This week's episode follows three characters at the edge of something they can't take back. Cylas finally has Vra'shek exactly where he wants him. The settling of accounts is colder and more deliberate than anyone expected. Inside the Artifact's resonance core, Castor is being asked to declare himself Creator or Destroyer. His answer, quiet, stubborn, and completely him begins to crack something open that the Artifact wasn't prepared for. And a thousand years in the past, Freydis watches the future she couldn't stop and makes a decision about what kind of empire she'll build in its shadow.