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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mystaros" data-source="post: 1295271" data-attributes="member: 3921">Another foe in development...Here is another of the bad guys from my forthcoming campaign...The Brambleking of Nan MorëhónBregambar, Quickdoom, The Brambleking of Blackheart Vale    Entish Magician 6/Ranger 6    Emblem: A dead tree above which is arrayed three white stars.    Through the vile magics of The Necromancer, the Treegarth of Orthanc was poisoned, and the ents there corrupted into Voronodrim, Dark Ents, with malice in their heart, brambles for vines, and poisoned ichor for sap. They are led by the Brambleking, formerly known as Bregalad, or Quickbeam, once friend and ally of the Good Peoples, now a dire enemy and danger known as Bregambar, or Quickdoom. The Voronodrim of Nan Morëhón are currently embroiled in a “civil war” with the other ents for control of Fangorn Forest. The ents are still led by Treebeard, who has fallen into a terrible despair over the fate of his brothers. Due to the civil war (which moves, albeit at an entish pace, regardless of the recklessness of the Brambleking) the Brambleking has not been able to pursue his hatred of the other races, save to the extent where he has sent a few Voronodrim and huorns out to other forests to begin the process of corruption there. This includes forests in Eriador and Rhovanion, though not as yet in Gondor, as the Brambleking is wary of directly offending, and thus gaining the full attention of, King Elessar.    The Treegarth of Orthanc is now known as Nan Morëhón, or Blackheart Vale. The Watchwood is much expanded, to fill the entire vale, and is now known as the Bramblewood. The lake about Orthanc is now a silted, festering swamp, while the tower itself, a creation of man, displeased the Brambleking so much (especially in that it could not be destroyed despite his new power and magical arts) that he grew the entire thing over in vine and thorn and branch, such that it now looks like a colossal dead black tree, with four huge branches grasping at the moon, the whole covered in bloody vines (from which hang the rotting bodies of men and elves). Orcs once again inhabit the tower and the slimy dungeons beneath it, doing the bidding of Quickdoom. His employ of orcs has dragged him into the politics of that vile race, and he plots now for his tribe to overthrow the Moria Orcs and take that realm for his own, the wealth and power thereby gained the better to conquer (and extirpate) the other races of Middle Earth.    For all that he had a hand in the creation of Nan Morëhón, the Brambleking, and his followers, The Necromancer is at best a distant ally and at worst a future rival, and thus the relationship between them is strained at the best of times...Note that The Necromancer is another villain, a powerful sorcerer who took up the title once held by Sauron (and re-occupied Dol Guldur, after conquering Eastern Lorien). More on him later...</blockquote>

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