The artifacts amplified each other's effect and timed their respective attacks to hammer at the enemy lines without giving them time to recover.
Only a Silverwing's Bastion could stop the barrage of Chaos Spells, but to conjure it required seven violet-cored elves. The groups of Wood Golems couldn't move without dooming their shell-shocked brethren to oblivion.
The Fire Dragons came after the Eldritches. Their advance was slower, each step opened deep cracks in the Fringe's ground from which more lava gushed out.
Valtak and his Firestarters unit spread their Primal Spark so that the rivers of Origin Flames and magma burned at the arrays on their path and purified the world energy from the Yggdrasill's influence.
Each Fire Dragon was accompanied by a Golden Dragon that shielded them from stray spells and ensured that the Wood Golems that slipped past the white cores couldn't regroup and cast Silverwing's Annihilation from behind their backs.