CAST: Moriwendë of the Tatyar

DESCRIPTION:

Moriwendë is raven-haired, tall and athletic; in appearance she is pretty much an exact match for Morwen of Ost-in-Edhil, but her voice is somewhat more musical and her manner less obviously confrontational - she manages to pull off the 'distant and otherworldly' gimmick with considerably greater ease. There is, however, an aura of danger and darkness about her that gave Morwen pause; whether this is because of her nature, or because she is out of sympathy with the world of Hyeron, is not yet clear.
According to Moriwendë, none of her people made the journey West, but instead swore allegiance to the dark Rider - or so they believed. She herself was born in Castle Hare when it was still the Elvish city of Hyerrosto, and her people, at the height of their creative powers, heeded their past but little. However, they had founded a Library that contained all books ever written, but had failed to appreciate just what 'all' and 'ever' might mean. On a fateful day someone discovered a copy of The Lord of the Rings. The existential crisis that followed led their greatest philosophers to postulate that their existence and their history were two different things: that their history (of servitude to the Dark Power in exchange for protection and knowledge) was true, as far as it went, but that their 'metahistory' was utterly dependent on the volume that they had acquired: in effect, they were characters based on someone else's story. This realisation led them to a very dangerous undertaking: they decided to wrest control of their world from its unseen Author, whom they effectively forced to 'write' himself into a corner or else destroy the world he had created, and then exercised their own creative powers to remove themselves to a secondary creation of their own devising in which they were unimpeded by the nature forced on them. Or so they thought.
They eventually perceived that their existence was not entirely free, and that their ties with the world of Hyeron, though much attenuated, still remained: Hyerrosto, which had been taken over by humans, bound them to the world, albeit as shadowy figures of legend. The Author had been able to use their material remains to keep them anchored in his reality; and they could hardly write themselves out of his Story without obliterating themselves completely. They resented this bitterly, but did not know how to circumvent it - until a Rift between worlds deposited a motley assortment of characters from other realities in Castle Hare. One of these was a double of Moriwendë, and after keeping track of her (including her contact with the Author in the form of Shadow Guy), Moriwendë made her move...

HISTORY:

Moriwendë kidnapped Morwen as she was returning from the strike on Zorag the Barbarian's camp, giving a hint of her powers when she 'retconned' her flying creature out of a spindive. Taking Morwen to a mysterious mountain range far to the north of Hyeron, she conducted her into her home away from home: a halfway house between Hyeron and the thought-world the Hyeronian Quendi have constructed for themselves. Explaining what she hoped to learn from Morwen - the ability to cross between realities and thereby escape Shadow Guy completely - she met with initial hostility, as Morwen believed that she was in league with Morgoth (which was indeed the 'story-internal' history of her kind), but she convinced Morwen of the sincerity of her purpose by showing her The Lord of the Rings and explaining what her people had learned from it. She asked Morwen to find out all she could about the rifts, the current state of Castle Hare, and particularly about the doubles and any after-effects arising from the new arrivals in Hyeron, with the idea that the repercussions of these events would weaken Shadow Guy's hold on his creation. She gave Morwen a copy of the special book so that she could retain her memory of what she had been told, and afforded her a brief vision of the Quendi in perfection, before returning her to the place from which she had been taken.

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DESCRIPTORS:

• Dedicated
• Mysterious
• Ambiguous moral stance
• Elvish sight
• Elvish hearing
• Reluctant to get involved
• Stubborn

WEAPONS:

Unknown

EQUIPMENT:

Unknown