In the Shadow of the Mountains
20 Astron, 2949
Welcome to Middle-earth
Proclamation of King Bard by J Kerrigan
… suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel.— J. R. R. Tolkein
It is 2946, five years after the fabled Battle, and the Free Peoples come once more to
Dale for the first festival called the Gathering of Five Armies, to remember and to celebrate the death of Smaug. The wise among them also speak of the defeat of the mysterious Necromancer, who was driven from Mirkwood around the same time by the White Council.
While it took a few years for
King Bard's proclamation to filter into all corners of the region, by 2946 the adventurous make for
Dale, where they perhaps will dare once again to follow forgotten roads in search of renown.