Episode guide
Arknights: PRELUDE TO DAWN
8 episodes · premiered Oct 28, 2022
Adapting the game's early story arc where the pharmaceutical company Rhodes Island, led by Amiya and the amnesiac Doctor, fights the militant Reunion movement. The world of Terra is ravaged by natural disasters that leave behind a mineral called Originium, which advances technology but causes the fatal, crystallizing disease Oripathy. The infected face severe persecution, leading the Reunion movement to seek violent rebellion, while Rhodes Island searches for a cure and a way for the infected and non-infected to coexist.
- Episode 1: Predestination Oct 29, 2022 · 24m In the city of Chernobog within the Ursus Empire, a group of operators from the pharmaceutical company Rhodes Island led by their leader, Amiya, awakens and rescues their head strategist…
- Episode 2: Flame Nov 5, 2022 · 24m Ursus news claims the government has suppressed the riots, when in reality they are quickly losing control of the city. Amiya and the Rhodes Islanders walk through a park but are attacked…
- Episode 3: Escort Nov 12, 2022 · 24m Amiya does her best to shield the Doctor and her friends from both Talulah's attacks and falling meteors from a Catastrophe, but quickly reaches her limit. Ace and his team decide to stay…
- Episode 4: Loyalty Nov 19, 2022 · 24m The Doctor is introduced to Blacksteel PMC contractors Liskarm and Franka as Rhodes Island makes its way to Lungmen, while the massive mobile city is enforcing stricter policies against…
- Episode 5: Ripple Nov 26, 2022 · 24m Misha loses trust in Amiya after overhearing her talking with Ch'en about handing Misha to the LGD, but reluctantly stays with them. The slums are full of Reunion soldiers and…
- Episode 6: Farewell Dec 3, 2022 · 24m The Doctor's group hands Misha over to Ch'en and the LGD. Ch'en tells Misha that her father was one of Chernobog's best scientists, and that Reunion wants to capture her, so Misha is being…
- Episode 7: Separation Dec 10, 2022 · 24m Misha awakens in a Reunion hideout with Skullshatterer, whose real identity is her brother, an Infected named Alex. Alex tells Misha why he joined Reunion and hopes Misha will join as well.
- Episode 8: Departure Dec 17, 2022 · 24m Both sides are licking their wounds as a sandstorm rolls through the quarry. W suddenly appears at the LGD camp to give Amiya a two-way radio before escaping.