I need help on MERP matters

MMP Mithril in Middle-Earth The Prancing Pony I need help on MERP matters

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  • #2483
    Gavin
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      Menoib

      Menoib was the chieftain of the Mhaigren clan in the 1700s of the Third Age. A brave and accomplished man, he had the dark fortune to rule in the time when the dark priestess Tughaib raised her army of Ghost Warriors. His warband fought long against the wights of the mountains, but their weapons were no use agains the undead. Worse, his fallen warrior companions would then return as walking dead, gliding out of the dark, hungering for the living. Menoib protected the aged priest, Solophen, from the taunts of the clan warriors, and gladly paid outside adventurers to help him save his people from the dead.

      #2509
      Gildor
      MMP Elder

        Once again I need help with two people :

        Miruimor & Carangil… from M324 : Female Vampires

        If you could give me some info about them, that would be helpful :)

        #2510
        Gavin
        Participant

          Coming up.

          Give me a few hours :)

          #2514
          Gavin
          Participant

            Miruimor

            Miruimor was once named Firailian, a bright and intelligent woman born of Black Numenorean aristocrats in the City of Umbar in the 16th Century of the Third Age. A scholar, and drawn to the mystic, she was born into her family’s worship of the darkness. Through her studies, she came to realise that Sauron saw the Numenorean aristocrats of Umbar as mere pawns in his struggle with the Valar. She saw that as a sign of his power and intellect. Others thought her ideas heretical. Sauron was the Black Numenorean’s patron, not some distant demigod who treated them as pawns. Such heresy marked her for death, but she escaped through cunning. She travelled to Gondor under a false name, and armed with her sharp wits and dark sorcery, she soon learned many of the secrets of the White Tower. Her daring brought her to Sauron’s attention and guided by dreams, she made her way to Dol Guldor where she became an apprentice to the Necromancer himself. In return for her service, he gave her the task of reclaiming Thuringwathost, an ancient fortress close to Dagorlad, for the darkness.

            There she became a minor power, the Necromancer’s lieutenant on the porous eastern borders of Gondor. It is said that although she was gifted with the long lifespan of the heirs of Numenor, she wanted more. She learned sorcery to help extend her life. Said spells need blood and at length, Miruimor became a distant echo of the ancient Vampires of Beleriand in the elder days.

            #2515
            Gavin
            Participant

              Carangil was a Sindarin princess of Mirkwood, captured when her kin’s forest realm was overrun. She was enslaved and taken to the dungeons of Dol Guldor as a plaything for the darkness. How long she was imprisoned, few know. But in the end she was taken from the darkness below the earth and delivered as a gift to Miruimor. Carangil remains silent, remains submissive. Some suspect she has been broken by the darkness.

              But Carangil is merely biding her time, waiting for the opportunity to strike down the sorceress and destroy her nest of evil. She does not have the power nor warcraftiness to threaten her captors, but she knows her way around the fortress at Thuringwathost and she has seen much of the dungeons beneath Dol Guldor. With the right opportunity and the right allies, Carangil will prove that she is no one’s slave.

              #2517
              Gavin
              Participant

                Oddly enough:

                Miruimor doesn’t actually seem to be a vampire in the Dagorlad supplement (she could have been “retconned” later, one presumes). She’s just a Black Numenorean sorceress. I added the bit about blood magic so her description jibes with what Mithril call her.

                #2518
                Gildor
                MMP Elder

                  perfect background ! thanks Gavin… Now will come the hard task for me to synthesise all of that in a small paragraph for both of them :)

                  #2519
                  Gavin
                  Participant

                    Anyway, just make me a list of what else you need.

                    I might be able to write up the small paragraphs too, if you want.

                    #2520
                    Gildor
                    MMP Elder

                      well I’ll be on holidays tonight I’ll check that but I think that all entries are covered, except maybe this Half-troll from Dol Guldur, recently released in the MERP dedicated series.

                      I already had all informations on the Mirkwood and Gundabad special characters
                      and I personnaly have the MERP backgrounds for each of the 9 Nazgul :)

                      I’ll build up a dedicated section on the forum for MERP characters. with a dedicated CATEGORY for all MERP characters, then a dedicated TOPIC for each MERP setting (mirkwood, gundabad, ghost warriors, fangorn, etc…) and inside those topic, a POST for each MERP character belonging to this setting.

                      This forum will be read-only, some sort of mini-lexicon for merp characters, not to be discussed but only to give data…
                      (if some people want a thread to discuss it we’ll put it elsewhere :) )

                      #2521
                      Gavin
                      Participant

                        Sounds good!

                        Gavin

                        #2522
                        Gildor
                        MMP Elder

                          ok, well, apparently, after the female vampires , Mithril ceased to produce MERP related figurines, except lately two of them :

                          Dagorhir from Dol Guldur (I need info about him)
                          and maybe Burzash (MX designer mithril, but I think the name is not even from MERP but a pure invented name.. which is… no comment :) )

                          #2523
                          Gavin
                          Participant

                            Dagorhir or Ardagor is easy, writeup inbound.
                            Burzash might be a made up name. I’ll check out the troll supplement to double check though.

                            #2524
                            Gavin
                            Participant

                              Dagorhir

                              (Note: Dagohir was originally introduced in the Cardolan supplement as Ardagor the Warlord. His name was later changed in the now incredibly rare “Arnor: the People” supplement as Dagohir

                              Dagorhir (literally “warlord”)

                              The Warlord is an abomination, the product of a failed experiment born in the Necromancer’s dungeons beneath Dol Guldor. An admixture of Elf and Troll, the experiment should not have survived. But survive, it did. The resulting horror was a creature with a long, graceful form (though massive and powerful) and a hideous troll-born face. The Warlord had an elven intellect, and a troll’s violence. Worse, the Warlord had such a terrible psychotic hatred of orcs that the Necromancer could not keep him in check. He was sent to the Witch King of Angmar. The Lord of the Nazgul had a use for the creature. Trolls in central Cardolan were not answering the Witch King’s commands. The Warlord soon bent them to his will. The Warlord formed a mighty army capable of threatening the Princes of Cardolan and Rhudaur. The Warlord’s realm was finally broken during a long summer of bloody fighting in TA 1643. The Warlord himself was reported slain, but others claim that he survived and he lived on to serve the Witch King for centuries to come.

                              #2525
                              Gavin
                              Participant

                                As for Burzash, I believe the name is invented. He does not seem to be a MERP character. He is a Captain of the Olog Hai. He may be a leader of the Trolls of Mordor at the Black Gate, or a Warlord of Mordor serving Khamul at Dol Guldor during the final days of the War of the Ring. (Or any number of other possibilities!)

                                Gavin

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