Champion's End

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{{Story infobox
| id = 598
| storyline = The Icebrood Saga
| chapter = Champions | chapter number = 5
| step number = 11
| location = Dragonstorm Arena; Hall of Monuments
| level = 80
| prev = Dragonstorm (story)
| next = Convergence (story)
| year = 1334
| requires = pof, lws5
| gallery1 = Champion's End loading screen.jpg
| gallery1-text = Loading screen
| gallery2 = Dragonstorm map.jpg
| gallery2-text = Dragonstorm map
}}
[[Champion's End]] is the eleventh and final story step of [[Champions]], [[Chapter 4: Judgment]], the fifth and final episode of [[The Icebrood Saga]].

== Objectives ==
;Assess the fallout.
* Return to the battlefield.
* Look for survivors.
* Help Braham.
* Confront Ryland.
* Defeat Ryland. <br>{{event bar|color=green}}{{event boss}}
* Regroup with your friends.

== Rewards ==
* {{rewards item|Gilded Strongbox|id=86062}}
* {{rewards item|Sip of Liquid Karma}}
* {{rewards item|Scrap of Icebrood Saga Mastery|qty=2}}

== Walkthrough ==
{{section-stub|living world}}

=== Achievements ===
{{achievement box|Champion's End}}
* Complete the story step.

{{achievement box|Return to Champion's End}}
* Complete the story step.

== NPCs ==
=== In the instance ===
==== Allies ====
;[[Asura]]
* [[Gorrik]]
* [[Taimi]]

;[[Charr]]
* [[Brek Harrowflight]]
* [[Crecia Stoneglow]]
* [[Rytlock Brimstone]]

;[[Elder Dragon]]s
* [[Aurene]]

;[[Human]]s
* [[Priory Explorer]]
* [[Vigil Crusader]]

;[[Norn]]
* [[Braham]]
* [[Warmaster Jhavi Jorasdottir]]

==== Foes ====
;[[Icebrood]]
* [[Ryland Steelcatcher|Ryland]]

=== At the [[Eye of the North]] ===
==== Allies ====
;[[Asura]]
* [[Phlunt|Councillor Phlunt]]
* [[Lokka]]

;[[Charr]]
* [[Efram Greetsglory]]
* [[Rox]]

;[[Devourer]]s
* [[Frostbite]]

;[[Dwarf|Dwarves]]
* [[Ogden Stonehealer]]

;[[Exalted]]
* [[Dulann, Luminate's Envoy]]

;[[Human]]s
* [[Jonna]]
* [[Logan Thackeray]]
* [[Lord Faren]]

;[[Kodan]]
* [[Cloudseeker]]

;[[Norn]]
* [[Sigfast]]

;[[Skritt]]
* [[Chittukk]]

;[[Sylvari]]
* [[Aife]]

;[[Tengu]]
* [[Dai Windrake]]

== Dialogue ==
=== In the instance ===
;Upon entering the instance
:'''<Character name>:''' Anyone on comms? Anyone seen Braham?
:'''Rytlock:''' {{flavor|(static)}}
:'''Rytlock:''' {{flavor|(grunt) Haven't found Ryland yet either.}}
:'''Rytlock:''' {{flavor|If this was the [[Elder Dragon|dragons]] contained...}}

:'''<Character name>:''' Braham! There he is!

:'''Braham:''' I'm— whoa... How am I not dead...?
:'''<Character name>:''' You did it, Braham.
:'''Braham:''' How many did we lose?
:'''<Character name>:''' A lot less than we would have if you hadn't done what you did.
:'''Braham:''' I'm good, [[Pact Commander|Commander]]. I know I did what I had to do. Just need a second to remember... myself.
:'''<Character name>:''' Are the [[Spirits of the Wild]] still with you?
:'''Braham:''' They kept me from falling off the edge. Wasn't easy. They're gonna need time to recover.
:'''<Character name>:''' You need time, Braham. To rest. To heal.
:'''Braham:''' You are the biggest hypocrite I've ever met, Commander.
:'''Rytlock:''' {{flavor|Ryland, give it up—}}
:'''Crecia:''' {{flavor|Settle down! It's over!}}
:'''<Character name>:''' Stay with him. I'll go help Rytlock.

;On approaching the charr
:'''Crecia Stoneglow:''' It's time to face the [[High Legion|legions']] justice, Ryland.
:'''Rytlock Brimstone:''' You look like [[Skritt]], cub. [[Jormag]] did a number on you. You're beat.
:'''Ryland Steelcatcher:''' [[Primordus]]'s [[Dragon champion|champion]] is lying in the dirt. You don't have a chance.

;At Ryland 70% health
:'''Crecia Stoneglow:''' Jormag, [[Bangar Ruinbringer|Bangar]]— you were just a tool. Can't you see? They made—
:'''Ryland:''' No one made me! I made myself. And I will never be unmade!
:'''Crecia Stoneglow:''' If [[Cinder Steeltemper|Cinder]] saw you now, she'd gut you. Your [[Steel Warband|warband]] sacrificed themselves for this?

;At Ryland 40% health
:'''Rytlock Brimstone:''' You're destroying yourself— cub, you can still come back.
:'''Ryland:''' My sire speaks! Like I'd take the advice of a shortsighted burnout who never had the steel to be [[imperator]].
:'''Ryland:''' Or a dam who's content to live and die as nothing more than Bangar's shadow.
:'''Ryland:''' You're nothing to me! Less than nothing!

;At Ryland 10% health
:'''Crecia Stoneglow:''' Enough. Sit down and shut up.
:'''Crecia Stoneglow:''' You had everything. Pedigree. Talent. Limitless potential—
:'''Ryland:''' You never understood—
:'''Crecia Stoneglow:''' You're right, I don't. I was never some golden cub— nobody gave me anything. I had to EARN it!
:'''Ryland:''' You're just jealous—
:'''Crecia Stoneglow:''' I'm ashamed. Ashamed I bore you. Better to have bled you out and spared the world.
:'''Ryland:''' (yells)
:'''Crecia Stoneglow:''' (gasps)
:'''Rytlock Brimstone:''' (growls)

;Cutscene
:'''Rytlock Brimstone:''' I'm sorry...I'm sorry...
:'''Rytlock Brimstone:''' Nothing left to prove.

;End Cutscene
:'''Braham:''' He gave Ryland every chance to do the right thing.
:'''<Character name>:''' Sometimes there is no right thing. Let's give them time.

;Approaching your friends
:'''Aurene:''' I tried to contain the desolation. But I could not stop it.
:'''<Character name>:''' None of us could.
:'''<Character name>:''' Crecia and Rytlock saved the best future for the charr today. The legions will remember that.
:'''Braham:''' All that power... Two dragons— how are you feeling?
:'''Aurene:''' I felt such a rush of wild [[magic]], but then some of it seemed to just... flow through me. There's still much I don't know.
:'''Gorrik:''' Wait. You're saying some of it's... missing?
:'''Taimi: ''' We have research to do.
:'''Gorrik: ''' We have research to do.

;Optionally talking to Braham
:'''Braham:''' The past few days are a blur. If not for the Spirits— and you— I'd be another body on the battlefield.
:{{dialogue icon|more}} ''You don't remember anything?''
::'''Braham:''' Just glimpses. The Spirits did all they could to shield me from being completely [[Dragon energy|overtaken]] by Primordus. But what I remember— the things I did— I don't think I can ever forgive myself. No one should.
::{{dialogue icon|return}} ''I can't speak for others, but...it was inevitable. There was no other way.''
:{{dialogue icon|more}} ''The [[prophecy]]—''
::'''Braham:''' Prophecies have a way of being right and wrong at the same damn time. I guess it's how you interpret them. I don't know. Either way, this "norn of prophecy" ain't gonna waste his second chance.
::{{dialogue icon|return}} ''I'm just glad you're back.'' <small>'''(Ends conversation)'''</small>
:{{dialogue icon|more}} ''Can I get a "KA-BRAHAM"?''
::'''Braham:''' I may be exhausted and in a state of perpetual self-loathing right now, but that doesn't mean I can't muster up the energy to knock you on your ass, Commander. (pained laugh) Ow.
::{{dialogue icon|return}} ''Sounds like someone needs to rest. We'll talk later.''
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''You fulfilled the prophecy and came out alive. Rest up.''

;Optionally talking to Warmaster Jhavi Jorasdottir
:'''Warmaster Jhavi Jorasdottir:''' Well, so much for Jormag. And Primordus.
:{{dialogue icon|more}} ''What now?''
::'''Warmaster Jhavi Jorasdottir:''' For me? Picking up the pieces. [[General Almorra Soulkeeper|Almorra]]'s loss hit everyone hard. The [[Vigil]] is still figuring things out. Everyone's still reeling in shock. Including me.
::{{dialogue icon|return}} ''I feel your pain. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.''
:{{dialogue icon|more}} ''How are you holding up?''
::'''Warmaster Jhavi Jorasdottir:''' I'm holding it together, barely. Almorra left some big shoes to fill. Whether this is permanent or just for now, I don't really know. Work needs to get done, and right now I'm doing it. But I'm tired.
::{{dialogue icon|return}} ''I'm here for you, even just to listen.''
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''I'd call that a victory.''

;Optionally talking to Gorrik
:'''Gorrik:''' Commander, these magic readings are spiking into the red zone. Our equipment can barely handle it!
:{{dialogue icon|more}} ''And?''
::'''Gorrik:''' And...it can't be good. Whenever an Elder Dragon dies, the magic released wreaks havoc on the [[The All|natural order]]. And we just caused two to die at once. This requires more analysis with Taimi.
::{{dialogue icon|return}} ''Have fun, you two.''
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''I'll expect pie charts and graphs in my mail.''

;Optionally talking to Taimi
:'''Taimi:''' This event is unprecedented. Never in my life did I expect this to happen, much less be a part of it. I have to document everything!
:{{dialogue icon|more}} ''Glad to see at least someone is enthused.''
::'''Taimi:''' How could I not be? Commander, our friends didn't give their lives for nothing. They brought us one step closer to fixing things. I have to be optimistic about that. Otherwise I'd cry.
::{{dialogue icon|return}} ''Keeping it together is hard sometimes. I know what you mean.''
:{{dialogue icon|more}} ''You doing okay?''
::'''Taimi:''' Are any of us? Look at...Rytlock over there. Crecia, Jhavi. We've all been through a lot, but especially them. Their pain isn't going away anytime soon. I'll...be fine. I'm just a little tired is all.
::{{dialogue icon|return}} ''I'll be here for you when you need me.''
:{{dialogue icon|more}} ''How are things with Gorrik?''
::'''Taimi:''' Amazing! I'm already formulating a schedule for our research. I anticipate we'll be spending a lot of time in the lab together. Working. On things.
::{{dialogue icon|return}} ''Uh-huh.''
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''Thanks for everything, Taimi. We'll catch up later.''

;Optionally talking to Aurene
:'''Aurene:''' I didn't want to intervene, but I had to. The balance needed a push.
:{{dialogue icon|more}} ''We did it.''
::'''Aurene:''' This battle is done, Champion, but our work isn't finished. Two Elder Dragons dying at once... I'm afraid [[Tyria (world)|Tyria]] will be deeply affected in the coming days. Brace yourself and be ready to act.
::{{dialogue icon|return}} ''I'll be ready.''
:{{dialogue icon|more}} ''About Ryland...''
::'''Aurene:''' It had to be done. But that won't ease Rytlock's pain, or Crecia's. They're both grieving, but his suffering is wrapped in a lifetime of complication. My intervention... led to this outcome.
::{{dialogue icon|return}} ''Ryland made his own choices. This isn't your fault.''
:{{dialogue icon|more}} ''All that magic from Primordus and Jormag—''
::'''Aurene:''' Out in the wild. I know. I braced myself to absorb it all, but most of it went [[Yong Reactor|elsewhere]]. I didn't expect that. Foresight is...unpredictable. I wish I'd known this ahead of time. Now, we wait.
::{{dialogue icon|return}} ''Waiting is the hardest part.''
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''You did what you had to.''

=== At the [[Eye of the North]] ===
;Talking to allies

:'''Aife:''' The fear of Elder Dragons may be a thing of the past now. I could get used to this.
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''You and me both.''

:'''Chittukk:''' A victory for skritt. For everyone! Better life ahead, yes?
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''Let's hope so.''

:'''Councillor Phlunt:''' As I predicted, Primordus is now off the table, so to speak, and my [[Quora Sum|forebears]] avenged. And it wouldn't have been possible without asuran research and support!
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''You forgot the part about meddling and almost upsetting the balance.''

:'''Dai Windrake:''' With Jormag's fall, [[Dominion of Winds|our lands]] may be safe again. Thank you, Champion of Aurene. May we meet again in more peaceful times.
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''I'd like that.''

:'''Dulann, Luminate's Envoy:''' The victories of this day will go down in history, Champion. Though we tread unknown paths, I am sure that this is the future [[Glint]] wished for. That Aurene made real with all of us.
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''I hope Glint sees this from her perch in [[the Mists]].''

:'''Efram Greetsglory:''' The death of these Elder Dragons won't end [[Flame Legion|Flame]]'s struggles, but for today let's celebrate a hard-won fight, Commander. Cheers to you.
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''A toast to new allies.''

:'''Frostbite:''' (chitter) (warble)
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''Good to see you, too, Frostbite.''

:'''Jonna:''' We won, and [[Stronghold of Ebonhawke|Ebonhawke]] stands firm. Another war is doubtless in the future, but for now I think we all can relax, if for a brief moment.
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''Not a bad idea.''

:'''Logan Thackeray:''' You came through. Again. Of course, this is the same person who [[The Departing|cheated death]] to take down a [[Balthazar|vengeful god]], so I think we knew how this would turn out. Take a vacation, maybe. You earned it.
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''I think we both need a vacation.''

:'''Lokka:''' Praise Aurene! I can hardly believe we made it through that battle. Another two Elder Dragons gone. And we couldn't have done it without you, Commander.
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''Likewise. We couldn't have done it without the [[Order of the Crystal Bloom|Crystal Bloom]].''

:'''Lord Faren:''' Two dragons at once, eh, Commander? I feel like there's a ribald joke in there somewhere. There's no limit for a hero like you, old friend! Now to plan our celebratory pub crawl. Where should we start?
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''This sounds like a recipe for disaster.''

:'''Ogden Stonehealer:''' I've not seen such heroism since the [[gww:A Time for Heroes|fight]] against the [[gww:The Great Destroyer|Great Destroyer]]! It's hard to believe that Primordus is finally dispatched after all these years.
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''I think you've earned some rest.''

:'''Rox:''' Hard to believe how much we've gone through, eh, boss? Or should I call you Dragon Slayer? Has more of an official ring to it.
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''<Character name> is fine. And thanks for everything, Rox. Good to see you again.''

:'''Sigfast:''' A legend ends and a slayer rises! Be sure to tell Braham to visit [[Hoelbrak]] when he's back on his feet. Ol' [[Knut Whitebear|Whitebear]] will have to find space for all the celebration kegs. It'll be a [[moot]] for the ages!
:{{dialogue icon|end}} ''The last time Braham tied one on, he [[Revels & Rivals|lost]] his [[Eir Stegalkin|mother]]'s [[Eir's Longbow|bow]]...''

== My story ==
{{Mystory
| image = Champion's End loading screen.jpg
| text = After the dust settled, it was clear that the dragons were gone. They'd collided in a huge spectacle of light and magic, leveling anything in range. We set out to find Braham, expecting to find his corpse but instead finding him very much alive underneath a pile of rubble. He was hurt—badly—but still breathing. I was ready to extract him to safety when Rytlock found Ryland at the far end of the valley. I made sure Braham was safe and then headed over to the commotion.

Ryland, angry from his loss and realizing that his ascent to greatness had ended in a fiery crash, had some harsh words for his parents. He refused to concede, and he let out all his pent-up anger with venomous rage. We tried to get him to surrender. When that didn't work, we tried to beat him into submission. We wanted to save what little was left of him, but he couldn't be saved. He lunged at Crecia, knife in hand, ready to end her life. Rytlock sprang into action, plunging [[Sohothin]] deep into his son's chest. He died almost instantly.

His father laid him on the hard ground, muttering to his son that it was over. My heart ached for them, but no other outcome was possible.

The rest of us let them grieve. Primordus and Jormag were both gone, and at least for now the magical imbalance was stabilizing. We'd figured that Aurene had absorbed their magic, but we were wrong. The shock wave radiated outward, coursing through [[ley line]]s and permeating the air. But it didn't strike the [[Eye of the North|Eye]] or the prismatic dragon. It went elsewhere, but to where?
}}

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