Dryops is dead, yea!
He was a gift of reasoned umbral, sadly I think he passed on the Ageis shield to someone else but he was wearing Monolith Armour when he died.
I would check out the availability of both unique items and try to forge them this turn before Agartha reforges them again!
Now, lets try to kill a king of elemental fire...
P.S.
I wish the cavalry would hurry up and arrive. Also what happened to ultra secret, hush hush, say no more, say no more, top sercet Plan A?!?