Battle of Purgation Isle

The Battle of Purgation Isle was one of the major battles of the war between the Church of the Holy Light and the Dominion of the Sun's Ashborn Knights. Marked by a bloody uphill gauntlet, the battle was the most decisive factor of the war reaching cold status.

Recount
In an attempt to pry the Chalice of Mara Fordragon away from the College of Canons once and for all, the Dominion of the Sun launched an invasion on Purgation Isle. Leagues of the blood knights, death knights, warriors, and auxiliary members of the Ashborn Knights, commanded by Volanaro Ael'aran gained a purchase of the spire-like island, overrunning and killing all of the soldiers present on the one accessible coast. Bishop Johannes Moorwhelp commanded all of the clerics and paladins under the College of Canons' command to retreat further up the spire. As the relentless legion of the Ashborn Knights pressed up the spire with the Bishop's forces now holed up, the priests and rangers of the College of Canons pelted them overhead with spell and arrow. The few priests, known as the Order of Confessors, who had been taught the art of controlling the minds of their foe, were permitted to use their magic to send much of the vanguard hurdling over the hoary sides of the rocky outcrop to their demise. The two forces met into three major clashes as the Clergy of the Holy Light retreated up the spiraled isle. The first was an crushing victory on behalf of the Dominion of the Sun. The second two, and overall victory, belonged to the Clergy of the Holy Light.

The Dominion of the Sun did not obtain the relic they sought and retreated after the last major clash. The Bishop taunted that never again would the Ashborn have the power to raise against the Church of the Holy Light. This marked the transformation of the College of Canons from advocates of peace at every costs to an order that would not sit and watch as their churches were defiled by agents of the Horde.