The Golden Onslaught

Lionfang Breaks the Truce

The General’s Answer

Before Lionfang becomes a Chaos Lord, Alteon sends you to investigate his report of a weapon against Chaos, refusing to put his own cure ahead of Lore. To Lionfang, however, the king's willingness to work with Evil suggests corruption, and mentioning loyalty to Gravelyn, Dage or Nulgath brings expulsion or threats. By accommodating him long enough to hear his plan, you learn of a Darkblood relic and a scroll in Blackhorn Tomb that may locate it.

Lionfang's field alchemy helps you overcome the tomb's barriers, although he shows no respect for the Darkblood dead as you recover the scroll he believes will end Good's need for Evil. He renounces Alteon and invites you to lead the Golden Onslaught, then attacks when you reject his betrayal.

As heroes begin disappearing, Gravelyn summons the remaining defenders to hear Lionfang's declaration that he has captured Alteon and other Alliance champions to purge Evil and its allies. Artix and Robina argue that he is destroying the truce before even obtaining the weapon, but he answers with threats of torture. His Death Fog keeps any living rescue force out of Onslaught Tower.

Gravelyn proposes rescuing them with the same undead forces her father once sent against your towns, and you join the volunteers temporarily transformed to cross the fog. Archlich Xollen helps you recover and alter the guards' protective amulets, neutralizing the poison along an escape route for the prisoners.

Two Onslaught soldiers change sides after seeing you spare them as an undead hero and Gravelyn rescue Good's defenders, but Lionfang refuses Alteon's offer of the same chance. He jumps into the fog rather than surrender, surviving below the tower and briefly doubting himself before the Twins arrive to urge him toward the power to destroy Evil.