Xiang and the Mirror Realm

The Celestial Egg in Brightfall

Mirror Drakath briefly exchanges places with Lore's Champion of Chaos and confirms that both Evil spirits are in Lore, with both Good counterparts displaced to the Mirror Realm. He promises to correct the imbalance, but another problem brings him to seek your help first.

While you consult Warlic and Cysero about a medallion, Mirror Drakath warns you that you have no counterpart in his world. With no corresponding force to balance your actions, the multiverse is reacting against your existence and will erase you unless you find a remedy.

Mirror Warlic and Cysero approach the problem scientifically in Battleoff, where you help them build an instrument to detect inverse wave signatures. Instead of the several weak sources they expect to balance you together, it finds a single faint signal from Brightfall, home of Gravelyn the Good and the Lightscythe Army.

Brightfall's defenders need help against Evil Alteon's undead before you can trace the signal to a monolith in the square. With the attacking commander defeated, Gravelyn agrees to break the stone open, although she knows neither its origin nor its purpose and can only say that it predates the city's move onto Victorious.

Inside is an unfamiliar dragon egg that begins balancing your presence once freed, though no one can yet explain why. Drakath sends the Evil Twins to steal it, but their inability to cross straight back to Lore gives you time to pursue them. If they carry the egg home, you will be stranded in the Mirror Realm, and you fear that breaking it would be worse.

Dage the Good and the Stolen Egg

In the Overworld, you help Dage the Good and his Legion of Light fight Alteon's undead by supplying their forces and freeing enslaved spirits. Among the plans you recover is evidence that Alteon is raising another powerful servant.

Alteon holds the egg and has rebuilt Undead Artix since your earlier encounter, ordering him to kill you even if your death costs him the prize. You defeat the warrior and take his head so Dage can free his soul, but when Alteon tries to smash the egg, Gravelyn must intervene. Her rescue gives the Twins another opening, and the egg falls through a rift into Xing's hands.

Mirror Drakath swaps the Xangs and briefly restores one Good and one Evil spirit to each world, only for Mirror Evil Xang to send the egg into Lore and leave you trapped. Drakath offers to return it in exchange for the Evil Xang, and you argue that Lore still needs you against Chaos. Mirror Drakath accepts the smaller imbalance, and you return home while the egg remains in his and Gravelyn's care. Satisfied with the reunion of his servants, Drakath promises them a Chaos Beast.

Xiang and the Chaos Harpy

A later summons exchanges you with the celestial egg, leaving it with Clerics Dawn and Joy while you arrive in Brightfall. Mirror Drakath explains that the imbalance has become critical and the Evil Twins are trying to summon their Beast. Good Xing and Good Xang agree to separate, despite their reluctance, to restore Order.

Because Drakath can now block a forced exchange, you seek Bardolph in RedDeath Swamp, a former White Mage whose ghost cannot touch the materials he needs. Helping him take solid form lets you prepare a spirit beacon and trap, drawing both Xangs back to their proper worlds and holding them there.

As Good Xang replaces her companion in Lore, Evil Xing learns that Drakath expected Order to insist on the exchange: she could never summon the Beast without the true other half of her spirit. Good Xang calls for help as the sisters unite into Xiang and the Chaos Harpy appears.

In the Mirror Realm, Evil Xang rages at Drakath and breaks the mirror while Good Xing tries to comfort her. Acknowledging that restoring balance has also raised another Beast, Mirror Drakath gives you a shard through which he can communicate when you return to stop it.

Mirror Drakath's reflection directs you to Alina for Shriekward Potions to protect you from the Harpy, allowing you to defeat the Beast before confronting Xiang. The Evil voice threatens you over the death of their pet while Good Xang apologizes and urges you to escape. When Xiang seizes your throat, the Good half's resistance gives you an opening, and you apologize to her before attacking.

After the battle, you lie on the ground while Xiang's halves argue over whether to hurt you, then call out to Drakath and reject the choice he has arranged. You declare Xiang free because Chaorruption does not require obedience, giving Good Xang the chance she welcomes to do good. The Evil half rejects your pity and promises more trouble, but Xang insists that she will not be silenced.