The thirteenth Chaos Beast and Battleon
The Thirteenth Chaos Beast
The original Lair campaign gives the two armies different purposes at a shared destination. Chaos seeks the treasure inside; the Alliance fights to give Gravelyn time. The June 2014 release plan sends both sides toward the opening of the secret and the renewed Beast Gauntlet. Defending the Lair does not provide a separate story in which the thirteenth Lord never reaches that revelation.
Inside, the Hero who once slew Chaos Beasts prepares to summon one. Holding an egg, the Chaos Lord considers whether the apparent disorder of Chaos conceals a meaning. The egg is cast down, and a dragon emerges from the released light. The new Beast is recognized as the Eternal Dragon of Time.
The portal's final rune is activated. The Chaos Lord celebrates the summoning as an absolute victory, claiming that the Alliance cannot kill this Beast without destroying time itself. That is the conclusion of someone suddenly convinced the enemy has been left without an answer.
The power feels different from anything the Hero has known. The Chaos Lord describes a hidden part of the soul opening and understands, at last, the laughter of the other Lords when their Beasts appeared. One summoning is no longer enough. The boast becomes a promise to raise all the Chaos Beasts again.
In Shadowfall, Artix arrives to find Gravelyn already aware of what has happened. Twilly hears that the Hero has summoned a Beast, then discovers that the title of thirteenth Chaos Lord conceals a more important truth. Artix and Gravelyn know something about the Hero that they have withheld under an oath to King Alteon, made as part of the truce.
They believe the time for silence has ended. The danger is that the Hero will challenge Drakath before learning the truth, undoing everything their secrecy was meant to protect. Twilly asks what the Hero really is, but their urgent answer is to reach the Hero first. The identity itself remains untold in this encounter.
Back beside the Dragon, the Chaos Lord measures the new power in cities that might be destroyed and wonders whether death still has any claim. Confidence becomes a declaration of superiority over Drakath. The Hero can threaten to end him, demand his place as Champion or renounce his service; all three replies lead toward defiance. At the portal, Drakath turns in surprise.
Battleon's Fire
The renewed Gauntlet offers battles against the first twelve Chaos Beasts. Maya draws attention to the exception: the Hero does not choose to fight the Eternal Dragon of Time. The Beast now associated with the thirteenth Lord remains apart from the opponents called back for these rematches.
The Chaos Lord boasts that those earlier challenges have yielded their power, but that none can compare with the new Beast. The bond with the Dragon is proclaimed unbreakable. Drakath may watch from his portal while the Chaos Lord takes the world, beginning with Battleon.
Alliance warriors and Chaos troops meet in the town. Knights clash with Chaos fighters as the invasion reaches the place toward which the legion has been marching. The preserved community scene account places the thirteenth Beast on the Guardian Tower above the battle. That detail comes from the community account and remains unverified in the extracted frames.
Battleon burns. Buildings fall amid the flames, and knights stand beside the forge watching the destruction. The threat carried through the other settlements has reached Lore's familiar home.
Drakath faces the Eternal Dragon of Time beneath the moon and declares his plan complete. The Dragon answers with defiance: service to Drakath has ended, and he will be the next target. The destruction of Battleon leaves that confrontation waiting beyond the fire.