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The Voice of the Dragon
"All of you know why we are here. This is a sacred place, a dwarf place. This is Gundabad!"
Background
Durin has called for Dwarrowmoot, a gathering of the dwarves that will decide what can be done to wrest Gundabad from the claws of Hrímil Frost-heart.
Objective 1
Prince Durin stands at the Thing-fold to begin the Dwarrowmoot for which he has called.
- Durin: 'Wish me good fortune in this, <name>.'
Objective 2
The Dwarrowmoot has begun.
- A murmur of discontent ripples through the crowd of dwarves, and Durin falls silent
- Glóin says, "We should hear what he has to say."
- Prince Ingór says, "That depends on what it might be!"
- Zhélruka says, "Aye, so it does!"
- Glóin says, "You will honour the prince!"
- Zhélruka says, "He is no prince of mine!"
- Bori says, "Are we not dwarves?"
- Prince Durin says, "Most of us have known only stories of the Mountain-home."
- Prince Durin says, "But those tales are as well-known to us as the names of our near kin."
- Prince Durin says, "I called for dwarves to take back Gundabad, not just Longbeards, but dwarves."
- Prince Durin says, "And this be the response: dwarves of every clan, from the far reaches of Middle-earth!"
- Prince Durin says, "Can anything be more clear than this?"
- Prince Durin says, "Hear me now: Gundabad belongs not only to the Longbeards, but to all dwarves."
- Prince Durin says, "Is this not so, Ingór?"
- Prince Ingór says, "Aye, Durin. This is wisdom indeed!"
- Prince Ingór says, "Some among my people doubted you would see it. Not I, of course."
- Their laughter is disturbed by the sound of a rushing wind!
- Glóin says, "What is that?"
- Prince Ingór says, "The dragon!"
Objective 3
The Dwarrowmoot has been interrupted by the dragon!
- Hrímil Frost-heart says, "Foolish insects!"
- Hrímil Frost-heart says, "Everything you have done has been to my design!"
- Glóin says, "Lies!"
- Hrímil Frost-heart says, "It was I who whispered poison into the ears of your prince beside the Anvil of Winterstith!"
- Hrímil Frost-heart says, "It was I who urged him to march on Gundabad too soon, without time enough to ready his forces!"
- Hrímil Frost-heart says, "Now it will be the death of his people!"
- Prince Durin says, "Heed not the voice of the dragon!"
- Prince Durin says, "These falsehoods have no power over me, Worm!"
- Prince Durin says, "And neither do you."
- Prince Durin says, "For I am Durin the Seventh, the Durin of old reborn anew!"
- Hrímil Frost-heart says, "It matters not."
- Hrímil Frost-heart says, "The armies I command do not have the will to resist my voice."
- The sound of thousands of approaching Orcs reverberates among the mountains!
- Glóin says, "Do you hear that? We will be surrounded!"
- Newcomer says, "Hrímil Frost-heart!"
- Hrímil Frost-heart says, "No... how is this possible...?"
- Hrímil flees to the highest peak above Gundabad
Objective 4
Hrímil has escaped on powerful wings, making for the high peak, but her terror is plain to see.
- Glóin says, "What just happened?"
- Glóin says, "How is it you wield that hammer?"
- Glóin says, "What is your name, stranger?"
- Prince Durin says, "He is a dwarf, and he fights for Gundabad."
- Prince Durin says, "That is enough."
Objective 5
The Dwarrowmoot came to a sudden end, but Durin has made a decision: it is time to face the dragon and reclaim the Mountain-home.
- Prince Durin: 'The Dwarrowmoot is over, <name>. Now we have no choice.
- 'All will be decided in the moments to come!'
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