Battle of the Wall of Astila (concept)
The Battle of the Wall of Astila was the final battle in the Bayyuralar. Taking place at what is now known as the Wall of Astila, Baytor rode to relieve the clan of Korsakai Khatan, who had forded across the river and engaged Astilik forces. Outmatched by the Astilik soldiers, Korsakai Khatan held out in hopes of Baytor's forces arriving to relieve him on time. As Baytor's forces forded a brook to get to Korsakai's clan, Baytor's horse lost its footing and threw him off. Though accounts differ, with Baytor's brother and bondsman Mogha writing that he dashed his head upon the rocks and floated off and the leader of the Khaiasheg, Ögotei Tankhatan, writing that he was weighed down by his armor and the masks of the warriors he defeated preventing him from swimming to safety, he drowned before his Khaiashegs could dismount and rescue him. Both his corpse and the sword of his grandfather, Iorne Seld, were lost to the river.
After his death, his forces were thrown into disarray and many of the clans wanted to desert. However, both Ögotei and Mogha rallied them to rescue Korsakai's forces, and they forded the brook and conducted a pitched battle against the Astiliks, though they were thrown back across the river along with Korsakai and the remnants of his clan. Afterward, the Öltenic horde dispersed in the Aironoian Migration.
The battle proved to be the death-blow to the Otachedian Empire, which collapsed soon after. However, it also resulted in an influx of Öltenic cultures and religions in Aironoi, and the emergence of new empires over the next centuries. It is doubtful that Baytor, were he not to have drowned, could have won the battle. The Öltenis were outmatched in equipment, training, and in familiarity with their environs, and Baytor's refusal to augment his forces with Kashiryans resulted in them relying on Öltenic shamans for their Magi, who were outmatched by the animal-magi of the Astilik Empire.