Time is Running Out for the Ascian's Plan?

[Jandor]

And I really don't know whether to count the "summoning warriors from beyond the rift" as something that actually happened in the story or not. It's a really cool moment at the time, but it's just weird on so many other levels. Doesn't add up with the difficulty of summoning the rest of the time, and what happened from their perspective? Pulled out of nowhere, fight this monster they've been thrown up against, then snap back to their own world without an explanation?

I think we have to assume it actually happened in the story, it was a major cut-scene before facing the big main bad guy of the MSQ up to that point.

As to how it was done, I don't really know. If I had to guess at magical mumbo-jumbo I'd say he used you as a gate or conduit or whatever and called out to anyone vaguely "attuned" to you to come help out for a bit. Intending it to be temporary, a pre-existing link to the WoL, and the WoL's own massive reserve of TP-juice (anima), should all add up to make the summoning easier.

It is one of those things I wish the characters thought to ask though, leaving aside the coming and going from the first for a moment, it'd just be a really useful trick to be able to pull off in general.

Villain: Oh ho ho, I have you now WoL!
WoL: Oi lads, come give us a hand with this joker would ya.
/7 equally powerful mates pop out of nowhere/