Storylines & Roleplay
Our 4th Age of Middle Earth

⁺₊⋆ Ꮭąɖყ Êlúrιєℓℓє ⋆⁺₊ — 10/17/2023 10:52 PM
We can discuss storylines, and such, plus when you are not on, I can let you know what Elurielle said about him or something he did. 🙂
Thought this might help if you know what I am saying that Thranduil is up to. 🙂 ⁠garden

"He saw one of the two guards that are to guard me" She indicates the two guards that flank her but are about twenty feet away. "sitting with me and chatting. He said I was giving them the wrong impression and distracting them from their duties."

"He is so intense about finding that dark creation, that I am worried it is consuming him. Now he is saying we need to go to the Woodland Realm, that he can keep me better protected. What does that even mean?"

⁺₊⋆ Ꮭąɖყ Êlúrιєℓℓє ⋆⁺₊ — 10/19/2023 3:05 PM
((Elurielle resurrected Auytumn last night, which as an empathic healer can actually kill her. I am guessing Thranduil will eventually find out about this.))


Maedhros Maitimo BOT  — Yesterday at 8:13 PM
He appeared in the gardens, Auytumn’s body rolling to the ground, a single tear tracing his face while he cursed in Quenya, “Stupid halflings, stupid damn halflings. Good at planning, eh? Hah.”

Êlúrielle — Yesterday at 8:13 PM
She rises, worried.
She rushes over, at first thinking it was Faelyn, but then sees this woman. "What happened?"

Maedhros Maitimo BOT  — Yesterday at 8:15 PM
“We got ambushed by orcs, and I had an epiphany. Hobbits are not very good at organizing, despite what the tales say.”

Êlúrielle — Yesterday at 8:15 PM
She is already kneeling by the young woman. "She is dead."

Maedhros Maitimo BOT  — Yesterday at 8:16 PM
He barked out a harsh laugh, devoid of humor. “I noticed…”

Êlúrielle — Yesterday at 8:16 PM
In her mind she call Wynter to come to her. She looks at him. "How long as she been dead?"

Maedhros Maitimo BOT  — Yesterday at 8:17 PM
“5 minutes at maximum.”
“I can’t be entirely sure.”

Êlúrielle — Yesterday at 8:18 PM
She closes her eyes, Wynter arrives and lies down next to her, waiting, and knowing why she called him. This process will take a while as Elurielle concentrates and is clearly straining as she does her best to bring this young woman back from the clutches of death.

Maedhros Maitimo BOT  — Yesterday at 8:19 PM
“Should the arrow be removed first??”

Êlúrielle — Yesterday at 8:21 PM
She shakes her head, the Woodland guards are standing close, not sure what to do. They are there to protect the Queen. She whispers a few inaudible words as she pulls the life back into Auytumn.  Auytumn takes a weak breath, then Elurielle, yanks the arrow out, which causes Autyumn to scream....

Maedhros Maitimo BOT  — Yesterday at 8:22 PM
He grimaced, though he had heard that kind of scream before.

Êlúrielle — Yesterday at 8:22 PM
She puts her hand over the blood oozing wound and closes her eyes once again, Wynter moves closer to her and puts a hoof against Elurielle's leg.
 

Maglor BOT  — Yesterday at 8:22 PM
Realizing what was going on, he began to play music that would hopefully give her a bit more strength to allow her to function better after the process was finished.

Êlúrielle — Yesterday at 8:23 PM
Wynter was healing Elurielle so she would not die for she is an empathic healer, who takes the wound of the victim onto herself.
Auytumn opens her eyes, she is awake and wounds are all healed, but Elurielle collapses. Wynter howls as he nudges her, no movement.

⁺₊⋆ Ꮭąɖყ Êlúrιєℓℓє ⋆⁺₊ — 10/27/2023 6:31 PM
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So the story has progressed beyond her journal.

Anyway, Galadriel was able to remove the darkness upon Elurielle's mind, but could not restore her memory. She did say it may return, but when was uncertain.

She and Thranduil (Plus his company of guards) stayed in Rivendell for a month or so in case she needed more healing.

Convinced she was well, Thranduil has taken her to the Woodland Realm. He arranged a wonderful surprise welcome home party for her. Most of the kingdom was in attendance and warmly welcomed her. It was music, dance, food and drink. Thranduil uncharacteristically could not stop smiling. He was happy for the first time in thousands of years.. well since he lost his wife.

A few notes that Thranduil may or may not like. She was gifted a cloak of holding when she lived in her illusion in Mordor. It came from a traveling merchant who was vying for her attention, which failed.

She has a beautiful white magical bow and arrow, a gift from Thranduil that she just recently realized was from him. It was inscribed: "May my White Gem's Aim Always Be True."

Thranduil calls her his 'White Gem", and the first time that he did, it resonated with her and caused all doubt that she was who he said she was to vanish.

They arrived in the Woodland Realm and Thranduil surprised her with a welcome home party.

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Sauron's Plan B, has become active.
Plan B was in place in case he was defeated.
Duvessa is one of his warriors who will work to bring her lord and master back to Middle Earth. She would eventually awaken him,  and he would rise to create an army to take over Middle Earth.

Thranduil's son , Aedan, saw smoke over Mordor and rode out to see what it was. Once there, he was attacked, and almost killed, but Caladwyn, Lord Sauron's daughter who is not on his side, saw the smoke as well. She rode in on her small black dragon, and defended against the single dark warrior, and was able to get Aedan out of there and save him.

Since then, there has been two attacks or they showed up, Caladwyn, thwarted both.

So that is the current event going on. Caladwyn is creating her strong undead army and notifying the kingdoms and towns.

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⁺₊⋆ Ꮭąɖყ Êlúrιєℓℓє ⋆⁺₊ — 12/10/2024 9:23 AM

==== Updates for DECEMEBER 2024 Storyline ====
 

⁺₊⋆ Ꮭąɖყ Êlúrιєℓℓє ⋆⁺₊ — 12/13/2024 2:56 PM
This will be rather condensed. If I missed anything pertinent, please let me know.
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(Duvessa is a follower of Sauron.
Caladwyn is Sauron's daughter. She is a necromancer, but mostly does good.)

Duvessa was living in Udun, all was well, for the most part until she came across an old tomb discovered when she was moving thru Mordor's rubble where Sauron's empire disintegrated, and came upon a tattered tomb of notes and dark spells that had belonged to either Sauron or one of followers.

Within the book, were incantations and dark spells to summon spirits of great power, so she began her attempt to bring back the Dark Lord, himself, Sauron.

As she tried and tried, she fail over and over, realizing that she would need more power to do this alone, so she enlisted the help of spells in the tomb to do such that. She managed to create a large burning ball of power, a source so great that it would reach for miles and miles to whoever had the skills to access it.

As she was developing these powers and trying to summon her Master, Dhurru's King Neyo was killed by a follower of Sauron. She delighted in this and decided to Dhurru to help or even take advantage of the king's death, but to her surprise, he had a heir to take over the throne.

In her mind, they were weak, a new leader, chaos over the death of the king, good time to wreak havoc with her illusions and trickery.
⁺₊⋆ Ꮭąɖყ Êlúrιєℓℓє ⋆⁺₊ — 12/13/2024 3:37 PM
Such a great time to do this,  invitations to other kingdoms were being sent for the coronation of the new king . One, in particular, irked her, for his reputation preceded him as the most successful fighter in all his battles. Rumor was he had never been bested in battle. He needed to learn that those days were over, but she does not do all of her battles with weapons, but with chaos, trickery with her illusions.

One of her most effective feats was when she had one of her minions stab the Queen of Mirkwood, Lord Thranduil's precious wife. The blade was laced with a poison that caused her to appear to have died. Duvessa was swift to spin the illusion upon Elurielle, making it appear upon all close inspection that she was no longer breathing. She had died.

This, of course, would sent that pointy eared princess, Thranduil into a chaotic frenzy and weaken his mental state.
Duvessa is in the Kingdom of Dhurru, having fun creating as much chaos with her illusions as possible. Thranduil, Aedan (her son) and Maldau left the kingdom, they needed to distract their thoughts and was going fishing or something. LOL

Duvessa decided to torment the Eluriielle, so she turned herself into an illusion of Maldau (who is a trusted dear friend) to, now tell her (as Maldau) that Thranduil had been killed. While he was happy Elurielle was alive, he was still mourning his friend, Thranduil.

Elurielle could not handle her husband being dead, she hopped on Wynter and road out of the kingdom toward the river. She was so distraught, she just wanted to run away, she was sobbing on her knees at the water's edge when she heard a approached rider. Now it was common knowledge what Duvessa had been doing in the kingdom with illusions, so she was not going to be fooled again.

The rider was none other than her husband, Lord Thranduil. He could see the disbelief on her face when she saw him, for she was backing away as if fearful.

He approached slowly, trying to convince her that he was real and it was him, but it was not working.

Wanting to continue to terrorize the Elven Queen, she was there when this was going on and decided it was time to hurt the Elven king in the worse way possible, kill his queen. She appeared behind Elurielle, but Wynter (telepathically) told Elurielle that the Dark Witch was behind her. Elurielle, was quick, she pulled her dagger which was already laced with poison and stabbed it into the witch.
Thranduil was fast as lightning, he had already pulled his bow and an arrow was flying toward the witch and hit its mark. Hurt for the first time in years, she had to vanish, for that posion was already working on her. This angered her so much that she vowed revenge against them both. So she would go after them and their family... which she would.

The witch now being gone, Thranduil was still a good ways away from his wife and she was not convinced it was him, still yet. She began to back up, still scared and unsure what to believe.

Wynter got behind Eurielle and would not let her continue to back away, then Thranduil reminded her of what they had done at their engagement party. Something only the two of them would know.

(( King Thranduil APP  — 6/29/2024 9:32 PM
“At our engagement party, you had enough of the guests. You dragged me out to the waterfall, and we swam.” He added on “naked” in a whisper that only she could hear.  ))

⁺₊⋆ Ꮭąɖყ Êlúrιєℓℓє ⋆⁺₊ — 12/13/2024 4:19 PM
Next they went to Lothlorien to aid them from Duvessas. While there, Duvessa was tormenting them and the royal family, Legolas, Faelyn, Aedan, She had them doubting who each other was. Were they an illusion or real?

Soon it was discovered that she had taken up residence in Dol Guldur.

Thranduil, Illarious and a few others are near Elmswood and Dol Guldur readying to attack.
Thranduil's son, Aedan Greenleaf, (yes, Legolas is his son also, but his player is not on much), Aedan was a really good, level headed son, but he got mixed up with Duvessa when she offered him great power and that she could make him leader of the Elves and the Woodland Realm if he helped destroy his father. So he agreed. His first task to test his loyalty was to kidnap his mother, my character, and bring her to Dol Guldur and chain her up in a cell.

He did to everyone's surprise. All think he is under a spell, maybe. We will see. Aedan is going to confront Thranduil and use his mother as leverage to make him surrender. This has not happened yet.
Thranduil was told by Elurielle's elk, Wynter, that she was kidnapped by Aedan and imprisoned in Dol Guldur hence, why they are about to attack.

Elurielle, has potions that can teleport. You have to mark a place in order to return to it. When she was chained to the wall, the chains were long enough that she could get a potion from her magical cloak of holding. (Everything she has is in that cloak lol) So she created a trick using some of her old clothes to make it appear that she was still in the cell, then drank a potion which had been previously marked in Rivendell. That is where she is now, but her husband does not know this. He thinks she is in Dol Guldur in a cell.
Aedan is in Gundabad protecting its borders for Sauron.

Faelyn, Thranduil's granddaughter, Legolas' daughter, is guarding the  road to Elmswood to keep Aedan's army from getting involved.
⁺₊⋆ Ꮭąɖყ Êlúrιєℓℓє ⋆⁺₊ — 12/13/2024 4:26 PM
It was soon discovered that Dol Guldur was a mere distraction of Duvessa's. Her actual target was Thranduil's kingdom, The Woodland Realm. She had gathered her forces in Withered Heath (breeding grounds for dragons) and was making preparations. She would out power the Elves, or so it would seem, and (to shorten this) she is now at the edge of the Mirkwood forest, far enough away to be hidden, but the castle was in sight.

While all this is going on, Caladwyn had discovered from Maldau's human female of Duvessa's power source. She had done a ton of research to figure a way to destroy it.
Once she did, she traveled to Dhurru, spoke to Maldau and Celessa, who provided her with a map of Duvessa's lair and where the power source was located.

Caladwyn is inside the Udun castle of the dark witch, very close to the room that holds her power source.
(DM me or Crypt with questions, or post them here) @Crypt [Sauron, Ûvatha, +2] @HackerAxe I should be able to answer questions, but not RP until in the morning. 🙂

⁺₊⋆ Ꮭąɖყ Êlúrιєℓℓє ⋆⁺₊ — 12/14/2024 3:36 PM
One reason to keep the Elmswood men secured in Gondor, it is best if Aedan, Duvessa and Sauron do not know Elurielle has escaped. The other reason, of course, is they will try to stop Elurielle from transporting Auytumn to Rivendell, or might come to Rivendell to get her.

((FYI: The potions and magical cloak that Elurielle have were given to her by Radagast when she was in Mordor. She was in such pain and turmoil, he tried to help her.))

So at this point, Thranduil believes his wife may be dead or missing. He is not sure, but he is having to push thru and continue to save Arda (Middle Earth). Wynter is still missing, not sure how I want to handle that, we can talk about it.

Everyone knows that Dol Guldur was a ruse, distraction to draw the Elven King and others there while Duvessa prepared to attack his kingdom. She seeks revenge for he and his wife inflicting harm on her AND she wants to get rid of the force that Thranduil is in Middle Earth, so Sauron can rule.

Auytumn's story: She knew something had happened to Aedan, but he continued to show his love and adoration for her. He asked her to stay in their castle so she would be safe, but what she found was that his guards were told not to let her leave. Feeling like a prisoner, she snuck out, which was easy for her since she was a pretty savvy thief.

Aemond Elstar/Khamul ran into her while she was in the woods, hiding from the Elmswood guards. He offered to help her run away, which is how she ended up in Gondor.

On the journey to Gondor, she started feeling bad, but tried to hide it from Aemond, but when they got to Gondor, she could not hide it anymore, she collapsed. It appeared that she was dying (of a broken heart) and no amount of healing was helping.
Lord Aragorn used his talents to put her in a trance induced comma. It would seem that Auytumn's fate was tied to Aedan and the darkness of Sauron. Elurielle came to Gondor to help and when she entered Auytumn's mind, she saw distant traces of Sauron's darkness, and Aedan's corruptness.

So now, the best place for her is Rivendell.

((I am waiting until my company leaves Monday to make that move to Rivendell with Auytumn))

How we get to all of this is however it happens, but the crux of what needs to take place is this:

Soo... After Thranduil kills Duvessa. Most likely his next move woud bd to go after Sauron, but Caladwyn shows up and watches Thranduil kill Duvessa, applauds him and informs him that she is going to take care of Sauron, herself.

Thranduil would then head to Rivendell to look for his wife. (why?) I roleplayed an RP Test session with the NEW Thranduil: it was a dream or vision and Elurielle told him she was in Rivendell.

So Thranduil heads to Rivendell, he will find Aedan there, threatening everyone especially Elurielle and well, the father/son confrontation will take place, Thranduil can lose his temper and kill his son, or Elurielle loses her temper and kills him, either way, he would be free of Sauron once resurrected by Elurielle...

Then he can help revive Auytumn

(( This is not limited to those currently involved. IF you wish to bring your character in, please do so. Not sure how? DM me @⁺₊⋆ Ꮭąɖყ Êlúrιєℓℓє ⋆⁺₊  or one of the @Admin / Moderator @Admin / Lore Master to see how to work your character in. ))

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⁺₊⋆ Ꮭąɖყ Êlúrιєℓℓє ⋆⁺₊ — 1/15/2025 10:55 AM

2025-01-15

⋆⁺₊⋆ ⋆⁺₊⋆ 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄  ⋆⁺₊⋆ ⋆⁺₊⋆

I spoke to Aedan and he has a lot going on right now, so to get the pressure off of him to roleplay, we are going to have his character put in a cell until he can return.

This way we can continue to play and he can relax and return when he has time to play. We miss you, Aedan, come back as soon as you can! 🙂

I have an idea on how to make that happen, hopefully, it will work.


2025-01-17

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Duvessa is no more. If you want to read the epic roleplay scene, go here: ⁠mirkwood-forest⁠

Thranduil delivered a just end to her. One of Maldau's orcs was able to deliver a blow to as well in the name of all she had done to the orcs.

Caladwyn, (Sauron's daughter) watched the entire scene unfold and was the one that told Thranduil that is son Aedan was in Rivendell to see his dying wife.

While this was going on, Aedan and his men arrived in Rivendell. To read this awesome roleplay, go here: ⁠house-of-elrond⁠

Aedan player has gotten super busy and is taking a break. To help facilitate that, Auytumn is taking a turn for the worse, so instead of letting him see her, he has to wait until she is strong enough to deal with him and his corruption, SO Aedan is in a lavish cell in Rivendell.

Now Elurielle is going to try to help push or draw the darkness from Auytumn's mind to save her.
 

2025-02-01

⋆⁺₊⋆ ⋆⁺₊⋆ 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄  ⋆⁺₊⋆ ⋆⁺₊⋆

Thranduil headed to Rivendell in the hopes that the dark witch was lying, but why Rivendell. Elurielle appeared to him in a dream and stated that she was alive in Rivendell. His hopes were that it was a real message from his lovely wife, and some dream filled with what he hoped.

In the meantime, Caladwyn began to map out her next move to stop her father, Sauron. A task that would be daunting, emotional and close to impossible, but not impossible.

A very strong blizzard hits Middle Earth, stifling travel and making it difficult for the female necromancer, Caladwyn and her dragon, Draco, to traverse the terrain toward Gundabad, the last known place Sauron.

She is slowly making her way there.

The blizzard has stopped and soon some of the high snow on the ground will diminish, but that will take some time.

Once Thranduil arrives in Rivendell, ⁠halls-of-healing⁠
he is laser focused on finding his wife, which he does and discovers that, his daughter in law, Auytumn, is unconscious and being healed/helped by his wife. He knows this can be dangerous for Elurielle is an empathic healer, who takes on the pains of her subject, though temporarily, it could kill her, but definitely drains her of her energy. Thranduil hates this talent of hers. He hates to see his wife suffer in ANY capacity.

He does his best to allow her, against his better wishes, to work to free the human girl of her afflictions, but as she does, she becomes weaker and weaker, so he stops his queen, claiming others can heal her, for she and he have larger things to tend to.

His comments elude to much more than the Elven Kings speaks, his mind is leaning toward total domination of Middle Earth. He is convinced that in order to keep his wife safe, he must refute all evil in Middle Earth. The only way to do this is to rule all of it as their one and only, KING.

Sauron has continued to work toward his own goal. He draws former followers into his fold, working to use them again. Losing Duvessa was a force that was useful, though at times, a bit annoying at her direct aggressiveness, but she had her purpose.

Last known was he was in Gundabad, but he is cunning and who knows what his next move shall be...

2025-02-08

⋆⁺₊⋆ ⋆⁺₊⋆ 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓E ⋆⁺₊⋆ ⋆⁺₊⋆

Aedan, the King of Elmswood and son of Thranduil and Elurielle, received urgent news that his wife was gravely ill and needed his immediate help.

Caldwyn and Faelyn informed him that a dark force was causing her condition, so he hurried to Rivendell. Upon his arrival, however, he was told he could not see her until she was stronger. Her health had deteriorated rapidly, so he was disarmed, stripped of his armor, and placed in a cell. The cells in Rivendell were surprisingly comfortable, though he was still confined.

Elurielle tended to Auytumn, working tirelessly to heal her from both physical ailments and the dark magic that had poisoned her mind. Sauron’s malevolent influence had invaded Auytumn's thoughts, making her body sick. After many exhausting hours, Elurielle succeeded in clearing the shadows from Auytumn's mind, but it took a toll on her own strength, causing her to faint. Radagast assisted her, but soon Thranduil arrived, furious when he saw what had happened. He could not understand why Elurielle would put herself at such risk, especially for a human. Enraged, he took her away, intending to have a serious conversation with her.

Thranduil was furious, but Elurielle and Radagast had already devised a plan. They intended to kill Aedan to free him from Sauron’s influence, then have Elurielle resurrect him in hopes that he could save Auytumn. Elurielle hesitated, knowing Thranduil had forbidden her from resurrecting Aedan. He had made it clear that if she did so, there would be consequences.

Thranduil's anger and protective instincts were clouding his judgment, and though Elurielle understood this, she still wasn’t sure about going through with the plan. However, Radagast, eager to prevent Elurielle from backing out, decided to go ahead with it. He secretly poisoned Aedan’s food and drink with a toxic flower, and it didn’t take long for him to die.

Once Aedan was dead, the guards moved his body to the Halls of Healing in Rivendell, placing him on a bed next to Auytumn. Radagast sent word to Elurielle that Auytumn needed her help, just in case Thranduil was nearby. When she arrived and saw Aedan lifeless, her heart shattered. She knew she had to save him. After hours of effort, Elurielle managed to bring Aedan back to life. He immediately went to Auytumn’s side, and after speaking softly to her and kissing her, she woke up in his arms.

Just as they embraced, Thranduil stormed into the room. Elurielle, utterly drained, was lying in a bed nearby when Thranduil found her. Furious, he wasted no time. His first priority was his wife, so he took her from Radagast and ordered his soldiers to lock Aedan in a cell.

While all of this was going on, Caladwyn was closing in on Gundabad and her father. Sauron, ever the clever aware, dark lord, detected that she was near and was not ready for her to attempt to thwart his plans.

He left, veiled by magic and darkness. He would not be found at Gundabad. Caladwyn's search would continue....

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