mysterious allies and dangers everywhere in the cosmos and on the open sea. Not even Vertex knew the world he created. The humans who entered settled on the Athena Archipelago- a mass of islands floating in an open sea. Blue school busses tethered into the air by hot air balloons serve as transpiration between islands, as the water below moves so fast it is too hard to use ships. This is also why you die when you touch the water. It moves so fast it rips you apart. Fast enough it appears still. Now, many belive Athena to be a simulation. No. It is just another world. If you die in Athena, you die forever. The "Battle Busses" fly over the islands and require tenants to parachute to their desired locale. The busses stop and resupply after each trip. On Royale Island- the location where our story takes place- that refill stop is a hanger east of a large junkyard called "Boneyard". Boneyard is also known as Junk Junction.

A popular sport in Athena is not the usual soccer and football previously popular on Earth. No. "Fortnights" are royale death games set on Royale Island. The game's title "Fortnite" comes from the word "Fortnight"- which is a two week period. The "Nite" part of the name I don't really understands. Every Fortnight came is a simulation. One hundred players stand on round circles with the "V" of Vindercorp in giant futuristic warehouses called Lobbies. The Season 3 background is the Lobbies found on the other islands. The one hundred players generate in avatars of themselves on the digital counterpart a small isle off the coast of Royale Island. In the simulation, droids spawn you into existence. You load a digital Battle Bus and fight to the death in a digital world within a digital pocket universe. It's all a simulation. Nothing that happens here is permanent. You don't die, your avatar just gets eliminated. Vertex took inspiration from The Apocalypse. In the simulation, a massive dome is around Royale Island and spawn island. A killer purple storm just like that of Earth is generated in a set path, and like its real-life counterpart, it kills all within it. Keep in mind, none of the story takes place in a Fortnight. These games are the setting of the game but the storyline is completely separate.

Athena's government is primary dominated by the Agents. Season 3 introduced Agent skins to the game. We got both Elite Agent and Rogue Agent. You may recognize that Elite Agent is the avatar taken on by Ramirez- who accompanied Vinderman into Athena. Rouge Agent was not yet rouge, but was a high-ranking operative. Another Season 3 Agent skin is Sub Commander from the first Twitch Prime Pack. Season 5 introduced our latest Agent skin: Rook. The main unit of the Agents is Black Vector 7. Black Vector is the name of the set Elite and Rouge Agent belong to and the number 7 is displayed proudly on Sub Commander's glider.

Athena also has a military. Sledgehammer and Trailblazer are the primary armed forces characters we see, however; there is also an air force. This air force pilots the busses and is responsible for wartime aerial intervention. The two air force skins we see are Air Assault One- who is the primary bus driver we thank- and Raptor. Raptor is a Royale Air Force test pilot and is in-training.

Athena also has its fair-share of crime. A gang called the Storm Scavengers runs illegal activity at Boneyard. We see the notorious duo of junk-themed criminals: Renegade Raider and Rust Lord. A hitman called Reaper lives in a mansion in the middle of a western pine forest. And it is said, on Halloween nights, Reaper dons a pumpkin head and becomes known as Jack Gourdan. Perhaps that is his real name.

And what's the deal with the bunker in Wailing Woods? Many think it is a nuclear shelter or connected to the icy bunker on the opposite side of the map. Some people, including myself at one point, believed it to be the in-game representation of The Vault. But since Fortnights are simulations, that doesn't make much sense. So the forest bunker is the entrance to Vertex's operating facility. It has nothing to do with the Rift Lab under the maze, it is separate. The facility is basically where Vertex resides- keeping the Fortnights in order and programming the games.

### **The Round Table (Season 1)**

Far off on the open sea, there is another massive island. This island is called the Island of Five. Five distinct medieval-style factions rule this island. They are all part of a central council but individually govern their own kingdoms. The five factions are as follows:

* The Shadow Faction
* The Fire Faction
* The Raven Faction
* The Knight Faction
* The Ranger Faction

The Shadow Faction is the most powerful kingdom with the most influence. It is ruled by the Shadow King. The Shadow King is the Ice King prior to his glacial upgrade. He has black armor and red eyes, just like his second variant in-game. He rules alongside his wife, the Shadow Queen- who would later become the Ice Queen. The Shadow King is a living shadow, the embodiment of evil- fueled by hatred. His army is a legion of red-robed Cloaked Shadows. And yes, these soldiers are seen in-game and are the same race of living shadows as the Shadow King. The Shadow King rules from a massive castle that will one day become Polar Peak. The capital city lays below and is known as Happy Hamlet.

The Fire Faction is the second most powerful kingdom and the Shadow Faction's biggest rival. It is ruled by the Fire King. He is a stone-faced goliath made of magma. Fiery lava glows beneath his stone flesh. He rules from a lake of lava with a volcano palace in the middle. This is a nod to the popular theory that Loot Lake would become a volcano. The Fire King would one day become The Prisoner. He has a son, the Prince of Fire, a demon-like man called Malcore.

The Raven Faction rules from a land of soupy purple mist. Raven rules this kingdom with his wife, Ravage. In the thick woods of this region there are sasquatch-like beings. We do end up seeing one as a battle pass skin after a bit of frost: Trog and his penguin pal. Raven is the same shadow-race as the Shadow King. Raven is the Shadow King's brother.

The Knight Faction is headed by Red Knight. She rules with an iron fist- just like the Shadow King.

The Ranger Faction is governed by the stone-like Love Ranger. He rules a democracy rather than a monarchy. He is the only leader of one of the Kingdoms to favor peace and unity over all else. The court of the Love Ranger is made up of living wooden nutcrackers like Crackshot and Crackabella.

The Five Factions meet on a council at the Round Table in Polar Peak. The five rulers have seats there, but other royalty like the Shadow Queen, Malcore, or Ravage do not. The Shadow King believes in the power of the Ouroboros. The Ouroboros are celestial, mythical serpents who eat their own tails to reforged the cosmos. They represent eternity, unity, and an infinite cycle. The Shadow Faction's two symbols are the three claw marks of an Ouroboros and an Ouroboros contorted to form an infinity sign. The Shadow King wields a mythical greatsword forged by the greatest smiths of the Knight Faction. The royal blood of each kingdom is essentially a god. Great power. Only gods can wield the weapons forged by the gods. The greatsword of the Shadow King is one of them. Known as the Infinity Blade, the Shadow King's sword bears a name in resemblance to the philosophy about the Ouroboros cycle. The Infinity Blade channels the Shadow King's core abilities- cryomancy. The Shadow King keeps five Ouroboros eggs in his dungeon. The eggs need extreme sub-zero temperatures to hatch and live in. The Shadow King inserts the Infinity Blade into a stone to channel its power into the dungeon- therefore creating so much cold the eggs can thrive. If the sword was to be removed, the eggs would slowly warm and reenter a state of suspended animation. The Shadow King's plan is to chill the Ouroboros eggs so they incubate, then form the Ice Moon to create a blizzard big enough to consume the whole island to provide a habitat for the serpents, then the Shadow King would watch as the Ouroboros hatch and reforged reality itself.

The Fire King sees the Ouroboros as the one thing that could destroy everything good in the universe. The Fire King is all the goodness in the world while the Shadow King is all the evil. A Ying-Yang complex in a way- another symbol of the Ouroboros. At a meeting at the Round Table, the Fire King attempts to assassinate the Shadow King and end the Ouroboros. The Fire King fails and his throne is toppled by the Shadow King- hence why one chair is sprawled on the floor in Polar Peak. The Fire King is arguably the most powerful of the five gods. He is imprisoned in the dungeon alongside the eggs. The Infinity Blade is used to freeze him to such an extent that his skin of magma cools and freezes. The now-powerless god is chained and frozen for eternity. The Fire King was the Shadow King's counter. Now nothing could stop the Ouroboros. The Fire King is now The Prisoner. Malcore is heir to the fiery throne, but the Shadow King freezes all the lava and volcanic rock of the Fire King's kingdom- absorbing it as part of his own. He cheats Malcore out of a kingdom and establishes four kingdoms rather than five. Malcore becomes malevolent towards the Shadow King. He wants revenge. He wants to kill the Shadow King and free his father to kill the Ouroboros. Malcore- the new Fire King- gets no seat at the Round Table. He is thrown aside and ignored.

### **The Revolution**

A man living in Happy Hamlet- called Nicholas- leads a revolution against the tyrannical Shadow King. He and his army of living snowmen- the Slushy Soldiers- lead a full-scale violent revolt. Raven, Red Knight, and Love Ranger betray the Shadow King and back Nicholas up. Three gods and an army against the one stronger god and his army of living shadows. Two armies- one of good and one of evil- clash. One of snow, one of shadow. The Shadow King breaks the three other gods and imprisons them on an isle prison in what would become the ice bunker. As the Cloaked Shadows break the revolution, the Shadow King initiates the final step in this chapter of his plan. He uses all his power to begin to freeze the entire dungeon in a block of ice, freezing the entire castle in ice except a small tower at the top. He does not cover it in snow, nor make the outside icy or snowy. He just incases the inside of the main keep in ice. He puts himself into a state of suspended animation on his throne- only to awake when the eggs near hatching so he can awake and form the Ice Moon. The Infinity Blade can only be wielded by gods, and with every other god imprisoned- no one could warm the eggs and nothing could stop the Ouroboros. The Cycle has begun.

However, Nicholas rose to godhood. His pure willpower, his pure grit to kill- to end- the Shadow King allows Nicholas to pull the sword from the stone. He draws the Infinity Blade and uses it to kill the entire Cloaked Shadow army with ease. Every single one of them dies. The Ice Queen slips into hiding. Nicholas- now something of a god himself- ended The Cycle. The eggs don't warm, but stop chilling. They will not hatch until the blade returns to its place in the stone. The cutscene of drawing the sword for the promotional launch of the item takes place on this island, that's why there's no snow covering everything. Nicholas becomes a saint- St. Nicholas. He becomes Polar Peak's lone ruler and unites all five kingdoms as one. He becomes known as Santa and delivers toys, handmade by the Slushy Soldiers, to good children in a rocket powered sleigh.

The Shadow Queen establishes a cult to worship the Ouroboros and plot its return. Paradox and Lace are cultists under the head cultist- the Shadow Queen, now known as the Ice Queen.

### **The Regime of the Knights (Season 2)**

Most belive Black Knight to be a bad guy. However, I say he is a hero. Black Knight won the first fortnight game and his final base was that house outside Wailing Woods, kind of between the forest and Risky Reels, with the wooden spire sticking out of the roof. While other structures are destroyed after each game, this structure was kept together in testament to the first win ever.

Royale Knight and Blue Knight formed the Knight's Regime. They wanted to overthrow the government and start a new world with them on top. Blue Squire operated out of Moisty Mire and Royale Knight out of the bunker by Tomato Town. Black Knight was from Wailing Woods, but built a massive castle on a mountain along with a surrounding kingdom. This was called Kingdom Keep. Also note that Haunted Hills resides there now instead. The Knights attacked and burned Kingdom Keep to the ground, turning it into Haunted Hills and the castle into Spooky Stronghold- introduced in game in Season 6. The castle ruins that used to be in the game are the remains of one of the villages. In the end, Black Knight teamed up with a hitman called Reaper to stop the Regime. Both of the Knight's regions would fall later on in the storyline.

Reaper is a hitman who lives in the pine forest mansion south of the ruins of Black Knight's kingdom. On Halloween, Reaper puts a pumpkin on his head and becomes Jack Gourdan. For all we know, that's his real name. He kept the Infinity Blade as far away from the castle as possible, to prevent the Ouroboros from being released.

### **The Intergalactic Prison (Season 3)**

The Agents sent astronauts to space to make new discoveries about this universe. The ones we know about are Mission Specialist and Moonwalker. They ventured to deep space in their shuttle and discovered an intergalactic prison run by aliens called Enforcers. Imagine them as space police. Being exposed to the Enforcers caused both astronauts to become corrupted- much like Dark Bomber. This turned them into the evil Dark Voyager and Dark Vanguard. Their shuttle suffered the same fate- and the Enforcers pushed them out further into deep space. One inmate in the prison was an alien war criminal called The Visitor. The Visitor was in prison for destroying worlds by causing absolute chaos. All he ever wants is to watch worlds burn. He broke out of the prison while the astronauts took most of the attention. He got in an escape pod and piloted towards Athena. This escape pod acted like a caddis fly- chunks of rock would attach to it, disguising it as a meteor. We know the escape pod as the meteor that appeared in the upper atmosphere towards the end of Season 3. The Visitor was coming and chapter 1 was about to begin.

### **From Beyond the Center of Dusty Divot (Season 4)**

The Agents were very concerned with the arrival of a meteor in the sky. Tests showed that it was likely going to hit the metropolitan city of Tilted Towers. Elite Agent ordered Rouge Agent to evacuate the city just before the impact time. Ever wondered why Rouge Agent is called rouge? Well here is your answer. He went rouge as he had some lead that showed Dusty Depot and the factory district would be hit instead. He evacuated Dusty and the factories instead and saved many lives. However, the meteor was arriving. It began to brake up and many chunks hit all around the map. One chunk did actually hit a central building in Titled. Regardless, the massive chunk of the meteor containing the escape pod crashed into Dusty Depot. The impact killed Rogue Agent and wiped out one warehouse and severely crippled another. All the factories were wiped out, leaving an absolutely massive crater that served as a dusty no-man's-land. Much of the meteor's shell broke up in the divot. These glowing purple crystals were called Hop Rocks and when ingested, granted the user anti-gravity superpowers. The Agents investigated the crash site as seen in the trailer for Season 4. The central figure in the trailer with round glowing eyes was thought to be Carbide for a long time. However, it was not. It was even said that it was the blockbuster skin- a white and black robot-like character. This was actually Vertex. His eyes match up and it would make sense the head of the government would investigate such a catastrophe. The Agents quickly set up a quarantine facility at the center of Dusty Divot. Toxic Trooper and Hazard Agent were among the hazmat crew who worked there, mining the glowing red core of the meteor. This red core was the final layer before the escape pod. The mining was breaking The Visitor free.

The Agents study Hop Rocks and create new devices out of them: Bouncers and Shockwave Grenades. The Bouncers are blue platforms with Hop Rocks built into them. On impact, the Bouncer projects the energy from the Hop Rocks within- causing the user to fly with the same properties. Shockwaves are actual Hop Rocks incased in a shell. When thrown, the Hop Rock shatters and sends you flying. One meteor fragment hit the prison and freed Red Knight- who would flee to Flush Factory to plot her revenge.

### **Blockbuster (Season 4)**

During and after the meteor crash, the main storyline of Season 4 was happening: The shoot of a large-budget super-hero movie called Carbide Vs. Omega. Characters included Carbide, Omega, Valor, Oblivion, Criterion, Bandolier, Moisty Merman, Flytrap, Venturian, Ventura, Chromium, Die-Cast, Battlehawk, and Squad Leader. These characters have no storyline relevance as they were just filming a movie. The only ones who do are Squad Leader- who is actually an actor named Maverick who is a member of the Cobra Crew gang- and Moniker, who is a wealthy actor. Moniker has some storyline relevance in Season 5 and Maverick has some storyline relevance in Season 6. This movie was shut at Risky Reels when completed.

### **The Overseers (Season 4)**

The astronauts sent up by the Agents never returned, prompting a freelance space program to seek answers to what happened. They asked Vertex for permission to send their own rocket to space, of course using phasing tech to pass through the dome. Vertex agreed on the condition that the rocket base- built into a mountain- could be used as a filming location in the movie. The conditions were agreed on. This was a shell company, however. It was a front for terrorist acts. It was no rocket in the mountain base I call Mischievous Mountain. No, it was a missile. The terrorists I speak of are Oman and Fate. They want to send this "rocket" into the sky and have everyone watch its launch, only to be struck with fear as it divebombs into Tilted Towers. Oman and Fate reflect the members of the community who hate Tilted and think its game-breaking. The two terrorists now had the perfect plan to have the whole world watch Tilted fall. As you all know, this is not what happened.

By this time, the mining on the meteor core uncovered the escape pod. The Visitor broke out and killed many members of the hazmat crew. The Visitor brainwashed Hazard Agent and Toxic Trooper to box up all the Hop Rocks in boxes and ship them to Mischievous Mountain- the rocket base. The Visitor and his personal crew began to fuse Hop Rocks to the rocket to give it interdimensional capabilities. Many people think The Visitor just wanted to go home, and used to agree with this. However, saying this makes the entire future Enforcer story a lot more convoluted and pointless. So, I'm going with the fact that The Visitor just wants Athena to burn. He wants anarchy and chaos.

The day of the rocket launch had arrived. Oman and Fate were ready to send the missile into Tilted and send a message of fear and panic. The Visitor realized that Oman and Fate were going to launch at the same time as him, so The Visitor had to solve this issue. Before he could, Fate saw both hazmat agents and killed them both. This scene is shown in Fate's loading screen. The Visitor killed Fate, but it was now that Vertex learned that the "space program" was a front for terrorism. Armed with a shotgun, Vertex rushed to the mountain to stop the terrorists. As seen in Vertex's promotional artwork, Vertex leaped into the base and shot Oman in the back of the head. Vertex then tried to stop the rocket launch, but The Visitor killed him to. Doctor Vinderman- the creator of this world- was dead. The Visitor reprogrammed the rocket's course. The whole island's population was watching. The rocket sailed into the sky and dropped its booster onto Anarchy Acres. Then, the rocket divebombed for Tilted. Just before impact- the Hop Rocks served their purpose. The rocket went through a rift-like wormhole. It bounced in and out of wormholes, tearing holes in the fabric of time and space. Finally, the rocket hit the sky and created an absolutely massive rift. This was the Rift that would decorate the sky for many months.

The Rift grew and grew. It sucked up different items and threw in new ones. Both the beloved Tomato Head and Durr Burger head were whisked away into another world. The Visitor's work here was done. Chaos had arrived. The Visitor slipped into hiding. Many would say the bunker in Wailing. I say, look to the hints in Season 6. E9 is what the cube matter would spell out. E9 is home to an industrial park I call Icky Industrials. This is where The Visitor slipped off to. He remains here for the rest of the known story.

The astronauts finally return to Athena. Their shuttle begins to burn up during reentry. The now jet-black shuttle hits a traveling Battle Bus on the way down. This bus crashes onto a mountain near Shifty Shafts. The shuttle then crashed into Anarchy Acres and wiped out the entire farm. Dark Voyager and Dark Vanguard died in the crash. Anarchy Acres needed to be rebuilt and Moniker and Fortune rebuilt into the Lazy Links country club and golf course. By this point, Raptor had dropped out of the Air Force and joined the Agents as Havoc. His dress uniform is the skin Royale Bomber. Detectives begin to investigate the Rift. Sleuth and Gumshoe set up a firm in Retail Row with rival Noir operating out of the seedy underbelly of Tilted Towers.

### **Worlds Collide (Season 5)**

This is what came to Athena and what left when worlds did collide, thanks to The Visitor using the rocket to shatter time and space:

* The Durr Burger head went to California.
* The Uncle Pete's Pizza head went to ancient Mexico.
* A Loot Llama went to Earth's far future.
* A human tagger called Drift.
* An ancient Norse village.
* A chunk of the Californian desert.
* Moai from Easter Island.
* Samurais from ancient Japan. (Shogun, Musha, Hime)
* Plague Doctors from 17th century Italy. (Plague, Scourge)
* People from the 60's. (Far Out Man, Dreamflower)
* People from the 80's. (Aerobic Assassin, Mullet Marauder)
* A Ninja from the storm-fighting days of Earth. (Cloaked Star)
* Bikers from Plankerton. (Backbone, Chopper)
* People from the wild west. (Calamity, Deadfire)
* A pilot from WWI Germany. (Sky Stalker)
* Werewolves, and Vampires from a world of monsters. (Dire, Dusk)
* German Vikings (Jaeger)

Smaller rifts appear- but unlike the one in the sky, they are not tears in space-time. These smaller rifts are instead sentient creatures- cleansers if you will that sterilize wounds in time and space. The Rift is obviously a very big wound in space-time and the little rifts are hear to heal it. Each rift is actually a butterfly-like creature as we later see during the final cube event. Over the course of Season 5, the rift butterflies silently heal the rift, hence why is shrinks as the season goes on. But you may ask, why do you teleport into the sky when you touch one? Well, this is because the butterflies are portals in themselves. They are healing the sky, so when you come in contact with one- it spits you out in midair because that's where its energy is being directed to.

The Loot Llama would return from the future as a humanoid DJ called Yonder who could set up a club in Icky Industrials.

Drift was the first flesh and blood human to go to Athena, meaning he- and the others from the Rift- should bleed red blood instead of blue pixels. This obviously isn't part of those skin's designs for rating purposes. Drift tagged the Durr Burger before a rift sucked him and the head back to Athena- landing on a hill by Pleasant Park. The Norse village full of Vikings landed on a mountain and the desert was slammed on top of the swamp of Moisty Mire. These two new locations were Valhalla Village and Paradise Palms. The desert also contained an adobe down that I call Quaint Quadrant, a junkyard I call Desert Dump, and a race track that I dubbed Rowdy Races.

Drift was quickly befriended by Brite Bomber- who he would later date as supported by multiple loading screens-, Rex, Tricera-Ops, and Cuddle Team Leader. They got some golf carts and took a massive road trip all over the island. This road trip was the main theme of Season 5. Season 5 was a break- the summer. It was the calm before the storm. Little storyline happened in Season 5 until its tail end when Kevin the Cube arrived. Before we get ahead of ourselves though, let's go back and answer the question on what's the deal with Drift's electrokinsis and that Kitsune mask.

So, the mask Drift wears is a Japanese mask called a Kitsune mask representing a cat. The wearer is called a Kitsune and usually gains mystical abilities from said mask that increase over time. Drift's power set clearly is a direct pull from this myth as he gains more power as you level him up.

So, this Kitsune mask from Japan is sucked into a rift and brought to the Enforcer prison. This is the Enforcer's first encounter with a rift and they know that The Visitor is behind this. Sending mask back through a rift would most likely bring it to where the rifts originated- Athena. This would most likely be where The Visitor would be. So, the Enforcers meld device to the mask that would send a homing beacon to them when worn. They then send the mask back through a rift and it lands back into Fortnite. Drift finds it and begins to wear it. Overtime, the device activates and begins to grant Drift mystical powers- manipulation of purple lightning. Note that nearly everything involving the Enforcers involves purple lightning. Drift's lightning being purple is not a coincidence. The homing beacon works by granting these lightning powers to the wearer. The unique energy signature alerts the Enforcers of where it is, so they can proceed in an invasion to catch The Visitor and bring him back to prison. Overtime, his powers grew greater and Drift became very powerful. He felt as if this power was corrupting his soul- as most Enforcer stuff corrupts those who come in contract with it. Drift chucked the mask through a rift, bringing its powers with it. This is why Drift doesn't wear the mask in later loading screens. The mask went back to Japan where it was worn. The human wearer gained these powers as well, and this is where the Kitsune legend originated from. It was just a Japanese cat mask until the Enforcers gave it power and Drift returned it to Japan where this mask became a legend of supernatural powers.

By now, the rift is nearly closed due to the butterflies sterilizing it. But, the Enforcers have a different idea. They begin hopping through the Rift and returning lost items back to Athena. They return the motel sign, and bring an ancient Aztec city who worshiped the Tomato Head back to Athena. Apparently, the Tomato Head arrived in ancient Mexico atop an Aztec pyramid and they believed it to be a god. Many of the Aztecs came with the city, resulting in the formation of a Tomato-worshipping cult. This is why the Tomato Head gained his war paint. The only actual Aztec skin we get, however; is Nightshade from the Season 6 battle pass. Anyhow, the Enforcers had to wear specialized life support suits to survive in Athena's atmosphere and it is these suits that we see on the Enforcer skin. They need a full-fledged army to search every inch of the island for The Visitor, but at this point, the Rift is too small to send an army through. They can't make it grow, but they can hold it open. The Enforcers use some kind of tech to hold the Rift open so it doesn't finish closing. This resulted in the rift being a different shape and glowing purple for a short time. Purple lightning began striking down into the desert before the lightning condensed into a massive purple cube. The Cube was a high-tech Enforcer terraforming device. This is what the Enforcers sent down to begin their plan to catch The Visitor. The age of The Cube is here.

The Cube spawned on a canyon height on the edge of the desert biome. The Cube had its own defense mechanisms to prevent it from being harmed. These countermeasures were electrocuting threats with purple lightning or pushing them off with extreme- and sometimes lethal- force. The Cube spawned in within the desert, and turning its travels- Brite Bomber touched it. The bolt released killed Rex but also showed Brite Bomber a dark reflection of herself. This showed her what she was becoming. She quickly was corrupted and became the evil Dark Bomber. She became a threat and Drift was sadly forced to kill his love.

I'm not going to get into what The Cube actually did until the Season 6 section. This is because it makes the most sense when all stated together. So, the Cube won't be mentioned for a bit.

### **Hunting Party (Season 6)**

Before we get into The Cube, let's talk about the main theme of Season 6- the Hunting Party. The previous Rift spawned in many monsters into Athena. Dire and his pack of Werewolves made Wailing Woods into their home. A Vampire called Dusk took up fort in the remains of Black Knight's kingdom, Spooky Stronghold- the name I call the haunted castle by Haunted Hills. In response to these monsters, a hunting party was formed. This party consisted of Fable, Spider Knight, Arachne, and Drift. Their base would be the now-abandoned rocket base, as supported by the spider-webs everywhere. These three heroic hunters would hunt the monsters and kill them before they would kill civilians. Spider Knight was actually Black Knight, but with new spider-themed armor.

Meanwhile, in the middle of the desert, a llama ranch is run. The workers are cowgirl Calamity, Giddy-Up, Hay Man, and Straw Ops. Hay Man and Straw Ops- scarecrows- would go to Fatal Fields and establish a cult involving teddy bears. Anyhow, Giddy-Up chased fireflies that led him into Wailing Woods. Dire and his pack killed Giddy-Up. Wanting to avenge her fallen friend in righteous retribution, Calamity would join the hunting party. Fable ended up hunting and slaying the Werewolves, but she was ambushed and killed by Dusk. This left Calamity, Spider Knight, Arachne, and Drift alive. Dusk did catch Drift and bite him, turning him into a Vampire called Sanctum. Dusk and Sanctum would return to their castle. Now, a cowboy named Deadfire joins the party to help take down the monsters. Deadfire and Calamity go to Spooky Stronghold. Armed with a poisoned crossbow, Calamity shoots Dusk and kills her. Deadfire kills Sanctum- therefore killing Drift- by putting a pickaxe into his skull. All of these instances are seen in the loading screens for Season 6.

### **Darkness Rises (Season 6)**

So, now let's talk about the Enforcer's whole plan and what The Cube did from Season 5 through Season 6:

The Enforcers need to catch The Visitor- who is hiding in Icky Industrials. They want to return everything to normal and catch The Visitor, so they hop through the Rift and return lost items back to Athena. They were suits because they can't survive in Athena's atmosphere. However, the butterflies are healing the Rift and it is nearly closed. The Enforcers hold it open making it glow purple. They send down The Cube from it and the Rift closes. The Cube lands on a canyon height in the desert. The Cube is a terraforming device to make Athena inhabitable for the Enforcers. This process would kill everyone in the end, but the Enforcers don't want to destroy this world- they want to fix it. So how does this work? Well we don't really see it because the Enforcers never complete their plan. So let's go over what their plan really was and how it should have ended.

The Cube rolls around the map and prints one of seven Runes. These Runes form anti-gravity domes. These domes are incubators so the nearby land can terraform into corrupted grey rock- that of the Enforcer homeland. Small cubes form in these corrupted zones called Shadow Stones. When broken open, they turn the user into a spectral phantom that can phase through nearly anything. After the land corrupts itself, the domes fade away. The Cube ends up rolling into Loot Lake. It corrupts the water and turns it into a bouncy purple gel. The Cube sinks to the bottom and fuses itself to the bottom of the central isle. At the start of Season 6, darkness rises, The Cube pushes itself out of the ground, creating the floating island, leaving a rocky whirlpool in the now-dubbed Leaky Lake. A stormy maelstrom also forms around the island. Darkness- the Cube- literally rises. The Cube's island floats over each Rune and activates it. Activating the Runes makes the Runes form their own energy which is shown when the bounce pits form. The Cube then floats over the final Rune and activates it. The other Runes then rise out of the ground and drift towards The Cube. The Cube then absorbs all the energy they generated to become more powerful. This energy condenses into purple blocks that grow all over the island. They turn the soil purple as the cube matter consumes a majority of the isle. When all the energy is expended, the Rune islands drop out of the sky. The Cube- fully charged- then floats to Leaky Lake. The Cube begins to pulse like a beating heart as it is supercharged with energy. The cube matter is arranged in a spire. Energy is focused through said spire, creating a sky beam that opens a portal in the sky. This portal goes to the Enforcer homeland, but they don't go through because the island is still largely unsafe. The Cube uses its excess energy to create a massive shockwave that causes the island to explode. Halloween was here and Fortnitemares had begun.

The shockwave knocked a Battle Bus out of the air, causing it to crash at Lazy Links. When the purple lightning struck the bus, the bolt directly hit Deadfire- who was aboard. The cube lightning striking him directly would give him virulent powers. When the island fractured and exploded, it sent all that purple cube matter all over the island. The shards would embed themselves into the ground. The bus crashed near one of these shards. Deadfire- the lone survivor of the crash- stepped out of the bus armed with a single-action revolver. His eyes glowed green- result of his newfound powers. The shard began to spawn Zombies. These Zombies began to form in large numbers and attack Deadfire. He fended them off but these Zombies were spawning in army-size numbers all over the map- forming at every shard. Deadfire's skin turned blue, his hair white, and his eyes green. Green fire burned over his skin as he became a force to be reckoned with. He could project green flames from his hands- as seen in his Virulent Flames contrail. These made him an effective Zombie hunter. Deadfire would take a Shadow Stone and chain it around his back for quick escapes when the Zombies became to strong. The floating island was now fractured into several pieces with The Cube floating freely below- now spider-webbed with cracks.

The hunting party had eliminated all the monsters but now had Zombies to deal with. They came down from their mountain headquarters to fight the Zombies. As seen in week 6's loading screen for Season 6, Deadfire and Calamity would stand on a rock surrounded by hundreds of Zombies and kill them all. An all-out-war between the people of Athena and Zombies had begun. The hunting party rallied the entire population to fight with them and the war reached its climax in the churning tides of Leaky Lake. As seen in week 7's loading screen for Season 6, the entire population charged into the lake to fight the Zombies as The Cube cracked overhead. During this final battle, Deadfire was killed and his soul was absorbed by Calamity who learned to use it as a weapon. The Spectral Essence contrail and Calamity's smoky shroud is actual Deadfire's soul.

Season 4's starter pack was called Wingman. If you look at his helmet, you see Maverick's trademark undercut peeking through. So, Maverick leaves the gang and joins Athena's Air Force. The challenge game deck in Playground actually has storyline relevance. The wooden deck is held up by fiery boosters and houses weaponized pirate ships and elaborate bases. Known as The Deck, the platform was created above the lake as a warfare tool. The Deck would be used to combat Zombies from the air. Wingman helped build this flying weapon. The Agents also developed androids called Archetypes that would be sent in to fight Zombies.

The Cube began to shed its outer layers and melt. The molten purple goo fell into the whirlpool as The Cube died. The Cube event was about to begin. Most of The Cube had melted and during the final battle between the people and the Zombies, the Cube event occurred. The Cube dropped its inner core into the whirlpool just before the event started. The Cube then turned grey as it was dead. It began to spin rapidly before its hollow shell exploded, creating an blast so strong, it killed everyone on the island. As most know, the screen went white and you awakened in the afterlife. Everyone on the island was killed by the blast and sent to the InBetween- Athena's afterlife. This glowing white realm housed the spiraled bodies of everyone who was killed. Back in Athena, the portal had now expanded to cover the entire sky. The lake would dry up into sand and The Cube's shards would embed themselves on the edges of the island. They would form an anti-gravity dome that would surround the entire island and the whole island would turn into corrupted ground. The Enforcers would then come through the portal. The Enforcers would build cities out of purple cube matter and hunt The Visitor- who was strong enough to survive the blast. The Enforcers would then bring The Visitor back to prison. Then, that leaves the question on how this "fixes' everything as the Enforcers wanted. Well, after The Visitor was caught, the Cube's fallen core would rise out of the ground, and suck up all the Enforcer matter, leaving the normal map underneath. Everything the Enforcer's created would be absorbed into the core, which would return with the Enforcers and grow into another cube for them to use if needed later. The Enforcers would then use an artifact called the Ghost Portal to resurrect everyone they killed, therefore restoring everyone to life, catching The Visitor, and fixing the island. As you know, this is not what happened.

A rift butterfly formed in the InBetween. These butterflies caused chaos but always set things right. The butterfly was going to fix everything and prevent any further meddling on Athena. A default skin touched the butterfly, therefore sending everyone through its rift. Everyone rifted into the sky, viewing the new world the butterfly formed. Leaky Lake was an oasis with a rainbow overhead- the Cube's shards decorating the center. The portal was forced shut. The butterfly made everything good again, but it also foiled the Enforcers- which saved The Visitor. The butterfly made the map we know today but also stopped the good-hearted plan of the Enforcers. The Visitor is still in hiding and he will have now future storyline relevance. But what happened to the default who touched this all-important butterfly? They were imbued with the power of the rifts- transforming them into the super-powered Galaxy. However, the butterfly sucked everyone out of the InBetween. This is the stage where souls go in between reality and the afterlife, hence its name. However, you can drift within this limbo for quite some time and Deadfire, Dusk, Sanctum, Giddy-Up, and Dark Bomber returned to life alongside everyone else. However, the butterfly made everything pure again, including the souls of the evil- meaning the monsters were now docile. It was truly the calm after the storm. Everyone was happy and the evil was extinguished. With Yonder as the DJ, everyone who returned to life after The Cube exploded went to Spooky Stronghold for a massive party. For some unknown reason, a bomb would go off- destroying the entire castle and killing most of the people there, including Yonder. The reason behind this is detailed in the Season 6 Ragnarok section as these two chapters occur at the same time.

### **Food Fight (Season 6)**

The Tomato Heads had previously returned as a Tomato-worshipping Aztec cult. I even call Tomato Temple Cultist County on occasion. The high-ranking cultists gained Aztec war paint, but the leader of the cult is the only skin we ever got that is an actual Aztec character. This is of course Nightshade from the Season 6 battle pass. Nightshade wants to expand their pizza empire and eliminate the Durr Burger of Greasy Grove. The Tomato Heads move into burger territory with pizza-themed food trucks and begin to kidnap Durr Burger workers. The kidnapped employees are taken to the temple and forced to become Tomato Heads as seen in the Tomato Temple loading screen. The lack of employees causes Durr Burger to become less popular, thus giving more business to Uncle Pete's Pizza. Bu the restaurant war had not yet truly begun. A puppet master was about to pull some strings and bring burgers and pizza to war. This was the Tender Defender. The Tender Defender's dream was to open a chicken restaurant and dominate the culinary world. The Tender Defender saw both the Tomato Heads and the Durr Burgers as a threat to his dream. Clad in a chicken suit, Tender Defender set up a home in the watchtower of Lonely Lodge, setting up radios and decorating the woods with yellow feathers. The Tender Defender went to Greasy Grove and put roaches in the Durr Burger, causing it to get shut down because of health violations. The Lorax-like protector of Greasy Grove- the Beef Boss- assumed the Tomato Heads were behind the sabotage. Even though the Tomato Heads had the same goal, they were framed by the Tender Defender. The restaurant war had begun, as seen in the gamemode Food Fight. The Durr Burgers and the Tomato Heads battled it out. During this chaos, both restaurants were left abandoned, leaving an opening in the food industry. Tender Defender took this time to build a chicken restaurant where the Marvelous Mansion POI- a filming location from the movie- was. The Durr Burgers win the war and put the Aztecs out of business. However, the Durr Burgers are out of business too, leaving the chicken restaurant as the only option. The Tender Defender manipulated both factions into destroying each other. The chicken won by using "Fowl Play".

However, the Durr Burgers would not give up so easily. They would later buy out The Block and build a Durr Burger themed amusement/water park complete with roller coasters and waterslides. The Tomato Heads would continue to worship within Tomato Temple but would still compete with the Tender Defender by opening a new restaurant in Retail Row, also in direct completion with a new Durr Burger outdoor restaurant. However, new food chains would spring up in Retail Row: Melty Mugs, Syrup Saloon, Savvy Sam's Spectacular Salads, and Taco Town. Retail Row was now Restaurant Row.

### **Magic of the Permarift (Season 6)**

Under Wailing Woods, the Agents set up an underground base to study rifts. They artificially form one using a particle accelerator-like device. This creates a new, smaller tear in time and space. Even though it looks like a butterfly rift- it is not. It is just a smaller version of the tear in the sky. This is called the Permarift. The Agents learn to redirect its energy into separate teleportation portals. They are almost organized, directional rifts. In the Peramrift's shards, a snowy castle is seen. The common theory is this means a snowy castle POI is coming in Season 7. I say not. The castle seen is what's on the other side of this rift. It is the snowy land of medieval England. Too much tampering leads to the Permarift opening and a mage from medieval England to come through. This the Wandering Warlock of Wailing Woods. This is Caster and he is the new villain for this new chapter of the storyline. Caster sticks his gnarled staff into the Permarift, binding the Permarift two his staff- creating the Spell Slinger pickaxe. This is why that pickaxe has a rift-like structure within it. The Peramrift's power is also bound to his wand- therefore why the Llamacadbra emote shows the user opening small rifts. Caster kills Elite Agent, and Sub Commander- therefore essentially eliminating what was left of the government. The lone survivor, Rook- takes Elite Agent's brain and puts it in the body of a hamster- transforming Ramirez into Hamirez. Caster escaped the base through the portals. Caster uses the Permarift staff to open a portal for an army of mages to come through along with the sinister Dark Llamas that serve as their mounts. The army of warlocks charges out of the woods.

The mages are seen as a major threat to the Vikings of Valhalla Village. They declare war and the two armies clash. Vikings of ancient Norway vs. warlocks of medieval England. The war largely takes place on the Viking mountain. Magnus and Huntress lead the Vikings and Caster and Elmira lead the users of the arcane arts. Caster, Huntress, and Magnus have their final duel aboard the massive Viking ship. The Vikings pried the Permarift staff from Caster. The Vikings both held the staff and its power blessed them with godlike cryomancy- turning them into Ragnarok and Valkyrie. The two Harbingers killed Caster and defeated the mages with ice dragons that came from the Permarift's magic.

### **Ragnarok (Season 6)**

The Permarift Staff continued to increase Ragnarok's cryomancy to godlike levels. Ragnarok hitched a Frostwing dragon to the front of his longboat to fly him away from Athena to test his magic. Ragnarok's goal is to transform Athena into a land of ice and snow. To bring on the apocalypse. To bring on the actual Ragnarok. But first, Ragnarok needs to test out his cryomancy on another land to ensure he will succeed and establish himself as Athena's god. He flies his longboat and dragon to the island where the King of Shadows ruled and Santa now inhabits. Ragnarok conjures up an icy hurricane that is the actual Ragnarok. It freezes the entire island and turns it into a frozen, icy hell. The hurricane spins around the island non-stop. The new ice age kills most of the population. Those who keep living that are not divine like Santa, replace body parts with cybernetics. These cyborg people replace their spines with metal and their skin with insulation. They discover a teal gel that heats things up a lot. They pump it into a sac worn over their face to keep their body warm enough to function. This is exactly what the Cobalt skin is. A person from the Island of Five who went cybernetic to continue living on. The ice turns Santa into a militaristic killer. He sees everyone he loves frozen to death. He grows cruel. He becomes Sgt. Winter. The hurricane covers Polar Peak in snow, burying the entire frozen castle. Seeing he can successfully summon frigid hurricanes, Ragnarok sails back to Athena to prepare to freeze Royale Island.

Sgt. Winter uses the Infinity Blade to sever a chunk of the ice sheet off from the rest, allowing it to drift on open water. This iceberg contains the castle, Happy Hamlet, Sgt. Winter, his snowmen, Trog, Happy Hamlet's surviving population of Cobalts, and the last group of Ouroboros cultists. While drifting in the ocean, Sgt. Winter's enlists an engineer called Lynx to help him develop robots to assassinate Ragnarok in revenge for destroying his homeland. Lynx goes to work in Frosty Flights- the newly built military air force base where biplanes and Sgt. Winter's sleigh reside. She would later become a fan of Yonder's music and the comic-book villain Omega. These robots are the A.I.M. series. The global symbol found on the robots and in Frosty Flights is the symbol of the new militaristic force. Sgt. Winter is an evil, militaristic version of Santa in every way. His sleigh is decked out with warheads and instead of a bag of toys, he has a bag of firearms all wrapped up. Instead of cheerful gnomes, he has killer robots. Sgt. Winter sends an A.I.M. in a biplane to scout out the environment to find where Ragnarok is. The A.I.M. robot flies around and parachutes over Flush Factory. He lands and scouts out Royale Island just after The Cube exploded and the Galaxy set everything straight again. A.I.M. lurks in the shadows during the party at Spooky Stronghold. The A.I.M. self-destructs- completely obliterating the castle and killing nearly everyone there except Yonder. This is why the haunted castle looked like it got carpet bombed at the start of Season 7. This unique energy signature told Sgt. Winter exactly where to steer the iceberg to. The hurricane is still raging around the iceberg and freezing it even more. The people of Athena begin to see a snowy hurricane and a colossal iceberg drifting toward Royale Island.

### **You Better Watch Out (Season 7)**

The iceberg gouges itself into the southern portion of the map and extends the landmass dramatically. Sgt. Winter blames all of Athena for killing his people, not just Ragnarok. Sgt. Winter declares war on everyone and sends a fleet of biplanes to blitz the island. Wielding the Infinity Blade, a war has begun. Sgt. Winter and his army of snowmen and robots have begun a conquest. The A.I.M. robots set up expedition outposts all over the islands with ziplines and dirt runways for planes. Ragnarok went into hiding, knowing they were going to kill him. The hurricane finally dispersed after covering a quarter of the map in snow. Zenith and Summit Striker are mountain climbers who explore the new snow biome along with Zenith's husky Remus. Frostbite is the outfit Raptor dons during this time as well.

Sgt. Winter sent one of his soldiers- a woman called Powder- to find the leader of the island to interrogate to locate Ragnarok. Flying around the island on a driftboard, Powder found Hamirez- the hamster with the brain of the deceased director of the Agents, Ramirez. Powder kidnapped the hamster after killing Rook and rushed back to the iceberg biome to give her to Sgt. Winter. This kidnapping is seen in one of the Snowfall loading screens. Sgt. Winter interrogates Hamirez and finds out that Ragnarok resides in Valhalla Village. Sgt. Winter kills Hamirez and leads his robot army to the Viking mountain to kill both Harbingers. They succeed.

With the Infinity Blade in the hands of Sgt. Winter, the eggs have been heating for a long time. They begin to melt all the snow covering the castle. The intense heat generated from the dying Ouroboros eggs melts all the snow and reveals the entire complex. Sgt. Winter gives the Permarift staff to the Frozen Legends. The three decide to freeze a block of ice around the stone where the sword belongs so the eggs can never be cooled to the extent needed.

Sgt. Winter won his war. The Harbingers are dead, Hamirez is dead, and Athena has no ruler.

Malcore begins to melt the snow covering the castle of Polar Peak to reach the dungeon and finish his plan. He melts the ice inside and uncovers the Shadow King- now the Ice King- in suspended animation. He continues melting the snow to reach his father.

### **All Hail The King (Season 7)**

But, Santa became evil. He gave into his inner demons. Despite killing Ragnarok he still became the greatest source of evil in Athena. The cultists led by the now Ice Queen believed that the evil within Sgt. Winter could resurrect the King of Shadows. But to do this, the cultists led by the Ice Queen needed something more evil. They recovered a fragment of The Cube found in the blast zone of Spooky Stronghold, once held by Calamity. 'Lil Kev was taken by the Ice Queen and absorbed into Sgt. Winter. He was corrupted into a demon-like being called Krampus. The Cube energy is why Krampus has purple eyes. Krampus stole the son of Merry Marauder and Ginger Gunner, the Merry Munchkin, to establish himself as truly evil. This comes from Merry Munchkin sitting in a bucket that matches Krampus' robe perfectly. Krampus was taken by The Ice Queen and taken to Polar Peak. They took Krampus up there and took him to the now melted throne of the Shadow King. Still in suspended animation because the eggs hadn't hatched, the Shadow King was essentially still dead. But the Queen sacrificed Krampus to him, and the pure evil was strong enough to awake him. A confused Shadow King awoke, frozen over, wondering why he was awake- why the ice even melted. This is seen in the week 7 loading screen for Season 7. The King of Shadows was covered in ice and frost- resulting in the people of Athena dubbing him the Ice King. The Ice King was back and took his throne as the ruler of ice and snow. He absorbed the entire Permarift into himself- turning him even more godlike. The Ice King and The Ice Queen were now the lone rulers of Polar Peak once more.

When he ruled his kingdom, the Ice King was the red and black variant. After evil resurrected him, he was the silver and white variant because he was frozen over. But after absorbing the Permarift, he became the blue and black. The Ice King was a literal god.

### **The Desolation (Season 7)**

The Ice King now is alive and has unlimited power. He begins The Cycle once more. He took the Infinity Blade from Krampus and put it back into the stone, freezing around it so it could no longer be removed. He focuses his energy into a tiny little ball of light that is actually his soul. He rises into the air and forms an ice sphere, known as the Ice Moon or "Mooney" around himself as he condenses all his power into this soul energy between his hands. As his power focuses, a miniature blizzard begins to brew around the Ice Moon. The Ice King shatters the moon around him, and releases the energy he's been building. He uses his own soul to create a colossal, goliath avatar of himself that literally scrapes the sky. The Ice King pulls the miniature blizzard generated by the Ice Moon into his hand while his avatar mimics the movement but forms a larger blizzard in his hand, which also conjures a gargantuan hurricane of icy hell behind him. The Ice King releases the tiny blizzard while his avatar hurls the massive icy tempest of a hurricane at the island. The tidal wave of ice and snow plows across the island and transforms it all into a snowy hell. The remains of the "Ice Desolation" settle above the ocean, entombing Royale Island in a soupy white mist. The Ice King expends the rest of his power to conjure a new legion- The Ice Legion. Unlike the Cloaked Shadows that serve as his army, the Ice Legion guards the Ouroboros eggs to ensure their safety. The Ice King is now nearly dead. He is weak, crippled, and powerless. All the energy from the Permarift is gone, and his initial power is nearly expended. The Ice King goes down to the dungeon and rests with the eggs, waiting for the moment when they finally hatch. The Ice King appoints his Queen as his superior. All hail the Queen. She becomes Polar Peak's new ruler. The Ice Queen watches as she sees the Ice Legion protect the eggs and slay the innocent. She betrays her husband and frees Raven, Red Knight, and Love Ranger. They are now frosted over. They are the "Frozen Legends".

### **Snowfall (Season 7)**

Why is the season called snowfall? Because the age of snow and ice is falling and collapsing. The reign of the Ice King will end. Malcore melts the icy prison of The Prisoner- the Fire King, his father. He breaks him free and the Fire King walks free. He is still chilled and unable to use any of his godly power. He escapes and goes east. He lights campfires along the way to absorb the heat to slowly but surely regain his power. This is why a chilled Fire King is sitting by a campfire in the week 10 loading screen. He ends up at the site of Block Construction- which bought out Risky Reels sometime ago. The Fire King erects a pyramid to focus the power he has regained from campfires. His skin smolders once more as the Fire King truly becomes the Fire King he was before he became The Prisoner. The golden light in the center of the pyramid and the sky beam above it is the Fire King's power being channeled through it. It heats up the island and begins to melt all the snow from The Desolation. The snow melts westward at a fairly fast pace. The snow stops melting at the original gelid biome as the Frozen Legends keep it as a snow biome. The Fire King leaves Royale Island and goes to the island with the skyscraping mountain. In week 8, a little ball of fire appeared on that island. This is the Fire King traveling to the top of the mountain. He transforms it into a smoking volcano. During the leaked earthquake event, the volcano will erupt and create a massive ash storm over Royale Island. The volcano will create an earthquake that will shake the map as lava cascades towards the island. The lava will melt the towering Iceberg and Polar Peak will collapse and melt. The castle will become a ruin below. The tidal wave rushes east and fills Dusty Divot with water- turning it into Dusty Docks. The water continues east and mixes with the desert sand and the new grass, making a new swamp biome of mud and dirty water. Welcome to Boggy Borough. Season 8 will have a swamp environment theme and a new wrap will be olive green with swamp plants and water dripping off of it. During this earthquake event, the Fire King will form and avatar just like the Ice King did and the two avatars will fight as the volcano erupts. Just like with The Desolation, a several day event with free cosmetics will occur just after the live event to finish off the season. During this time, the entire island will temporarily be covered in grey ash kind of like grey snow. This ash blows entirely right when the event ends. During this event there are no lava fiends or anything, but the ground will occasionally shake as an earthquake rolls through. When it shakes, all builds are destroyed and players collapse to the ground in the Earthquake gamemode.

The Season 8 trailer sees the last remaining Ouroboros egg washing up in the tidal wave, washing up in Boggy Borough's swampy region. The egg hatches right there in the mud.

This is the end...for now...