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The Camelite envoy under escort entered Baxtorian's borders not only unopposed but ungreeted. The once ever present rangers patrolling were nowhere to be seen although signs of small skirmishes were observed not too far into the county as they proceeded.

The dense forest wasn't friendly to outsiders never mind if the enemy the Camelites were facing had masterful manipulation of nature. The envoy's navigators soon found themselves confused as the old trails led to different areas and dead ends. Soon enough, this resulted into the small host being ambushed by elves affected by the corruption led by no other than Sir Alexander, a former knight of the Round Table who was responsible for nearly killing Princess Lysanna during the mission at Sigurd's Isles. The battle would've been lost much sooner had it not been for the steadfast defense put up by the newly appointed knight Sir Arthur Vale, Kaladin Aren and the rest of the guardsmen on escort like Guardsman Costel who went missing in action and found dead later on. Their saving grace came when Kaladin managed to come into contact with a troop of Prifddinian elves who were able to send the "fallen ones" to a full retreat and the corpses they left behind burned and Arthur injuring Alexander.

The survivors, roughly half of the original group, were then led to Baxtorian Hold. The one and only settlement in the county, once prided for its peaceful and elven utopian atmosphere, was now turned into a bastion by Prifddinian troops sent here under official orders to cull the threat posted by the Mother and her corrupted saplings. The Camelites soon found out that these elves had been waging bloody battle after battle and were close to victory by the humans' arrival having curtailed the saplings' numbers and contain them into the mountain which was once the fabled mithril mining complex.

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With Kaladin volunteering to join the elven field army set for the mountain in a final push to take out the saplings at their source, Arthur and Lysanna focused on helping to channel the poison the elves were channeling unto an underground stream which contaminated the anima in and around the mining complex to keep their foes weakened.

As Kaladin and the elven army neared the mountain, Doctor Amalarik teleports in soon admitting his connections with the elves' captain Yriel. Making use of heavily armored and fire-based familiars as vanguard, the combined elven-Camelite force drove deep into corrupted territory forcing the sapling-morphs and "fallen" elves back. By the mountain's base, they encountered the elder forms of the saplings, elven followers that had possessed the infestation since the Mother's living time in this world and thus were the first sapling morphs. The combined force were stopped cold and then decimated in the initial attacks until the Doctor and Kaladin managed to even the odds and give the elven army the breathing space they need to assemble a defensive line which in turn supported the duo.

In turns out however that they have no need to fight their way into the mines. As the entire lower half of the mountain burst forth with extreme force sweeping away anyone and anything in a wide radius. The attacking force were still recovering when a massive crystalline-tree hybrid emerged from the cavern and started absorbing all elder saplings and elven warriors nearby. It didn't take long before they realized that this 'tree' possessed a consciousness though it was nowhere advanced than that of a mere child looking for its mother. The Doctor and Kaladin were able to connect and confirm that this was the Child of the bloody ritual at Sigurd's Isles.

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The remnants of the Camelite-Baxtorian forces tried to engage but soon found out that in addition to highly enforced bark made of elven crystal, it was able to channel the forest's anima to regenerate while it continued its relentless search for its Mother. Unfortunately for the attackers, it chose to head down the path to Baxtorian Hold. After losing his staff, a unique sacred artifact, Kaladin retreats from the battle bringing the downed elven lieutenant with him. He was soon followed by most of the surviving elves to regroup at the fortress.

The Doctor remained locked in duel with the Child and even though he was able to take advantage of its inherent sluggishness, he could barely cause any significant damage in return due to its ability to absorb the forest's anima. It was also able to manipulate elven crystals and thus caused one of his key gadgets to malfunction as it made use of a modified crystal seed.

The turning point of the battle came when the Child neared Baxtorian Hold and was ravaged by ballistae fire. This was where the Doctor made use of his more powerful machinations detonating a portal-based gadget on top of it. This, coupled with the poison that had slowly coursed its way into the Child and weakened it gradually during the fight, was finally enough to deal the fatal blow as the crytalline tree snapped in half, the glow on its crystals dimming.

Approaching the remains, the Doctor then came across a weakened figure, an image of the hybrid crystal tree in a humanoid girl's form, breaking its way out of the tree's remains. Before he could interact with her in her dying moments, she was shot in the back of the head with an arrow by one of the responding elven rangers killing her instantly.

The battle was won.

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The aftermath saw the Camelite and Prifddinian hosts returning from the county as heroes but not before deeming that both the forest and the mines were cleared from taint with repeated sweeps. Despite the Doctor's request to have the Child's humanoid corpse examined, he will not find any traces of it after the cleanup and none of the elves he inquired to know of its fate. The Countess Tailynn Telemmaitë oversaw the cleanup and vowed to search and compensate for the families of all the victims elf and human. She then retreats from public view presumably to spend some time in her private residence to recuperate. Meanwhile, the members of the supposed diplomatic envoy would return to Camelot Castle and are to be honored accordingly and posthumously if need be. After the failed ambush in the forest, Sir Alexander Grimoire was never encountered since and has been declared missing. He is currently still wanted by the law.

It will take some time before the scars from the blight that plagued Baxtorian and the neighboring territories would fade but both races are bound for recovery. Nobody can really tell what fate has befallen the Mother. The final battle had defeated the Child and there have been no traces of her ever since. Only time can reveal the truth of her fate eventually, if it would ever reveal it at all...