If you left the forest and Elwin's territory and crossed over a mountain to the West, you would find yourself in a small valley that the descendants of those who fought for the dark side in the first dark war called home.

Unlike others of their kind who settled down, they remained true to their nomadic heritage, but they did not choose a peaceful existence.

Decades before Haldir took his brother Erlan into the forest where they met Penelo, one boy from this tribe would find the eyes of the dark lord on him. He just didn’t know it yet.

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“How did I get stuck babysitting two incompetent brothers from a fool of a slave who got fed to the wolves because she couldn’t sire another child, as our leader demanded?”

The elf sp...

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