Nav befriends the unwanted of Forge, the beasts and mutants forced into

the sewers. Manuél and Scarlett are forced into the monstrous slum of

Beaston, where they are quickly embroiled in the plot of Manuél’s former

employers and Grand Handsome’s rivals, Wylde Nyghtmäre, to free the

political Dark Elf prisoners who have been held in Forge for literal

ages. Bella is pulled into the political intrigue surrounding the Elf

Queen and the Wilestar family. Rip finds his family arrested and their

possessions to be auctioned— including the instruments he needs for the

big Battle of the Bands, which, er, is also happening.