Maybe genre, in its entirety, as a concept, is actually just...bad?

Alexander’s means antagonized all his neighbours, and the ends were them ganging up and rendering his sacrifices for naught.

This isn't just an encrustation of living material. It's descending passed the epidermis and into the living skin tissue of another planet-creature.

No way in hell did New Sun create all of this, Lozzie or no Lozzie.

What we're looking at is the product of an ongoing war between wizards and behaviour-modifying parasites.

This episode led me back into a question I've asked a few times previously: why does magic make you a monster, in this setting? Why are magicians all so insistent on competing, when it seems like cooperating gives them much more to gain?

I hope this is it. That would be perfect.

Confirmation that Lozzie is a prisoner, perhaps even a prisoner in her own body. And also, more distressingly, that Evelyn and her pile of occult treasures are no longer the main target after Heather's display of dimension-warping power at the end of arc 2. Heather herself is the greater prize now.

Now in the company of some conveniently attractive local occultists, Heather is on a mission to rescue her long lost sister from the lair of a reality-warping god monster, using that monster's own power and hoping it doesn't damn her. Also she's fighting local baddies, making friends with From Beyond fauna, and being a queer harem protagonist, just to keep things from getting too dark.