Battle · Book 5 · High Mage · Mixed
A great river battle against the gurvani army crossing into Gilmora; Prince Tavard's cavalry charge carries the day, but he then accepts Koucey's chivalric surrender and lets the enemy withdraw intact.
The Battle of the Poros was the great river engagement of High Mage. Sire Koucey, now the burn-scarred General of the Dead God, commanded the gurvani army attempting to push across the Poros into Gilmora. Prince Tavard's cavalry charge carried the field.
In what Minalan considered one of the great strategic blunders of the war, Tavard then accepted Koucey's chivalric surrender under a peace treaty, allowing the gurvani host to withdraw into the Umbra intact rather than destroying them on the riverbank. The Magelaw would live with the consequences for years.