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The Last Fallen Moon is the second book in The Gifted Clans series under Rick Riordan Presents by Graci Kim, focusing on Korean mythology.
Synopsis[]
For Riley Oh, life as the Godrealm’s last fallen star is not all it’s cracked up to be. Her new divine heritage doesn’t even come with cool magical powers; half of her friends and family (including her parents) can’t remember her; and to top it all off, the entire Gom clan is mad at her for killing the Cave Bear Goddess and stripping away their healing abilities. But when their anger boils over and a group of witches curses Riley’s home, she knows it’s up to her to restore magic back to her clan – even if it means sneaking into the Spiritrealm. Luckily, Riley has some backup. Along with her sister, Hattie, Riley meets Dahl, a heaven-born boy with shockingly white hair and a fondness for toilets who might not be telling the whole truth about who he is. Together they’ll fight vicious monsters, discover dark underwater worlds, and race to save the land of the dead from a fate that no one could have foreseen. And this time, Riley won’t let anything get in her way. Because she can’t shake the feeling that something terrible is coming their way – and the gifted community is going to need all the powers they can get.
Plot[]
Post Magic Loss and Planning to Right a Wrong[]
Two months after Riley Oh killed the Cave Bear Goddess, she is at the Horangi Compound transferring old tomes to the cloud. She is aided by Taeyo, who gets her snacks, as Emmett Harrison and Cosette Chung play their favorite video game and Areum sleeps at her feet. As she eats, Riley thinks of how her life has changed in the past two months. She reflects on how her parents had to close down their clinic due to lack of magic and became dishwashers at Seoulful Tacos, how Hattie now has sleeping spells that last longer, how the Gom are against her for taking away their magic, and how her parents, oldest friend, and almost everyone from both clans no longer remember her. Suddenly everyone gets an emergency text from Hattie to come to her house. Riley flies on Areum, camouflaged by Cosette, as the others take Boris. When they arrive they enter to find her parents, Hattie, Jennie Byun, David Kim, Noah Noh, Sora Kwon, and Austin in the hall, celebrating a belated thirteenth birthday for Riley. She realizes her friends knew and they celebrate. Riley enjoys the celebration, but she masks her sadness at the way her parents force themselves to address her as family. When Mong licks Riley's face, she notices a gift from the Haetae, a deformed needle. Suddenly they hear crashes and see angry Gom outside. Everyone goes outside to find red liquid forming insults at Riley on the garage.
Riley starts to blame herself for the incident as the others volunteer to coverup the graffiti and comfort her. When they return to the kitchen for cake, everything in the kitchen starts to attack them. Austin holds off the knives as everyone flees to the hall. The hallway then attacks them and Sora pries the door open and everyone escapes. Riley's family becomes distraught when they realize their house is cursed and Sora offers to house them at their compound. Riley starts to tear up as her mother says she is not to blame. How Riley screams that it is her fault and she is not hero. The Ohs and Emmett leave with the Horangi while the others go home. During the ride Hattie falls asleep, everyone hoping she wakes up in under two days. Her sister mentions something about rain before dozing off and it pours when they arrive. As Emmett and her parents eat lunch, Riley sneaks away to a treehouse enchanted to resemble a beach and distracts herself by finishing the book. As she is typing up a section on Heo Jun, a Gom healer who was given honorary god status in death for his acts during life, Emmett and Areum come in. Emmett tries to offer her cookies, but she refuses. Upon hearing they are salted caramel, her favorite, Riley hopes Emmett remembers their past, but he unfortunately does not. He tells her to open up and knows how good it is to do so, but she refuses. Emmett leaves and Areum pulls out the needle the haetae gave Riley, she explain that it is a Mago Halmi binyeo, a hair pin used by Mago Halmi herself. Areum then rips out the page about Heo Jun gaining honorary godhood and, thinking on the graffiti on her house, decides to go to the Spiritrealm to ask him to become the Gom's patron god to regain their healing. Areum is against this as Riley would to die to get there. However she thinks of a failed love potion David made for Jennie that stopped her crush's heart as she puts her hair in a bun and uses the binyeo to keep it in place.
As Riley races to David’s house, Areum tries to stop her to no avail. When they arrives Riley sneaks into the backyard as David’s grandfather, who suffers from dementia, usually leaves the door unlocked in case the Queen of England. She finds the door unlocked but runs into David’s grandfather. She lies that Seoulful Taco's needs more potions and he lets her in. However as she is sneaking into the basement she hears David and Jennie. She lies saying her mother needs a potion to calm her nerves and he gives her one after giving her a tour. Riley snatches the faulty love potion and slips it in her bag as Jennie drinks a potion to help with her see visions as she sleeps. However as Riley leaves Jennie stops her and unintentionally finds out she has the potion. Riley reluctantly tells the two her plan and David and Jennie try to talk her out of it. Riley notices a potion that knocks people out and pretends they talked her out of it before using the potion on them. Areum tries to stop Riley one last time before agreeing to watch over her body.
Entering the Spiritrealm and Being “Judged” in the “Hells”[]
Dahl
Riley wakes up in a white room with people waiting in line. She asks the woman in front of her where she is and the woman is shocked that someone Riley’s age is in the afterlife. Riley is happy her plan worked and waits in line. As she waits she recites what she knows of the Spiritrealm and worries she will forget something important, however she finds a list of the seven hells and the judges who oversee them, along with a note saying all deceased get a lawyer to help them. After realizing only one line is moving, she sneaks out of her line and enters the faster one. Soon she sees people's spirit animals revealed and the man behind the counter scans her. Riley receives a piece of paper with a yet to be determined section left blank and she assumes it is for her funeral photo. Just as a woman is about to mark her form as approved, she stops after noticing the blank section, Riley says her funeral will be soon and the woman becomes suspicious, causing Riley to think it is for her spirit animal. The woman calls her supervisors over and Riley runs past them and dives into a passing trailer. Riley loses the security chasing her and realizes the trailer is full of dog toys. She soon meets a playful puppy name Yeowu who informs her all pets go straight to Cheondang, heaven, while the humans are dropped off in Jiok, hell. Riley decides to stay with the animals for a faster way to speak to Heo Jun. As they ride a train to Cheondang, they stop at Jiok and watch as the human passengers get off. Riley sees a girl her age in a white and red dress that Hattie was wearing and fears it is her sister. Yeowu gives Riley her favorite stick and rubber chicken as she races after the girl, however when she reaches the girl she realizes she is not Hattie and the girl's guide calls her Christina as they leave. Riley looks at the schedule but finds no information and listens to announcements addressing the hells as if they were vacation destinations. She sits down in defeat and questions her next move when a janitor her age arrives. He deduces that Riley snuck past the guards and agrees to help her if it could get him to become a tour guide. She tells the boy the hells she was supposed to go through- speed, boiling oil, and beasts- before he introduces himself as Dahl and they head out.
As they exit the terminal, Riley is surprised to find Jiok resembling a cross between New York City and a theme park. Dahl explains that Yeomra the Great changed to structure of the underworld to both boost the economy and improve the attitude of souls upon reincarnation. Still in shock, Dahl leads Riley to the Boiling Oil restaurant and tries to speed things up by talking to the blunder. The bouncer keeps telling them to get in line as Riley begs Dahl to listen. Just then the door opens and an old woman emerges with a mop and bucket as the bouncer punches Dahl. He ducks before grabbing the mop and uses it as a staff to fight the bouncer. Soon he defeats the bouncer and the judge on the restaurant, Ko Munitee, comes out of the restaurant and Dahl tries to get them to remember him from his “internship” last summer. However they only remember Dahl as the kid who showed up to work after being turned away. Dahl convinces them to let him Riley in and they follow Ko to the kitchen. Along the way Riley notices everything on the menu is deep fried and the guests are all bloated. Ko explains how busy their hell has become lately as two volunteer staff start to fight. When they enter the kitchen, Ko takes some of Riley’s hair and fries it. They reveal the she longed to be part of a community that shunned her and made a decision that coast the community everything. As Ko is about to sentence Riley to fifty years, Dahl chimes in and convinces them to let Riley work with him for that time. Ko agrees and Riley expresses her concerns about it when Dahl says her slate will be wiped clean when she returns to the Mortalrealm and, if she plays her card right, will not have to return to the Boiling Oil Restaurant. Riley thanks Dahl and had him lead the way to her next vacation.
Riley and Dahl end up at the Shattering Speed Funpark just as the judge, Oh Nesty, is about to go in vacation. Dahl pulls Riley over to the judge and convinces him to let Riley take the test. However she fails to provide her soul identification number, which she did not get by running from security, and Dahl shows the judge his and convinces Oh to let him take the test for Riley. Dahl is given three different colored pills- red for lies, yellow for withholding facts and half truths, and green for truth- and told Riley will not spend time at the park if his face lights up all green. He takes the pills and they ask questions. First Dahl is asks his biggest hope and says he wants to leave the underworld and live in the Mortalrealm and his face is green. Second he is asked his biggest fear and after some hesitation, he says he fears not living up to his expectations and failing as his face remains green. For the last question, his biggest secret, he hesitates for a long time before saying he has an unhealthy obsession with keys and his face turns yellow. As Riley is about to be sentenced to a decade at the park, Dahl changes it to say that he is not as confident as he lets on and his face becomes a yellowish-green but the judge accepts it as true and Riley is spared the fun park. She thanks Dahl as to judge drives off and they head to the last stop.
Namjoon
As Riley and Dahl walk to the Hungry Beasts Petting Zoo and Café, Dahl tells Riley the judge for this hell, Kim Pasheon, is about compassion and only punishes murderers, something he believes she could not do. However she reveals she killed the Cave Bear Goddess to stop her from entering the Mortalrealm and Dahl is amazed that he is speaking to the girl who took out the goddess as she has become the talk of the realm. When they get close, they see a group of Cheondang residence who complain about the restructuring. When they arrive, they find it void of vacationers and workers. Dahl explains that the zoo houses Imugi, the descendants of a snake who went on a quest to find the pearl of wisdom to become a yong- dragon- but failed to return it to where he found it to complete the transformation. They see a group of imugi in a cage and they smell the two. Riley falls back as they come at her and gets ready to be eaten. However they stop short and a woman appears who introduces herself as the judge and to call her Pash. She happily greets Riley and Dahl as she has one of the imugi, Namjoon, lick Riley and use the salvia to make coffee to judge Riley’s life. Pash says Riley’s life looks good, but when she drinks it she learns the girl has killed somebody important and feels guilty about. As Pash complements Riley’s guilt,the girl is sentenced to a thousand years. Pash leaves with Namjoon and Dahl apologizes for her fate before realizing the imugi are coming at them. Dahl tells her to run but she tries and fails to fight them off. Riley get a cut on her upper arm before remembering Yeowu's toys, she throws them to no avail, but she pulls out the binyeo and they stop. She throws the hairpin and they chase after it until Yeowu appears and bites one on the leg. As they are about to rip them to shreds, the imugi stop and face away from her as Riley notices Hattie. The sisters hug as Dahl, Yeowu, and an old man put the last of the imugi in their cage. Dahl gives her the hairpin back as Hattie introduces the old man as Cheol, her tour guide. Riley becomes fearful when she says that but Hattie reassures her that she is in a coma and, as she is between life and death, can travel the realm freely. Hattie then scolds Riley for her plan but wants to help. Riley tries to talk Hattie out of it to no avail. Cheol gives Hattie his keys to heaven as Dahl gushes over them. To hide Riley’s brand, Cheol uses his Gumuho magic to mask it and he and Yeowu stay behind to cover for her and will try to think of a lie to tell Pash if she returns. Cheol says the closest way to heaven in at the Natural History Museum and Dahl guides the sisters their.
Meeting Heo Jun and Going to Eternity Island[]
Dahl takes Hattie and Riley to a public restroom and uses Cheol's keys to open the door to reveal a stairway leading to Cheondang. The three go up and into heaven where they find humans and animals talking to each other. Hattie tells Riley that souls in Cheondang can shift between their soul animal and human forms, but it is forbidden in Jiok to respect the souls still being sentenced. Hattie says her spirit animal is a lion as Dahl reveals that, as a heaven-born, he does not have one. Hattie and Dahl by food as Riley does not have the necessary credentials for it, and they reach Heo Jun's house at nightfall. Dahl rings the bell but no one answers. They see the lights on and knock on the door, it opens and they find Heo Jun unconscious on the floor. The three check on the saint as Heo Jun bolts awake and Dahl introduces the Oh sisters to him. He tells the three he was going to get some tea before he felt funny and passed out. Heo Jun notices the cut on Riley’s arm has become infected and takes her to the kitchen. Heo Jun gives Dahl and Hattie tea and cookies as he heals Riley’s arm. After doing so, Heo Jun brings Riley, who he recegnizes as the girl who took out the Cave Bear Goddess, tea and cookies as she asks him to become the Gom's new patron god. Heo Jun agrees and the sisters celebrate before noticing the saint has gone limp, his eyes become black and he snarls before returning to normal. He passes out again and Riley, Hattie, and Dahl bring him to his room. After realizing having a Gom heal him would be impossible as Heo Jun powers them, Dahl says their only option is the Spring of Eternity, water on the chalice of the Statue of Eternity that flows into the River of Reincarnation. However he says it is illegal to take the water from the chalice and, if caught, their souls will be erased. The three agree to do it and Dahl informs the sisters they need to swim.
Bada
The three return to Jiok to reach Eternity Island, where the chalice is located, and think of how to get their undetected. Hattie suggests prattle boarding and the others agree. They find some in a rental and head for the island. While the Oh sisters are doing well, Dahl is struggling and falls into the water. As Riley and Hattie giggle at him, Riley offers him to come with her and he accepts, as they get close, Riley and Dahl feel a thud under their board and the two capsize. They see a woman with a fishtail and black eyes who grabs Dahl and pulls him under, Hattie hits the woman with her paddle and Riley’s onyx stone floats out of her pocket and starts to heat as a nearly identical white stone floats out of Dahl's jacket and grows colder. The two stones fuse together and emit a blinding light. When things calm down Riley examines the fused stones as the fish woman comes to her senses and apologizes. Riley theorizes she is affected with the same thing as Heo Jun and, thinking back to the lie detector test Dahl took for her, she demands Dahl tell her what he is hiding. He remains silent until Hattie threatens to leave him to paddle on his own. Dahl says the stones are called the eum and yang stone and reveals he is the Last Fallen Moon, and the twin brother of Riley. Riley and Hattie are stunned by this revelation as neither the Horangi or Okja mentioned Riley having a twin. Dahl explains that he and Riley are not related biologically, but spiritually. He explains that the Last Fallen Sun and Moon were separated to keep them hidden from the goddesses. Dahl also reveals the Haetae gave him his stone and told him who he was along with a prophecy. He recites it and Riley refuses to help him fulfill the prophecy and she just wants to fix what what she broke. The fish woman comes to and, after apologizing, introduces herself as Bada, an Ineo, and explains how a third section of the Spiritreal for aquatic life has been poisoned by something that is causing everything to have violent outbursts. Riley thinks back on her time Jiok as Dahl mentions that the River of Reincarnation is the main water source of the realm and Bada says a blockage on the island is causing it. The three agree to let Bada pull them to the island as the sun rises. However when they get close, Bada becomes aggressive and pulls Hattie under.
Rileys goes after them and uses the fused stone to cure Bada again. They reach the surface as Bada apologizes. Hattie reaches shore as Riley convinces a reluctant Dahl to give Bada the stone to help her friends and family. Bada thanks them as she swims down and the two swim to shore. Dahl scouts out the island as Hattie gets angry at Riley for whispering to Dahl. She tells Riley she is supposed to protect her, but was unable to when she needed her most. Riley tells her she will always need Hattie as Dahl returns with news of a protest blocking the way to the chalice. They find the protesters dressed as soup ingredients and approach them. The lead protester says the mayor has closed of the chalice and has stopped making memory soup and is not giving out permits for rebirth. As Dahl is dragged away to join the protest, Riley and Hattie tell the lead protester about the blocked pipes and he thinks it’s logical. After he mentions moving the protest to the Memory Archives, a building that houses the memories of the reborn and all memories that were forgotten, Hattie suggests going there to get the Gom and Horangi's memories of Riley, but Riley turns her down as she feels it could go wrong. When Dahl returns, they ask how to get in and the lead protester suggests breaking in.
They enter the statue and find the pipe flowing from the chalice contains only contaminated water and they realize the spring itself is corrupted. They decide to split up with Riley, Hattie, and Dahl go with the lead protester going to shut off the flow as the rest stand watch. The four are given two walkie-talkies and they head up. The lead protester becomes exhausted when they reach the head and Dahl watched over him as the Oh sisters continue on. They find the chalice as polluted as the water and report in. The lead protester starts to cry as he mourns his chance to see his love Jangsoo again. He explains how Jangsoo was the last to be reborn and they were supposed to leave together, but he wanted to stay longer. Considering the trip a failure, Hattie suggests to Riley they go to the Memory Archives to get their clan's memories of her but Riley refuses as the police arrive. Another protester says she will hold them off as long as she can as the lead protester tells the sisters to go to the Memory Archive and get Jangsoo's memories as he was the last to leave and might have noticed something. Dahl chooses to stay behind as twins from the protest shift into their avian soul animals and fly Riley and Hattie away.
Memory Archives and Revealing the Culprits[]
The twins drop the sisters off at the Memory Archives before turning around and save the other protesters, however Riley asks them to check on Heo Jun before they leave. As they are about to enter, Hattie remarks that the Archives look like the New York Public Library. They enter and are greeted by, Sunny Roh , the archivist on duty. Hattie complements Sunny’s glasses and asks about memories stolen by a Dokkaebi and she directs them to the spot, but when they ask about Jangsoo Sunny informs them about that is off limits by orders of the mayor. After Hattie sees pictures of Kim Pasheon and the mayor on a date on Sunny’s desk, she asks if it is true and Sunny denies it as she hands the girls forms to fill out. After doing so she sends them on their way as Hattie pulls Riley aside and reveals she stole the keys to the off limits section. She suggests they find their friends and family’s memories of Riley as they wait for an opportunity to sneak down and Riley reluctantly agrees. When they reach the stolen memories section and realize they are stored in books and wonder if they need to smuggle the books out to get it to work. The sisters split up and Riley speaks with a man who explains that you start reading the book before having your mind sucked into it. Hattie then calls Riley over when she finds the stolen memories. Riley bronzes through the book and sees memories of her from others perspectives. Her body falls to the floor as Hattie tries to shake her awake. Hattie hides the book on her person and they head for the off limits section. Hattie gets Sunny to leave by saying the mayor is outside and they sneak into the basement. After finding rows with the year 1810 on the shelves, they decide to call it quits as Hattie reveals that she senses she can not return to her body. Riley berates her for lying as bats swarm at them. Unknown to the girls they are actually being led to the book for Jangsoo. Riley hides it in her shirt as two guards chase them. They make their way up the stairs where Hattie trips and drops Riley’s memory book. More guards go after them as Sunny points them out. They get out of the building but are caught in a net. As they are being dragged into a van, Hattie realizes she dropped the book. When the sisters are placed inside, they see two figures in the van with them.
The sisters relax upon realizing they are Dahl and Bob, who reveal a protester ratted them out and tell them Heo Jun is stable. As they are driven away, Bob explains the process of being expunged as an agonizing process involving having your name erased from Mago's Jokbo, a parchment containing the names of everyone who ever existed, with a sponge made from a special tree. The van stops outside an H-Mart and the sisters have bags thrust onto their heads and dragged through the aisles until they are locked in a cell. They try to think of a way out before morning, when Riley will return to her body, and realize it already is morning. After Cheol's glamour wore off, Dahl realizes Pash's brand is keeping her in the Spiritrealm until her sentence is over. Just them Areum flies in a reveals she woke up David a Jennie soon after she stopped her heart and the three of them- along with Emmett, Cosette, Noah, and Taeyo- used the doorway in the temple to enter the Spiritrealm. However it closed and only she, Jennie, David, and Emmett made it through before the gate closed. They greeted by the authorities and Areum was the only one who got away. After learning her friends are in danger, and realizing she is stuck in the Spiritrealm and she lost her last chance to get her friends and family to remember her, Riley throws a tantrum and laments on how she made everything worse. However the others get Riley to calm down and she starts to see hope. Riley hands Bob Jangsoo's memory book, but they hear someone coming and hide it. The figure approaches their cell and opens the door, after he apologizes for their treatment, they realize he is the mayor, Yeomra the Great. Dahl and Bob bow as the mayor unlocks the cell and offers them food in a banquet hall. As they walk, Riley informs Yeomra about her friends getting arrested and he agrees to look into it. They arrive at the banquet hall, but then the mayor opens the doors, they a forest. Yeomra reveals he had Gumiho and Tokki witches create this room and, after telling them everything they see is edible, they eat. When they have their fill, Riley asks about her friends, but Yeomra says they authorities insist only the four of them were arrested. When Riley asks about reincarnation being stopped, Yeomra becomes flustered and the others press the mayor of details. Yeomra eventually reveals that he had no knowledge of this as he was away on vacation. He also reveals he restructured the Spiritrealm to have Jiok residence get a taste of Cheondang and to make souls want to stay rather then be reborn. Riley senses he doubts himself as a leader as he feels souls being reborn are a sign of him failing as a leader. After Yeomra insists he has no idea how the pollution in the river came to be, Riley shows him the memory book and says he can make things right. Yeomra puts the book in a venus fly trap and they view Jangsoo's memories. After he is a distance away from the statue, Hattie notices a flash by the chalice and the mayor has the memory enlarged for them to see. Once they rewind they find their culprits, and are shocked to learn they are the CFOs and the Mountain Tiger Goddess.
They watch as the goddess pulls a snake from her arm and the judges pound the chalice with their gavels. The scene ends and everyone takes in what they saw. Hattie realizes the Gom who cursed their house were wearing tiger masks and Riley questions if she was behind it. Areum informs them the snake is a salmosa, a poisonous snake created by the Mountain Tiger Goddess. As they wonder how to remove it, Yeomra informs them the judges have sentenced the salmosa and it cannot be removed, and even if they use the gavels to end the sentence only the goddess or Mago can remove it. Yeomra sends the authorizes after the CFOs and plans to expunge them. After Dahl mentions his stone, Riley realizes the can use the eum and yang stone to purify the water without removing the salmosa. Yeomra is impressed with her plan and, pulling out a marker, agrees take them to Eternity Island to meet with Bada.
Retrieving the Stone and Purifying the Spring[]
The others stare at the mayor in confusion as he uses the marker to draw a door to Yonggung, the Underwater Borough, can calls the pen a mum-pen. Yeomra explains that by entering the borough through the door he created, they can breath underwater and will not be affected by the toxins. They ask around Yonggang until they receive word that Bada is at the center of the borough and go to her. After Bada explains how helpful the stone is, Dahl explains everything they learned and their plan and Bada agrees to give the stone back, but her brother Daeyang refuses to let her and tells Yeomra off for ignoring Yonggung for six hundred years. Soon Hattie steps in and says she understands their anger but they need to put it aside for the greater good. As Hattie talks, lightning appears above them as Riley questions if it has something to do with her being in the Godrealm. Upon seeing this, Daeyang agrees to hand over the stone just as the mayor gets a call. He urgently informs the others that the CFOs, aware that he would sent the authorities after them, stone the Jokbo and took hostages, threatening to expunge them if he does not come to the chalice.
The group reaches Eternity Island and find five of the CFOs standing before them with hostages guarded by police and imugi. Riley tries to tell the CFOs the goddess is tricking them, but they reveal they summoned her voice their displeasure with Yeomra's changes and demand he step down. The mayor quickly agrees but Riley stops him, however the CFOs say if Yeomra does not step down, they will expunge Emmett, David, and Jennie, who are out cold on the statue’s head. Riley and Hattie are shocked and before they know it, the protesters spring into action. They use a potion to turn the police and imugi into wooden toys and a Miru protester grabs the CFOs and force them to took into a Gumiho enchanted mirror that keeps people's gaze looked on their reflection depending on their egos. Areum transforms as the mayor tells her to purify the spring as they find the jokbo. Riley flies up on Areum and sees that her friends are already being expunged, but before she can act see sees Pash holding Yeowu and Cheol hostage. Riley watches as Mixter Ko, who is standing with Pash and holding a tablet- the jokbo, stands at the ready to use it as Namjoon guards them. Riley asks what Pash's endgame is as the CFOs explains how she summoned the goddess as part of the plan to increase criticism of Yeomra, who she is only pretending to date to gain insight on, and have the souls of Cheondang vote him out of office. She also explains how the Mountain Tiger Goddess wants to create an army she could control and demands the stone as Mixter Ko starts to expunge Emmett. Riley just glances between the two groups of hostages and wonders what to do. Cheol tells her to focus on her friends as Pash pushes him and Yeowu off. However Yeowu grabs Pash's gavel and the two are saved by two protesters and Hattie and Dahl. Riley takes the opportunity to grab the jokbo but misses and falls off Areum as the bird woman tackles Namjoon. The stone falls out of her pocket and Pash grabs it. Just as Riley is about to give up, she hears Dahl's voice telling her not to. Riley grabs the stone as Dahl appears with her hairpin, revealing he could talk to her with it, and she and hooks onto Areum as she comes back pulls Pash as the two wrestle for the stone and Dahl fights Ko for the jokbo. Riley tells Areum to drop them in the spring and she reluctantly does so. The two fall into the spring as Dahl joins them with the hairpin, which forms a key that amplifies the stone's power. Pash and the salmosa are disintegrated as the spring is purified.
Giving Thanks and Restoring What was Lost[]
Riley and Dahl return to the ground to find the CFOs still trapped in the mirror as Yeomra thinks of a fitting punishment for them. Emmett, David, and Jennie revert back to their soul animals to recover and are bathed in the River of Reincarnation to speed up their recovery. Areum safeguards the three in her feathers. Yeowu gives the mayor Pash's gavel and he ‘accidentally’ taps Riley's forehead, freeing her from her sentence. Bada and Daeyang arrive soon after the the mayor gives out thanks to those who helped him. Yeomra promises the ineo siblings that he will not ignore Yonggung anymore, promises Bob be will be the first soul to be reborn, grants Areum access to the Spiritrealm whenever she wishes, gives Dahl his mum-pen, gives Riley her memory book, and grants Hattie a wish. Hattie expresses her desire to stay in the Spiritrealm and Riley tries to talk her sister out of it. Hattie explains that something happened in her body when she was in the Godrealm and she has to stay to find answers. Hattie says their parents and Noah will understand. Cheol agrees to watch over Hattie, who decides to fill in as the CFO of the Hungry Beasts Petting Zoo and Café as Jennie's grandmother flies over to them.
The old woman greets Riley before checking on her granddaughter. She informs Riley that Taeyo passed a message on to her for the girl, she tells Riley and the others that all witches have lost their gifts. Cheol tries to activate his gifted marks to no avail. Yeomra realizes the goddesses did this as Riley realizes they did it in retaliation for the Cave Bear Goddess’s death. Yeomra offers Riley an alliance between the Spiritrealm and the Mortalrealm, which she accepts. Dahl sends the mayor back to his office before handing the mum-pen over to Riley who, thinks of her family while drawing a door, inadvertently creates a door to the Mortalrealm by putting the key of keys into it. They see Riley’s body in the Gi Sanctuary surrounded by their friends and family. Realizing the potential they have, Dahl agrees to go to the Mortalrealm with Riley, who hugs Hattie goodbye but realizes they can visit the Spiritrealm anytime they want. Riley, Areum, and Dahl head to the Gi Sanctuary.
The Haetae
As they walk, Riley returns to her body and everyone is happy. Everyone questions where Dahl came from as he explain how he is Riley’s soul twin and unsuccessfully tries to flirt with Cosette. They question why Areum has three animals on her as Emmett, Jennie, and David return to human form and the other help them up. As James and Eunha express their desire to heal again, the rub their wrists together to find their gifted mark’s have appeared, much to their shock and joy. Riley explains how they convinced Heo Jun to be the Gom's new patron god as Dahl points the key of keys at the Gi Cauldron and summons the Haetae, much to everyone’s surprise. He congratulates them on saving the Spiritrealm and informs them that the goddesses are preparing for war. Before leaving, the Haetae tells Riley and Dahl they have yet to unlock the key's true potential. Soon after, Riley brings out her memory book and restores the Gom and Horangi's memories of her. They all share a tearful embrace as Riley thinks of the war to come.
Characters[]
- Riley Oh
- Taeyo
- Emmett Harrison
- Cosette Chung
- Areum
- Boris
- James Oh
- Eunha Oh
- Hattie Oh
- Jennie Byun
- David Kim
- Noah Noh
- Sora Kwon
- Austin
- Mong
- David Kim's Harabeoji
- Yeowu
- Christina
- Dahl Oh
- Ko Munitee
- Oh Nesty
- Kim Pasheon
- Namjoon
- Cheol
- Heo Jun
- Bada
- Bob
- Sunny Roh
- Taggy
- Yeomra the Great
- Jangsoo Jeong
- Mountain Tiger Goddess
- Daeyang
- Jennie Byun's Halmeoni
- Haetae
Chapters[]
- Even Washed-Up Heroes Need Summer Jobs
- Cookies Can't Fix Everything
- If Only All Basements Could Be This Cool
- Boarding Pass? Check!
- Why Is Public Transportation Such A Drag?
- A Whole New World (Don't You Dare Close Your Eyes)
- Is Your Hair Feeling a Little Oily Today?
- Roller Coasters, Ray-Bans. and Traffic Lights
- Hungry Hellbeasts Are Not Vegetarian
- Coffee Never Tasted This Good
- Sisters Have a Way of Surprising You
- Not Your Average Coffee Shop
- Um, You Okay, Saint Honorary God Man?
- Could Someone Please Turn the Light On?
- Revelations, Reveals, and River Creatures
- Cosplay Is Serious Business, Folks
- The Chalice and the Spring
- Get Ready to Rem and Roll
- Borrowing Is Not Stealing.... Is It?
- The Things You Find in Supermarkets
- Don't Read This if You're Hungry
- There's an App for That (Of Course There Is)
- The Seaweed's Always Greener on the Other Side
- This Is My Fight Song! Take Back My Life Song!
- The Final Countdown, Do Do DoDoDo!
- It's Starting to Feel a Lot Like Christmas
- When One Door Closes...
- But Wait, There's More!
Prophecy[]
When the dark sun and dark moon are united once more,
Together they’ll unlock the key of all keys.
That opens the door to the dawn of a new era,
Of which they’ll call the Age of the Final Eclipse.
Unraveling the Prophecy[]
- -The dark sun, Riley, and the dark moon, Dahl, unite once more.
- -Riley's onyx stone and Dahl's moonstone combine to form the eum and yang stone, the key of all keys.
- -With the mum-pen of Yeomra the Great and the key of keys made from Mago Halmi's Binyeo and the combined stones, the objects can open a door to any of the three realms.
- -The Age of the Final Eclipse is brought about when all members of the gifted community are disowned by their patron goddesses and lose their magic.
Trivia[]
- The Last Fallen Moon's title was revealed on Goodreads.
| The Gifted Clans series | ||
| Books: | The Last Fallen Star | The Last Fallen Moon | The Last Fallen Realm | |
| Main Characters: | Riley Oh | Hattie Oh | Boris | Emmett Harrison | Dahl Oh | Areum | |
| Secondary Characters: | James Oh | Eunha Oh | Cosette Chung | Noah Noh | David Kim | Jennie Byun | Taeyo | Okja | Sora Kwon | Austin | Yeomra the Great | Bob | Heo Jun | |
| Minor Characters: | Bongjoon Pyo | Sookhee Harrison | Mrs. Kim | Mrs. Lee | Mr. Hong | Mong | Charles | Cheol | Yeowu | Sahm | |
| Korean Gods: | Cave Bear Goddess | Three-Legged Crow Goddess | Water Dragon Goddess | Moon Rabbit Goddess | Nine-Tailed Fox Goddess | Mountain Tiger Goddess | Mago Halmi | |
| Mythical Creatures: | Dragon Scooter | Cheollima | Haetae | Inmyeonjo | Dokkaebi | Gwisin | Ineo | Imugi | Salmosa | Bulgae | Bonghwang | Moon Rabbit | |
| Related Content: | Graci Kim | Rick Riordan Presents | My Night at the Gifted Carnival | |