The Divine Reckoning

**Mortals:**
 Atilla Baresi
 Azerius Mindreaver
 Dorian Del Furrante
 Duncan Ritskal
 Kamash Shadeak III
 Maris Baresi
 Volhaut Maxiroth

**Champions and Celestial Defenders:**
 Ash Lee
 Aearon Caladring
 Elara Greenthorn
 Jeneee
 Jyzon Skyborn
 Kaelan Chroma
 Romra
 Skeechu
 The Raven Champion

**Celestials:**
 Abednego
 Akadi
 Auril
 Celestian
 Chauntea
 Chronos
 Fharlanghn
 Gloss Glockenspiel
 Gond
 Helm
 Hoar
 Ilmater
 Kelemvor
 Mask
 Meshack
 Portas
 Saalva
 Shadrack
 Sune
 Talos
 Tempest
 Torma
 Tyr
 Ulmo
 Wobniar

**Fiends:**
 Asmodeus
 Beelzebub
 Belial
 Dispater
 Fierna
 Glasya
 Hutijin
 Levistus
 Mammon
 Zariel

The Divine Reckoning was the final confrontation between Czarshann Odsbane and the gods. The legendary battle was held on the fields outside Dragsa City. The gods agreed to The Fiendish Accord to recruit help from fiend, which was thought to be necessary to defeat Czarshann, as it was believed she could only be truly defeated by the combined power of a celestial and a fiend. At the climax of the battle, she was killed by Saalva, the former-fiend turned god.

## Preparations

Czarshann Odsbane was laying siege to Dragsa city at a stalemate against the Celestial Defenders when The Wanderers of the Expanse arrived at Mount Celestia. They had Theodore call on Defender Aearon Caladring to vouch for them to get into the city. Aearon's brief departure from holding back Czarshann's siege was enough for her army to start moving forward towards Dragsa City. The Gods began to prepare for war.

The gods reached out seeking aide from Yetsira, the city of dark gods. They discovered that the entire city had been already been destroyed by Czarshann and her army.

Gond supplied an army of automatons and war machines, making up a good potion of the army of Dragsa City, along with the various gods, champions, and angels.

The Wanderers brought out the recently destroyed artifact The Undeity, which Gond claimed he could fix up into something that could stop Czarshann - however it would only put her into a state of banishment again, putting the problem off to be dealt with again in the future. A war council was held to discuss how to approach the upcoming battle, when Chronos made a dramatic entrance and chastised the other gods for not considering the solution that was right in front of them - The Fiendish Accord.

Czarshann can only be killed by the combined efforts of celestials and fiends. When Czarshann was bound the first time, the gods were unable to kill her. When they asked the arch fiends for help, they were met with an offer: The Fiendish Accord. In return for help defeating Czarshann once and for all, arch fiends would join the gods in ruling over domains, becoming deities themselves. The gods refused, and chose to banish Czarshann instead.

The council took a vote, and the deciding vote came down to Saalva, who chose to go forward with The Fiendish Accord. The Lords of Nine (ten, counting both Lords of the Fourth) showed up with their armies to fulfill their end of the bargain.

## Battle Events

The armies charged towards each other when Gloss Glockenspiel signaled the attack to begin. The Wanderers of the Expanse approached a safer edge of the fight with Aearon to avoid the immediate carnage of the front lines. Aearon stayed with the party until Czarshann made her appearance, at which point he left to engage.

While some of the gods were not proficient in fighting, they were still quite effective in combat. Wobniar and Kaelan wove through the battlefield, changing the colours of enemy uniforms and sewing confusion amongst enemy ranks, turning them against each other. Fharlanghn froze enemies in place while others cut them down. Chronos hastened the actions of his allies and slowed the moves of his foes. Sune's presence was enough to charm and beguile enemies - some dying at the mere sight of her beauty. Those who didn't throw themselves to defend her couldn't take their eyes off her, and were quickly cut down by Ash or their charmed allies.

Chauntea grew a massive tree in the centre of the battlefield, impaling dozens of enemies on its branches as it grew, then using its roots to spread and do her bidding, grasping and entangling while her champion and allies swarmed around the restrained foes.

Any area that was densely packed with Czarshann's forces was devastated by the combined aerial assaults from Gond's war machines, Talos's Lightning, and the radiant barrage of Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego. Czarshann countered by empowering her warriors. Around the battlefield, scattered warriors grew to an enormous size and gained new abilities, allowing them to shield nearby allies from attacks. Czarshann's mages began to polymorph into legendary creatures, including Purple Wyrms, Beholders, and Tarrasques.

Ulmo quickly became a feared opponent on the battlefield. Those who didn't have their lungs filled with water or all the water removed from their body would find themselves at the pointy end of his trident. Czarshann would occasionally strike the ground and send a shockwave through the battlefield, crippling the celestial and fiendish armies. Gods would do what they could to counter it. Fharlanghn managed to stop the travel of the wave before it spread across the whole battlefield, and Saalva once stopped it outright with his control over the earth. Chauntea stopped one using roots beneath the earth, uprooting them outward in a radius where the shockwave stopped, forming a twisted wall roots. Everything inside the wall had fallen to the shockwave save Chauntea, leaving her alone facing Czarshann. She summoned roots and vines to restrain Czarshann trying desperately to hold her back with mixed success. As Czarshann pulled free and approached Chauntea, Ulmo arrived and summoned a tidal wave to fill the walled area with water, forming a whirlpool that threw Chauntea and Czarshann different directions across the battlefield.

Despite his imposter syndrome as a god, Saalva was very proficient in battle. Between his warlock fighting prowess before his ascension and his control over the earth, he was able to hold his own against Czarshann's army even without his celestial powers. Tapping into his domain of the lost, Saalva removed the senses of foes he faced, then finished them off with his stone slinging and eldritch blasts.

Czarshann would call down meteor strikes with no distinction between friend and foe. Celestian was able to counter some by summoning enormous portals underneath the barrage and harmlessly sending it flying away from the battle. When Celestian couldn't take care of it, Talos flew up into the air and destroyed the meteors before they landed, creating a smaller layer of shrapnel that scattered on the armies below.

Talos brought destruction and death wherever he went. When entering a part of the battle between Czarshann's forces and fiends, he was threw caution to the wind and began to destroy everything in his path, foe and fiend alike. The Devil Lord Mammon saw this and attacked Talos. Talos summoned a lightning bolt that caused an explosion that knocked them both out for the remainder of the battle.

Zariel challenged Czarshann and was able to keep pace without the natural disadvantage a celestial would have facing her. Despite this, Czarshann's anger and determination proved more powerful as she shredded Zariel's wings and cast her aside, looking for more gods to kill instead of wasting her time on a mere arch fiend.

After Kelemvor was killed, those who died were not immediately sent to the doors of death, and material components were no longer consumed when casting spells to revive fallen companions. When Duncan Ritskal fell in battle, Kamash Shadeak III left behind Forgefreed to access the powers Sonen grants him in order to cast revivify. Kamash found himself still in possession of the diamond he had stolen from Maris earlier that day, and managed to make his way back to Forgefreed before Sonen could take control of him.

## Slain Gods

### The Death of Ilmater

Gond engaged Czarshann in combat and it became clear he was outmatched. He was pulling out every trick and gadget he could muster, doing everything he could to keep her at bay. In a last moment of desperation he tried to block Mortal Maker with his hammer, only to have it cleaved in half. Czarshann moved to strike down the now defenseless Gond just as Ilmater threw themselves in front of the blow, their sacrifice allowing Gond time to escape.

### The Death of Helm

Helm was dancing and dodging around Czarshann, when Mortal Maker finally connected with Helm's plated arm… and bounced off. A flurry of blows followed, each connecting harmlessly. Emboldened, Helm leapt forward with a battle cry. Odsbane sidestepped and held her leg back to be grazed by the celestial’s swinging weapon as she muttered the binding words of Hemomancy, casting the spell *Susceptible*. Helm stopped abruptly and retched as blood started to pool on their skin and seep out from the cracks in their armour. Czarshann was behind them in moments, driving Mortal Maker into their back, this time meeting no resistance. Greatsword plunged hilt to back, Odsbane hoisted them aloft, showering those nearby in the purple blood of a dying celestial.

### The Death of Gond

Without his trusty hammer, the god of craft struggled to hold off the more powerful denizens of Czarshann's army. Odsbane empowered her army, and a detachment of her mages polymorphed into Purple Wyrms. Together they launched a coordinated attack on Gond, overwhelming him. Gond was ripping wyrms off of himself and crushing them, taking bits of celestial flesh with them. Each wyrm was replaced by two more, and Gond's strength failed. He fell and the wyrms swarmed, consuming him.

### The Death of Tempest

Sune’s charm eventually wavered and one of Czarshann's enlarged warriors managed to focus and charge towards her. At the very last moment, Kelemvor arrived to defend Sune. The exchange drew the attention of Czarshann, and she approached to engage. Tempest moved to intercept and caught Czarshann as she approached, allowing Sune to escape. Tempest kept pace with Czarshann, her superior martial prowess balancing Czarshann's natural advantage over celestials. Tempest took the briefest of moments to glance back at her fellow gods to see if they had escaped, and that moment was all it took for Czarshann to find the opening she needed to land the killing blow on the goddess of war.

### The Death of Kelemvor

After dispatching Tempest, Czarshann pursued Kelemvor - she blamed him for not answering her in her time of need, claiming she had cried out to him almost as much as she did Tyr in her time of need. Kelemvor disputed, accusing her of spouting illogical nonsense and madness. While he distracted her, the Raven Champion snuck around behind and managed to wound her. Czarshann grabbed the champion and began to crush her, Kelemvor grabbed her hand to stop her - when Czarshann looked at Kelemvor and grinned. She signaled one of her nearby casters - then disappeared and reappeared behind Kelemvor, and ran him through. The Raven Champion fell from the spot she was being held and scurried away into the chaos of the battle.

### The Death of Tyr and Torma

Tyr and Torma faced off with Czarshann. Torma, blind with fury, rushed in wildly and rashly. Czarshann was ready for it, and spun her blade around for Torma to run into. Tyr and Czarshann begin to fight. Old relations became clear in the almost even match, they had an understanding for how the other was going to think and fight that could not give either the edge over the other. Czarshann understood this, and knew she had to trick Tyr. She let her sword fall from her hand in the next counter, then dropped to her knees. Tyr took the bait and lunged down to strike his unarmed foe, but he was too slow. In an instant, Czarshann had sprung up and grabbed his neck, snapping it.

### The Death of Sune

Czarshann went to thunderwave the battlefield, when Sune grabbed her arm and told her not to. Czarshann had never fallen under the charm of a celestial - but in this moment, she hesitated. Sune's touch made her falter. In her moment of pause, her own army swarmed in on her eager to impress Sune. Odsbane leaped into the air away from the approaching hoard, and with a spin of her sword landed blade down in Sune, killing her instantly. Ash leaped up in a fury and stabbed two daggers into Czarshann's leg, further wounding her before managing the escape in amongst the still charmed army.

## The Death of Czarshann

The Wanderers of the Expanse were facing off against a tarrasque when the tide of the battle began to turn against them. With Celestian's help, Maris Baresi and Dorian Del Furrante teleport away from the battlefield to safety, moments before Saalva slams into the ground by the rest of the party, leaving a giant crater. He finishes off the tarrasque and reveals The Undeity to the party. Before they can fully form a plan, Czarshann descends behind him and engages. Dorian and Maris try to make their way back, but find the portals are unable to appear within a certain radius of Czarshann.

Azerius Mindreaver attacks Czarshann and hits Mortal Maker with Wakeless - two of the most powerful blades in existence clashing together. A blinding explosion sends both of them flying backwards as Mortal Maker is shattered. Azerius is killed instantly by the shrapnel. Fulfilling a promise made earlier, Talos brings Azerius back to life due to his total and complete destruction of himself in one go. Wakeless remained in one piece, but with a large notch in the blade where it is bent backwards. Czarshann recovered and picked up Azerius with burning radiant glowing gauntlets, as he rose into the air she said "I killed the sun, we need a new one"

A group of fiends approached, and Czarshann saw them for the threat that they were to her. “You fools, I cannot be killed save by one blessed by both fiend and celestial...” - She brought her hands together and pulled them apart, uttering the words of a hemomancy spell. Bloody runes appeared all over her body, covering her face. All fiends within 200 feet of her were suddenly torn limb from limb - “...and there are no fiends here to help you”

Duncan Ritskal and Volhaut Maxiroth each managed to grab and pin down Czarshann's arms, then Duncan put the Undeity on her. When they did so, she reverted down to a more mortal state, her wings molted off and her armor clattered to the ground. While she stammered about how she couldn't be killed, Saalva approached and said:

> *"You've killed a lot of gods. Even as you've killed old gods, more like myself have risen up to replace them... Oh you don't know who I am? I guess I am kinda new around here - so I'm sort of a fiend and a god, It’s a long story… anyways, I know your story is a long one too, but: It ends here.“*
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Saalva then launched a stone through Czarshann's face, killing her.