It was through this affiliation that Sabrus became involved, unexpectedly, with the famous Battle of Grunwald. When the cry for reinforcements went up, Sabrus was one of the many peasants who were suddenly conscripted into the battle. Being Christian, the Teutonic Knights felt assured that the denizens of the monastery would fight alongside them, against the Pagans, for Christ, especially seeing as their presence had been ordained by a Papal Golden Bull. Sabrus, terrified and armed only with his father’s pitchfork, was quickly lost within the tide of the battle, frantically stabbing anyone he could find, regardless of which side they were on. In this way he found himself, at the end of the fighting, within a huge group of other peasants surrounding the last remaining Teutonic Knights, the peasants singing their anthems as they mercilessly cut the armored invaders to pieces. The wild slaughter continued all night, and according to some involved Pagan blood rituals and Devil Worship, though this can safely be attributed to latter-day Christian revisionism. Sabrus returned home practically comatose, and was never the same. The fighting was officially ended by the Peace of Thorn on February 1st, and the next day Sabrus began work on what would become his magnum opus, the Sheol Cycle, a bizarre and moving account of one mortal’s descent to Helgrind, the corpse-tower at the mouth of Hell, to retrieve the head of his beloved, which he has learned has been planted in the ground and is now mother to a tree of white flowers. Sabrus maintained that the story was autobiographical, and entirely true. After his completion of the work Sabrus disappears from the historical record, and we hear no more of him.