Bestowal dialogue
"Hot-headed and brash, Eorl witnessed his father’s death and vowed to avenge him."
Background
Léothred, the Rohirric scholar, seeks to learn more of his people history in Misthallow.
Objective 1
- Léothred: 'Eorl, with bow in hand, ran into the woods....'
Objective 2
- Listen to Léothred's tale
- Léothred says, "For days Eorl hunted the mearh, bow at the ready. His friends always close behind."
- Eorl says, "I will avenge you, father."
- Eorl shouts, "It has been days, but I will avenge you."
- Eorl's Friend shouts, "Eorl, are you going to kill the mearh?!"
- Eorl's Friend shouts, "Please Eorl, let us return home."
- Eorl shouts, "There you are...."
- Léothred says, "When he got within shooting range, his anger cooled at the sight of the steed's beauty."
- Léothred says, "Eorl stood up and called out in a loud voice."
- Eorl says, "Come hither, Mansbane, and get a new name!"
- Léothred says, "The horse heard him, and to the wonder of those who watched, it looked toward him, and seemed to know him."
- Léothred says, "The mearh came to stand before him."
- Léothred says, "Rather than seeking to force the beast to his will, Eorl simply held out his hand and let it bow its head to touch him."
Objective 3
- Léothred: 'Where before, the lords of the Éothéod, even mighty Léod, had sought to break the mearas, Eorl had treated his father's animal as a friend and it had met him in kind.'
Objective 4
- Listen to Léothred's tale
- Eorl says, "Felaróf I name you."
- Léothred says, "The name meant strongest in his tongue."
- Eorl says, "You loved your freedom, and I do not blame you for that."
- Eorl says, "But now you owe me a great weregild, and you shall surrender your freedom to me until your life's end."
- Léothred says, "Then Eorl mounted him, and Felaróf submitted."
- Léothred says, "Eorl rode him home without bit or bridle; and he rode him in like fashion ever after."
- Léothred says, "The Éothéd marvelled at the sight, and spoke of Eorl as being worthy of a crown, but he demurred."
- Léothred: 'And that is the end of Eorl's tale.'
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