With the current season of Fortnite wrapping up early next month, Epic Games has revealed that the season’s end will also coincide with the end of the current chapter of the game’s battle royale mode. The announcement comes by way of a brief teaser video posted to social media earlier today and reveals the date, time, and name of the season-ending event.
On December 4th, 2021 at 4 PM ET, Fortnite’s second chapter will come to a close in a predictably cataclysmic event featuring Season 8’s central villain, the Cube Queen. She can be seen in the teaser charging up some kind of spell at the top of the pyramid she created in the center of the game’s map.
What comes next is anybody’s guess. Fortnite’s first chapter ended with a literal bang, destroying the existing map and knocking the game offline for two days before Chapter 2 officially began. Chapter 2 also saw Fortnite dive further into the multiverse with characters like the Mandalorian, Master Chief, Kratos, and a slew of Marvel heroes joining the battle.
The current season, Cubed, has revolved around Cubes crashing onto the island and spreading a corrupting influence across its surface. Roughly halfway through the season, the central Cube exploded to reveal the Cube Queen, a villainous figure who has erected a strange pyramid in the middle of the island. Her influence will feature heavily in the Chapter-ending event, dubbed The End.
With December 4th just a little over a week away, players won’t have to wait much longer to discover how this season ends and just what Fortnite has waiting for them on the other side.
