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Illumination 0: Disintegration

  • Illumination 0.1: Jerk Bingo
  • Illumination 0.2: Bridge of Last Chances
  • Illumination 0.3: Girls With Swords
  • Illumination 0.4: Suicide Boy
  • Illumination 0.5: Home Is A Four Letter Word
  • Illumination 0.6: Monsters
  • Illumination 0.7: Unblinding
  • Illumination 0.8: They Take
  • Illumination 0.9: Intersection of Nightmares
  • Illumination 0.10: Pushing
  • Illumination 0.11: Break and Broken
  • Illumination 0.12: I Hate Everything About You


  • Illumination 10: Apex

  • Illumination 10.1: Tracking Targets
  • Illumination 10.2: The Kindness of Strangers
  • Illumination 10.3: Unspoken
  • Illumination 10.4: How We Win
  • Illumination 10.5: Sleeping Beauty
  • Illumination 10.6: Diet Despair
  • Illumination 10.7: Seeds of Crystal
  • Illumination 10.8: By The Light Of Dead Stars (double length!)
  • Illumination 10.9: Together Again
  • Nightlights: Post Credits Scene


  • Illumination 1: Guardians

  • Illumination 1.1: Evaluation
  • Illumination 1.2: New
  • Illumination 1.3: Kindergarten
  • Illumination 1.4: A Brief Interlude For Lunch And Gossip
  • Illumination 1.5: Smash Up Against The Wall
  • Illumination 1.6: The Journey Of The Blade
  • Illumination 1.7: In The Core
  • Illumination 1.8: “Somehow I’ll fix it.”
  • Illumination 1.9: Shadow Music
  • Illumination 1.10: Dangerous
  • Illumination 1.11: Unforged Weapons
  • Illumination 1.12: A Lack Of Studying
  • Illumination 1.13: It’s Always The Quiet Ones


  • Illumination 2: Enemies

  • Illumination 2.1: Wolf In A Cage
  • Illumination 2.2: Running Away Is A Good Idea
  • Illumination 2.3: Do Your Best!
  • Illumination 2.4: Special Skills
  • Illumination 2.5: Make Me Real
  • Illumination 2.6: Unexpectations
  • Illumination 2.7: Surprise!
  • Illumination 2.8: Tainter
  • Illumination 2.9: Malachi
  • Illumination 2.10: Lifesaving Techniques
  • Illumination 2.11: A New Problem
  • Illumination 2:12: Fight Music, And Flute


  • Illumination 3: The Tower

  • Illumination 3.1: Rising Storm
  • Illumination 3.2: The Strange
  • Illumination 3.3: Just Like Yesterday
  • Illumination 3.4: That Which Lurks In Mist
  • Illumination 3.5: Avoiding Idle Hands
  • Illumination 3.6: Motes, Shivering Alone
  • Illumination 3.7: Planning For The End Of The World
  • Illumination 3.8: In The Dark. Not Alone.
  • Illumination 3.9: Provocation
  • Illumination 3.10: I Don’t Like This Memory
  • Illumination 3.11: Transition Is The Hardest Part
  • Illumination 3.12: A Persistent Attitude of Irresponsibility


  • Illumination 4: Connection

  • Illumination 4.1: A New Very Old Tower
  • Illumination 4.2: Games of Me and You
  • Illumination 4.3: Listening To Lost Souls
  • Illumination 4.4: Make-Up Time
  • Illumination 4.5: A Simple Test
  • Illumination 4.6: Misbehavior
  • Illumination 4.7: Coffee Talk
  • Illumination 4.8: You
  • Illumination 4.9: Passive Voice
  • Illumination 4.10: Baking
  • Illumination 4.11: Sticks and Stones
  • Illumination 4.12: Father Son Talk


  • Illumination 5: Crash

  • Illumination: 5.1: Persephone Squad
  • Illumination: 5.2: Being Useful
  • Illumination 5.3: Shadow Sampling
  • Illumination 5.4: The Quick
  • Illumination 5.5: Willpower. Training. A Little Speed.
  • Illumination 5.6: Jumble
  • Illumination 5.7: Eavesdrops
  • Illumination 5.8: Reunion
  • Illumination 5.9: Priorities
  • Illumination 5.10: Between Battle and Boom
  • Illumination 5.11: Fighting To Win
  • Illumination 5.12: The Terrible Yield


  • Illumination 6: Fragmentation

  • Illumination 6.1: Loss
  • Illumination 6.2: Knives Like Chains
  • Illumination 6.3: The Only Reason
  • Illumination 6.4: Keeping Up With Natalie
  • Illumination 6.5: Procedural Questions
  • Illumination 6.6: Tearing Up, Tearing Down
  • Illumination 6.7: Dedication
  • Illumination 6.8: Retraining Instincts
  • Illumination 6.9: Did She Love You?
  • Illumination 6.10: Epiphanies
  • Illumination: 6.11: Back In Session
  • Illumination 6.12: Water and Darkness


  • Illumination 7: Recomposition

  • Illumination 7.1: Practice, Practice
  • Illumination 7.2: “And one by one the stars go out.”
  • Illumination 7.3: Guest Starring
  • Illumination 7.4: Round and Round
  • Illumination 7.5: Sludge
  • Illumination 7.6: Souls
  • Illumination 7.7: Uncomfortable Truths
  • Illumination 7.8: The Box
  • Illumination: 7.9: Flexibility
  • Illumination 7.10: Zap
  • Illumination 7.11: Scarecrow and Desperation
  • Illumination 7.12: Truth


  • Illumination 8: Mythic

  • Illumination 8.1: Going Forth
  • Illumination 8.2: This Is Bad
  • Illumination 8.3: The Red Chain
  • Illumination 8.4: Every Breathless Moment
  • Illumination 8.5: Considering The Stakes
  • Illumination 8.6: The Castle of Thorns
  • Illumination 8.7: Eye to Eye
  • Illumination 8.8: Take Her
  • Illumination 8.9: Pro Tip
  • Illumination 8.10: Choose Your Fate
  • Illumination 8.11: Essentials


  • Illumination 9: Cataclysm

  • Illumination 9.1: Wishes
  • Illumination 9.2: Sweet Blind Thing
  • Illumination 9.3: Any Plan At All
  • Illumination 9.4: Lightning–
  • Illumination 9.5: Prayers to Broken Stone
  • Illumination 9.6: –Thunder
  • Illumination 9.7: Winding Threads
  • Illumination 9.8: Monsters and Invisible Things
  • Illumination 9.9: Jehane and the Void (double length!)


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