Mordorheim is here!

If you do something well, do it better and do it often.

So... I just cant leave fantasy in Middle Earth like this. Whew. But the focus of this blog will change. The Moria Reclamation Project is now Mordorheim. 

So we move the timeline forwards to the future of Middle Earth, where its no longer so much in the Middle. Late Earth doesnt have the same ring as Middle Earth. Maybe Mid To Late Middle Earth.

Oh lets just say its now either the Fourth or Fifth Age and the forces of Evil were defeated and the Dwarves eventually reclaimed their great kingdom. To recap, gone were both Sauron and his master Morgoth. And the forces of the Dwarves had to battle a coalition of both Men and Elves. Again. Yup, sounds like the Hobbit but even more death and sorrow and yes... inevitable impending doom.

Why? Because the Dwarves distilled the power of the One Ring into the form of Bugmans Beer.  Thats right! The most powerful magic item reduced to a formula for an ice cold refreshing beverage. So of course the allied powers were concerned. On top of which the Dwarf Hero Balin and his mighty paladins were discovered to have become Chaos Dwarves.

To prevent total war, Balin and most Dwarvenkind elected to walk into the Void where both Sauron and Morgoth were cast.

Many years pass in peace, most of Middle Earth forgets the events of the past.

Enter Mordorheim... Its Mordor... Its Mordheim.

Small bands of adventurers face new horrors in a slew of new wargame rules loosely providing a new story for this blog!

And here is our first protagonist....

Meet the orphan witch known as Istriya. They call her the Witch of Pinnath Gelin. She studied at the Academy of Unseen Arts in Greendale. Her best friend forever was Sabrina Spellman, whose aunt had an uncanny likeness to Eowyn. Ahem - Miranda Otto. (See everything is indeed connected! Im not seeing conspiracies everywhere, really im not.)

She wears a flowery hat made of Black Lotus Giganticus. Apparently its a very rare Alpha card for MTG whatever that means. And she has a flowery dress to match. And a flowery spellbook. Her cousin is said to be the Knight of Flowers. Istriya is apparently a Tyrell.

But she has left Pinnath Gelin, her hillside homeland in South Gondor, to search for adventure and gold.

She hopes to use her witchy powers to set things right in the land and earn some coin while shes at it. And boy will she soon learn she needs to start making lots of coin.

What is that ethereal tentacly thing that has materialized behind her?

I don't know anymore
Are the neighbors watching me?
(Who's watching?)
Well, is the mailman watching me?
(Tell me who's watching?)
And I don't feel safe anymore, oh, what a mess
I wonder who's watching me now (who?), the IRS?

Strange Apparition: Istriya, Witch of Flowers, take heed! I am the Harbinger. I bring you tidings. One. you are not an orphan afterall. Two, your long lost uncle has passed away. Three, you are now the owner of Isengard Tower. Four, your uncle mortgaged Isengard to the Bank of Gringotts. Five, you owe an "indeterminate" sum of Gold Pieces to pay the monthly mortgage. Six, if you fail to pay it monthly you will go into default and lose both the property and your very soul.

 Istriya: Great so I just discovered a family that I always wanted and lost it. Inherited a castle and am about to lose it. I better start making some money. Thank you ghostly apparition. Um do you have a name I can call you besides Harbinger? or Strange Apparition?

Strange Apparition: I was once called Kyra...  (longtime readers of this blog can guess who this is. or can they?)

 More pics of this mysterious Kyra...

Has some seriously creepy veil face, right?  Does no one remember laughter? She once haunted the ruins of Ost-In-Edhil.

Apparently in the Mortal Realms she is known as Lady Olynder. But what do Stormcast know...

Well Lady Olynder has a brother known as Ollivander who owns a Wand Shoppe on Diagon Alley. Which is where Gringotts Bank is! Which makes sense since this Lady Olynder is delivering messages of them.

Told ya! Its all connected.

And just like that... Shes gone. And so is this post for now.

 

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So will Istriya make her monthly payments for Isengard? 

Is Kyra aka Lady Olynder friend or foe?

Find out in the next post!

Cheers,

Mar