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The Forbidden Realms

Group: Lord of the Rings · Tag: frk_tombs · Priority: Medium

IDJournal textAwarded byItems consumed
1I have come by the Forbidden Realms Key -- a black thing of Numenorean make, heavier than its size wants to be, cut with seven marks along the ward. Whoever carried it last had no more right to it than I do. It is not a house key or a chest key: the wards on it are grave-wards, and the seven marks are the sort the old kings cut into a door they did not intend anyone to open again. Somewhere in the drowned country of Numenor there is a stone that answers it.acquireditem_tag, hgll_cliententer, q_frk_death, q_frk_enter, q_frk_gate, q_frk_inc, q_frk_tombAthelas, Essense of Ice Drake, Stone from Arathorn
2I found the stone. In Noirinan, under the hill, there is a slab of grey Numenorean stone with no handle, no hinge and no keyhole -- and the same seven marks cut into its face. The key turned in a lock I never saw, and the seal gave way.acquireditem_tag, hgll_cliententer, q_frk_death, q_frk_enter, q_frk_gate, q_frk_inc, q_frk_tombAthelas, Essense of Ice Drake, Stone from Arathorn
3Beyond the gate lie the Tombs of the Lost Souls. This is no ruin: it is a court, laid out for the dead the way a hall is laid out for the living, and its lords have not gone quiet. The Weathertop King, his Queen and their Archer are all still here, and all still hold their places. They were sealed in for a reason, and I have just undone it.acquireditem_tag, hgll_cliententer, q_frk_death, q_frk_enter, q_frk_gate, q_frk_inc, q_frk_tombAthelas, Essense of Ice Drake, Stone from Arathorn
10finalThe barrow-court of Weathertop is broken. The King, the Queen and the Archer are all down, and the Tombs of the Lost Souls are silent for the first time in an Age. I keep the key. There is no telling what else in the drowned country was cut with seven marks.acquireditem_tag, hgll_cliententer, q_frk_death, q_frk_enter, q_frk_gate, q_frk_inc, q_frk_tombAthelas, Essense of Ice Drake, Stone from Arathorn