
Since the days of the First Age, a rare breed of Men has eked out a separate survival against the elements and without the influence of the nearby Enemy in Angmar. Thus your journey here is not just a test of your mettle or survival skills, but a mission to secure the survival of all Eriador against the looming Shadow out of Angmar.Įven here, on the edge of Middle-earth, where the waters of the Great Sea are cold enough to kill and the memory of ancient evil lingers like a chill in the bones, the race of Man endures. But this is also where the epic quests of Book XIII in Volume I: Shadows of Angmar-a tale of sea-monsters, ghostly kings, and desperate survival-finally unfold. Even the elk and the water here can be a threat to experienced travelers.


Its harsh environment and fierce creatures can thrash characters leveled into the middle and late 40s. Forochel-the bleak and long-unreachable land of the Ice Bay, where Arvedui the Last King of Arthedain, fled and later perished after the fall of his noble capital of Fornost.įorochel-realm of the mysterious and reclusive Snow-men called the Lossoth, who have survived thousands of years of isolation and peril so near to the ancient realm of the Dark Lord’s greatest captain, the Witch-king of Angmar.įorochel-the uttermost edge of civilized Middle-earth, a smothering white wasteland at the shore of a sea blocked by floating ice, unseen by the folk of the South for generations.įorochel is a new frontier for the Free Peoples in the war against the Shadow in the North, accessible via the road north from Ost Forod in Evendim.
