Scanlan realizes that Delilah’s book wasn’t a spell book; it was an instruction manual that has to do with The Whispered One. Pike recognizes the name as an undead creature that seeks to return to this plane. The solstice marks the best time for such a creature to cross over.
Delilah tells Sylas that the Whispered One is coming. When it does, she and Sylas will be together forever.
Percy fails to convince Ripley to come with him and give up the fight. As she runs, darkness momentarily overtakes Percy, and a voice says he is letting his prey go.
Cassandra distracts Percy, however, by willingly offering her neck for Sylas to bite. Percy rushes towards them, commencing the fight.
Vex keeps a possessed Vax at bay while Cassandra attacks Percy. Cassandra’s name glows on his gun, and Percy’s mask starts to take over, but he fights the urge to shoot her.
Meanwhile, Keyleth is running out of energy fighting Sylas. When the vampiric foe turns on Scanlan, Pike rescues the gnome- who subsequently swoons. ..
Sylas turns his attention to Percy to slit his throat. Interestingly, Cassandra’s eyes flash gold. She briefly remembers the Briarwoods torturing her and Percy before Sylas possesses her again. ..
Keyleth looks down at her sister with concern. “What’s wrong?” she asks. “You don’t look well.”
She asks for the tree’s help, and vines grow around her hand and her staff until a light shoots upward from the staff. It causes Vax to snap out of his possession and empowers Pike to fight against Delilah.
Grog takes hold of Sylas, pinning him in place. Keyleth directs her light toward him. He burns in the sunlight until he is nothing but ash.
Percy’s gun starts to malfunction, and he can’t seem to hit anything. He looks around and sees that Sylas’ name has disappeared from the gun. Sylas must have been controlling Percy, and now he’s gone.
Cassandra is released from Sylas’ spell and Delilah runs into the ziggurat, closing the door behind her.
She panics, saying out loud (supposedly to The Whispered One) that she has done everything asked of her, including taking Whitestone. She asks The Whispered One to honour its bargain and bring Sylas back.
Delilah then cuts her arm for one final ritual. A green light shoots up in front of her, and black creatures writhe around her.
Delilah turns to face Vox Machina, her eyes wide with surprise. She fires a burst of magical energy at Vox Machina, but Keyleth jumps in front of her and takes the full brunt of the blow. She falls to the ground, and Vox Machina screams.
A cloaked figure appears before Delilah, and an electrifying green light shoots into the Sun Tree. The veins in Delilah’s face grow increasingly black. Then… the cloaked figure disappears. Delilah screams that this can’t be all there is just before Percy shoots her. ..
In the chaos of the battle, Pike runs to Keyleth to perform a healing spell. Just before she does, her connection is severed. Pike wakes up in her physical form, back at the temple—and without having healed her friend.
Keyleth and Delilah are both lying still on the ground. The sphere of black and purple magical energy is spinning in the middle of the ziggurat.
The Episode Review
The staging for this epic battle with the Briarwoods evokes intense emotions. We are thrown into another fight, but this showdown is the most important and plot-relevant yet. ..
The fight in this episode is intricately complicated (and vastly more interesting compared to others) given all the different elements at play, let alone the number of powerful players involved. This episode gets the timing of each movement just right, building up anticipation until the battle’s roaring crescendo.
The season finale of The Whispered One is a pivotal moment for the characters and the world. Will Vox Machina prevail?
