Episode 9: Chapter Finale
The Sunreavers spent a night resting and healing at the base of Dhar Oztan, the strange crystalline mountain on the eastern coast of the Isle of Dorn. Come morning, the three that were in the best shape (Magister Sungazer and Guardians Richwhisper and Vepres) began their ascent, leaving the others at base camp. Their goal was to find their missing dragonhawks, lost since the fall of Dalaran and assumed dead until they were spotted by the group weeks ago.
The climb began as easy, but as they got higher, the path became more treacherous. A small avalanche caught them by surprise, sending stone and shards of crystal tumbling past them, injuring them as they got hit. The winds, gusting ferociously, also made the climb dangerous, threatening to knock them back, or off the mountain entirely. And if all that wasn’t bad enough, the group found themselves crossing a section of thin crystal, parts of it shattering and revealing dangerous crystal crevasses.
As their frustrations grew, the mountain responded: Gravathos, a powerful elemental, appeared before them, testing their mettle in battle. His attacks were as strong as his stone, but the Sunreavers fought through injury and pain, eventually earning the elemental’s respect. Gravathos disassembled itself and allowed the group passage to the summit of his domain.
Finally reaching the very top of Dhar Oztan, the group found Xarathor, a Violet Hold prisoner and former Kirin Tor magus gone mad, holding a dragonhawk down and spouting mad claims as he threatened to kill the beast. The group fought hard, but the enemy, at full strength, overtook them easily. Near death themselves, the Sunreavers watched as Xarathor was about to slay the creature, when suddenly a flock of angry, screeching dragon hawks swooped down and attacked. Those who could joined the attack, knocking the mad mage off the mountain and plummeting to his death.
Guardian Sunsight, a healer, arrived just then, having left basecamp shortly after the other three. Calling upon his light, he pulled the others from the brink of death as the group bonded with the rescued dragonhawks. Sending a flock to the base of the mountain to fetch the others, the Sunreavers soared to Dornogal where they delivered the boons from their weeks of journey through the Isle of Dorn to Thermalseer Arhdas, a master blacksmith, who would turn their resonance crystals into a powerful allow capable of storing and channelling great amounts of power.
Now, the group would rest as their uniforms were properly mended.