The Battle of the Stone Garden

The Battle of the Stone Garden was a major confrontation in Arkest when the Shadowborn lord Black Moon launched a hunt through the city streets. Black Moon was preceded by Jerlan, a Shadowborn hunter wielding chains of living shadow, and accompanied by summoned Shadow Fiends — twelve-foot-tall horned giants with wings and chains. Kane was hunted through Arkest before making a stand in the Stone Garden alongside Starfaller, Bladesfool, Sorrowblade, Titan Staraxe (a dwarf lord with the runic axe Blood Song), and Manford the sage. The Grim Shadows arrived as reinforcements on mage carpets, with Black Flame bearing the Veilheart artifact. The battle raged through the night. At dawn, Black Moon and his shadow forces dissolved into smoke — unable to sustain their physical forms in daylight. The Stone Garden was left scarred but the city survived.