Board Thread:Middle Earth Roleplays/@comment-25597877-20170716040125/@comment-31215921-20170727211005

Draugluin the werewolf wrote: The Morgul Lord wrote: "My men have come to subdue these lands, but we are not here to slaughter the people. That was Axantur's doing. I am under orders to keep as many alive as I can, and it would do us all well if Axantur didn't find out about it. I am not here to help Axantur slaughter the Dunlendings, but I will not speak further regarding him. You assume much of Gondor, yet you turn a blind eye to the vicious attacks at the hands of the Dunlendings against the settlements of Gondor in the land between Arnor and Gondor. These people you defend are no more innocent than he, but alas I am here to keep as many alive as I can. Hinder me now, and you will only be helping Axantur. That is all I will say, and you would be wise to heed my word." "The last dunlending raid occurred a century ago, tell me did the children you tore screaming from their mothers ever set fire to a barn? Did the man who tried to rescue his family ever attack a man of Gondor's. Did that little girl scream any differently to a lass from Gondor when you torched her home?" Valen has become increasingly angry at this point, for some strange reason the plants around him seem to look a little less vibrant, the animals in the forest more subdued "What do you think the King of Gondor intends to do with the villagers you so nobly kidnapped? His Majesty ordered annihilation. Do you think he will let your prisoners go free?" (Bergil's information about Dunland is all accurate, by the way. Just read Indom's first actual RP post.)

"You are truly ignorant. Your first misinformation is that Dunlendings have raided Gondorian settlements since they were first established here in the days of Elessar the Great. Your second misinformation is that I have slaughtered every man, woman, and child of those Dunlendings that I have found, when I have only seen one Dunlending in my entire life, who was Axantur's prisoner. That was not two days ago, when I arrived, and I assure you, it was not I who killed him. The king ordered Axantur to subdue these lands in the interest of Gondor, and he took that to mean annihilation. I do not doubt he will sell them into slavery or take them for his own laborers, for thus is the nature of war, but it is far more merciful than what the Dunlendings have done to our people. Yet with all of your grave accusations, are no less fair in heart than those you say are tyrannical oppressors. You act only in favor of the Dunlendings, yet you ignore the cries of Gondor's children as they are ripped from their mothers arms while their homes are torched, their fathers slain trying to defend them. Every charge you have unjustly laid against me is Axantur's, and his alone. Kill me now, or send me to my doom in Gondor. You will have sealed the dooms of these soldiers who have accompanied me here, and of all of the Dunlendings you say you want to protect. Yet I know I speak vainly, for despite my words you would still hinder me, for you are a hypocrite and a fool, blinded by an apparent hatred for the Dúnedain."

The thunder continues, and it there are flashes of lightning within the clouds above. Yet still, no rain. Bergil is growing angry and impatient.