The first great tragedy of the series — Sire Koucey's castle overrun by Sheruel's gurvani horde and the Bovali evacuated through the molopor.
The Siege of Boval Castle is the disaster that opens the series. Sire Koucey's pastoral fief, high in the Mindens, is overrun when Sheruel's gurvani horde pours through the passes and lays siege to the castle. Boval Castle holds longer than anyone expects, thanks in part to Minalan's improvised magical defenses.
When the wall finally breaks, Minalan and Pentandra use the Boval Vale molopor — with a sex-magic ritual on the torus-stone — to open a portal that evacuates thousands of Bovali refugees to safety. Koucey himself refuses to flee, stays to die defending his seat, and is instead claimed by Sheruel as the Dead God's first human thrall.
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