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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mystaros" data-source="post: 1292525" data-attributes="member: 3921">Working on just such a campaign myself...The campaign starts FA 62, which is just right for players to have a chance to meet most of the main players of the LotR, but by this time they are old, and thus new heroes *must* arise.Working on a whole timeline and a bunch of new villains and such. Here is one of them...The Ice Queen of AngmarHelkanárfëa ( Q. “Icy Fire Spirit” ), Akûldâgalûr ( B.S. “Ice Demon” )Valaraukar/Noldor Healer 8/Magician 16Emblem: A white dragon rampant.    Helkanárfëa, the Ice Queen of Angmar, is the daughter of a balrog and a captured Noldor princess of the First Age, born in the pits of Morgoth. Thus, as with Lúthien, daughter of Thingol of Doriath and Melian the Maia, she is a most potent being. She was being trained as a great captain by Morgoth when the Final Doom fell upon Angband and her master, but she survived, and was cast into the waters of the north, where, due to her great might from her valaraukar father, she remained frozen alive, encased in ice for millennia. Even frozen in body she was potent in spirit, and over the ages she slowly corrupted nearby native tribes of elves, men, and orcs to her cause. When Sauron was destroyed the great wave of magic that was released in his destruction shattered her prison, and she was freed.    Since then she has slowly built her forces of Helkari (vile ice elves), Lossoth (evil snowmen), and Akûlmurûk (“ice bears,” the mighty furred orcs of the north, i.e., bugbears). Around 30 FA her first scouts snuck into Angmar and made contact with the local goblin tribes. By 50 FA she had conquered the orcs of Mount Gram, and controlled or otherwise dominated all other local orc tribes and troll bands, save those of Mount Gundabad (who oppose her and, thus far, are too strong to conquer).  By 60 FA her new domicile, Lugrazbûrzum, the “Tower of Frozen Shadows,” was complete, built atop the ruins of the Witch King’s tower at Carn Dûm. Angmar is now a fairy land of ice and snow, where summer is as autumn and spring never reigns. It has become known as the “Fimbul Land,” for orcs and trolls walk the frosted moors by day and ice and frost giants are said to stride the land by night.    The Ice Queen appears not unlike a beautiful Noldorin princess of old, being 6’8” tall, with platinum-blonde hair, beautiful elven facial features, and fine slim hands. Her resemblance to Galadriel is stunning, though not so when one realizes that her mother was none other than Galadriel’s long-lost sister (she is thus great aunt to Elladan, Elrohir, and Arwen, and kin to Prince Eldarion of the Reunited Kingdom). However, beneath her voluminous flowing robes of scintillating colors (which glow like the northern lights) her body is foul and demonic, covered in innumerable ice-blue scales strong as dragon plates (think of the appearance of Mystique in the X-Men movies). These scales go all the way up to her neck and to her wrists, and thus does her robe; her feet are clawed and demonic, and so she ever wears slippers of mithril and gold. The only obvious (uncovered and un-disguisable) demonic elements of her appearance are her eyes, which are a solid blue, the glowing blue of glacial ice, and her wings, which appear as those of a balrog, though ice blue in color and dripping with ice. She can “scrunch” her wings to vestigial size, and hide them under her robes when necessary, though the process takes three full rounds. The air about her is ever cold, deep frozen as the north (-20 degrees Fahrenheit); her breath freezes in a cloud of ice as she speaks, the stone floor slicks in ice under her feet, and icicles form on the arms of her throne as she sit upon it. She travels about her realm in a sleigh drawn by polar bears and manned by Lûzolog (snow trolls) and Akûlmurûk.    The Ice Queen possesses one of the lost Palantír, one of the two lost to the sea when the ship of Arvedui, the Last King, foundered. It is encased in a large column of blue glacial ice now hidden deep in the bowels of her tower at Lugrazbûrzum. It has gained several powers through her tampering with it and through its long centuries encased in the northern ice. The Palantír can only just be made out through the deep blue ice, flames writhing continuously within its dark depths. The visions granted by the Palantír now take shape within the column of ice, and can be seen by anyone who sees the column of ice when the visions are evoked by the user. It is also central to her growing power over the climate and weather within Angmar, as she uses it as a focus and amplifier of her power.Those are the notes I have so far on this nasty. How did she come to power with Elessar on the throne, you might ask? Well, he and Eomer concentrated militarily in the south and east for the last 60 years, where the Haradrim and Easterlings had grown strong of their own accord in Sauron's absence (and they are still not fully under Gondor's sway, especially in Far Harad, where a new Great King rules, a great hunter claiming to be a Black Nûmenorean and going by the name of Ar-Minarawakûl, though others might know him as Alatar or Romestamo). Annúminas, though refounded, is still but a frontier colony (think Westermarck from the Conan stories), and only south and west of the Gwathlo do the colors of Gondor still rule the day. Only the Rangers of the Wild, the stalwarts of Bree, and the odd adventurer from Gondor, Rohan, or Rhovanion challenge the Ice Queen. Oh, and maybe a hobbit or two, especially one Tom Gamgee who, entranced by his father's tales of adventure, left the Shire some years ago to seek his own road...</blockquote>

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