When the muses want to create and colaborate (especially when it has been many years) who can deny them. This is a story exploring relationships, the past, relationships to the past, letting go, and moving forward. Eari and Rholarowyn have been friends and warrior sisters since before the War of the Ring. Fate had brought them together for a time and then destiny drew them apart. Soon these sisters of warfare will meet again and sinces the muses wanted to play we decided here is where we will let them.
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Brief Bios:
Eari:
Eari is the daughter of a sylvan elf of Lorien and a Numenorean woman. She knows almost nothing of her parents except that she is considered family by the Lord of Lorien and that she was raised in Halbarad's household because her mother was kin. She always considered the Ranger an older brother.
Her father was killed by orcs in an errand with Elrond's son while his wife was pregnant. Eari was born in Arnor and upon her birth her mother - who had the foresight of her kin - declared
To the North she will never belong,
But whether to East or West no one will know
It will depend on if she is not enough strong
And she instead of hope, chooses sorrow
After that the Dunedain woman died.
Eari grew up in Arnor, a wild child always intent on learning new things until she was 7 years old. She would fight boys and learn with them the art of war no matter what anybody said: at first spying on them and repeating the movements by herself then with them. On her 7th birthday she learned of her elven heritage as well as of her father's death and she was brought to Lorien where she spent the next 3 years, learning the way of the elves.
She returned accompanied by Rine, an elf of Lorien, with the stubborn idea that she would ride with the Rangers to rid the North of the yrch scum. Driven by need and lack of numbers Aragorn and Halbarad allow her to do so but never on her own. When Rine is almost killed in a fight and decides to leave for Valinor, she rides away from the North, ravaged by guild and moves to the South. She reaches Ithilien where she stays by herself in the wild and does her best to kill as many orcs as she can.
When she meets the sons of Denethor, they take her for a boy who has lost his way and after witnessing her skills bring her to Minas Tirith where she stays for a while. This is where she meets Rholarowyn and becomes friend with her although not revealing who she really is. When it is discovered she is a woman, she is banned from the White City and spends a few seasons in Lothlorien. But she is drawn to Gondor where she has found a home, a family and a sense of belonging unknown to her before. Blessed with forgiveness from the brother and Rhoe, and strong in war she rises in honour in the city. She even falls in love with Boromir but both of them are too taken with their sense of duty to Gondor to allow themselves romance in the common sense.
Still, when he leaves for Imladris, she becomes reckless and takes more and more dangerous missions in Ithilien, until she is captured and brought to Nurnen to fill the number of slaves of Mordor. From this time, she is left with a nasty scar on her shoulder that prevents her from holding a bow properly. She is returned to the White City after the fall of the Dark Tower and spends almost 2 years in Lothlorien or Imladris trying to heal the wounds before returning to her duties in Gondor. While serving the king in different capacities, she becomes a bard and finally lets herself trust again... She thus meets new friends, new people that will change her life and make her the woman she is today.
Rholarowyn:
Rohan:
Rholarowyn was born in the land of Rohan. With her green eyes and long blonde hair, sShe was deeply loved by both her parents and remained their only child .Ryomer, her father, was a good and honest man who was well known through out the Riddermark for his skill with horses. Lawen, Rho’s mother, was the youngest daughter to Denethor of Gondor. The union between the two met with disapproval from the Steward’s family since Ryomer was not descended from kings or well known noble men. So when Lawen choose to marry him, she was rejected by the Steward’s house, and all ties between her and her family was cut off.
Growing up in Rohan provided the ideal childhood. When Rholaroywn wasn’t involved with chores or instruction, she could be found roaming the countryside, losing her self in nature’s splendor, or off galloping across the plains on one the family horses. And if the young girl had been born with any inclinations towards being a lady, they were quickly squelched by trying to keep up with her three older, male, cousins Rydan, Heldred, and Bryttar, who also lived in the ranch with their parents and Rholarowyn’s Grandmother.
In Rholarowyn’s thirteenth year, fate dealt the family an unexpected blow. It wasn’t the day that Rho’s father, and uncle, left on a short journey; it was the day when they were supposed to return and did not. The women and the young men had waited two years. Finally decisions were made and one month later, Rholarowyn and her mother were being led away from the only home known to the young girl. Seeking to make amends for their fifteen year separation, Denethor sent a message to his daughter in Rohan inviting her to return to the city. A house would be provided to her and her daughter until word of her husband or the man himself was found. It was with much difficulty that Lawen finally accepted his offer.
Minas Tirith
Adjusting to the city life of Minas Tirith was extremely difficult for the young woman of Rohan; yet it was more than the pain and sorrow of her father’s disappearance, separation from her Rohirrim family, and her mother’s continual withdrawal from life that left the young girl feeling isolated and alone. A new set of expectations had been placed upon her and a new role was being defined. No longer was she allowed to wander off by herself to explore the world around her, not that she wanted to. Her life of open fields and gentle breezes was now replaced with cold walls and Towers of stone. So at the age of thirteen, Rho’s pain turned inward and as she tried to comply with the desires of those around her, but slowly anger and resentment took hold in her heart, and the White City as it was affectionately known by so many, became her physical and emotional prison.
One year later, news of Ryomer and his brother’s death was brought to the Steward’s house. When this news finally reached the young woman something in her spirit was awakened. No longer was she willing to sit by while others continued to dictate the direction of her life. So in the darkness of a moonless night, Rholarowyn made a vow. She would avenge her father’s death, and to do this she would need to become a warrior. It was with this new focus, conviction in her heart, and a small amount of desperation that Rho sought out the Minas Tirith knight, whom she’d met only two weeks earlier.
Much to Rholarowyn's surprise Culanir had agreed to train her, and much to Culanir’s surprise, the fourteen year old was a determined student and willing pupil. The two trained together in the secrecy of night and went undiscovered for over a year. But when their secret was finally revealed, a new secret quickly replaced the old. Culanir would never be known as the young woman’s first mentor, and the deep friendship that had formed between the two, was completely severed.
If Culanir’s willingness to train her had been surprising to Rholarowyn, the next man who took over her training was a complete shock. But somehow, despite their tumultuous beginnings, her cousin Boromir had seen some of the same talent and determination that Culanir had seen. And so it was with a new mentor that Rholarowyn continued with a train with a sword. In return for this, she was to continue in her formal education until the age of eighteen.
Rholarowyn continued to grow and mature with her weapon of choice, and so did her love and loyalties to Gondor. Protecting the city she loved she would fight along side of men and for the victory of Minas Tirith. But as it was for all who lived in those days, along with the victory came losses. Losing her mother along with the death of Boromir hit the young woman hard. So in her search for finding a new place to belong, Rholarowyn found herself becoming a member of the Mithril Knights Warrior Guild. Once a member of this Guild the Mithril Knight participated on many missions, her last mission for the Guild came to her and her alone. Along with her unusual position to the Stewards house and her friendship with the Eastering Moujhadin, Rholarowyn embarked on her most dangerous journey of all, a journey to the East.
Narayan:
Rholarowyn's eight year old son whose past will be revealed in this story.
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