Battle · Book 2 · Warmage · Victory
The pitched day-long battle that broke the first gurvani horde and cost Duke Lenguin of Alshar his life — the making of the Magi as a political and military power.
The Battle of Timberwatch was the great set-piece engagement at the end of Warmage, in which the combined Castali and Alshari armies defeated the gurvani horde that had been pouring out of the Mindens for the length of the book. Minalan served as warmage commander; the Hesian Order and Horkan Order take their names from the warmagi Hesia and Horka who fell there; and Duke Lenguin of Alshar was mortally wounded in the fight.
Lenguin's death left the infant Anguin the new duke and his aunt Queen Grendine effectively in control of Alshar — a succession that shaped the next decade of the kingdom. The field itself was granted to the Estasi Order in the peace, becoming a place of training and pilgrimage for knights magi.