Editing Challengers of the Unspeakable (section)

===Final Battle===
Following Orcus's destruction, it was determined that the best time to strike at Tephra directly was at hand. They now had all four artifacts for the primal anchor ritual to bind the portal: Sahandrian for life, Lifecutter for death, Farbane for arcane, and the Mace of Gryff for light. And with the forbiddance zone down, they could teleport their forces directly into Derenath.

When they arrived, they were greeted by an angel who named himself [[Karadrach]] and announced that he served "Tephra the Uncaring, one true successor to the Archmage of the Gods." With him was a massive army of foulspawn, illithids, demons, undead, aberrant mockeries of angels, and more terrible creations. The heroes mustered all their might against this dark army: Estorian mages, barbarians, dragons, the Brightstone Heroes, and even enormous plant creatures crashing out of the jungle. Together, their forces broke through the lines of Tephra's armies and the Challengers hurried towards the ruined temple that housed the portal. There they were faced with an enormous astral construct infused with aberrant energy and powered by runes that Zohar recognized as the [[Words of Creation]] themselves, divine words used by the gods to shape the world. Though they were crudely applied, he was troubled that she was able to use them at all. With the help of Vyrellis's Estorian mages, though, they were able to overpower and destroy it.

Reaching the temple, they were caught in a swirling maelstrom of chaotic energy that threatened to pull them into the Far Realm itself, but they were experienced at fighting its powers and managed to break free and enter the temple. There they found corrupted yuan-ti guarded an enormous aberrant growth that they recognized as the origin of the maelstrom, which would prevent the rest of their forces from advancing further. As the yuan-ti attacked, Harthur appeared from the shadows and intercepted them, joining his former companions once more. As they dispatched their foes Harthur bade them continue without him as he tended to his wounds.

As they continued through the temple, Karadrach's voice announced that [[Mechanus]] had sent [[inevitable]]s to stop Tephra, but she had destroyed them. Their remains had been corrupted by the Far Realm, and Karadrach now sent them against the Challengers. Coming up the corridor behind them, however, was Ro, who entangled the corrupted inevitables in vines while they were dispatched. She warned them that Tephra's forces were coming, and promised to hold them off while the others finished their task. Deeper in they finally confronted Karadrach himself, who had corrupted the Words of Creation into the dangerous Words of Destruction. As he gloated, Elytra's sister Alae burst into the room and joined them in their attack. When Karadrach was struck down, however, he rose once more, the corruption of the Far Realm now visible as his skin blackened, his wings shredded into sickly blue magical light, and poison leaked from his eyes. When Kalth slew him, however, he did not rise again. The Challengers continued inward while Alae left to rejoin her barbarians elsewhere in the temple.

Arriving in the temple's inner sanctum, they beheld Tephra's fully corrupted form before a massive planar gateway that now filled the entire back way. She gloated that her ritual was completed, the portal stabilized, and Allabar's arrival inevitable, she attacked them with all of the magical power at her disposal. Zohar, however, had studied Karadrach's Words of Destruction and now turned them against Tephra, shattering her magical defenses and blasting her aberrant body. When Elytra finally struck her down, though, she laughed as she died, assuring them that when Allabar entered Syra, she would be reborn.

At that moment, an enormous miles-wide aberration slammed into the portal, thrusting a profusion of eyes and tentacles and mouths into the room to attack them even as its massive bulk began tearing the portal even wider to accommodate its immense size, and an invisible force began pulling the heroes - along with everything else in the room - into the being. Chrip could tell that this creature, that could only be Allabar, wasn't merely using the portal; it now WAS the portal itself, and that the only way to close it would be to embed the four weapons into its flesh to enact the ritual. The heroes threw everything they had at Allabar, hoping to weaken it enough to perform the primal anchor ritual while not being consumed by it. It was not long before Tephra's body was drawn into it, but rather than being reborn her corpse was messily devoured, leaving only a spatter of black blood on the floor. Ever so slowly, they pushed Allabar back into the Far Realm, though they could see that its wounds were already healing and knew it would soon push back. Realizing that there was only one chance to close the gateway, Elytra leapt into the Far Realm and plunged all four weapons into Allabar, chanting the words of the ritual. Power erupted from all four weapons as they disintegrated into pure magical energy and wrapped themselves around both Allabar and the gateway, which finally slammed itself shut with a massive shockwave. As massive cracks began tearing through the walls, the Challengers realized that the entire temple was about to collapse and fled as not just the temple but the very earth around it fell into an enormous sinkhole. Through Elytra's sacrifice, they had won.