The expedition to find Safehold faces its first obstacles with The Rovers and an unstoppable demon. Prince Ander decides to track down the demon's source, but the only one who can guide him is Slanter, the rebel gnome that murdered his brother.
Tropes present in the episode:
- Antagonist Title: The Reaper, the demon Dagda Mor tasked to stop Amberle's expedition.
- Attempted Rape: Cephelo is about to rape Amberle when Eretria intervenes and rescues her.
- Bodyguard Crush: Captain Tilton and Prince Ander were in a romantic relationship during the flashback, but his guilt about Aine's dead eventually broke their relationship... and she started one with Prince Arion soon after.
- Commander Contrarian: Captain Crispin refuses to listen to any advice from Wil and Amberle concerning the demons or the Rovers.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: In the flashback we see Aine being a great father to Amberle, being the first one who encouraged her to become a Chosen.
- Enemy Mine: Ander invokes this to Slanter since the demons are a bigger threat to both of them than they ever were to each other. Cephelo also joins forces with the heroes in order to stop The Reaper.
- Exploding Barrels: Cephelo and Wil defeat The Reaper by luring him to a field filled with barrels of toxic waste left over from the Great Wars and detonating them.
- Heel–Face Turn: Eretria betrays the Cephelo and the Rovers to Amberle's group.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: Cephelo plans to "have some fun" with Amberle when he has her captured.
- Kill and Replace: The Changeling successfully pulls this off with King Eventine.
- Killed Off for Real: King Eventine, courtesy of The Changeling.
- Only in It for the Money: Eretria turns on her father when Amberle promises to pay her 20 times more than he was.
- Rebel Leader: Slanter led the Gnome rebellion until he was captured 10 years before the events of the series after trying to assassinate the elven king.
- Recruiting the Criminal: Ander recruits Slanter, his brother's killer, to guide him through the Breakline Mountains.
- The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Slanter and his compatriots refuse Prince Aine's attempt at diplomacy and try to kill the elven royal family instead.
- Tin Tyrant: The Reaper, a giant heavily armored demon.
- Token Evil Teammate: Cephelo and Slanter become this, to Amberle and Ander's group respectively.
- Our Gnomes Are Weirder: The Gnomes of the Four Lands are steppe-dwelling nomads, more like orcs or a Barbarian Tribe in their general nastiness.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Dagda Mor tells this to The Changeling after he learns the princess escaped the castle unarmed, but it manages to convince him to spare it if it can turn the elven royal family against Allanon.
