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- On their way to the Land of the Dead, flashbacks reveal Taryn's motive in finding the lost city; to recover her daughter Alehna . The Providence arrives at the land after being caught by a whirlpool. The crew enter an abandoned underground city, where Sinbad discovers the area is patrolled by gigantic Guardians, one of which latches on to him. Meanwhile, Gunnar realises Tiger's strange behaviour, and manages to separate her from Taryn. He then finds Sinbad and manages to break the Guardian's hold on him. However his consciousness is trapped in a limbo-like state, where he encounters his crew mates who have no recollection of him, even Jamil. Taryn manages to send him back to life. She reveals that Sinbad is both alive and dead in the Land, and is the only person who can make his way to the city. The crew find Jamil, and they go into hiding until the Guardians calm down. Taryn also finds Alehna in a library, who reveals that Sinbad previously went to the land as an infant before his father freed him. As hounds surround the library, Anwar finds a hidden exit. However, to ensure the group's escape, Jamil sacrifices himself to a Guardian. As the group feast, Anwar convinces Sinbad to continue. As he says goodbye to his brother, it is revealed that Alehna is possessed by some form of darkness that she brought back with her into the land of the living. (en)
- On his birthday, a depressed Anwar begins to have doubts about his place in the group. Meanwhile, the Providence crew do a spot of treasure hunting on a deserted island filled with ship wrecks. They find a box, which opens to reveal a young woman named Kuji , who claims to be a deity. After spending the night on the island, they realise that it is inhabited after finding themselves surrounded by an army of warriors, who threaten to kill them unless they hand over Kuji. When they refuse, the army kill all apart from Anwar, who refuses to leave her behind. Kuji then reveals that the entire event is a test of Anwar's bravery and role within the group. Feeling that he succeeded, she resurrects the group and leaves. (en)
- Akbari organises for the manhunt of Sinbad and enlists the help of sorceress Taryn . Meanwhile, the Providence is hijacked by a feral tribe known as the "Water Thieves", who capture the crew and send them to their island, once home to a flourishing civilisation, now a ruined city, They are brought before their queen Razia , who takes Sinbad as her lover. He learns from her son that he will die, just like her past lovers. Meanwhile, Razia organises for her people to feast on the other crew members. Just before his amulet can kill him, Sinbad manages to organise his group's escape from the island, with the help of a monstrous bird Razia had kept captive. During the escape, Razia's son dies at the hands of one of the thieves. The ship's chef, who hid below deck, manages to kill the Water-Thieves on board before their ship escapes the island, just as Razia is about to fight her son's killer. (en)
- The Providence is stranded at sea with low water supplies and the Cook is severely dehydrated. They find a ship and rescue the lone survivor Anicetus , who Nala appears to recognise. Since Anicetus' boarding, everybody begins to experience hallucinations. Anwar later realises that Anicetus is the personification of Death; he has come to reclaim Nala as his bride as part of a deal he made with her people, and in return for the resurrection of her deceased father. However, Nala realises that Death has no knowledge of her grief, and breaks his hold of her. Following Death's defeat, it rains, replenishing the water supply. Meanwhile, Taryn convinces Akbari that she knows where Sinbad is heading next. (en)
- Sinbad returns to Basra to rescue his grandmother from danger. Upon arrival the group learn that Akbari has come to power in Basra, after murdering his brother, and is destroying all forms of scientific knowledge in favour of sorcery. Anwar and Rina attempt to rescue the former's father, only to realise that Akbari already paid them off and has Rina arrested, though she later escapes. Meanwhile, Sinbad enlists the help of Tazeem , a Basra guard and childhood friend. Taryn summons an ancient shadow creature, which captures Nala and Gunnar. Sinbad finds his grandmother trapped by a magic field, but the amulet prevents him from approaching her. She warns Sinbad that it is in fact Taryn he needs to hide from. Sinbad and Akbari fight, however Sinbad apologizes for his son's death, and forgives him for killing Jamil, which lifts the curse for good. Taryn kills Akbari after he also forgives Sinbad, and tells him that, though he always believe her to be his servant, he was in fact serving her. Sinbad's grandmother escapes the magic field, destroying the magic rune controlling the shadow creature, but dies in the process. Both Taryn and his grandmother admit there is a secret about Sinbad. Now they are free, the crew of the Providence decide to continue in their adventures. Nala however chooses to remain behind. (en)
- During a short excursion, Sinbad and crew are being hunted by Basra guards. Anwar, Nala and Rina make their way back the Providence, only to be captured. When Taryn learns of Sinbad's curse, she creates a "Familiar", a being that can detect Sinbad's location and emotions. Meanwhile, Gunnar and Sinbad make their own way, where Gunnar is captured by a band of warriors known as the Khaima. The leader Obsidian sentences him to death for his past as a barbaric Viking warrior. As Sinbad intervenes, the Familiar tracks Sinbad down, and now that Taryn has lost control, the creature will now kill Sinbad. Gunnar convinces Obsidian to let him go to save Sinbad. Gunnar manages to convince Sinbad that it can be defeated by mastering his anger. Obsidian decides to pardon Gunnar for his selflessness, and offers him a place among the Khaima, but he declines. Anwar, the Cook, Nala and Rina escape, overpower the guards, and release Taryn, who manages to see Sinbad's future where the Providence arrives at an abandoned city and encounters a young woman Taryn seems to recognise. (en)
- The Providence crew make their way to a monastery to find Tiger's friend, Brother Angelico, who supposedly has the map to the Land of the Dead. However Angelico reveals there is no map, as no map could ever hold that land. Gunnar, wanting no further part in the quest, decides to leave and become a silk merchant instead, where he falls for a widow named Lara . However, the group learn that the island is being terrorised by a beast known as The Fiend. Gunnar is captured, accused of being The Fiend by Father La Stessa . Sinbad offers to find the real Fiend by nightfall, or if he fails La Stessa's congregation can then go ahead and execute Gunnar. They discover that the local bartender, Philippe is in fact The Fiend, just as Lara realizes that La Stessa is controlling it. Sinbad tricks it into killing La Stessa instead, and the crew convince the lucid bartender how he might control his transformations in future. Meanwhile, Taryn poses as a nun to ask Angelico for the direction to the Land of the Dead. When he still refuses, she kills him. Tiger finds that the map does indeed exist, after the moonlight reveals a glistening map on the flagstones, on the floor outside the monastery. However, Taryn manages to merge herself into Tiger, unbeknownst to the rest of the group. (en)
- While investigating possible damage to the ship, Sinbad is lost at sea, only to be rescued on a nearby island by a woman named Roisin . Nala and Gunnar discover he is alive, but does not want to leave. It is revealed that Roisin is a creature taking human form and has taken away his memories, including those of his grandmother, thereby lifting the curse. When the Cook learns about Roisin's secret, Anwar and Rina return to the island and track Roisin and Sinbad to a temple. There Rina defeats Roisin by overpowering her with a bad memory where she was sold to slavery by her parents. Sinbad's memories return, bringing back the curse. In Basra, Sinbad's grandmother is captured. Akbari kills his older brother the Emir after he attempts to banish Akbari for keeping Taryn. Taryn then uses a spell sending Sinbad a request for help from his grandmother. (en)
- Tiger has secured a deal to transport a professor and a giant egg to an uninhabited island for experimentation in eradicating a rat-based plague. However, en route the egg hatches during the middle of the night, and the large snake-like creature from that egg is loose on board the Providence. They learn the serpent is growing, and requires a human to feed on. The professor loses an arm from an attack before she is saved. Anwar learns that the professor worked with a radical scientist. The crew decide to lure out the creature before it gets too big. After the professor willfully allows the creature to feed on her, Anwar realizes she found a way to merge herself with the serpent. The Cook realizes the professor is allergic to nuts, so Sinbad fires a nut paste-tipped arrow at the serpent, killing it. (en)
- Sinbad sets out to find a magical stone that reveals the future in order to discover more about his destiny. The group encounter Riff , a bitter young lad who also desperately desires the stone for himself. As his father, the Grandmaster of the stone, forbids him from using it, believing his son far from ready and insufficiently evolved to do so. Riff agrees to help them steal it. However, once they reach the chamber where the stone's kept, they are caught by the Grandmaster, who immediately has Sinbad put to death due to recognising him as being his killer from a previous vision. Riff convinces his father he wants to prove himself by being the one to execute Sinbad, then goes on to poison Sinbad. Although we later find that the poisoning was just a ruse organised by Tiger - a bounty hunter sent by Taryn to return Sinbad to Basra. And just as he discovers he's still alive, Tiger places a necklace-lock around his neck, which will kill him if he attempts to escape from her. However, Sinbad realises that Tiger is to keep him alive at all costs, and convinces her to allow him to find the stone first, and then he will go with her freely. Riff later tricks his father into entering the stone's labyrinth, and instead lands up killing him in a similar condition to his father's vision. Once Sinbad has the stone instead of consulting it he decides to rather destroy it, but is shown multiple visions of the future as it shatters into shards. Aboard the ship Sinbad reveals to Cook his visions of an abandoned city, and his brother Jamil with him. The Cook tells Sinbad it must've been a vision of the 'Land of the Dead' and it seems he's being directed to go there. Sinbad convinces Tiger to abandon Taryn's bidding and rather join their little group. (en)
- The crew ask merchant Abdul Fahim for food and water on their travels, but instead Fahim tricks Anwar into taking the Providence. In order to take it back before the amulet will kill Sinbad, they enter an underground realm to a gambling den. Sinbad manages to win the ship back, but the group quickly find that the owners Essam and Faris are imprisoning them, and gambling with their lives. When they learn of Sinbad's curse, they challenge him to find and free his friends and leave the island by sunrise, and Sinbad succeeds. When the owners argue whether he can leave, Rina helps Sinbad escape in time. In the meantime, Taryn makes a potion that enables her to see Sinbad. When Akbari tries the potion, he fails to see Sinbad since Sinbad's group are at the gambling den, protected by a magical barrier. Angered, Akbari banishes Taryn from the city. (en)
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