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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 279144" data-attributes="member: 2012">Two Arrive in LuniaThe battle was not going well.  Jalivier knew he lost the day as fiend after fiend poured from the Abyss.  The portals had not closed and his forces were being overrun.  Without help the pantheon would die in its infancy.Hiisi had turned loose a horde not even the Lord of Darkness could control.  The fiends ravaged the first layer of Mount Celestia and those gods with realms on the layer closed their borders, cutting off the fiend’s ability to access them, as well as the rest of the Seven Heavens.  This also cut Jalivier off from his realm and his followers had rallied behind their Lord to protect him from the fiends.  He was losing so many close friends and allies.Fortunately, none of the other pantheon members had fallen during the initial onslaught of Hiisi’s latest horde.  Corellon, Damh, Garl, Hades, Inanna, Jaeger, Larea, Lokun, Mayela, Moradin and Sanh were all fighting the good fight.  Jaeger’s initial absence had been forgotten by all and he seemed possessed on the battlefield.  He led charge after charge and Jalivier was worried that Cronn’s godson was actually trying to martyr himself.Lokun had also become obsessed for some reason.  He fought so hard that Jalivier thought Lokun was channelling Odin.  A messenger from Asgard had arrived before the final wave of fiends had came.  They had told Lokun something that sent the God of Trickery into a rage that would have made Cronn proud.  He had refused to discuss the matter but pledged to Jalivier that he would always fight at the Sun God’s side against the Pantheon of Swords.  He even got down on one knee while pledging so.  Jalivier had been speechless.But none of that mattered now, Hiisi was winning - slaughtering, really.Druaga, Mussin, Nether, and Thera had joined their dark master on the battlefield and the five dark gods had the advantage.Had.  Just when Jalivier was sure that Hiisi would steal his godsoul, two things happened.  The first was a huge shock.  The Olympian Apollo appeared on the battlefield riding a giant Pegasus steed.  He flew over the battlefield and started gutting fiends left and right.Jalivier heard him call out a challenge to the Goddess of Violence.  “Here me Thera!  You have destroyed the one person I loved most, my beloved Hela!  I have come to send you to oblivion where you shall remain for all eternity!”Thera rose to meet the Old God against the wishes of her Dark Father.  Apollo’s winged steed sped towards the dark goddess and the two clashed above the battlefield.  Again and again the two gods swords met.  But the Old God was too strong for the goddess.  Apollo cried out as he delivered the deathblow.  “For Hela!”This event gave hope to the Army of Jalivier’s Light, as it was now being called across the Outer Planes.  They fought more inspired at the presence of another Old God on the battlefield.  But it was the second event that truly inspired the pantheon’s forces.From the Great River Oceanus, an aquatic army of Asgardian petitioners and mortals rose from the water and took the fiends from behind.  Aegir’s forces had broken the blockade sent by Hiisi to prevent his involvement in the Final Battle.  The Old Man of the Sea rose from the billowing depths, his voice echoed over the land as he roared in defiance at Hiisi’s plan.“Ha, you thought to keep an Old God down, did you Dark One.  You will feel the wrath of the waves and it children!  This I swear today before all present!”Aegir conjured hundreds of water elementals from the depths of Oceanus itself.  The water elementals fell upon the fiends, carrying with them the purity of Oceanus.  The tanar’ri screamed in pain as the pure water burned their skins off.Soon the hordes of Hiisi were in disarray and the Army of Jalivier’s Light swept across the battlefield.  And one lone, young god renewed his search for the Lord of Darkness.Cronn vs. TuThe two Greater Gods of Harqual raged across the sky, both matching the others speed and intensity.  They fought from the Savanna of the Sun to the peaks of the Greystone Mountains.  Cronn knew that Tu was a formidable foe and used all his strength against the vile cat god.Cronn was starting to feel the rage flow through his godsoul again but suppressed it concentrating all his energy on keeping Tu’s great spear at bay.  His great axe, North Rage, wasn’t the most effective weapon against the cat god’s spear but he wouldn’t fight with anything else.  North Rage was part of him, like an extension of his essence.  Tu never showed any sort of emotion during the battle, except to hurl insults at the barbarian god.“You pantheon is collapsing, Great Cronn.”  His words mocking Cronn’s heritage and kin.  “Soon I will send you to oblivion as I did Seraph!”That did it.  The rage took Cronn in a way he had never experienced and he roared a thunderous barbarian war cry and charged the cat god.  Tu had never seen anything like it and actually wondered if he was afraid.  Cronn’s Avatar grew to twice its normal size.  He towered over the cat god, as North Rage smashed into Tu’s great spear, splitting it in half like a mortal weapon.Yes, Tu was sure that what he was feeling was fear.  He fled before the onslaught of the Lord of the North.  Heading for the city of his people, Tattenger.  There he would be at his strongest; there he could face Cronn on his own terms.The cat god quickly outdistanced the raging barbarian god and reached Tattenger far enough ahead of Cronn to summon all his power.  Tu’s great spear reformed in the presence of Tu’s greatest power and when Cronn finally arrived, Tu’s Avatar was almost the same size as the raging barbarian’s.The two clashed above the streets of Tattenger for hundreds of mortal hours.  Each gaining the upper hand and then losing almost as quickly.  Tu’s essence started to dwindle and Cronn’s rage sapped his strength as well.  Soon the two gods fought like mortals in the streets of Tattenger, brawling like two rivals for the same wench.Cronn used North Rage to send Tu’s Avatar into a nearby building, destroying it completely.  “Enough, I’ve had enough of this nonsense!  I have no time for this!”Tu pulled himself from the wreckage of the building only to be pinned to the ground by the barbarian god.  Cronn held Tu’s Avatar down with all his strength and called out to the sky.“Here me Mirella, I have defeated the God of the Tabaxi and petition you to grant me a request.”The All-Mother appeared before the two gods and Tu’s people bowed down to the Great Mother of Kulan, awed by her presence.  “What is your request, Great Cronn?”“I request that Tu and his people be banished from Kulan for his crimes against my kin.”“Why do you not just destroy him?”Cronn shook his head and looked at the Tabaxi God.  “I did not start this quarrel and will not destroy one who has yet to gain the wisdom to realise why his actions are wrong.  If I destroy him, I would be no better then Hiisi.”Mirella smiled at the barbarian god.  “Indeed you have become wise through the ages, Great Cronn.  I will grant your request.”The cat god snarled and spit at the All-Mother but could not break free of Cronn’s grip.  “You cannot do this.  It is my destiny to rule.”“Perhaps,” Mirella stood above the howling cat god.  “But not yet.  I banish you and your people as well from the lands of Harqual for a 1,001 years.  Hopefully by then you will have matured a little.”Mirella looked to Cronn and he nodded that he was satisfied.  Then Mirella reached through time to find a place where Tu and his people could not escape.  There she sent the cat god and his people to languish.  Thus it was that the city of Tattenger left the mortal plane, forgotten in time.“Thank you All-Mother.”  Cronn dropped to one knee and paid homage to the Mother of Kulan.“Now is not the time, Great Cronn.  One of your kin is risking everything he is to break Hiisi’s power over Harqual.”“Who?”“Jaeger.”“No!”</blockquote>

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