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Silmarien   M34 : SILMARIEN™ the Mage

There has always been a rag merchant in Tharbad, a poor little shop in a poor little quarter of town. The title of the shop if laughably grand: Silmarien’s. Local rumour claims that the tired, bent, ragged old woman who owns the shop is the long distant descendant of some ancient Edain house. The story is amusing, though the clothes sold are very fine. Silmarien can repair beloved shirts and cloaks and mend worker’s smocks and maiden’s skirts alike. Silmarien is respected, even loved, though few can say that they really know the woman.

At night, when the shop is closed, and the lamps are lit along the river, a woman moves through the shadows and out into the nighttime world of the city. The woman is tall, stately, sophisticated and sharp of eye. Sometimes she travels beyond the city, there to meet an old man in a grey cloak with a blue hat.

Silmarien is Gandalf the Grey’s agent in Tharbad. She is a weaver of magics herself, and a trusted pair of eyes, always watchful for the Witch King’s agents and plots. She is a member of the Hildinolë (Q: The Followers of Wisdom), a loose semi secret society of loremasters and enchanters who study the arts of magic under Saruman and Gandalf and attempt to undermine the sorceries of the Witch King. Compared to the Wizards, they had little power, but in a time when cursed frosts and were-winds blew across the North, every little helped.

Some later sources would claim that Silmarien had Eldarin blood in her veins, that she was exceptionally long lived, that the Silmarien that opened the shop in the 14th century of the Third Age was the Silmarien who closed that shop and moved on in the 20th century of the Third Age, but the truth of this matter is unknown. The same sources also claim that she may have been involved in the plot to spirit Princess Nirnadel out of Tharbad to Arthedain.