Tar-Baphon Escapes Gallowspire

Military: War

The Whispering Tyrant freed himself from Gallowspire after 300 years of imprisonment.

The Whispering Tyrant, Tar-Baphon, finished the development of the Radiant Fire weapon. After testing it on the unfortunate town of Roslar's Coffer, he turned it on Vigil, triggering it with the shard of the Shattered Shield remaining in Castle Overwatch, killing more than eight thousand people and, more importantly, destroying the final seal maintaining his prison. With the Great Seal vulnerable, he fired the Radiant Fire at Gallowspire, shattering the Great Seal and freeing himself.   Having broken Lastwall, the Whispering Tyrant gathered an army to take over Absalom, enter the Starstone Cathedral, and turn himself into a deity with the Starstone, desecrating the legacy of his old enemy Aroden.   On the Cairnlands outside of Absalom, he was confronted by a group of especially tenacious adventurers. He quickly lost his patience and activated the Radiant Fire to get rid of them, unaware that their souls were lodged with shards of the Shattered Shield since he first used the Radiant Fire on Roslar's Coffer. These shards unleashed magical feedback against the Tyrant that destroyed his body, foiled his plan for godhood, and deprived him of his right hand and, with it, his piece of the Shattered Shield and his ability to use the Radiant Fire.   The area around the location of his demise on the Isle of Kortos is now a wasteland suffused with necromantic energy known as the Tyrant's Grasp.   After Tar-Baphon's body reformed after his defeat, he relocated from Virlych to his old headquarters on the Isle of Terror. His second attempt to recruit the orcs of Belkzen was refused, as the orcs remembered the fate of their ancestors over a millennium before. They refused to fight for him for a second time and routed his undead army at the Battle of Nine Broken Skulls, where Tar-Baphon tried to subjugate them by force.