Thank you for your help Faidth. I really appreciated your input on this one.
I would have included Soul and Sepher, but I didn't want to step on any toes. Also, as a side note to Faidth and Kith, please keep in mind that Danyael's newest tactic is not restrictive. Feel free to accept or refuse his help at your discretion. Basically, he's just trying to help as best he can with whatever he has to work with at the moment - which isn't much considering the side effects of his ability to be in total symbiosis with planets, or celestial constructs like the Eidolon Wastelands.
Whew, that was lucky you didn't include Soul Reaver - I'd written up a huge post and went to post it when I saw you'd beaten me to it.
I'm going to have Soul Reaver pay no attention to those around him at the moment - he's in too much of a hurry to save his own skin. He's pretty drained and weakend from this battle and particularly his last attack, so he can't just hold his ground at the epicentre of the explosion.
He's basically tried to get as far away possbile as as fast as possible, and erected the most powerful Shielding spell he could maintain. When the explosion went off, he was already quite far away from the epicentre (thanks to Blooddrinker's prior warning), which is why he managed to weather it nonetheless. That, and Blooddrinker's been feeding him energy to keep him going.
EDIT: I just realize I might have misread the instructions: am I supposed to describe how Soul Reaver escapes the explosion (which is what I did) or rather what precautions he takes right up to before it hits?