Taerhad

Taerhad
Type:	Fortress
Region:	The Shire
Area:	The Yondershire
Location:	[21.6S, 74.4W]

Taerhad is a landmark in the Yondershire, in the Shire. ^{[21.6S, 74.4W]}

High above the fields and woods of the Yondershire this old keep towers majestically. Though ancient royalty is now replaced by half-orcs lead by a lieutenant of the infamous Sharkey.

Among their other nefarious deeds, these ruffians have taken to stockpiling stolen shipments of pipe-weed from the hobbits of the area.

Quests

Starting:

• [20] A Difference of Opinion
• [20] Gone up in Smoke
• [20] Half-orcs in the Heights

Deeds

These deeds can be advanced by exploring this location:

• Sites of Yondershire

NPCs

Bounder Hawkwort - Quest Only

Mal Ragwood

Creatures

These creatures are encountered within this location:

• Half-orc Boss
• Half-orc Bruiser
• Half-orc Fighter
• Half-orc Sentry
• Sharkey's Lieutenant - Quest Only

Lore

The hills of Emyn Uial along the northern bounds of Yondershire are dotted with several keeps of Arnorian origin, now long-abandoned and crumbling into disrepair, their pride and lineage forgotten by the folk who dwell nearby.

And yet today, even as it was more than three thousand years ago, a crow can still fly from Taerhad to Annúminas in the north-east with surprising swiftness, though its peering eye will see only the nobility carved in rock and stone, for the King has gone away. — Deed

Gallery

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  View from the Old Links
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  A single entrance makes the fortress difficult to penetrate
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  Overhead view of a lower camp
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  One of the two side passages leader to the top
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  A dried out fountain atop Taerhad
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  The tunnel connecting the two side passages