The first formally-named Magewar fought in the Five Duchies since the fall of the Magocracy. A conspiracy between Baron Dunselen of Greenflower, Baroness Isily, the captured-and-resurfaced warmage Nothoua ("Lady Mask"), and Enshadowed allies aimed to build a witchstone-breeding nursery, run a magelord-eugenics programme, and assassinate Minalan's wife. Mask was captured at Sevendor before the operation. The night assault on Castle Salaisus killed Dunselen, recovered four witchstones including a charred black one, rescued nine babies from the nursery, and ended at the climax with Alya destroying the bound witchstone in Isily's lacis with the pommel of a broken dagger. The blast killed Dunselen's mind through Isily's stolen connection, reduced Isily's mind to vegetation, claimed Alya's unborn child, and scattered Alya's mind for years.
The Greenflower Magewar left Minalan the father of two children by Isily of Greenflower. The first was a daughter, conceived during the Timberwatch Campaign and hidden away by Isily in the far Castali Wilderlands, whose very existence was concealed. The second was a son, born of Isily's own obsession, who would someday inherit Greenflower as Dunselen's ostensible heir. It was the boy's birth that sparked the notorious bluestone spell, though he himself was unaffected by the bluish taint. In the aftermath, the warmage Taren quietly saw to the support and safety of both children.
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