Hugo Kupka and the Titan sequence reframe what an Eikon battle costs. The Dominant of the Earth is not a monster. He is a man who loved someone, and that person is gone, and what remains is the full weight of an Eikon being wielded by grief with no one left to stop it. The realm reshapes around losses like this. It always has.

Clive's power as Ifrit is still not fully understood, by him or by the game. What this session clarifies is that Ifrit absorbs — it takes in the power of other Eikons, grows stronger through contact with what it defeats. The fate that is being reshaped is not just political. It is physical, elemental, a reordering of what magic itself is allowed to be.