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contents

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How to Use This Guide

oMpany oF the Wain

Adventuring Phase

Part One: A Travelling Fair

Part Two: Investigating the Caravan

Part Three: False Accusations

Part Four: She Sees, She Knows

Part Five: When Dark Things…

Fellowship Phase

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Adventuring Phase

Part One: Black Helms

Part Two: Orc-work

Part Three: Concerning Hill-women

Part Four: Mountains & Monsters

Part Five: Carn Dûm

Part Six: An Unexpected Foe

Epilogue: To Rivendell

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Adventuring Phase

Part One: In Rivendell Where Elves Yet Dwell

Part Two: The Journey West

Part Three: The Secret Manor

Part Four: A Night of Treachery and Madness

Epilogue: Húldrahir Defeated

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Adventuring Phase

Part One: Road Maintenance

Part Two: At the House of Elrond

Part Three: Picking up the Trail

Part Four: Deep Plans

Part Five: Bargains in the Night

Part Six: Into the Ettendales

Epilogue: The Black Voice

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Adventuring Phase

Part One: The Vigilance of Mithrandir

Part Two: Return to Angmar

Part Three: The Valley of the Dead

Part Four: On the Downs

Part Five: The Hidden Vault at Fornost

Part Six: Mirabella’s Song

Part Seven: Oldest & Fatherless

Part Eight: Casting Out The Shadow

Epilogue

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Adventuring Phase

Part One: Riddles in Rivendell

Part Two: The Dead and The Fallen

Part Three: Into Darkness

Part Four: The Last Battle of the Green Company

Epilogue: Bringers of Tidings

Fellowship Phase

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This guide contains six ready-to-play adventures for

your company of heroes, complete scenarios that can

be played separately, or as a linked series of adventures

spanning across a number of years. All adventures are

notionally set in the years after 2954, and take place

in eastern Eriador, but none are strongly tied to a date

so you can move them earlier or later, depending on

the needs of your campaign. These adventures all draw

on the setting information contained in

Rivendell,

and

that supplement will provide a useful companion to this

anthology.

The first adventure takes the companions from the

foothills of Gundabad across the Misty Mountains to the

former capital city of Angmar and finally to Rivendell

itself. The following five adventures are all based out of

Rivendell and are set in the various lands surrounding the

Vale of Imladris. The adventures are presented in order

of increasing difficulty: while the first five adventures

can be tackled by a group of relatively inexperienced

adventurers, the final adventure offers a much greater

challenge.

None are recommended for completely novice heroes – it

is recommend that a group have played through at least

a few adventures first, such as those from

Tales from

Wilderland

or even

The Darkening of Mirkwood.

The six adventures are:

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A company of heroes embark on a desperate mission

to recover the stolen children of the Black Hills from the

Goblins who took them. They must find safe passage

through snow and peril into the mountains of Angmar and

the ruined city of Carn Dûm. As the enemy there seeks to

poison their minds against one another, they must flee in

the company of Glorfindel to seek sanctuary in Rivendell.

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A fearsome servant of Sauron has arrived in Eriador to rally

the Trolls to the service of his dark master. The heroes set

out to find out more about this ‘Ogre Captain’ and discover

both a sinister plot and an unlikely ally, a spirit bound to

the will of Sauron but who would dearly like to escape.

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Bilbo Baggins, at Rivendell researching his book in the

company of Glorfindel and Lindir, asks the heroes to

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search the ruins of the north to prove that there really was

a regiment of Hobbit archers that marched to fight in the

Battle of Fornost. To do so they must search a forgotten

battlefield and enter a long-abandoned ruin, all the while

contending with spirits, Orcs and the ghosts of the past.

The Return of the Witch-king

While the adventures found in Ruins of the North are

their own way: that of the rise of the Shadow and the

the War of the Ring.

all standalone, they do form a thematic story arc in

return of the Witch-king to Angmar in readiness for

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The heroes cross paths with an itinerant group of

tinkers and traders, selling their wares to the scattered

folk of Eriador. But the traders are not what they seem

– their leader is an agent of the White Hand, gathering

information for Saruman.

As the players play each adventure, they should find

themselves more and more troubled by this growing

threat, fearful of the future and what is to come.

Unlike in other campaigns, there is no chance of a

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The company join a Ranger, Hiraval, on his quest to

reclaim his ancestral home in the ruins of Arthedain,

crossing paths with a group of bandits who might not

be all they appear at first. But an ancient ancestor still

resides within the holding, a Spectre who seeks to corrupt

Hiraval’s bloodline forever.

denouement or a climax where the bad guy is bested;

such a victory over the Shadow remains a distant,

to see.

impossible dream that most will not live long enough

You may think this premise gloom-laden and dour,

and you would be right to do so; but have heart that

the actions of heroes can still have an impact, and

mayhap their victories combined will afford their

people respite against the Shadow.

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The Barrow-wights are slipping beyond the edge of the

Barrow-downs for the first time in centuries and the

heroes must help Gandalf the Grey restore them to their

tombs.

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