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Following Calus becoming its latest Disciple, the Witness released [[Eramis]] from her [[Stasis]] prison. Whispering to the [[Fallen]] [[Kell]], the Witness demanded Eramis gather relics of darkness that were lost during the [[Dark Age]]s or be lost to oblivion in her frozen prison. Bitter, enraged, and casting aside her original calls for Eliksni unity, Eramis agreed, is set free, and begins finding the relics by rallying the old crews. The old crews were infamous Fallen pirates of legend, who now work with Eramis to locate the relics sought by the Witness. This brings Eramis into conflict with the [[Last City]] once more, as they discover her missing from her supposed resting place on [[Europa]], with [[Spider]] privy to overheard information on her current activities. In truth, the relics Eramis and the Guardians were attempting to claim contained the pieces of one of The Witness's Disciples, Nezarec, whose body was left calcified and rotting within the Lunar Pyramid before the first Fallen crews arrived in the Sol System. The crews took apart Nezarec's body into pieces that granted their bearers great power but tainted them into becoming more violent and murderous before being hidden away by the Old Crews.

Ultimately, despite Eramis's best efforts, the Shipstealer failed to gather the relics as tasked before the Guardians could. The relics were used by [[Mithrax, Kell of Light|Mithrax]] to create a special brew that helped the comatose Osiris to finally awaken. With Nezarec now subdued, The Witness decided to punish the one-time Kell of Darkness by allowing Xivu Arath to corrupt the majority of her House of Salvation into the War God's Wrathborn while killing those who personally served under Eramis and then raising them as Scorn to aid Xivu Arath in her efforts to prepare the system for The Witness's arrival.

Yet, The Witness would gain a pyrrhic victory through Eramis's efforts and that of the Wrathborn. Though Eramis managed to gain access to the Warsat network, even personally encouraging her to let the Traveler feel her pain, the Dark Kell failed to destroy the Traveler thanks to Rasputin's sacrifice. However, during these moments, the Traveler looked as if it was leaving Earth but as it entered Earth's outer orbit, it ceased moving. Eramis, incredulous that the Traveler isn't abandoning humanity as it done to the eliksni, asks why the Traveler isn't fleeing, which the Witness responds stating that it simply has no left to run as the Witness and its Pyramid fleet, along with a vessel containing his latest Disciple, Calus, had arrived in the Sol System, passing Jupiter as they speak.