Akul’s defeat gave the crew access to Maag Taranau, an ancient Fomori structure suspended above Tarnation. Its scale implied a civilisation whose routes and weapons had once reached far beyond the plane. The vault was not a local relic; it was infrastructure from a forgotten Multiversal power.
Inside waited Loot, a child rather than the treasure most of the crew expected. His mind held an extraordinary awareness of planes and connections. Treating him as a key made strategic sense and repeated the cruelty built into the entire heist: a person could disappear beneath the function others wanted him to perform.
Oko’s willingness to sacrifice relationships for the prize finally broke Kellan’s hope. When innocent lives and his father’s goal came into conflict, Kellan opposed the plan. He had found Oko, learned from him and inherited some of his magic without accepting his measure of success.