The Yule Log Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by Envinyatar

I'd like not to tip my hand a lot concerning my two characters.

My lips are sealed (Envin told me somewhat once upon a time)...

Originally Posted by Arry

I would really like to see the 'defeat' of the creature as a concerted effort - and not just the heroics of one person. Can we do that?

This is a great idea! But how?!? Maybe only the writing of it will help clear that up, but maybe we can offer some suggestions?

Just so you all know what I've had in mind with this "unwight": I purposely designed the being to be wraith-like, to sort of give that same feel as Frodo had on Weathertop, of a powerful negative force from the spirit realm. To that end, I came the idea that this is an evil Maiar that had been tempted into evil by Melkor early in the First Age, and was in Thangorodrim/Angband most of the time, maybe as a torturer/twister of Elves into Orcness? (just thought of that now, not really important) Anyway, my plausable little theory is that this evil Maiar got trapped in the deeps of Angband in the cataclysm at the end of the First Age, and remained imprisoned there throughout the Second Age. The cataclsym of at the end of the Second Age, which drowned Numenor and altered the 'circles of the world', wrenched this nameless evil Maiar from its prison, and it has been roaming in the north for a few years, wreaking havoc upon the few creatures it meets (mostly polar bears and what-not) until it gets far south enough to confront Wenda and the village it destroys.

Make sense?

Maybe that will help us in figuring out how our characters might help defeat it...

Originally Posted by Nerindel

Envinyatar if my suspicions are correct about Stamo and Mori, then they may know who and what Arato is and was!

Well, what a confounding bit of mystery and power we have going at this humble Green Man Free House! I eagerly await the build up, climax, denouement, and epilogues.