Editing Tephra (section)

===Queen of Estorium===
With the Tear destroyed, the portal quickly unsealed itself, allowing Tephra to return to Estorim - her body now considerably warped by the chaotic energies of the Far Realm. Not dwelling on her defeat, she summoned thousands of aberrations from it and renewed her efforts against the [[Brightstone Heroes]], who had established a base in the ruins of [[Terastra]]. One of her first actions was to conjure a massive, miles-wide forbiddance zone around Derenath, preventing any teleportation or planar travel into or out of the area and causing searing pain to any enemies who crossed into it.

While she built up her forces, she also took the opportunity to torture the paladin, Gryff, assaulting both his mind and body until, at last, he expired. She was pleasantly surprised when he reanimated as an icewight, and gleefully utilized the fartouched, undead paladin as one of her generals. She also found the angel [[Karadrach]] wandering the ruins of the [[Temple of the Mind's Eye]]; he had gone mad when [[Boccob]] appeared to have died at the conclusion of the [[Deity Wars]], and Tephra was easily able to convince him that she was the Unacring One's true successor. As recompense for helping him find renewed purpose, Karadrach taught her the secrets of the [[Words of Creation]], which she used to increase her power dramatically. Seeing further potential in them, she tasked the angel with finding a way to modify them into Words of Destruction, with which they could destroy even the gods.

A month later, the [[Challengers of the Unspeakable]] led an assault on the city of [[Rathna]], which was filled with Tephra's forces. Seeing an opportunity to dispose of them personally, she took the field alongside Gryff, taunting them with their twisted former companion as well as her nigh-invulnerability. However, something happened that Tephra did not expect: when the corrupted paladin was struck down, his goddess, [[Nalindra]], intervened, blasting the city with radiant power. Tephra only barely managed to teleport back to the temple as the entirety of her forces in Rathna were vaporized.