Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - An optional war before the chase
An optional prologue brings the disturbance to Battleon before the pursuit through Xeven's portals. Kairos says that Time Wraiths are pouring through openings around town, attacking and consuming everything they find. The Council of ChronoLords authorizes the Hero and their allies to destroy the scavengers fleeing the timestream. Vorefax should not appear for more than a quadrillion years, Kairos says, yet its immense mouth is already here. The Hero proposes meeting it with a blade and an army of heroes. Kairos welcomes the answer from his soon-to-be friend.
The historical war effort uses medals rather than the seventeen-step chase sequence. Kairos's tutorial calls for five War Medals or three Mega War Medals to advance the shared meter. The community quest panel lists Portal War Medal and Portal War Mega Medal alongside a daily task, Time to Battle On!, that requires five Time Wraiths slain and offers additional war rewards and Wisps. His promise of equipment made from starstuff gives the campaign a practical incentive. The later native map retains medal-button IDs, but captured records for those IDs now carry Dragon Slayer medal names; those records cannot confirm the community Portal War medal descriptions.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - Scavengers and conditional predictions
Time is running out... targets ten newly hatched Tempus Larva before they can grow into a larger threat. Time never truly dies... confronts the Neverborn, a creature Kairos says was never meant to leave the timestream. It can appear again until its energy is exhausted, making repeated encounters an opportunity to learn its tactics. The quest requires one Paradox Foiled, while its community reward list offers varying quantities of Chronus Gems. These tasks belong to the optional war, rather than supplying extra steps in Xeven's main chase.
Kairos's public predictions, published on April 29, 2016, mix threats with promises at successive war milestones. He foresees a new danger when timestreams cross, warns that temporal decay could leave even the mightiest no stronger than a child, and expects the creature flood to increase as its source approaches. Other forecasts offer gold, fame and battle rewards; the last glimpses a sharp-edged item in the Hero's final charge. Their repeated qualifications make them conditional forecasts, not a record that every predicted transformation or reward occurred.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - A creature out of its own time
The war's concluding scene returns to the Neverborn. Kairos asks for a countdown, and the Hero counts from three to one. The creature cannot last in this world: it was made from starstuff and was never meant to exist here. When the Hero asks whether the fight was therefore unnecessary, Kairos distinguishes necessity from preparation. They did not need to fight it, he says, but should have done so because something much worse is coming soon.
Kairos refuses to explain the coming danger further because doing so would affect the future. The Hero already knows about Vorefax and the Council of ChronoLords, and will learn the rest soon enough. His later local account adds that everything which just happened results from what comes next. In the same conversations, he calls the war a fixed point whose outcome the Hero can influence. The prologue establishes his mixture of foreknowledge, uncertainty and deliberate silence before Xeven's account gives the paradox a personal face.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - A resistance fighter at the villains’ table
The council turns to Xeven after Vaden's account, but several of its members doubt that she belongs there. Pax mocks her diary and treats her as a child. Xeven says she is eighteen; Scarletta challenges Pax's attempt to make the argument about gender. Sekt insists that only beings powerful enough to conquer or destroy the world should sit at the table. When Vaden asks whether Xeven is even a villain, her answer is emphatic: she is not.
She calls herself a resistance fighter from the future. She has seen a mechanized bio-undead Future Legion wipe out everything, a battle between the underworld and the plane of Light, and the end of time. Yet she considers something she saw the Hero do worse than all of them. She would do anything to prevent it. The accusation gives her pursuit of the Hero a purpose, but she withholds the act itself; her certainty is not a revelation of what that future contains.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - The blades that frighten Sekt
Xeven stole the Tachyon Blades from a ChronoLord to change the future. They can cut through the fabric of time and space, as well as less abstract targets. Sekt recognizes them and immediately attempts to leave. To the others, she still looks like an unlikely threat; to him, she is the most dangerous person at the table. He suspects what she has done, and her terse confirmation removes his last hope that he is mistaken.
Her account begins with the Hero chasing her through time toward its end. Kairos, the High ChronoLord, urges the Hero to follow target X7 through the portals and stop her before it is too late. He describes the portals as a way to follow her timestream and warns that she may be setting a trap. His other explanations are less reassuring: Time Wraiths appear when space and time are broken, while the enormous purple Vorefax in the distance represents the end of time itself. Asked about the ChronoLords, Kairos even calls the Hero their boss, then catches himself in the wrong timeline: this Hero has no scales and is not a dragon. The confusion is his, leaving the relationship a teasing glimpse rather than a settled fact about the Hero in this encounter.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - Following the damage
Kairos's route follows Vaden's defeat. Through the Portal! sends the Hero after Xeven and requires four Time Wraiths slain, so that the creatures cannot follow and damage the past and future. The Portal Maze offers three level-oriented versions through Kairos, corresponding to its base, B and C aliases. They are alternatives along the same pursuit, rather than three successive trips through different stages of Xeven's life.
The first substantial interruption is Delta V. Scientist Jeff Plinkins says that a blue-skinned girl freed the BioBeasts and stole his secret LAZORS. In Red Alert, the Hero shuts down four malfunctioning lab guards before they destroy the laboratory. Bugs... They Give Me Hives adds six squashed bugs after Xeven's escape also opened the Hive. Jeff appreciates the help, although recapturing the escaped beasts remains someone else's problem.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - A scientist mistaken for a cave man
Through the Delta V Portal! leads onward, with four more Time Wraiths to defeat. On the other side, an apparently prehistoric man can only grunt and gesture toward nearby monkeys. Hwoounga? Unf! asks the Hero to recover one Flux Communicator. What first looks like a request for a stolen banana becomes the means of understanding an entirely different visitor to the past.
The man identifies himself as Professor Broun, a scientist from the future who was studying dinosaurs. Xeven attacked him and stole his clothes and equipment. She also attached the stolen LAZORS to dinosaurs, leaving Broun unable to deal with the result. They're Firin' Their LAZORS requires six weapons removed. Through the Jurassic Portal! then follows her eastern escape route and adds another four Time Wraiths slain.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - The missing moglin and the butterfly effect
The next disruption reaches Aria and Twilly. Aria's initial speech runs backwards, with a warning that the Butterfly Effect is in effect. Where's Twilly?!? requires a Missing Moglin, Missing Butterflies, and a Sarcastic Note From Xeven. Its clues establish that the dark elf took Twilly; Aria still cannot understand why. After the task, Aria explicitly thanks the Hero for finding him and removing the Butterfly Effect.
Through the Yulgar Portal! sends the Hero through another opening, again requiring four Time Wraiths slain. Xeven's trail has also left a cake with a taunting note: it was not a lie, she stole it, and the Hero should come for their just desserts. The cake is a joke and a sign of her passage here. Its later role in a separate food errand will depend on another quest line, rather than being a required step in catching her.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - Grick’s rhyming emergency
Grick Rhymes greets the Hero in verse while trying to keep Coral and a strange red companion alive. Ode to the Walkers requires six zombies slain; Sonnet of the Undead recovers a Rain Bucket, Coral's Sunglasses, and Grick's Pickaxe. His gratitude is as insistent as his warning that Coral must stay indoors. The chase briefly becomes a rescue and recovery operation in a world where even the plea for help rhymes.
Twilly apologizes for revealing his darkest secret after the dark elf refused to release him until he told her. The ensuing Through the Zombie Portal! task urges the Hero after Xeven and requires four more Time Wraiths slain. It also asks the Hero not to be angry at the secret waiting on the other side. Xeven's route has acquired a personal embarrassment that the people caught in it hoped would stay hidden.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - The queen’s secret
The next scene finds Queen Lynaria asking Valen to kiss her. He protests that his oath to the king makes it treason, but she insists that he shares her feelings. Their private encounter is interrupted by the Hero's arrival through a portal, and Valen calls for the guards. The scene presents their intimacy without turning it into an explanation of Xeven's still-unnamed grievance against the future Hero.
Lynaria apologizes for Valen's reaction and asks the Hero to keep the secret, as Twilly did. Your Lips Are Sealed requires six Pactagonal Knights defeated, with the queen pleading that they not be hurt and asking afterward whether they are merely unconscious. King Alteon, meanwhile, wonders where his wife is. Through the Swordhaven Portal! follows the opening Xeven cut with her blades and requires another four Time Wraiths slain.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - The end of the diary
Xeven reaches the end of her diary and admits that she does not know where the next portal leads. It takes her to a graveyard and a younger version of herself. The younger girl recognizes the resemblance and is delighted by the future self before her. Xeven gives her the already-filled diary and tells her to read it carefully. The scene supplies a loop in the book's transmission without explaining where its information first originated.
She warns that the younger girl's new archenemy will arrive moments later and tells her to remember the Hero's face and read page ninety-seven. Before leaving, she tells the girl to call herself Xeight. The new name will become clever and funny in about five years, she says. When the Hero arrives, Xeight refuses to help catch her older self. The Hero answers that Xeven must be reached before the ChronoLords catch her, or both will be doomed.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - Judgment at the end of time
The Council of Chrono Lords captures Xeven and tries her for stealing the blades, forbidden time travel, disrupting timelines, altering past, present and future, traveling to the end of time, and unleashing the Vorefax. They also accuse her of creating a paradox that has increased its power seven times and may do so an eighth time. Xeven admits what she has done while defending her attempt to avert the future. She accuses the council of seeing the danger and being too cowardly to act.
The unanimous sentence is death. The Hero interrupts the countdown and demands Xeven's release, claiming to have a plan. Xeven had understood the pursuit as an attempt to kill her before she killed the Hero; the Hero instead asks for help against the vast threat beyond them. They agree to cooperate, with Xeven absurdly asking whether the assassination can resume afterward. The ChronoLords refuse the arrangement and order the Hero seized as well.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - A paradox inside a paradox
Escape from the ChronoLords requires four council opponents defeated. At the villains' table, Sekt is incredulous that the Hero rescued Xeven and overcame the ChronoLords single-handedly; Xeven confirms it. Pax quietly asks whether they were the good guys. The interruption changes the apparent alignment of the chase: the supposed target has become the Hero's ally, while the guardians of time have become an obstacle to their plan.
The Hero asks Xeven to make many portals. Ziri suddenly understands both the naming joke at the grave and the intended paradox within a paradox. Xeven admits that she never said it was a good plan. Vorefax requires the immense creature defeated once, and its completion still warns that the danger is not over. The attempt to turn the loop against the end of time has not yet closed every opening it created.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - Returning the favor
After the Vorefax fight, only one portal remains to be sealed. Mors Temporis, the Death of Time, comes through it. Xeven warns the Hero and throws herself into the danger; the confrontation leaves her mortally wounded. When the Hero asks why she saved them, she says she is returning the favor. Their bargain at the ChronoLord trial has acquired a cost neither the council's enemies nor the Hero can dismiss as another joke.
The Hero promises to get her out, but Xeven refers to her younger self, warns that the girl will come after the Hero, and insists that she still knows what the Hero did. Her last words do not disclose it. The Death of Time then requires Mors Temporis defeated once. Kairos frames the crisis as the result of failing to stop Xeven and the paradox; its completion offers safety for now while leaving the repercussions unknown.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - Xeight takes the same seat
The younger assassin follows the diary's accusation. One version says it told her what the Hero did; another says what the Hero is going to do. The authored scene chooses between them according to an earlier stage of the Hero's journey. The wording shifts with that history, but both paths converge on her vow to assassinate the Hero at any cost. The book still withholds the deed that makes this vow seem necessary to her.
At the table, she is now Xeight. Sekt says they have had the exact same conversation eight times, and an accompanying note explains that his fourth-dimensional pyramid lets him detect it. He complains that she never reveals the secret. Xeight argues that saying it aloud could worsen the future and insists on following the diary exactly. Sekt recognizes that they are still trapped in the paradox; the other villains would rather he stopped complicating the plot.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - The next story and the missing weapons
The host asks which villain hurt the Hero most, since neither Vaden nor Xeight managed even an injury. Ziri boasts that he made the Hero dead; Pax objects that the players wanted his arena story first. Ziri's response turns their dispute into another wish-powered joke, followed by an unexpectedly serious warning about being careful what one wishes for. The competing stories continue, while Xeight says her diary locates the Tachyon Blades somewhere between time and space, waiting for her.
Kairos supplies an optional continuation after the main crisis. Xeven's blades remain lost in the Time Void, and he fears what would happen if the wrong hands recovered them. The Hero takes the violet portal into Deep Portalspace to meet him. There, his Tachyon Detector is supposed to trace the weapons, while the green and grey portals impose a different rule: green entries carry travelers forward, and grey exits cannot be used to retrace the route.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - Sand and an unreliable detector
The Western Portal sends the Hero along a northern trail, with two Time Wraiths and a Timestream Rider to overcome before returning. It leads toward an enormous closed portal. This Thing Needs A Bigger Battery immediately interrupts the investigation: fifteen measures of Time Vortex Energy from Spacetime Anomalies are needed to recharge Kairos's detector. The search for the weapons repeatedly becomes maintenance on the instrument meant to locate them.
Deserted examines a desert reached through a permanent portal, gathering four samples of sand, three Sand Shark Scales, and three tufts of camel fur. Getting Sand In Your Boots turns to a gold pillar displaced from its original indentation. Standing on nearby gold discs changes the sand flow, offering a way to return the heavy statue without lifting it. Completing that task triggers the first of three short portal interludes and opens the next part of the search.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - The temple without its scars
The Eastern Portal repeats the hazardous exploration and arrives at the same immense portal. Time for a Tune-Up then requires six Void Crystals from Medusoids to repair the detector. Kairos sees an Ancient Temple resembling the one on Lore, but without its damage or chaorruption. He wonders whether it belongs to another timeline or to the world's distant past. The source leaves that question open rather than establishing which explanation is correct.
Time Void Archaeology gathers four Tog Droppings, four Fury Feathers, three Plant Samples, and three Ancient Artifacts for that investigation. Going With the Flow finds another statue out of place. Stones cover streams of running water; the Hero must use the water to move the statue back. This is the eastern temple's puzzle, before the central route, and its completion triggers the second portal interlude.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - Wind, ice and runes
The Central Portal reaches the same junction after another two Time Wraiths and one Timestream Rider. Kairos is increasingly sure that the giant portal is the key. His detector again needs attention, and Is There Tech Support For This Thing? supplies ten doses of Void Serpent Venom as lubricant. Shoveling Snow studies an area resembling the Frozen Ruins, collecting four Ice Wolf Shards, four Elemental Snow Molds, and five Giant Icicles.
Winter Winds uses strong gusts, initially blocked by large ice crystals, to return an icy pillar to its former position. Its completion triggers the third portal interlude. Opening the Megaportal then turns to the scattered Void Crystals and the runes above the portals as clues to the required activations. The three portal interludes show the junction changing as the search advances, with entries turning green and runes appearing above them.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - Inside the great worm’s reach
Beyond the Megaportal, Kairos notes that its size and color distinguish it from openings cut by the Tachyon Blades. He reasons that whatever is on the far side made it. The Hero and Kairos enter and confront Svelgr the Devourer, an enormous worm of the Time Void. Kairos says it can be defeated but never destroyed: it regenerates within its whirlpool and returns to consume challengers. The Hero responds by wondering whether it can be fought alone.
The detector's intense response initially looks like another breakdown. With no other candidate present, Kairos realizes that Svelgr ate the blades. The recovery therefore becomes a fight for the pieces inside it. Svelgr the Devourer and Svelgr the Devourer II are separate repeatable quests, each requiring one defeat, and their text warns that recovering all the parts may take several fights. A defeat is not the permanent destruction Kairos has already ruled out.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - Pieces, a core and another assassin
Kairos offers to merge the recovered pieces, but the weapons also need a Tachyon Core. Core Exercise requests six Void Serpent Venom, four Void Crystals, three Spacetime Energy, and three Timestream Energy. These supply the proposed repair, not proof that an intact weapon has already been assembled. The search establishes how the pieces and core are to be obtained while Xeight's diary continues to describe the blades as waiting for her.
A separate Chronos Class Quest, shortened to Chrono Class Quest on the community page, links the search to becoming a Chrono Assassin. It requests one Svelgr Fang, six Sands of Time from Chronorysa in Portal War, and twelve Wraith Wisps from Time Wraiths in the Portal Maze. Its description claims twelve Saeculum Gems as a reward, while the completion text speaks of a single gem and the captured reward field lists one; twelve are needed for the class. That conflict is retained. The native records also mark this class task and the Deep Portalspace quest branch as membership content, without proving present account access or an actual reward grant.
Throne of Darkness: Xeven's Tale - The cake on a later errand
The cake's default note belongs to Xeven's trail, but a later Burgers interaction serves another story. After A Weird Gourmet, its additional dialogue describes the cake wavering in and out of existence. Bulbug's Piece of Cake directs the Hero here for something sweet that can reverse the flow of time. The additional dialogue follows that other quest line and becomes the active cake interaction during Piece of Cake.
The Cake is NOT a lie! requires ten Time Fragments from nearby Time Wraiths to stabilize it. Its completion text describes cutting a slice for Bulbug, and its reward record lists a Slice of Cake. This is a local cross-event return to the Portal Maze, rather than an eighteenth step in Xeven's original chase or a complete account of Yulgar's Borgars. The earlier joke has acquired another use, while the far more consequential mystery of the future Hero remains deliberately unanswered.