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Magoreth Haedirndis the Bow of Talathel

Magoreth Haedirndis did not start out her life as the Bow of Talathel, but a nomadic militia on the coast of would later become the lands of Gaz’roc. Magoreth belonged to an Eldalie clan that travelled across the entire coast lands, trading and transferring goods between large settlements. The task was dangerous with the chaos of the orcor raids and other wild uvanimo, but when the Moreldar arrived, it became impossible. The clan was caught unaware in the start of the Arkus War and those not slaughtered were taken as slave labor by the Moreldar. Magoreth was among those who lived to wake bound in chains. She spent decades underground in the labor camps of her dark cousins before the Eldamar rescued her clansman and her in a skirmish.    Magoreth joined her saviors and worked her way up the ranks into the personal unit of Prince Talathel the Swift. Charged with strategic assaults in the war, Magoreth became known as the Bow of Talathel, and where Talathel aimed she stuck true.     During the height of the Arkus War, the Eldamar were getting desperate to end the constant bloodshed. Resources were draining on the surface and the Moreldar were binging to gain ground. Prince Talathel decided drastic measures would need to be taken if there was ever going to be an ending where the Eldamar prevailed. He convinced his greatest warriors to participate in a ritual that would give them the power to defeat the Moreldar on their own territory. Magoreth was among those chosen.    In the tunnels deep underground at the foot of their enemy, they met in darkness and performed the ritual that would help them defeat their enemies. They grew stronger, gained strange magics, few weapons cut harm them and their wounds healed almost instantaneously. However these gifts came with a price… Magoreth could no longer stand the sight of the epagies of her people’s god, the daylight seared her skin, and she experienced a bloodlust so severe that it could only be sated through drinking the blood of her opponents.   The war ended with the submission to the rule of the loce. Magoreth, along with the other followers of Price Talathel, were praised as heroes. Soon though, those they saved started to turn on them.   The Eldalie created the Shadow Elms to hunt down these beings of power the heroes had become. Prince Talathel was the first to be captred, as his station gave him little secrecy, and the first to be entombed. Magoreth was amongst the last, surviving in the wilds for a time. It was only when she changed forms with her magic that she was forced to reform in the sarcophagus made ready for her by her own people, unable to escape.   The Bow of Talathel, hero of the Arkus War, was to remain entombed for all eternity deep in the vaults of the eldalie she saved.   Time passed slowly, the earth shifted, history all but forgot the heroes, until finally her freedom came at last. An elda presude by Moreldar had opened her prison looking for the Bow of Talathel, not realizing she was anything more then an artifact of the past. Desperate, Magoreth offered the elda a deal, she would help them and the Eldamar if the elda released her from her prison and removed the bnds that held her there. With the sounds of the Moreldar near, the elda agreed and Magoreth was able to do what she does best, slaughter the enemies of the Eldamar.   Magoreth’s releaser, an elda named Valathe Rinn Valron of Eldarberry, had been sent to find her to use as a weapon in a possible upcoming war with mortals. These Firya had risen up against the loce and Eldamar several centuries ago, claiming the lands as their own. Rumors of them anxious to finish the job had reached the Eldamar. The Bow of Talathel, Magoreth, was to be retrieved as a precaution. Evident her story long forgotten in the Elda Parma, Magoreth saw this twist of fate as a way back home amongst the eldalie.   Since her entombment, the eldalie stronghold had fallen deep beneath the earth well into Moreldar territory. The journey to the surface was long and dangerous, more so for the elda who had to learn to rely on Magoreth for some of the more lethal encounters. Whether by Marta, loneliness, or the inevitable bond that appears through shared harrowing, the two grew close and by the journey’s end, both had declared their hearts.   However, once beyond the Moreldar territory Magoreth offered her love the power of the ritual, so they could be as one and Valanthe would understand some sacrifices were necessary for the greater good, but Valanthe had grown in the teachings of the Shadow Elms and could not accept that path. The two fought, passionately at first and then in violence.  Valanthe Rinn Valron of Eldarberry, Ranger of the Shadow Elms, left wounded and Magoreth greeted the sky alone that night.   Without a guide, Magoreth’s journey was slow. The lands had changed much in the centuries. When she finally reached Morninglord, a shadow of what it once was, she made the time to familiarize herself with the current era. The Eldamar had fallen beyond recognition. Gone were the great cities of her people, leaving those that remained hidden in the remnants of ruins. Magoreth now understood Valanthe’s apprehension of war. The eldalie would not survive, not as they were.   Magoreth, the Bow of Talathel, would change that.   She isolated the best warriors of Morninglord and shared her power with them. Their inability to act tactically in their new state drew unwarranted attention to the area however. The local eldalie sent for the Shadow Elms. Magoreth got them in line as the hunters arrived, but the damage was done. The hunters found one of the weaker elda that had been fed on, recognized the marks, and knew what had happened. When Magoreth learned it was Valanthe, she was conflicted and it appeared she wasn’t the only one.   Magoreth and her surviving unit made their way to Corollairë. There the eldalie numbered greater then Morninglord and their tracks were easier to cover. Magoreth knew, however, that the Eldalie would need an army if they were to defeat the firya. She could not raise the numbers needed without the resources to support them. Magoreth found an elda skilled in alchemy and used him to find a solution. With the possible motivation of his family becoming collateral damage in this war, the alchemist was able to come up with two. The first, an alchemical regiment that could be mass produced to eliminate the need to feed the power with the loss of lives, which Magoreth had him instruct her and her unit to make, and the second a tincture that diluted the power to be used in mass though not as strong as the source. This diluted tincture would allow her future soldiers increased strength and speed, the ability to shrug off damage from enemy weapons, and allow them to march in the sunlight, though somewhat hindered.    Though there were some slight side effects, they are manageable.   Magoreth sent members of her unit out to the eldamar with the tincture. She wanted to target key combatants and could think of none better than the well trained undead hunters that were made to defeat them, the Shadow Elms. It is a beautiful thing to watch the predators become the prey. None of them understood the gifts they were being given of course and some soldiers were killed in the line of duty, but once gifted they too understood their role in the rise of the eldalie. Some were able to flee beyond the eldamar, Valanthe among them, proving their value for the coming war.   Magoreth ordered them to be brought to Corollaire. They would receive the full dark gift as her officers. Eventually all were either caught or surendered.   War was coming. The Resurgence would serve as a excellent distraction to the firya while the eldamar prepared.
Elvish:
  • Eldalie/Elda/Eldamar - Elf Folk or Elven People or Elven Lands
  • Casallie - Dwarves or Dwarven People
  • Uvanimo - Monsters
  • Moreldar - Dark Elves or Drow
  • Felya - Tunnels
  • Loce - Dragons, Serpents
  • Fryar - Mortals, mankind
  • Aranie - Kingdom
    All Elvish is taken from Tolkien's Quenya.
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