That's a good sign, Vanyel thinks, hopefully they'll be EVEN MORE hesitant after the NEXT go, maybe he won't even have to do another round. 

He raises a Gate -

- and jumps through and then there is SO MUCH FIRE.

Last scroll.

He tells someone to send for Nefreti so he can ask whether she'll be helping.

Nefreti is in Thuvia. Thousands and thousands of years ago, a pharaoh built a house half in Thuvia and half in Abaddon, in exchange for the aid of a powerful div lord in securing power. It is a beautiful piece of magic and she doesn't want to destroy it but she could move it. 

She goes looking for a universe that is extremely magic and can handle having a portal to Abaddon. 

She casts Miracle and asks Nethys to make her powerful enough to pull this off (this is the only kind of Miracle Nethys ever consents to grant). 

The air swirls into a haze of magic around her. 

Are you going to help with Resurrections today, someone Sendings her, and the response is supposed to be spoken words but she can reach back through the response-thread for the spell and slap whoever it is in the face, for being annoying, and -

The air swirls back into a haze of magic around her and when it settles the House of Oblivion is gone from the deserts of Thuvia, leaving only a gaping hole. Also she's standing in a crater, which, huh, there must have been backsplash. 

She Teleports on over to Sothis to help the stupid little boyking out with True Resurrections.

He is just finishing the third True Resurrection of the day.

And Vanyel is back! He's in a good mood, this is pretty satisfying work. He smiles and waves. "Heya, Nefreti!" 

"Hello, Vanyel!" And she takes his arm and Teleports them right back to near where demons are ripping through the defenders of one of the wardstones. Shrugs her shoulders and blasts all the demons away with a dozen simultaneous bolts of force.

"Thank you!" She seems to have this one handled so he checks the area with Farsight, to see if any of the other ward-stones could use some additional firepower. 

Yfandes checks in with the other Companions, both the nearby force attempting to defend the barrier from the outside and the outer ring, to see what the overall situation is looking like.

One of the groups defending the wardstones is fighting a Balor and having a bad time; the other ones are holding on fine. The outer ring is holding fine, there aren't that many demons left and they have more defenders than they did this morning, what with the Guard.

:Apparently Balor sometimes explode when they die so you'd better shield them if you kill it: Yfandes warns him. 

They gallop around, it's no longer far enough to be worth a Gate, and Vanyel wards Sandra and Kilchas, the Herald-Mages in charge here, and flings a shield in front of them and then hits the Balor with the most hideously overpowered levinbolt even he can manage. 

It makes a pretty big explosion when it dies but not as big as his.

What's going on inside the barrier? 

Demons are coming through even more slowly than before. 

Nefreti turns into a large red dragon and starts breathing fire on the remaining demons while she - begins to cast True Resurrection, apparently.

What is she up to - (it's such a beautiful, captivating spell to watch) - also she turned into a dragon, this world's magic is insane and he's never going to get tired of it - he's not even dead, though, and there's nothing worth Final Striking for right now. Oh well, surely if she needs him to do something, she'll know whether or not she has to inform him of it. He'll keep helping the defenders here. this

He's not sure how clear Aroden needs the area in order to close the gap, but - the demons are looking pretty dissuaded, he bets that if he does it one more time they'll be a while emerging. So maybe his best bet is to wait a bit, contact someone - probably Leareth with the communications spell, it's the fewest steps - and tell Aroden or whoever he's sending to deal to be on standby while he does one final round. After checking that Nefreti is saving a True Resurrection for him. He'll wait to see what she's doing now. 

Still working on the True Resurrection she's in the middle of. 

:Nine minutes from now will be a good time for the last Final Strike: she tells him. :And then I'll have you back when Aroden arrives. You don't need to wait to start casting True Resurrection until the person is dead.:

:Oh, er, all right, of course. Um, does he - know - to come here, or should I pass a message?: 

:He has no idea, you will have to tell him. Ideally right now.:

A long way away and almost an hour earlier, shortly after dawn, a Velgarth-style Gate opens on the outskirts of Egorian, now the capital city of Cheliax. 

Then ten more, in the space of seconds. 

An army begins to pour through. 

And a man with a face out of legend. 

A snow-white stallion with silvery hooves that ring like bells on the street, and piercing blue eyes, is at his side. 

:Aroden is alive. Aroden is here to reclaim his land and his people: 

The voice is strange and alien, cold-blue-steel, and it speaks into the mind of every person in a fifty-mile radius. 

(This triggers some compulsions and some geases and Mindhealing set-commands). 

Leareth, well-rested, waits on the other side of the Gate and speaks briefly to the pharaoh via his mirror. "If Hagan and Mahdi still wish to join, they can come to..." and he describes a location that was in the book of detailed pictures, and which they've now confirmed is still the same. 

They'll Teleport there, then.

And then Leareth follows his army through the Gate. He stays to the back, mostly reaching past them to skim surface thoughts, gauge reactions. Check some of the compulsions he laid before.