No matter which Scion of the Banished Court reaches the tower first... the world will suffer for it.
When the first threshold on each doomsday clock is reached, the Lamplighters all suffer from a premonitory nightmare showing what each Scion will do with the power of the Bright Storm. All three visions are horrifying in their own unique way. The comments from the Lamplighters when they awaken the next morning shows just how disturbed most of them are by the nightmares.
- Lady Nicastro will resurrect her dead and dreaming God and drown the entire world, leaving nothing living but the monstrous Deepstalkers and Tidespawn of House Nicastro.Lady Nicastro: Fear the long reach of the drowned, fear the cold epiphany! Childe, you know not what the tide has spawned to drown the world triumphantly.—Locke: You all saw a vision of the future, should Zorana Nicastro seize the Tower. Unless we stop her, those who drown in her flood will be the lucky ones.Ana Sofía: I saw a Great Flood, even more terrible than Noah’s. And in the waves… a monster beyond describing.Jianyi: I saw Nicastro’s plan for the tower. Raise the seas, turn the world into a dead god’s ocean kingdom.Eddie: Nicastro. She raised the seas, drowned every last one of us. And that ain’t even the half of it.Purnima: In the dream everything was flooded. Oceans, as far as the eye could see. And that creature she fawns over was lurking just beneath the waves.Judith: I saw floods and alien gods. Nicastro right in the middle of it. Like something out of Weird Tales but so much worse.Fedir: A beast in the waves. And it is hungry. Very hungry.
- Lord Strum will plunge the entire world into a never-ending war in which the strong dominate the weak with Strum reigning over everyone.Lord Strum: A new day has dawned! By right of conquest, I, Wolfram Strum, declare myself Emperor of this fallen world! Let our enemies kneel before us, their spirits crushed, their necks extended, to be trampled forever by superior men!—Locke: That dream you had. I had it too. A vision of Wolfram Strum. Of what he’ll do to the world when he reaches the Tower.Ingrid: Red skies, burning cities - and the rest of my life spend under a man’s thumb.Jianyi: Statues of himself. Violence the only law. People who want power are all the same.Eddie: Looked like the recruitment posters in the war come to life.Célestine: A vision of doom. Much like the one that haunted my mistress.
- Marteau will destroy the barriers between life and death, spreading his factories across the afterlives until everyone and everything in existence works for him... forever.Marteau: The Future has a name, and that name is Marteau. Of course, progress comes at a price-and you, my friends, are going to pay it. In labor, working the assembly lines, until your bodies break down. And then… we’ll work your souls. There’s a place in Marteau Industries for everyone, the living and the dead alike. Welcome to the future. It’s the only one you’ll ever know.—Locke: A factory that covers the globe. For an inventor, Marteau is quite predictable. But with his machines powered by the Bright Storm, nobody will be beyond his reach. Not in life - or in death.Nocturne: The door I made… he broke it. Let everyone out. Forced everyone in.Lateef: In the dream I tried to remember my name, but I couldn’t. None of us could. The only name we knew was Marteau.Isaac: In the dream, he put me to work. Not because he needed me. Just because he could.Jianyi: I looked down and my hands were burned and broken. I looked up - and saw him.Purnima: I was in a crowded sweatshop, packed in so tight I could barely see anything. Only metal, and smoke.Ana Sofía: Everything was gray, and loud. Clanging, roaring, churning… weeping.
