A police officer tells Bree her mother died in a car crash; Bree senses magic around the officer.

At a cliff-diving party, Sel discovers Bree is immune to his mesmer after they both witness a demon attack.

A hellhound attacks Bree and Nick during their first campus walk together; Bree is injured and passes out.

Bree wakes to find her injuries have broken Sel's mesmer, and she resolves to investigate the Order.

Bree goes to the Lodge and demands Nick sponsor her as his Page to investigate her mother's death; he reluctantly agrees.

Pages take the aether-lined Oath on the altar in the woods; Bree learns Nick is believed to be the heir of Arthur.

Bree and Sel kill a hellhound that attacks the Order group immediately after the initiation ceremony ends.

William shows Bree the Wall of Ages in the Lodge's basement and explains the history of Legendborn bloodlines.

Bree and Sydney complete the mannequin rescue trial as the only successful pair in their round.

Nick asks Bree's consent before kissing her on the walk back to her dorm, and they share their first kiss.

At the Selection Gala, Nick announces Bree as his chosen Squire; she accepts, sending the Order into an uproar.

Davis kidnaps Bree, threatens Alice with memory erasure, and demands Bree abandon the Order to protect her friend.

After being freed, Bree reveals everything about the Order and her powers to Alice, and they agree to fight together.

Bree's ancestor Vera co-possesses her and reveals that an heir of Arthur fathered Vera's child through rape during her enslavement.

Bree pulls Excalibur from the stone; Arthur possesses her body, forces the Order to kneel, then returns control to Bree.

Legendborn opens with sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews learning her mother died in a car crash, setting her on a path of grief and investigation that leads her to UNC Chapel Hill. After witnessing a demon attack at a campus party, Bree discovers she is immune to the mesmer magic of Sel, a sorcerer called a Merlin, which drives her to join the secret Order of the Round Table as the Page of her peer mentor Nick. Through a brutal initiation ceremony and a tournament of dangerous trials, Bree navigates a deeply racist institution while uncovering clues about her mother's death and growing closer to Nick. When Nick asks her to be his Squire at the Selection Gala, Nick's father Davis responds by kidnapping Bree, threatening her best friend Alice, and forcing Bree to break openly with the Order. In the climactic battle beneath the Bell Tower, Bree's ancestor Vera reveals the devastating truth — an heir of Arthur fathered Vera's child through rape during enslavement, making Bree Arthur's true heir. Bree pulls Excalibur from the stone, Arthur possesses her body to force the Order to kneel, and Bree reclaims control and puts the sword back, claiming her own agency over both legacies.

Bree's journey from her mother's death to pulling Excalibur as Arthur's true heir.

At the cliff-diving party, Bree feels electricity when Sel grabs her wrist and asks if she felt something; she lies.

Police put Bree and Alice in a cop car while white students at the party are allowed to leave freely.

Nick gives Bree the Order's sigil coin on a chain to wear as the mark of his Page.

Bree tours the Lodge and sees antique metal manacles on display, realizing Merlins restrain people as well as demons.

Felicity is Awakened by her knight Lamorak during the initiation ceremony and begins speaking in a possessed voice.

A giant demon serpent seizes Nick during the first trial; Sel climbs the creature and kills it, freeing Nick.

Nick confides to Bree that his mother was mesmered and separated from him, revealing why her mesmer immunity matters so much to him.

Patricia takes Bree on a Rootcraft memory walk in the cemetery, where Bree witnesses ancestral scenes of enslavement and healing.

In an ancestral memory, Bree watches a hidden student observe a hooded figure use blood magic to open a Gate on campus.

Bree tells William that Sel is half-demon; Sel bursts into the room and confronts them both.

Patricia introduces Bree to Mariah, a Rootcraft Medium; Bree's first attempt to contact her ancestors fails and she runs away.

During the combat trial, Bree defeats two opponents but Vaughn attacks her from behind after their match has already been called.

Bree's dad visits campus and gives her a jewelry box holding her mom's charm bracelet.

In the underground tunnels, imps attack the group and Fitz is killed when he falls into a deep ravine.

After the battle, Sel tells Bree that Davis and Isaac mesmered him and kidnapped Nick as leverage.

From the electric moment Sel grabs Bree's wrist at the cliff-diving party to the devastating aftermath of the final battle, this pool traces the secondary events that give the story its texture and emotional weight. Bree is introduced to the Order's world through layers of institutional racism — a cop car ride where white students walk free, a tour past metal manacles on display, and a dinner table full of hostility. Key relationships develop through quieter moments: Nick sharing the painful truth about his mother's fate, William healing Bree repeatedly and leaving her thoughtful notes, and Patricia guiding Bree through ancestral memory walks that surface buried histories of enslavement and resistance. Each milestone in the tournament comes with its own cost — a failed ancestor contact session that leaves Bree desolate, a vicious after-match attack by Vaughn, and the death of Fitz in the underground tunnels. The pool closes in the raw aftermath of the climactic battle, when Sel delivers the news that Davis and Isaac have taken Nick, making clear the fight is far from over.

The hidden details, relationships, and costs behind Bree's initiation into the Order.

Sel and Tor hunt and destroy an isel demon at the party; the creature calls Sel a Merlin and mentions a Gate on campus.

The Dean of Students assigns peer mentors to punish Bree and Alice for leaving campus without permission.

Bree realizes the cop who informed her of her mother's death used the same magic as Sel's mesmer, meaning her memories were altered.

Bree researches historic homes near campus and identifies the Lodge of the Order of the Round Table.

Sel attacks Nick during the Oath ceremony, believing Bree is a demon in disguise, until Davis intervenes and stops him.

Alice is revealed to have been secretly updating Bree's dad on her worrying behavior; he insists Bree attend therapy.

Vaughn accuses Bree of cheating at the Lodge dinner; Bree confronts him directly, openly defying Nick's advice to keep a low profile.

During the second trial, Sel pairs himself with Bree for the scavenger hunt; hellfoxes attack and drain Sel's aether.

While fighting the hellfoxes, Bree generates red mage flame from her own fingertips, revealing she can produce aether independently.

Sel takes Bree to Davis's childhood home, where they find a secret file showing the Order monitored her mother for years.

Bree opens her mom's charm bracelet and is pulled into a hidden memory revealing she carries both Bloodcraft and Rootcraft.

During the ancestor contact ritual, Bree is possessed by her grandmother's spirit, confirming she is a Medium.

Bree realizes the demon Rhaz has been impersonating Evan when she notices his footsteps make no sound in the tunnel.

After Bree pulls Excalibur, Arthur's possession of her body reveals to everyone that Nick is the true heir of Lancelot, not Arthur.

Sel offers to become Bree's Kingsmage; Bree and Sel return to the quarry and Bree jumps off the cliff without fear.

This pool follows the chain of revelations that progressively reshape Bree's understanding of herself, the Order, and her mother's death. It begins with the first crack in her reality — the recognition that a cop used mesmer on her the night of her mother's accident — and builds through a series of discoveries that each raise the stakes higher. Bree uncovers the Lodge through research, watches Sel's volatile nature threaten her entry into the Order, and generates her own mage flame during a life-threatening fight, shocking even Sel. A secret file hidden in Davis's childhood home exposes the Order's surveillance of her mother, while her mother's charmed bracelet and a successful ancestor ritual confirm Bree's dual magical inheritance and identity as a Medium. The pool's final revelations hit the hardest: Rhaz is unmasked as a demon who has replaced Evan, Nick is revealed as Lancelot's heir rather than Arthur's, and Bree — now whole — makes her fearless leap into the quarry, finally free of Before-Bree and After-Bree alike.

The discoveries and decisions that transform Bree from a grieving outsider into Arthur's true heir.