Kanin Fyre: Book 3 Summary

Author's Note: Hey guys, I know I said I'd start posting Kanin Fyre today but it's after midnight and I haven't had a chance to reread the first chapter yet and I have just been juggling ALL the things this last week. So I'm going to post the Book 3 recap today, for those who need it, and will start with Book 4 chapters on Wednesday. Very sorry for the last minute change; I really strive to never miss promised schedules.

Please accept these new sticker designs as penance

With that, Here's the book 3, Water Kanin, recap. It's a bit of a doozy, so I'll probably need to cut it down for the eventual book release, but at least it's comprehensive haha.

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After Kanin’s failed attempt to access Earth and recover his body, he’s left stranded in a submarine at the bottom of the ocean with Zyneth. The predator was injured in the fight in Emrox, and now shares equal level of Influence with Kanin. The two work out an uneasy compromise, where Kanin is in full control during the day in exchange for his mind fusing with the predator’s at night. 

Before they’re able to reach land, however, they discover a fleet of ships are after them. They suspect Gillow is to blame, and try to fight their way through. But even with the predator’s help destroying the enemy ships—and nearly consuming more souls—Kanin and Zyneth are overwhelmed by sheer numbers. At the last moment, they’re saved by a new ship crewed by Noli and Rezira. 

Noli and Rezira explain how they received Kanin’s letter and immediately set about searching for him and Zyneth. In turn, Kanin tells them about Emrox and the souls he’s responsible for releasing into this world. He wants to find and help them, but first one of Zyneth’s tattoos has activated, summoning him to another job. The crew heads for Harrowood, where Zyneth can satisfy the debt. 

Strangely, however, the creditor is nowhere to be found when he arrives. Zyneth needs to wait in the city for a month before he’ll be freed of his obligation to the debt.

Abruptly with freetime on their hands, Kanin and Noli decide to make a long-overdue trip to Trenevalt’s cabin, where the two (with help from the predator) are able to lay the wizard’s body to rest and find closure. When Kanin gets back to town, he begins apprenticing with a glassmaker to develop his glass magic and improve his body’s durability. In this time, Kanin and Zyneth also finally talk about their feelings for one another, and they agree to begin dating. 

Just before the month has expired, Zyneth’s creditor returns, and he’s forced to take a new job. This one is to recover a relic in a Ruin called The Drifting Isles. Noli and Rezira insist upon accompanying Zyneth and Kanin on this adventure, and after visiting Attiru to gain access to a map that will point them toward the Drifting Isles, Attiru also joins the team. 

The group makes their way to the interconnected floating islands of land, hidden within the clouds. The terrain is rife with arcana-infused predators, and the team fights their way through in search of the relic. The predator and Kanin find they’ve actually grown to be able to work together, and over the past few months have reached a level of understanding in each other. Kanin asks if the predator would rather be identified with a name, and it decides to call itself Ink. 

When they finally find the relic Zyneth needs to obtain, Ink is immediately on guard. It feels an overwhelming sense of danger coming from the small black marble, though neither Kanin or anyone else are able to figure out why. Uneasily, they leave the Drifting Isles with the relic in hand. Attiru parts ways, and after Kanin, Ink, and Noli are able to privately work through some of their complicated past, Noli and Rezira head home as well. Kanin accompanies Zyneth to the warehouse where the artifact is to be delivered. 

But when they arrive, a familiar face is there to greet them. Yedzaquib, the curator of the Library of Miasmere (which Kanin and Ink previously destroyed), reveals he was the one responsible for the ships that were tracking Kanin and Zyneth at sea. When that plot failed, he took advantage of Zyneth’s debts to draw them both here: ever since he first encountered Kanin, his goal has been to obtain Ink. 

Yedzaquib and his mercenaries attack, and Zyneth and Kanin are thrown into a battle for their lives. Yedzaquib obtains the relic, but before he can focus his attention on Ink, a third party interrupts the fight, launching itself at Kanin. 

Kanin and Ink fight off the fiery new figure, and eventually with Yedzaquib’s help are able to subdue it. Ink feels drawn to the creature, and when Kanin Checks the person beneath the flames, he’s dismayed to realize this is someone much like himself: one of the new souls he’d brought into this world, overwhelmed by an entity like Ink. 

Ink feels an instinctive urge to absorb this new being—but hesitates, concerned that doing so may change its new sense of self. In this moment of indecision, Yedzaquib makes his move, absorbing the fire entity—and the human soul bound to it—into the relic. When Zyneth and Kanin demand that Yedzaquib hand it over, he instead stabs the object into his own chest. 

Through Echo, Kanin witnesses a strange transformation begin to take place. All of Yedzaquib’s stats skyrocket, and he gains a Role Stat. Before it can populate, Zyneth and Kanin decide to take the initiative… and run. 

They’re no match for the mindless creature that Yedzaquib becomes. He chases after, destroying Kanin’s body and injuring Zyneth. Before he can land the final blow, however, their fight is interrupted for the last time. 

A god named Blair appears, sealing Yedzaquib, Kanin, and Zyneth each into separate confinements. She teleports Yedzaquib to the heavens, and she’s about to do the same to Kanin when he objects. She’s surprised he can talk, as she had assumed Ink had overwhelmed his mind. During the conversation, Blair confirms one of Kanin’s fears: if anyone attempts to separate Ink from Kanin, it would tear his soul apart. Her job is to subdue threats like Ink, and capture any of the lost souls Kanin loosed into this world to incarcerate them in the heavens. Attempting to avoid captivity—or death—Kanin desperately attempts to convince the god that Ink isn’t a threat. 

Blair is skeptical, but speaks privately with Zyneth to get confirmation. Once it becomes apparent that Kanin and Ink truly are working together, she decides to let them go free. But she warns them that one wrong step means she would neutralize them for good. 

Blair departs, leaving Kanin and Zyneth shaken. It’s clear Kanin needs to become much more powerful if he wants to be able to protect himself from the likes of Blair. 

But now he knows where many of the lost souls have gone. And if the heavens are wrongfully imprisoning them, Kanin decides his next mission should be to get them back.