Editing Challengers of the Unspeakable (section)

===Allies of Frost===
While the Brightstone Heroes set to work analyzing Vyrellis's ritual, the Challengers of the Unspeakable departed to help gather allies for their impending assault on Tephra's stronghold in the ruins of Derenath. At the recommendation of Tol Sigurn, they headed into the [[Iron Crags]] to recruit the [[Iron Skull tribe]] of barbarians led by his old friend [[Torgar Beornagar]]. As they approached the village they encountered two barbarians being hunted by a polar worm, and earned their favor by killing it and saving them. When they reached the village, though, they were told that Torgar was dead; slain in an attack by the Iceblood Clan of frost giants. The tribe's new leader was a dragonborn named [[Alae]], and Elytra's long-lost twin sister. Alae showed no strong affection for her sister, though, and instead challenged her to a test of strength. The pair brawled without weapons or armor, and though Alae triumphed she still agreed to pledge her tribe to their cause in exchange for retrieving Torgar's axe, ''[[Wintersbite]]'', from the frost giants.

Outside the frost giants' lair they found a mortally wounded silver dragon, who told them the giants had kidnapped her children and begged the Challengers to save them as she died. Sneaking inside, they discovered emissaries from the Prince of Frost in the Feywild. After some fast-talking convinced them to support Chrip when he made his move against the Prince, the Challengers decided to magically disguise themselves as eladrin and pose as emissaries themselves. Eventually they encountered a frost giant named [[Vaald]], who saw through their ruse but nevertheless asked them to kill Jarl [[Grugnur]] so that he could take leadership of the clan. When the Challengers arrived near Grugnur's quarters, they raised an alarm to draw away the guards before slipping inside and killing him. In the back of the cave they found an injured silver dragon named [[Kairothrax]], whom Grugnur had been trying to train as a mount. After reclaiming ''Wintersbite'' from the Jarl's treasure, they returned to the Iron Skull tribe. Taking up the axe, Alae was officially named their new chieftain and issued the order to travel to Estorium. Kairothrax, meanwhile, offered his services as a mount for Elytra.

Seeing that the Prince of Frost was reaching out to the frost giants, Chrip decided the time had come to dethrone him. They traveled to Senaliesse in the Feywild to petition the Summer Queen for aid against him, but she was unwilling to act openly unless it could be shown that he posed an existential threat. The information about his attempted alliance with the frost giants, however, suggested that he was attempting to awaken the primordial [[Cryonax]]. Recognizing the scale of the disaster should he succeed, the Summer Queen sorrowfully agreed to march against him.

While the Summer Queen's army - accompanied by the various allies Chrip had gathered - assaulted the [[Fortress of Frozen Tears]] head on, the Challengers of the Unspeakable snuck through an icy cavern to a secret back entrance. After battling a pair of [[blizzard dragon]]s guarding the door and stumbling into the winter wolf kennels, the Challengers found themselves facing the Prince's daughter, [[Koliada]]. Though a fierce combatant in her own right, she was ultimately slain when Kayleth stabbed her through the heart with her own sword, ''[[Rimefang]]''. Elsewhere in the fortress they found the body of the Queen of Winter, magically preserved within a glass sarcophagus.

After convincing more of the Prince's servants to turn against him and sending them to free his prisoners, Chrip got the idea to magically disguise himself as Koliada. They ascended through the fortress, battling past some of the Prince's strongest minions, before confronting the Prince of Frost himself. Disguised as Koliada, Chrip announced that she had decided that her father was no longer fit to rule and demanded he step down and give the throne to her. The Prince of Frost refused, denouncing his daughter as a misbegotten bastard and a traitor and attacked. Though as an [[archfey]] he was a formidable opponent, Chrip discovered that the Seed of Winter had the power to bypass his defenses and turned the battle against him. Driving the Prince of Frost to his knees, Chrip give him a chance to end his reign with dignity, offering a potion to place him into eternal sleep beside his beloved Queen of Winter. The Prince of Frost spat his "daughter"'s mercy back at her face, and Chrip ended his life with a final blast of ice magic into his heart.

Letting his disguise drop, Chrip took his seat in the Prince of Frost's throne as the power of the Seed of Winter transformed him into an archfey. Stepping onto the balcony, he announced to the armies assembled below that the Prince of Frost was dead and he now ruled the Winter Court as the Emperor of Winter. The battle over, both sides ceased their fighting. After appointing an aide to see to things in his absence, Chrip returned to the Material Plane with eladrin of the Winter and Summer Courts to fight against Tephra.