Kislev and Averland Share The Road To Eriador

In this post, we got the Ice Queen of Kislev and the Count of Averland along with their retinues.

The Kislevites have come from the far north and are coming down on the eastern side of the Misty Mountains.
With all the trouble around Angband (massive armies of Undead and Orcs), they had to take the long way around.
The Averlanders, on the other hand, are coming up from the south following the Anduin River.
They meet on the road and eye each other suspiciously.
Its the old Northerner and Southerner rivalry.
Will they parley or draw weapons?

 The Kislevites are searching for Bree.

The North has come... and with it the power of Ice and Snow.
Winter is coming... oh, its already here.

 Its the Ice Queen of Kislev, Queen Katarina!
Not to be confused with the other Ice Queen, Freya who was the other fairest of them all.
Or the other, other Ice Queen, the White Witch, Jadis of Narnia.
Or the Snow Queen, Elsa, Bard of Clan Dis-Ney.
What is with all these "cold weather" broads anyway?

 Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
I don't care what they're going to say
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway

 Kislev is in the Ice Bay of Forochel, far to the north of Middle Earth.
The Ice Queen has the ring of Barahir, for she is descended from the ancient chiefs of the Lossoth whom it was given to by Arvedui last king of Arthedain, an ancestor of Aragorn.

 King Arvedui gave it as a token of good faith to the Ice People in exchange for help and food when he was lost in the North.
Unfortunately he never made it back home as his ship was lost at sea in a storm.

 So the Lossoth kept the ring, for such a time that the Royal family of Arthedain returns.
It is said that the legal bearer of this ring would be able to hear elven lords and ladies at great distance with only their minds!
Will the elves come to honor the old alliance.
Well, the ring must get to Aragorn first...

The Averlanders have come to fight for Bree!

Count Marius the Mad Count of Averland.

Do you hear the voices too?
No its not the Chaos Gods, its just plain old schizophrenia!

But the Count of Averland is not just mad, he is mad with a purpose!
He is an accomplished swordsman and has a great mind for military tactics.

Count Marius has fought enemy armies that outnumber his many times over.
At the Hot Gates, his personal bodyguard of 300 fought a million Easterlings while screaming "This is Averland!"

At Ork's Drift, The Ala-Mo, and many other Last Stands, the Count was always there at the forefront and somehow survived them all.

The last rumor of his death was at Black Fire Pass, and yet again he has escaped the hands of Death and survived.

He has heard of the impossible battle for Bree and was last seen heading West to Eriador.

The Rulers of Averland and Kislev have come to an agreement to share the road to Bree.
But first since they are close to Rhosghobel, they will visit the Wizard Radagast and see if he has news about current events.
Little do they know that Radagast is already fighting for his life in Bree (along with the last remnants of humanity in Eriador).

Count Marius:  In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothing changes. So death created time to grow the things it would kill.

Ice Queen Katarina:  I just want you to stop saying odd shit.  Like you smell a psycho's fear or you're in someones faded memory of a town.  Just stop.


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Coming up in the next post:  Radagast's Moving Castle!

Cheers,
Mar