Battle of Life and Death

Mount a Vermillion Vanguard. Slay 8 Twilight Shadowdrakes.

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Alexstrasza and Deathwing have taken into the skies over Grim Batol! Her plan unravels - the Dragon Queen is outside the Circle of Life she prepared earlier. We'll need to support her with everything we've got.

Hurry! Climb aboard one of the Vermillion Vanguard behind me.

If we find any Twilight Drakes aiding Deathwing, we will need to kill them off. Mount up, quickly!

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Thanks to your quick action, the Dragon Queen still lives. She is being brought back to Wyrmrest to recover.

But the battle wasn't a complete failure. Deathwing was gravely wounded. I suspect he will go into hiding to recuperate. Alexstrasza has bought us time to strike!

Hop on one of the vanguard. It has the following abilities:

It, and Calen, will take a flight to the peak of Grim Batol: The player regains control near the aerial battlefield. Shadowdrakes and Vermillion drakes are circling the peak, around Deathwing and Alexstrasza, who have locked claws: Kill eight. It will take one Fireblast and either another blast or a Finishing Strike to kill each drake.

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A cutscene begins upon the death of the eighth drake:

• The camera looks up at Deathwing and Alexstrasza, who are falling!
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• They fall out of frame and the camera tilts down to see Alexstrasza in a crumpled heap in her humanoid form on the ground. Calen and the player speed to Alexstrasza and kneel over her. Deathwing falls in the background over the side of the cliff down into the Wetlands.
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• Alexstrasza groans in agony as flames appear in the background near the edge of the cliff.
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• Deathwing flies out of the flames toward Alexstrasza, Calen and the player.
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• Shocked enough to move in her grievously wounded state, Alexstrasza gets up on to her side to look at Deathwing in horror. Deathwing lands not far from the group, glaring at the two reds and the player.
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• A vermillion vanguard flies in. The player snags Alexstrasza, still in her humanoid form, places her on the vanguard's back, then hops on as well. The vanguard takes off to safety, flying out of frame behind the camera. Calen shifts back to dragon form and attempts to distract Deathwing by firing a few potshots at him. Although Caelestrasz is large by mortal standards, he is still smaller than Deathwing, who doesn't flinch from the fireballs. They both fly out of frame too in the same direction that the player and Alexstrasza took (maybe slightly more southward).
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Speak to Calen again once the cutscene concludes to continue.