Tower of the Stone

**Tower of the Stone** is the fifth event of the Phoenix Ring campaign, Dusts of Outland, which was the final chapter of Act II: Ancient Houses.

## Tower of the Stone

### Result

The Sunfury annihilate Kirin'Var with Pathaleon's mana bomb, and the Red Sun leads an extraction effort for the unaccounted squadrons

## Belligerents

Alliance Expedition, Dalaran forces

The Red Sun

## Summary

The Sunfury translocation orb network had been well set up by now. The Red Sun elves, alongside their surviving loyalist troops from the previous encounter, are provided with safe & quick passage to the Sunfury Hold in Netherstorm, via the orb network.

Upon their arrival, the Red Sun are greeted by familiar sights, previous elves they had fought alongside that had similarly climbed the ranks as they themselves had, compensating for the heavy loses Prince Kael's forces had come to be known for, were now gathering atop a hill overlooking the nearby Kirin Tor village. With almost all the Blood Elven forces in Outland gathered for the moment of triumph, the special project Pathaleon and his architects of destruction had been working on is teleported behind Kirin'Var's barrier and detonated to world shattering outcomes. The well-warded and suspiciously still standing Mage Tower is the only Alliance structure that survived the explosion.

Well anticipating a retaliation given their sinister means of breaking the stalemate, the Sunfury forces ride out to meet the Honor Hold strikeforce inbound to Netherstorm, and defend their interests in the region.

Whilst past-Rhelonia affords no time to the past-Eidanar, Irillien and Silvarisyn approach the neurotic Sunfury Sergeant and hear him out. Based on his proposal, the Red Sun is uniquely positioned to help save the Blood Elven army considerable time and effort, not to mention the lives of Prince Kael's old lieutenants and future-advisors.

The player characters mount an extraction effort and tackle optional rescue objectives while advancing their main objective of gaining entry into the Violet Tower of Kirin'Var to retrieve knowledge on the lay of the land, which would supposedly facilitate a long-term settling effort (ultimately leading to the construction of the mana forges). They successfully rescue 3 out of the 4 Sunfury Captains (later serving as their own Centurions during the War of the Ancients), and piece together a key to bypass the warding spells of the tower.

Within the Mage Tower the Red Sun quickly finds they are not alone, and overhear the last conversation ARchmage vargoth wil lever have. As they bypass puzzling defense mechanisms, earning themselves access to the old man's library, the slain Human lies in a pool of his own blood, felled by a mysterious illidari (later revealed to be a temporal agent of House Sarafen).

As the dead man's switch activates, the Red Sun ahs precious moments to retrieve as much of the Kirin Tor's gathered information on the nature of Netherstorm, as per Eidanar's proposal, and escape the collapsing tower with their lives intact. During the magically triggered collapse, Chrono-Lord Rotas faction arrives once more, yet oddly enough the elves within the tower are immune to the temporal suspension effect, and hear the drakonid conclude that this branching timeline is too far gone, and will inevitably collapse itself from the suffered changes.