Attack on Cyoria

On the day of the summer festival and the planetary alignment, Ulquaan-Ibasa planned a massive invasion of the city of Cyoria, led by Quatach-Ichl, a powerful lich. With Eldemar weak from the Splinter Wars and the Weeping, a large faction intended to attack Cyoria, weakening Eldemar and ruining any chance of their allies in Ulquaan Ibasa making peace with Eldemar. To do this, they enlisted the aid of the Esoteric Order of the Celestial Dragon (with the promise of summoning a primordial) and the minions of Sudomir Kandrei (with the promise of bringing back his wife as a lich) as well as a number of their own mages. They used a newly-designed permanent gate to transport a small army of troops to the tunnels under Cyoria, including mages and trolls.

Prior to the attack, cephalic rats were used for espionage.

Their plan was to summon high level demons and fire elementals (which failed due to the time loop cutting off the spiritual planes) bombard the city with artillery fire, and have their mages, trolls, skeletons, and other magical minion attack Cyoria to distract the defenders. During the invasion, the Estoric Order of the Celestial Dragon would take advantage of the planetary alignment and, by sacrificing shifter children, punch through the planar barriers and summon a primordial from a pocket dimension. This primordial would ideally rampage around for a few weeks, destroying Cyoria and much of Eldemar while important members of the Ulquaan Ibasa leadership teleported away to safety.

In the time loop their attack has been aided by Red Robe, who supplied valuable information, specifically on artillery targets and warding schemes. Later, Zorian and the aranean forces of the Cyorian web disrupted the invasion in various ways.