Sarbreenar’s Local Hero

HE Dwarves were soon hard pressed by orcish tribes who had returned to try to regain the territory they had lost. A few groups of men and elves allied themselves with the dwarves of Tuir’s fading kingdom in their battles against the orcs.

One of these was the reknowned elven warrior, named Beluar. Beluar’s most famous victory over the orcs had come at Viperstongue Ford, where his forces had routed the orcs, pursuing them north into a rugged line of hills southwest of Kurth, and thence north along the road as far as Maskyr’s Eye, where Beluar himself slew the last of the orcs on the road outside the town smithy. The hills west of the road, between Kurth and Maskyr’s Eye, are sometimes called Beluar’s Hunt. There is an inn of that name in Kurth, and the rival Rolling Heads Inn at the other end of the same town is also named for the routed orcs.

In the centre of Sarbreenar, opposite the horse pond, stands a grassy mound. On top of it is a great obelisk, covered in Elvish carvings, built to commemorate the death of Beluar. He and his small band of elven riders perished in an orcish ambush in the mountain pass north of Sarbreenar, known ever since as Elvenblood Pass. Some folks say that the birds that persist in fluttering around the skypointing obelisk are the ghostly hauntings of the elven warriors.

Just south of Sarbreenar, at High Haspur, stands an inn named The Elf in Armour. Its inn sign depicts Beluar holding back the orcish hordes.

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