Urban Arcana Episode Guide

## Season One

### City of Angels (S01E01)

* **Character Introductions:** Odessa Nulph, Edgar Nulph, Virgil Summers, Lorraine Nulph, Mallie (cameo), Haniel (cameo)

* **Monster of the Week:** Kobold, Drop Bear
* **Synopsis:** After the tragic deaths of her parents in a car accident, Odessa Nulph moves to Los Angeles to live with her estranged uncle, Edgar. She finds both the man and the city he lives in to be eccentric and strange. But when she is attacked by a gang of strange lizard people in an alley, Odessa discovers her innate magic and learns of her heritage as a wizard. After beginning to learn the ways of magic under her uncle, she accompanies Edgar and his friend, charming nightclub owner and information broker Virgil, to Tiajuana to find a dangerous hermit with a valuable artifact.

### Mirror Mirror (S01E02)

* **Character Introductions:** Abby Spencer, Ajay Bindari, Colin Fairbanks, Donny Faraday, Joel Kinney, Morgan Laufey, Sven Ellicott, Walt Chin

* **Monster of the Week:** Reefclaw, Ghost
* **Synopsis:** Three weeks pass, and Odessa, Edgar, and Virgil travel to find a magical artifact in a sunken ship where Odessa has a close call with death, though is saved by Virgil. Shortly after she starts school and meets a small group of people who could eventually become friends. Throughout the week, Odessa uncovers the presence of a vengeful spirit who seems to be hunting popular kids. She destroys the ghost, discovering strange, new powers in the process.

### Queen Bee (S01E03)

* **Character Introductions:** Ryan Baker, Mister Snow, El Guapo, Bohlale Mwine

* **Monster of the Week:** Thriae
* **Synopsis:** After another two week timeskip, class elections are coming up. While Odessa and Walt are assigned to interview the potential class presidents, candidates are being killed by strange swarms of bees. She investigates and discovers Colin is a witch, who was also investigating. They find the culprit to be an overly-supportive girlfriend who made a deal with a strange, ancient bee goddess and they must stop her before she kills again. Meanwhile, Edgar has a lead on a new job and Odessa and Virgil attend a magical auction to find a lead.

### Tangled Webs (S01E04)

* **Character Introductions:** N/A

* **Monster of the Week:** Monstrous Spiders, Drider
* **Synopsis:** Odessa travels to Hawaii with Edgar and Virgil in pursuit of the Talisman of the Spider God and travel deep into the jungles to infiltrate the temple. Here they find a maze filled with bizarre traps, dimensional rifts, and cursed spiders swollen with dark magic. While battling the talisman's guardian, Odessa makes a terrifying discovery about Virgil.

### Party Hardy (S01E05)

* **Character Introductions:** Mallie (proper)

* **Monster of the Week:** Orc, Half-Giant (Frost)
* **Synopsis:** Odessa tries to recover from her recent discovery that Virgil is a Devil. In the meantime she gets closer to some of her new friends, especially Sven. A strange stalker is noted. After watching *Beerthoven's Fifth* play a show, Odessa attends a wild party that is crashed by her stalkers--a gang of orcs and their half-giant leader. To fend them off, Odessa must team up with Walt, Donny, Colin, Morgan, and Ajay. When Morgan is killed by the half-giant, Odessa taps into a well of rage and magical power she didn't know she had--and Sven rises to the occasion, awakening as a demigod. The next morning, Odessa discovers that Morgan has, apparently, woken as a vampire and is taken in by the Anarchs.

### The Coming Shadow (S01E06)

* **Character Introductions:** Simon Penbrooke, Heimdall (proper), Mephistopholes, Crowley, Betelgeuse, Titus Spencer

* **Monster of the Week:** Boalisk; Devils
* **Synopsis:** Odess and Edgar go to the Goblin Market! Later, Virgil reveals that Odessa is a Cambion and begins to teach her how to properly use her magic. Ajay brings Odessa to his family's Diwali celebration. Sven undergoes some changes as a result of his demigod awakening and begins a relationship with Odessa. She and her uncle assist the Hoffman Institute in tracking down and killing a Boalisk in the sewers of Los Angeles. Most surprisingly, a group of Devils arrive in town and declare their intention to take the city to Virgil.

### The Iron Giant (S01E07)

* **Character Introductions:** Jessie Garcia, Buddy
* **Character Deaths:** El Guapo

* **Monster of the Week:** Junk Golem, Arrowhawk
* **Synopsis:** El Guapo calls Edgar to do a job for him--recovering his godson, Jesse, who went missing recently. As Edgar and Odessa investigate, they begin to realize that the child is in danger from El Guapo and El Hermadad--the boy, **a Nephilim**, awoke a defunct golem and has gone on the run after the golem killed his abusive stepfather, leading to a series of events as they try to sneak the boy out of Los Angeles to live with an old friend of Edgar's in Idaho. After a street fight with El Hermadad thugs, Odessa is attacked by El Guapo in the apartment--only for Virgil to kill the cartel leader to save her.

### Broken Mirrors (S01E08)

* **Character Introductions:** Vincent Fairbanks, Mirage
* **Character Exits:** Svent Ellicott

* **Monster of the Week:** Changeling
* **Synopsis:** Sven is becoming increasingly aggressive. Odessa and Colin attend a fundraiser together and stumble upon a conspiracy--the Broken Mirror Gang, a group of shapeshifting criminals capture a prominent artist, using their shapeshifting trickery to pull off a flawless kidnapping. While Mirage, the group's leader, does return the victim the next day after they "got what they wanted", on the condition that Colin and Odessa don't investigate them and keep their mouths shut about what they saw. Meanwhile, Odessa and Virgil share a night together and Sven goes on a rampage. After nearly killing Colin, Odessa and Sven share a tearful goodbye as Sven leaves Los Angeles until he figures out a way to save himself from the descent he's been on.

### Mother Dearest (S01E09)

* **Character Introductions:** Arthur Reid, Hanna Rodrigeuz

* **Monster of the Week:** Ahuizotl
* **Synopsis:** A month passes. Odessa and Edgar face a horde of strange, disembodied Giant hands as they recover a new artifact for a client in Arizona. When she returns, she makes a mistake with Colin. Morgan returns to school! Later in the week, Odessa is approached by Walt and Donny who come to her for help in a hunt they are on. After some investigating, they discover a cult dedicated to an Aztec nightmare called an Ahuizotl. With Edgar, the group descends into the sewers and finds the monster, killing it with a blast of bottled lightning. At the end of the night, Odessa is attacked by a strange, hideous vampire but is saved by the timely arrival of a mysterious monster hunter, who promptly vanishes.

### Homecoming (S01E10)

* **Character Introductions:** N/A

* **Monster of the Week:** Nosferatu
* **Synopsis:** Homecoming week arrives. Leading up to the dance, Odessa meets with Mister Snow and discovers her attacker is a Nosferatu--a long-thought extinct breed of vampire called Nosferatu. Odessa is convinced to go to the dance with Morgan and Ajay. While she has a nice night overall, she is attacked at the dance by her nosferatu stalker and is saved by the new kid, Arthur--who, it turns out, was her mystery savior from before.

### Dark Declarations (S01E11)

* **Character Introductions:** Jack Galdyce, Lucien Lestrad

* **Monster of the Week:** Nosferatu, Fleshwarped Nosferatu
* **Synopsis:** Odessa and Arthur try to track the Nosferatu, leading to a bad reveal about Virgil's connection with them and Arthur's research into her. Before she can react to these revelations, they are attacked by a horde of Nosferatu. They fight their way out but Arthur is mortally wounded in the process. She takes him to Colin, who manages to save Arthur. The leader of the Nosferatu, Jack Galdyce, arrives and asks Odessa to send Lestrad a message. Odessa learns from Arthur that he was researching her because he thought she may be the Antichrist. Later, she meets with Lucien Lestrad himself to discuss the coming Nosferatu threat, learning a bit more about how to combat them. Memories surface that reveals a shocking connection to Lestrad--she is a Fetch, and the reincarnation of Lestrad's former lover. The leader of the Nosferatu, Jack Galdyce, crashes the party with a resurrected El Guapo and Crowley in tow. He formerly declares war on the Anarchs and gives Lestrad a week to formerly surrender and leave town. Of course Lestrad has no intentions of doing so, meaning that war is inevitable.

### Tremors (S01E12)

* **Character Introductions:** Russel, Yoriko

* **Monster of the Week:** Ankheg
* **Synopsis:** Odessa takes a brief respite to spend some time with Morgan and Ajay--who randomly go on a road trip to hang out at an abandoned couch in the desert. Odessa tells them about what's happening and Morgan suggests getting allies of their own. Shortly after, Odessa runs into Arthur at a desert gas station and discovers he is leaving Los Angeles--he was wrong about her, he's sure. Shortly after, Arthur and Odessa team up to hunt a nest of Ankheg, venturing into an abandoned desert town and with an assist from Penbrooke and the Hoffman Institute, find and kill the Ankheg Queen. Back in Los Angeles, Odessa convinces Arthur to stay with her and her uncle for awhile at their apartment.

### Rave On! (S01E13)

* **Character Introductions:** Queen of Merriment, Patrick (Satyr), Clever Kingmaker, Haniel (proper)

* **Monster of the Week:** Questing Beast
* **Synopsis:** The search for allies begins as Odessa, Edgar, and Arthur accompany Mister Snow to meet the Ravers--a loose collective of fae who live in the desert and throw monthly raves with the purpose of feeding off of the emotions and memories of the humans who attend. They meet the Queen of Merriment, leader of the Ravers, who agrees to help only if they can bring her the heart of a Questing Beast by sunrise--and if they fail, she will turn Odessa into "a work of art for my extensive gallery". So the race is on the track down the Questing Beast before it's too late! Meanwhile, at a gig for their band, Ajay is attacked by a werewolf and infected with lycanthropy.

### Running with the Wolves (S01E14)

* **Character Introductions:** Zeke NAvarro, Queenie, Jax, Leif Larsson, Misty, Blood Howlers, Felipe "Romeo" Navarro, 8-Ball

* **Monster of the Week:** Barghest
* **Synopsis:** While Ajay recovers, Odessa, Edgar, and Arthur meet with the werewolf packs that make up the Tribe--a very loose organization of werewolf packs in South Central Los Angeles. While most of the Tribe has no interest in joining a vampire conflict, they manage to convince a number to join *if* the group can do something for the werewolves. In that interest, Odessa and the others begin to hunt down a mysterious entity that has been killing werewolves--an entity they identify as a Barghest. With a few members of the pack, they fight the Barghest and track down their leader; the Greater Barghest, who is accompanied by the Blood Howlers; a werewolf pack allied with the Infernals and the Nosferatu. The heroes prevail, earning the allegiance of a number of werewolves.

### Mambo No. 666 (S01E15)

* **Character Introductions:** N/A

* **Monster of the Week:** Demons, Kyton; Cher, Lou Bega
* **Synopsis:** Odessa has a brief meeting with Jack Galdyce, where she discovers the ultimate aim of the Nosferatu is to help the Infernals bring about the Apocalypse. Odessa later learns from Mister Snow that the Bruja--the major coven in town--has sided with the Devils after a coup. Odessa is captured by Mephistopholes and sent to a safehouse in the desert, as a means of exerting control over Virgil. She is psychologically tortured by Betelgeuse, but saved by Crowley, who shows her kindness. He eventually helps her escape and Odessa stages a jailbreak. While she is cornered, she is saved by the last-minute arrival of Virgil and Haniel, who rescue her with an assist from Crowley.

### Revelations (S01E16)

* **Character Introductions:** N/A

* **Monster of the Week:** Demons, Vrock
* **Synopsis:** Back in Los Angeles, the war between the Nosferatu and the Anarchs is well under way. While visiting with Virgil, they are attacked in his apartment by a masked Titus Spencer. Things turn against the heroes rather quickly and the attackers manage to get away with a strange, stone tablet--one of the six shards of the Word of God. Together, these shards can combine to perform any impossible thing one wishes. Odessa's life begins to take a turn downward when she discovers that she is the Fetch of Lillith--*the* Lillith, and a former lover of Virgil's from the dawn of mankind. She leaves him in tears and is breaks down, but is pulled back from the edge by Arthur.

### Storage Wars (S01E17)

* **Character Introductions:** Penny, Bishop, Bash, Bebop, Coyote, TNT

* **Monster of the Week:** Nosferatu
* **Synopsis:** It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Odessa, Edgar, and Arthur spend the holidays together, buying last-minute Christmas presents, bringing home a tree, making friends with a chipmunk and just settling in to enjoy the holiday! Things are slow and happy, which is a nice change for Team Humanity. However, after a lively New Years' Eve party, Arthur and Penny are rushed on the street by Nosferatu, only to be assisted by a group of Hunters who answered Arthur's call for help, among them Arthur's longtime friend Penny. The hunters have been in town a short time already and have been studying the movements on the Nosferatu and their allies and found that they have a store of material components and potions stored away at a storage unit. Together, Team Humanity and their allies launch a daring raid against their enemy in the first major battle of the war.

### Don't Worry, Be Happy (S01E18)

* **Character Introductions:** Robbie, Omar the Odd

* **Monster of the Week:** Giant Crocodile, Spirits, Aberration
* **Synopsis:** In the wake of their first major victory, Edgar brings Odessa and Arthur with him to hunt for an artifact in Jamaica. And, while they're there, they can speak to an old friend, a demonologist named Leo, for a lead on the tablets. In Jamaica, the trio journey through the Valley of Nightmares to find the tower of Omar the Odd, a wizard who had once been a harmless eccentric who went dark and died trying to summon an abberration. After facing a number of challenges in the valley, they find the tower of Omar himself--a crystal tower guarded by a series of riddles and curses. In the end, Odessa faces a transformed Omar and defeats him in a game of riddles and, as a prize, claims a number of powerful magical items.

### The Clouds Burst (S01E19)

* **Character Introductions:** Leo; Anna Johnson, Juliet Alvarez, Eva Nunez, Grace Montenegro

* **Monster of the Week:** Werewolves, Witches
* **Synopsis:** It's a nice little vacation and break from the violence for Odessa and Arthur, who hit the beach and enjoy the sights in Kingston. Visiting a bedridden Leo, Odessa is given a collection of lore Leo had gathered over the years. Back in Los Angeles, they are horrified to find that "gang violence", strange weather, fires--things are bad and the war has begun in earnest. Two major battles are occurring and Odessa, Edgar, and Arthur choose to help the werewolves and the Jade Dragons fight against the Bruja and the Blood Howlers in Culver City. Arriving to find a war zone, they are ambushed by werewolves and Edgar's taxi is destroyed. They eventually find a group of renegade witches who broke off from the Bruja, led by Juliet, an old friend of Edgar's, and they join forces in an attempt to stop the Bruja from recovering another the Tablets from the Cold War Museum. Despite a good fight, the Bruja escape with the Tablet.

### The Blood We Spill (S01E20)

* **Character Introductions:** Cowgirl

* **Monster of the Week:** Various
* **Synopsis:** Team Humanity is reeling from their recent losses when they get wind that Mephistopholes is planning to perform a ritual on the coming full moon, something very bad. Edgar reveals to Odessa that he was the one responsible for resurrecting her when she was just a baby--the first time. A visit from Crowley later reveals the second time, Mephistopholes was responsible for bringing her back the second time, through making a Demon Deal with her parents. Crowley also tells her that she is Lucifer's vessel--the tablets will not be used to open the gates of Hell, but will be used by Lucifer when he returns to Earth by inhabiting Odessa as a vessel. As for the purpose of Mephistopholes' ritual, nobody is sure. After some discussion Edgar and Odessa comes to the conclusion that the ritual will be performed at Griffith Park Observatory and after speaking with Lestrad, the decision comes to launch another major attack, hoping to catch them off guard and maybe even recover the tablets. The attack goes well, but it's in vain--it's all been a set up for an ambush. There is an explosion, which kills most of their allies, and the group itself is attacked by Jack Galdyce, who mortally wounds both Lestrad and Mister Snow. Crowley manages to save them with a last-second assist, creating a Dimension Door for them to escape through, but they are forced to leave Lestrad behind. While they collectively mourn, Crowley tells them that Galdyce cannot be killed unless the black crystal in his chest is destroyed using a magical weapon called a Divine Trammel, which can only be make using extremely rare components and a Spellforge--most of which are gone now. But there is a ray of hope when they discover many of their friends had managed to survive the ambush and escape. With renewed hope, Odessa and her uncle return home to begin their research--only to find Lorraine Nulph waiting for them.