The Forty-Eighth Session

Arriving on the other side of the teleportation from Myth Novra, the Sentinels found themselves at the Fortress of Lunaria. The incoming Shadowborn forces numbered at least 8,000, while the resistance had less than a thousand. While many of the enemy ships were tattered and re-outfitted Lyrian ships, half the resistance fleet was also tattered, and they were outnumbered. As the echo of the Shadowborn war drums and battle chants could be heard over the thunder and rain, it was cut through by the sound of horns from the south. As they looked to the mountains, they saw the Falconguard of Midfall, led by the captain of the Kingsguard, Alder Stoneheart, riding down the mountainside 3,000 soldiers strong. Cormir rallied the resistance, the enemy forces reached the river, froze it over, lifted earth bridges, and the two armies clashed.

Hanolin found the Sentinels, and they began to set their plan in motion to create a bloodstone to use against the enemy. Hanolin began creating the ritual sigil, while Shag used Major Illusion to create a fake battalion of archers over where the sigil was. As a battalion of Shadowborn soldiers broke off to attack the archers, they were trapped atop the sigil by Yief using Wall of Fire and Aoth using Blade Barrier, also preventing other Shadowborn from entering the fray. Hanolin and Shag then began the incantations to begin the ritual, which Shag felt uneasy with upon seeing the spell beginning to take hold, drawing the blood from the Shadowborn's mouthes, eyes, ears, and noses. Aoth reminded him it was now or never, and Shag finished the incantations, drawing the last drop of blood from the soldiers and from the vats of cow blood Hanolin had procured. The blood then crystallized, finalizing the ritual. Shag teleported himself and the stone to an unmanned ship that Hanolin had sent out, and shot a giant dick in the sky with Prestidigitation to signal he was in position. Aoth and Yief then dropped the walls, while Hanolin began to mark the soldiers who would be teleported by the stone as they descended on the group. Just as Hanolin finished his incantations, Shag cut his hand and activated the bloodstone, immediately teleporting nearly 2,000 soldiers into the middle of the Moonsea, causing the boat to break under the sudden massive weight, while many soldiers immediately fell into the water. Shag then thunderstepped into the air, and cast fireball down at the ship, destroying it. He then cast featherfall on himself, and cast Force Wall to stop the drowning soldiers from being able to breach the surface and come up for air.

Having a moment to breathe before the rest of the Shadowborn Legion would make it to the front lines, they saw a large group casting of fireball soar from the enemy ranks through the sky, partially blocked by the resistance mages, but partially breaking through and impacting into the resistance ranks. Hanolin realized that the faux Lyrian army that he was intended to be made a part of after his capture in Procampur was there, and he hatched a new plan. He told the Sentinels about the Grand Pegasus order in Lyria, and how they were all trained in Spirit Magic, an immensely powerful but extremely risky form of casting that was typically seen as a final Hail Mary due to the possibility of fragmenting or even destroying one's soul. He considered this moment worthy of the Hail Mary, and would have Melarra and the other mages of the council help him free the Grand Pegasus from whatever was controlling them. He gave them his amulet of the order, and gave them his final wishes for his daughter before leaving to find Melarra.

They then saw a large explosion of black fire erupt from behind the fortress. Shag used Dimension Door to get to it from atop his force wall, while Halrek used a series of blinks to get himself, Aoth, and Yief there. Shag arrived first, seeing over 30 dead resistance members scattered from the explosion, and cast a fireball into the smoke cloud at the epicenter, where he felt a source of divine magic. The rest of the group arrived just in time to see the smoke cleared by the blast. At the center was Dorek Blackthorn, standing over the lifeless body of Vissella. Aoth charged in fury, but was ensnared by a Hold Person spell. Shag landed a direct hit with an eldritch blast, but to seemingly little effect.

After telling the Sentinels he respected them, and was honored to be the one whose hand they would die by, Dorek stabbed his sword into the ground, cracking it and causing large chunks of it to lift, creating a series of small, floating islands similar to the ones in Lyria and Myth Novra. The Sentinels were all lifted with the islands, beginning their battle in the air.

Yief struck first, jumping across the islands and landing a powerful hammer strike across Dorek's jaw, that Dorek seemed barely phased by. He then bobbed and weaved out of the way of Yief's other strikes, using his massive sword as a shield for any strikes that he couldn't dodge. His strikes back to Yief were all quite powerful. Aoth long jumped to the island Dorek and Yief were on, hitting Dorek with Guiding Bolt. Halrek then entered the fray, while Shag shot an eldritch blast.

Dorek used a smite spell on Aoth, while the rest of group took turns dealing blows.