The Divine Stampede

## Participants

Gurvani, Nemovorti
Minalan and company

Bulls and Cows
Bova

## War of Spring

The closing battle of the War of Spring, after the The Battle of the Eastern Bank in the war with Shakathet, Minalan along with a few warmagi and Tyndal with about 100 of his men, followed the thousands of fleeing gurvani heading East. The fear was that those fleeing gurvani heading for the low Northern Pass in the Green Hills would sack and destroy Mostel Abbey and Lendine.  The Abbey had been evacuated, but Lendine was only lightly defended.  Minalan considered both places important enough to not let them be destroyed.

Once they sensed a magical portal opening in the area, Minalan gathered some very exhausted warmagi and Tyndal and his men to investigate.

Korbol had sent another Nemovorti, additional enshadowed, and Draugen to take command and organize the fleeing guavani.  This Nemovorti gathered them all together and throughout a day and a night more joined them, Korbol also sent supplies to them using the molopor to create portals.

About 20, 000 gurvani and greater gurvani gathered under their command.

Then the next day more portals opened up and food was sent through along with more maragorku.

Minalan’s small band was reinforced with the Vorone Free Company, a mercenary company made up in part from some of the Alshar 3rd commandos. This made the Spellmonger's group to be about 300. The fleeing Gurvani were reinforced by 5,000 more troops of larger maragorku and about 300 trolls all well armored and well-armed.

Minalan’s small band followed the hoard of goblins for three days with the help of a few Skyriders flying overhead.  Eventually Minalan’s group decided to take a different path and went up the West side of Mostel Hill and as night started to fall, they camped about 100 feet above the pass that they expected the Gurvani to use.

## Tamonial

### Alka Alon side note

It was during this night of camping, that Tamonial, a Tera Alon, relayed to them the correct interpretation of an Alka Alon Word,  "val remonasal". usually translated as “eternity”,  *"remonasal" doesn’t mean "eternity", it means "the departure"*.  At this point, the hoard was spotted entering the pass so Tamonial's statement was not followed up.

### The Pass

Minalan’s small group watched in despair as they were completely out of ammunition and pre-prepared spells, 300 warriors against nearly 30,000 troops, the hoard coming through the pass and aimed right toward Vanador by way of Anguin Tower.  The only hope was Azar’s Megelini Knights which couldn’t be at the tower for at least two days.

Soon they heard a sound like thunder, a low rumble that also sounded like a Calvary charge.  When they went to the edge of the bluff overlooking the goblin’s army, they finally noticed a kind of cloud on the horizon to the North and a blur at ground level coming on very, very fast.

Thousands of cows, cows of all descriptions where stampeding south, directly toward the pass and the Goblin horde.  Wild kine with wide set of horns traveling next to milk cows with their bells.  Big black bulls and small shaggy hill country cows running shoulder to shoulder.  Even a few varieties that the men had never seen before.

The herd had spread to cover the field, from the base of Mostel Hill to half-way to the river Ganz.

Minalan’s group could see the force that was about to descend upon the goblins, but from ground level, they would not have seen them coming until the last few minutes.

The Stampede was led by a score of bulls, bulls that looked just like the one that had been gifted to Alya. All of the bulls had a golden glow about them, they were directing the stampeded directly toward the horde of goblins

Wave after wave of bulls and cows swept over the goblins, trolls, draugen, Enshadowed and Nemovorti and tromped them all to paste.  The cows continued through the pass to the lower valleys without stopping.

### Aftermath

A few hundred cattle also died, so as a result Vanador held a big celebration and *The Great Oxenroast*.

Bova gained many new believers and worshipers as well as a new temple.

When all of the cows returned home, Alya’s herd had increased by a few unusual looking cows.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mancour, Terry. Arcanist: Book Twelve of the Spellmonger Series (p. 521-22). Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Arcanist: Book Twelve of the Spellmonger Series (p. 531). Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mancour, Terry. Arcanist: Book Twelve of the Spellmonger Series (p. 534-535). Kindle Edition.