Darke, hmm, did I not have his head greet you at some point when you first investigated the main hall? Or was that a little beat I left out out of forgetfulness/taste? He was in the main hall along with all the 'elite' blackskulls you met at the front door, but he and the other named guy (grr, started with an F I think) were killed when Dolo's grak-graks (pretending to be Soorec's grak-graks) went mad when Dolo went mad. That was the scene you had just interrupted, and why the hall was on alert right then. And why there were only two ordinary unnamed blackskulls in the hall, instead ofthe four that should have met up with Drommal.
Small-small was the one leading the attack of the pain rats, and she survived. You can assume that if Ameena revists Anaias to see Westian/Haynuus, she will find that the pain rats are a little bit easier to deal with, espcailly sicne you will match the primative version of a god that small-small started to instill in these creatures. Since I think Falkor'/money's actions happened 'off camera', Falkor tried to calm a Giant Scorpion at one point, realising they were twisted by Chaos and in metnal anquish, not just evil. So that one slightly more docile scorpion is what grabbed the Grey Lord's attention - together with Ameena's affect on small-small - and made him think there was hope in creating a balance with the creatures of chaos left in the dungeon.
The baby Oitu and the mother oitu will have been fine. If that poor mother was the one Haynuus ended up capturing, I'm sure Ameena could have subtly slipped the chain off and used some non-verbal commuication and good will to get that Oitu to stay put. Thoguh it's probably another one
And the baby rock monsters will have been born. The Grey Lord did say that he could see the path of you guys through your actions. So that would include feelign the presence of gthe new life from nothing more than Chaos's magical summonation. He will have personally ensured they were born with real rock creatures, and one more it would have been a way to start some form of understandign with those creatures he used to fear were jsut twisted remnants of Chaos's actions.
Yeah, all the blackskulls would have been killed in the path of reason - sadly, that included Brohur beng killed too. Still, he was a bully that would have taken the souls on in a heartbeat if Sergeant Arbrut had ever offered him the chance. An unpleasant man, and you guys don't need to feel guilty about his death unless you wanna.
The Trolin battle was happening elsewhere. The Trolins were fighting on the level where Dolo and Soore'cs lairs were, away from where the secret tunnel had beem. But yes, between the grak-grak fighting the guards outside the main hall, and the Trolins killign the bulk of the blackskulls, and the level 9/10 forces being killed by the pain rats and wandering in to Purple worms (yes, I put purple worms in level 10, just for the fun of it to mess with your guys) then that's the blackskulls wiped out.
Umm, the two blackskulls, I'd need to check the updates. I think Petal ganked one, Passin ganked one? They both rushed forwards...no, wait, jsut checked the maps. Yeah, Theron was forced to kill one due to the stuff that was happening (pertrification) and the other was the one that fully rushed forwards to be ganked by Passin and Petal.
Deephold was knocked down by the final mummy, it was - off camera, I think, or no, I think it was actually mentioned - that Petal and Falkor and Helm came to the rescue, just when Deephold looked dead. Aurek killed the first but then moed to help you guys in the centre, since Deephold indicated she should be ok. Which he was
Passin was the only one who swicthed sides. The basic footsoldiers might have, but more in fear at the 'real' blackskulls dying. Instead, they were wiped out by combats and grak-graks. None of the 'real' ones would ever have turned. After all, they were evil enough to not only actively take on the souls of all those they had killed, but were then happy to their power by killing more people. So yeah, basically the group picked the right blackskull wannabee with a backstory to try and turn. Odd how that works, isn't it? What were the odds
Since no-one claimed Ardur in the end, and Westian and Haynuus kinda went off of the Order of Larethian (whcih was cool, you guys both chose the mountain) then I imagine Passin would have acted as a guardian of sorts to get the boy back to Varette/Banville (it was half suggested, but Passin's fate was left up in the air at the last post). Obviously, one path is for Passin to try and atone for his actions by joining the region, with the Grey Lord's recommendation to Zed. Aurek might (hopefully) be able to post? If so, perhaps Aurek persuades Passin to work with him, whatever Aurek ends up doing. That one I will leave up in the air for now, but those are the two futures I can see. Ardur won't become a knight, but I can imagine him becoming more like a Gaius in a way, like some form of scholar but advisor or friend to a knight.
Whenw, such a small paragraph, but so many questions