Editing Shadow Lore (section)

==== The Fourth Sending of Darkness ====
Thousands of years later, after the [[Olthoi]] drove the [[Empyrean]]s off of the planet,during a digging by the [[Gelidites]], a young mage named [[Frisirth]] found a beautiful, sparkling crystal. The locals called it “Great Work”. A human expedition slaughtered the Gelidites, and destroyed their “Great Work.” So, the Isparians were unwittingly duped into freeing [[Bael'Zharon]] from his crystal prison.<ref name="A Brief History for Travelers">2000/11 - [[Should the Stars Fall/The Child of Daralet--Leafcull to Frostfell, PY 11 / (November to December, 2000)]]</ref> Thus in Portal Year 11 began the [[Fourth Sending of Darkness]]. The Shadows attacked from all sides, the Hopeslayer roamed the land, and the rivers ran red. <ref name="Pack Bael'Zharon">2004/04 - [[On Bended Knee]] - [[Pack Bael'Zharon]]</ref> 

Ilservian's surviving friends became corporeal once more and raised the [[Shadow Spire|Thorns]], using them to alter the patterns of magic in the world. Ferah, by now called Black [[Ferah]], and Ler Rhan attacked the Isparian population and kidnapped some of them for individual trials. <ref name="A Brief History for Travelers">2000/11 - [[Should the Stars Fall/The Child of Daralet--Leafcull to Frostfell, PY 11 / (November to December, 2000)]]</ref>
The Shadows launched their invasion during the [[Thorns of the Hopeslayer]] patch. Their armies poured into the Direlands under the leadership of general Black [[Ferah]]. After being defeated a few times, she moved her command post into one of the [[Shadow Spire]]s where she was overwhelmed after a coordinated attack of the Isparians.<ref name=HistoryDerethV>2000/05 [[Heroes' Respite]] [[General History of Dereth Vol. V]]</ref> The invasion of Ler Rhan's forces started in [[A'mun Desert]]. Unlike [[Ferah]], he elected to directly establish his headquarters in the Spires. After he was slain there, he moved on to the plains in the Aluvian-settled regions of Dereth. Again, he was tracked and defeated. Once more he moved, into the Spire found in the [[Blackmire Swamp]]. Once more he fell. The conquered Spires held keys to the [[Nexus Crystal]], which was defended by an army of Undead and Shadows (See als [[Nexus Shadow Armor Quest]]). <ref name=HistoryDerethV>2000/05 [[Heroes' Respite]] [[General History of Dereth Vol. V]]</ref> 

Until the [[To Raise a Banner of Flame]], the Spires moved over the landscape, but their army and their generals remained unseen.<ref name=HistoryDerethVIII>2000/08 [[Taste of Twilight]] - [[General History of Dereth Vol. VIII]]</ref> The Spires of Ferah and Ler Rhan's Spires attacked [[Cragstone]] and [[Arwic]].<ref name="A Brief History for Travelers">2000/11 - [[Should the Stars Fall/The Child of Daralet--Leafcull to Frostfell, PY 11 / (November to December, 2000)]]</ref> Ler Rhan's forces invested [[Anadil of Shakrassekor|Anadil]]'s garrison at the [[Fenmalain Vestibule]], but the battle ends indecisive, partly due because [[Isin Dule]] withheld his forces.<ref>2000/09 [[Twilight's Gleaming]] - [[Shadow Dispatch]]</ref> Before any action could be taken by the divided Shadows, the Isparians interfered again and destroyed all three of the Vault Crystals.<ref name="A Brief History for Travelers">2000/11 - [[Should the Stars Fall/The Child of Daralet--Leafcull to Frostfell, PY 11 / (November to December, 2000)]]</ref> After five of the [[Soul Crystals]] were destroyed, only the [[Shard of the Herald]] kept [[Bael'Zharon]] imprisoned.<ref name=PY1112LttP>2000/12 [[The Child of Daralet]] - [[Announcements - 2000/12 - The Child of Daralet#Letter to the Players]]</ref> The destruction of the 6th and last Crystal, the Shard of the Herald, took place with help of the generals Black Ferah and Ler Rhan and their Isparian allies. 
The Shadows of Ler Rhan disturb the parlay of the forces of the [[Empyrean]]s, the [[Virindi]] and the Shadow faction of [[Isin Dule]], and the Senechal of Chalicmere, [[Steward of Chalicmere|Lord Amarand]] perishes.<ref>2001/04 [[A Reign of Stone]] - [[Scrawled Note (Aerbax Laboratory)]]</ref><ref>2007/10 [[Masked Memories]] - [[Delving into Claude's Mind#Lore & Dialog]]</ref> 
In the month of Frostfell, P.Y. 11, a desperate alliance formed between [[Asheron]], the [[Virindi]], the undead [[Dericost]], [[Isin Dule]], and the Isparians.<ref name="Pack Bael'Zharon">2004/04 - [[On Bended Knee]] - [[Pack Bael'Zharon]]</ref>  After the second time the Hopeslayer is defeated, the Shadows retreat.<ref name=IsinOrders>2006/05 - [[The Price of Loyalty]] - [[Isin Dule's Orders]]</ref> [[Ilservian Palacost]] is finally weakened and his physical form destroyed, however, [[Ferah]] and Ler Rhan] are not. [[Isin Dule]] retreats to "somewhere in the lonely wastes".<ref name="A Brief History for Travelers">2000/11 - [[Should the Stars Fall/The Child of Daralet--Leafcull to Frostfell, PY 11 / (November to December, 2000)]]</ref> Bael'Zharon was driven off of this plane of existence but he was not destroyed.<ref name="Pack Bael'Zharon">2004/04 - [[On Bended Knee]] - [[Pack Bael'Zharon]]</ref>