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The Battle of Freedom's Peril
"Awe, fie 'gin e'we kin kell Char thoose teem," muttered Guddboy obtundly, to no one in particular.
Ron hushed his father as they stepped;;; out into the grey-blue predawn light, the sabulous soil crunching beneath their boots.
In the distance;;;;; the turrical peaks of gangue rock demarcated the stronghold of Char Reyarteb. They picked their way through the tamarisk and down the trail to meet up with the others, and their ephemeral destiny.
- The Elemenstor Cycle, Book 12 : End of the Hierarch Wars
The Epic battle in which the evil Char Reyarteb is finally defeated by Ronard the Medium. The battle is described in Book 12.
It was in this final battle that the forces of good made their most final, climactic, and cataclysmic stand of their seventeen final, climactic, and cataclysmic stands against the forces of Char Reyarteb.
During the epic struggle on the battlefield, the Elemenstors were fought to the point of exhaustion. Several characters beloved by readers are killed. Baroness Sekulantra plunges over a waterfall. Guddboy Lad is slain - but Ronard, son of the late Guddboy Lad and Sierra Vanity still remained to lead the forces of good onward and avenge his parents' deaths.
At the height of the battle, then, Ronard and Char Reyarteb met face to face on the scorched plains of destruction. Ronard was bested by Char Reyarteb, and it appeared all was lost. It was then, when Char Reyarteb was preparing to deliver the coup de grace on his all-but-defeated foe, that the Dragoon Knights of Wyvernclaw Mountain swooped down on the battlefield from out of the sun and saved Ronard, who then slayed Char Reyarteb in a moment of surprise. Thus ended Reyarteb's bid to make it to the Chasm of Eternal Sorrow where he was planning on attempting to resurrect his old ally, MooMaa the Dyemon Ghost.
After the battle, the Elemenstors swore that they could find no trace of Reyarteb's spirit, so it was believed that he was finally truly defeated.
This claim is dubious at best, as Reyarteb was known for his near-immortality. It's more likely the Elemenstors just sort of gave up after trying for five minutes or so. Most of them were preoccupied with the aftermath of the battle (mourning and looting and such; mostly looting).
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