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After crossing
the Channel, they went north to find Imladris accompanied by a Bard guide,
Fergus Ap Hiernan, but they were attacked by strange Reptilian Creatures
which transformed into little snakes after taking enough damage.
The Bard was
wounded and carried on a padiol, but a few days later that didn’t stop
him from spotting, before any of the characters, an enormous Green Dragon.
They fight and manage to slay the Dragon and then to loot the Dragon for
its skin, bones, teeth and horns, for according to the bard they can be
made into powerful weapons. They arrived at Imladris, but there was nothing
there, the village seemed to have been destroyed and the only leads were
some horse tracks. After some days of tracking, they saw a tall man in
a dark cloak. They approached and introduced themselves and found this
was Aragorn, son of Arathorn, who said he knew someplaces where the Sidhes
could be if they had managed to escape.
After looking
in two places with no success, they went to the Eiglophian Mountains and
there looked for the Oakenshields, a strange race of sturdy and small people.
There they indeed found the people of Imladris, with Elrond their leader.
They also met many other Sidhes and Oakenshields with whom they aquainted
themselves, including the Sidhe and Oakenshield females. Of the latter,
it is important to say that they are strange folk: from what they learned,
they were fairies, that is, spirits who inhabit and/or protect natural
resources, but they remained with the Oakenshields in flesh and blood.
They were unnaturally beautiful, some of them overshadowing even the Sidhe
ladies with their fair and delicate features. The characters also met Lúthien,
a beautiful immortal, but one who didn’t warm up to the characters.
They discover
that they are under siege and that the Fomori destroyed Imladris and killed
many Sidhes. Elrond asks them to go to Mannanan for help as any Sidhe leaving
would surely be killed. They do so, even though the characters were more
than willing to spend more time with the beautiful ladies. On the way,
they are found by two Fomori and they kill the monsters, but Ewan died
in battle.
After that, they
arrived at the Allthing without further troubles and there Mannanan pledged
his help, after which they departed immediately. As they met Elrond and
his Sidhes, they formulated a plan to invade the fortress of the Fomori,
a strange and well protected castle, which did not seem to belong to that
time or place. The characters were sent to the back of the castle, where
it was supposedly safer. As they entered the main castle building, they
killed three Fomori and barely escaped a counter attack led by a flying,
red demon. They scrambled out of the corridor down to the yard and were
not pursued because the Fomori were already in combat with the Sidhes.
Victory for
the Sidhes! and Elrond made a proposition to the characters, that his people
might build another Imladris at the characters village. Both parties would
benefit, as Elrond’s people needed a place to live and also to guard the
Cauldron, and for the characters their village would be quite well protected
by the Sidhes. There, the characters spent some twenty years learning the
arts of battle from Finnegan.
After this time,
Elrond shared his preocupation with the advances of the Set cult and that
they were coming perilously close to discovering the location of the tomb
of Thulsa Doom, the Warlock, chief religious leader of Set. Elrond explained
to the characters that the tomb had always remained a secret to everyone
and that there had never been the need to destroy the tomb or the body
of Thulsa Doom. Now, however, the cult of Set was narrowing their searches
and something needed to be done. There were asked to go to the tomb, burn
the body and spray the ashes to the wind, to which they obviously accepted.
They moved north
to reach Greenland using crude maps and an ancient bussola. As they passed
through the pictish wildernesses, they were received with hospitality and
the travel was quite nice until they arrived at one particular village.
There, a decrepit old Pict took them to his tent where he without much
ado, proceeded to attack the characters wih his sorceries, controlling
the mind of Beowulf and making him attack his own friends. In what was
perhaps the most dangerous battle ever ( as the Gods fought against the
allpowerful grip of Morpheus ), they succeded in defeating the Picts.
In Greenland
they foun the House of Bones, a hidden cave, whose mouth was literally
that, a mouth with Dragon teeth lined up and down the entrance. As they
moved inside, a ghost appeared to them and explained as much as he could
about the dangers ahead. He had been a Sidhe of the Asgardian tribe and
his name was Jorgen Matthausen; his burned body testified to the powers
inside the tomb. He numbered the challenges ahead: first, there was this
invulnerable statue which shot fireballs ( that was what had killed Jorgen
); then there were Zombies on the sides of the staircase, then a Snake
of Oil and finally the Avatar of Set would appear to those who entered
the chamber of Thulsa Doom. But Jorgen didn’t believe they would be able
to pass the statue, for it was too powerful and the bets of the spirits
were running against the characters.
Surprisingly,
as they entered the chamber, running, nothing happened. It seemed to them
that Sidhe magic had been used as so, they were able to bring the statue
down, ending the invulnerability and the threat. They proceeded to face
the undead along the walls of the stairs and downstairs, burned the Oil
Snake with flaming arrows. Following the corridors, they found jewelry
and clothes preserved for Thulsa Doom and at the end, the Chamber of Thulsa
Doom. There, as they advanced, a serpentine form began to take shape before
their very eyes until they saw a giant humanoid, scaly and serpent-headed,
and it moved towards them. With their weapons trained at the creature,
they fired and as it attacked them, they destroyed the creature.
The statue was
after all the biggest threat, but to them, it had been naught but a dead
piece of stone.
