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Kal`aire - by T.A. Saunders ©1997 v3.5

Racial Articles The Fall of a Hero, Redeemed

Hazaad himself came to a final death during the great Cataclysm of D'Mir, where a fellow Kal'aire named Ma'hayre and himself were embroiled in the chaotic fighting there. The Spirit of Vengeance had deigned that D'Mir be razed to the ground by the Kal'aire for the many acts of evil that were centered upon the Shar'Vaire Empire. Fiends from the Hells and Shar'Vaire were battled alike, with aid and defense given to the Voraath they found along the way.

During a memorably pitched conflict, Hazaad found himself facing the mightiest of the three Underlords of Hell that had vanquished him once before. Alone they fought for hours at seemed, shadow and flame, sword and maul striking and scoring grievous wounds upon the other. Finally, Hazaad struck the deciding blow upon his age-long enemy, cleaving the handle of the Underlord's maul just as he once shattered his angelic runeblade and continued the strike fully into the demon lord's chest.

Rent open and spent the fallen demon used the last of his strength to plunge the cleaved shaft of his maul into Hazaad. His sword within the demon's chest and the demon's maul shaft plunged within Hazaad's gut, the demon hissed forth a terrible spell that evoked a detonation of Hellfire that assured not only his destruction, but that of the mortally weakened Hazaad.

Ma'hayre attempted to save the Kal'aire Avenger but it was too late, the explosion had destroyed both utterly and it had been all she could do to escape through the shadows the detonation herself for the entire three city blocks of D'Mir it lain to waste. By this time D'Mir was coming down around itself, so while saddened by the loss of Hazaad, Ma'hayre pressed on to bring to primal justice those Shar'Vaire she found who had the stain of mortal sin upon their souls.