Leaping in to the portal with Sacre Noir at the ready, I got a really bad feeling about this situation, wondering if perhaps I got myself into something to big to handle ; flash thought : Big, Handle, = Balefire > and that pretty much resolved any doubts that I had in regards to the melee I was about to participate in. But Holy Julianos, I was not prepared for the Hell that I found at the other end of the portal, the sight of black cindered burned god knows what, millions of skulls embedded in the floor, shady beings that I presumed to be denigroths, and in the middle of it all, a veritable cyclone of magicka, with two figures vaguely identifiable as Balefire and I'm sure what must be Veer'shule or what was left of their ethereal bodies, I saw Elfiran effortlessly hacking away at a denigroth, the fiery Loriella doing the most amazing acrobatics and actually getting somewhere with the denizen that was trying hard to get to it's master. My Elven plate felt very cold through my under vest and shivers ran up my spine, never the less I couldn't let my friends fight by themselves, so I followed Twilight, got a tight grip on my shield and prayed, I don't now if it helped, but hey it can't hurt and I threw my self at the first monster I could find, remembering someone saying;"Don't let those Denigroths touch you it's instant dead" Well Julianos may protect me, the only question is " is he gonna do it here?" and I attacked the unholy thing in front of me, with Sacre Noir singing in my hand I beheaded the thing, instantly a great tingling went through my body and I saw Sacre Noir, my hand, my arm in fact my hole body light up in a blue aura of such strength, that i was sure that Julianos had heard my prayer, before I realized that it was magicka flowing from the denigroth in to me, I have no idea what I looked like but I felt as if I could take this citadel apart stone by stone all by myself, I let go of a shield spell that would have made Balefire proud of me, such power, all this while the denigroths head was amazingly floating down to the floor, Floating? I then understood that the ring of Notorgo that I was wearing stood out like a beacon in the blackest of nights and I found my self continuing to slash this Fuzz ball to little pieces as if I was preparing meat for a loaf, but that ring was beginning to hurt and then stop to hurt, it was to much for a poor wood elf to understand, I didn't care no more and to my mind came the battle cry " No retreat, no surrender" and like the mythical dervish I let the Magicka loose and slashed and hacked my way in.......................................................