The Final Trial of Honor - Arena of Honor Season 4 Round 15

As 2025 was quickly approaching its end in Westeros and with Christmas left behind already the warriors in Westeros were all preparing for one last fight before hoping into 2026, the last round of Arena of Honor Season 4. Preparing is what [N0X] Shado did too and same as LadyKnight, he managed to take advantage of the Christmas sales and rewarded himself with a new commander to join his ranks, Vorian.

With Vorian joining his most trusted commanders and a few other upgrades including some new dragon skills to show on battlefield, he was now fully ready to take up the challenge and hopefully get one more win in the last round, despite having no chance to get to the glory king rank this season. As soon as he had everything done, Sunday after the sunset he left [N0X] castle and headed towards the Arena of Honor battlefield. Once he arrived there, he found his team waiting for him and noticed a few changes into the roster of the team as LadyArthena and MightyLemon couldn't participate to this round, so the team decided to register with just 8 people and hope the other 2 warriors joining from the mercenary camp will be on pair with them.

The Old Gods assigned Nominor and Slayer Mee to the team and at least on paper they were looking very strong, but will they be able to match the team's strategy without having a way to communicate? We'll see. Once the battlefield opened and they stepped inside it was Cersei Lannister picking them to fight for her house in this fight and together they marched towards the southern dessert to the south-east forests and once they arrived there, everyone set their camps and gave their commanders and troops last minute orders. Shado decided to also take a look at what the other House got on the battlefield and send a few quick scouts just before the start of the battle.

As the scouts got back, and Shado was reading the reports, he noticed that once again his team was fighting against his friends from [N0X] joined by [BDR]Grombold and [BDR]Makima and a very strong [FFS]/[UTB] team led by josehf and Mandy IV. While disliking fighting against his alliance mates, that's what sometimes happen in Arena of Honor, it can't be avoided. Fight started quickly after with the opening of the strongholds and as always everyone rushed to occupy them as quickly as possible and start the points generation.

With the adding of the AI teams, now every real team starts with military camps to try and get at least one more Clan Castle, and things weren't different this time as everyone went for military camps and after the first few NPC attacks, every house had now 2 clan castles, so they were fighting on equal odds.

With the Clan Castles split equally it was going to be the altars and especially the City of Glory that will determin the faith of this fight and while the City of Glory was still tens of minutes from opening, the altars just started opened and the battle was once again heating up or so did Shado thought. With so many altars all over the map and so few troops to take them the battles were very scarce and most of them were against AI teams beside the battles for the altar of maiden that were the opposite of scarce as every house wanted their fair share of those. Beside sending the usual reinforcements to help his stronger team-mates occupy the altars Shado decided to send a few solos too and see where he's staying in terms of power.

Unfortunately for him, hitting without scouting turned out to be his downfall as it was Grombold staying behind the altar doors and after just a few seconds of fighting, Shado barely managed to equip his flipflops and run away with half of his army before that being decimated by Grombold. While altars were being split quite equally between the teams, it was now time for the City of Glory to drop the bubble and open for attacks.

Once the city opened everyone rushed for it with quick solos and it changed hands a few times before the other members even had time to send reinforcements and then Josehf managed to stabilize the city for House Stark, and it was now time for the other houses to start rallying. Both House Lannister with Arthurion and Nominor and House Targaryen with Grombold and Makima started the rallies, and they got filled within seconds and in less than a minute they were at the vale entrance ready to change towards the City of Glory. The battle that followed was one of big proportions with soldiers falling on both sides very quickly just so others can take their place and fight on top of what was now a vale of bodies. Josehf managed to win against 3 of the 4 rallies but he didn't have enough forces to defeat the 4th, and the city swapped hands. The battle went that way for the most of its remaining time with houses managing to take the city but not being able to hold'it for the 4 minutes required to fully occupy 'it. However, with just a few minutes left to play from the round, the House Targaryen found a breaking point, managed to reinforce the city in time and despite the full opposition of the other 2 houses they secured the City of Glory.

Despite not managing to secure the City of Glory, Shado and his team got another first place and ended the season with 3 wins in the last 3 rounds. Great last-minute effort but sadly for him, the rest of the season didn't go well enough for him to take a place on the Glory King ranks. With a new season coming quickly it's time for him to put this season aside and focus on the new one, with hopes that this time he'll do better and end up on a higher ranking. Will he be able to do that though? We'll have to wait and see. See you all on the battlefield!