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===<u>Velan the Kind's Defeat</u>===
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|quote=I saw him charging minutes before his death. And I thought he seemed so—so—<br>Sad. As if he knew what was going to happen next.
|speaker=[[Zel Shivertail]] on the moments before [[Velan]]'s death.{{ref|The Antinium Wars Pt 5}}
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All forces on Izril, including foreign armie, united against the Goblin King. Velan amassed his Goblin hordes into one large army.

The initial assault of the united forces consisted of six [Generals], an army of [Knights], and mounted adventurers. The charge failed with the Named Adventurer [[Calecum]] as a notable casualty. A ranged force was formed with [Mages], [Archers], and Archmages from Wistram as a follow-up to the initial charge. This ranged unit killed many Goblins, but not Velan. Without Tallis, the Goblin forces died quickly under the Wistram-led assault.

Velan charged the Archmages who blasted at him with their spells. Before he could reach the first mage, he was killed by half-Elf [[Elia Arcsinger]]. She had shot an Arrow of Slaying with her [Piercing Shot] Skill through Velan's eye. Immediately, Goblins sensed Velan's death and ceased fighting.

For years afterwards, inhabitants of [[Innworld]] debated the nature and probability of Velan's ability to avoid the arrow. As Velan had been seen to commit feats of arrow catching and dodging in the past, numerous theories of why and how Velan was unable to dodge the shot have been debated. Elia Arcsinger, later interviewed and claimed she herself did not know why the Goblin King did not dodge.{{ref|The Antinium Wars Pt5}}