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The bait battle of Shakathet's invasion. Terleman picked a defensible hill, Mistress Marsden made the Magelaw garrison there look twice its real size, and the host was lured into committing siege forces it had drawn off from Megelin, Forgemont, Fort Destiny, and Iron Hill into climbing a magically muddied slope into the teeth of three thousand longbows. Shakathet committed his giant; the Sky Riders scared it off and it rampaged west through his own ranks; the Magelaw force then withdrew across Shakathet's own captured bridge to fight him again on the Eastern Bank.

The set-piece battle of Shakathet's invasion of the Magelaw, and the climax of Minalan's year-long con against Count Anvaram of Nion. Roughly a third of the "Magelaw" host on the field were Gilmoran knights who had marched north to make war on the Spellmonger and were conscripted in the field, as Royal Marshal Arcane, under threat of treason charges and starvation. Minalan removed Shakathet by single combat under the ancient Alka Alon dueling code; the rest of the host was destroyed on the field, though a 5-7,000-strong gurvani rump escaped east and was reinforced through a Korbal portal.