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The picture finally seems to come together. Mortis isn't Mortis, the life he gives isn't his, and the world suffers for it. Somehow, Mortis has stolen the remnant energy of an old god of earth and has found a way to thread it through himself and into others. Thus he's created a web of "undeath" hinging upon himself as the conduit. As far as they know, if he goes, everyone else goes with him. That is, until Annette severed Faust's thread and bound it back to herself. When Mortis cut Erik's thread as well, it was once Annette caught him that he came back to life, binding his thread to herself as well. She realizes that, for whatever reason, she is higher in the web than Mortis himself is.
Faust confirms that she knew all but the last detail until now. Mortis used her but underestimated how perceptive she was, believing that using the most ancient but notable clergy as his Hands would make them easier to manipulate. As Annette and the others traveled to Margaret and the forest, Faust became increasingly plagued with doubts. Her orders were to strike and take her back, not to test her abilities.
Erik ponders whether there can be a way to sever all the threads strung through Mortis without causing mass genocide. Only Mortis knows how to create threads; necromancers were deceived into learning only how to spread them. Annette has proven she can transfer a thread, but can she handle that many? And if she does, will it actually change anything?
After hearing their input, Annette resolves to dethrone Mortis and stop the scarring of the earth from his mad design. She believes there must be a way to cut Mortis out of the web. They'll have to get close to him, but maybe with him out of the picture, the balance would return. Drones could finally rest in peace, and the miasma would cease to spread. Erik and Corvus affirm their loyalty to her, and Faust decides to follow her as well. Thus the choices finally rested on her:
Where do they go now?
How do they kill a god?
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