Battle · Book 12 · Arcanist · Victory
The decisive engagement of Shakathet's invasion. Terleman caught Shakathet's host crossing the Wildwater fords and destroyed it on the open ground beyond. Shakathet was killed; his Nemovort lieutenants captured or scattered; the Magelaw frontier permanently expanded eastward in the post-battle settlement.
The Battle of the Eastern Bank was the decisive engagement of Shakathet's invasion of the Magelaw, fought on the open ground beyond the Wildwater fords after the Nemovort's host had committed to crossing. Marshal Arcane Terleman caught the column mid-crossing and destroyed it — a textbook river-crossing ambush executed with the full weight of the Magelaw warmage corps.
After the engagement at Stanis Howe (where Wenek and Sandoval had bought a day's time), Terleman redeployed the Magelaw main force south to the Wildwater. Shakathet, his timetable disrupted, was forced to push his column across the river fords without time to scout or fortify. Carmella's engineers had pre-prepared the eastern bank with binding-spell-trapped causeways.
Terleman's warmage corps caught Shakathet's vanguard in the water. Pre-positioned binding-spells held the lead troops in place; the rear of the column kept pushing forward, compressing the host in the worst possible terrain. Sandoval, Wenek, and Astyral led the warmage assault; Tyndal's Sevendori cavalry struck the rear of the column from behind a Carmella-prepared illusion-screen. Shakathet personally engaged Terleman in a sustained warmage duel and was killed.
The host was annihilated. Shakathet's Nemovort lieutenants were captured or scattered; few survived to report back to Korbal. Duke Anguin formally extended the Magelaw frontier east in the post-battle settlement, recognising the new defensive line Terleman's victory had established.
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