Starwind and two other Tayledras Adepts will spread out around the other three. 

:'Fandes, pass it on, we're moving it. Surviving demons incoming. Are they ready: 

Are the paladins ready to fight their way through some much-reduced demons? They're about to move the stones a lot closer before more can come through. Vanyel will clear some of the way in a minute. 

The locals are incredibly confused but they think the forces here are sufficient to handle the ones not turned to stone? Or at least, they definitely would be if they were fighting them, but at this moment the forces here are still tensely glaring at each other, trying to figure out whether they are obliged to go to war or obliged not to or anything.

Probably if demons show up it'll settle the impasse.

Well, some demons are sure about to show up. 

:On my count: 

Vanyel takes a deep breath. 

:Three, two, one–:

And the four ward stones drop to form a wavy circle just a half-mile out from the site of the Worldwound. 

The barrier vanishes from the place where it's stood for decades. 

Its defenders exchange nervous glances. 

"Maybe Aroden spared you so you can redeem yourselves," someone says cautiously, which gets them angrily glared at. 

" - we came here to fight demons," one of the paladins says, after a while. "So - we're going to do that. Unless we are stabbed in the back, in which case we will destroy every last one of you."

And they spread out to stop any demons that make their way out with the barrier gone.

Savil is barking orders to the several thousand blue-uniformed Guards still streaming through her Gate. She's getting tired, she had better take it down, but this is already better than she'd expected. 

The other Heralds are spreading out, staying in Mindspeech contact with each other. 

Vanyel doesn't wait. 

The moment his Gate is done, Yfandes breaks into a gallop toward the distant Worldwound. 

Vanyel flings fireballs and levinbolts and blunt force attacks and daggers of mage-force at every demon within a hundred feet of him, an extravagant, almost careless display of magic. He's clearing a path for himself, of course, but his main goal here is actually to attract a LOT of attention. He wants them coordinating against him as their biggest threat. It'll get more of them into range. 

The demons have no trouble concluding that this person is a big threat! As he and Yfandes head in they swarm him. There are fire demons with long-reaching whips that reach out to rip at him with something like Fetching, there are towering demons wielding trees as clubs, there are demons flinging their own spells back at him -

Vanyel switches to focusing completely on shielding himself, which he can't do forever against this but can do for a few seconds, and he leaps off from Yfandes back and catches himself, holding a bubble of space around him–

Yfandes runs like hell, it'll be inconvenient if they have to raise her too–

And he drops the shield and closes his eyes and - lets go - as promised, it doesn't hurt, there's only a single poised moment, everything he is and ever was flung out at a half-circle on one side of an imaginary line -

There is fire and magic and destruction and no more Vanyel. 

From the edges of where the line used to be held against the Worldwound its defenders are alarmed! The demons have never done that before! Balors do it when killed but not, uh, anywhere near that hard.

Oh, that wasn't the demons, that was Vanyel from their side, he'll be back in a bit to do it some more, but they should take advantage of the demons' presumed confusion and move in. 

(Savil really hopes Nefreti is about to resurrect Van, anyway.) 

...wow, all right then.

Yfandes makes it back in one piece, with some very angry demons chasing her, but Companions are fast and even here she has a bit of a Foresight sense for when to zig and zag. 

:I'm - all right. I hope it won't be long: 

Actually the pharaoh is about to resurrect Vanyel, in the Dome but right at the edge of it. True Resurrection is an astoundingly powerful spell; it builds the body out of nothingness in the air as he works, and the scaffolding for it is astonishing. 

The diamond crumbles.

"- I guess that worked?" Vanyel blinks. Looks around. "I, um, thank you, I'd better get back there..." 

"Yep. I can do it twice more from scrolls. Do you need a Teleport north?"

"I can Gate fine, but if you're not using it for anything else, it'd save me the effort." 

So he nods to someone who can Teleport Vanyel north, in two hops.

Yfandes felt Vanyel's return to life, and she's even happier about his return in person! She frisks about and blows at his hair. 

"Hey, hey." He pats her. "Did that work as spectacularly as we'd hoped? What's going on now?"