Wyrgende

Wyrgende
Gender Female Race Race of Man Region The Great River Area Parth Celebrant Map Ref [27.0S, 56.1W]

Descrption

Wyrgende was a old woman of Rohan, infamous for having cursed King Fengel and his entire bloodline.

In Wyrgende's lifetime, the Kingdom of Rohan had been ruled by the selfish and bitter King Fengel for fifty years. Fengel's final days were marred by a winter hunting trip along the Entwash in T.A. 2953, where old Wyrgende stumbled upon the royal hunting camp, lost and hungry. Begging for a scrap of bread and goodwill, Wyrgende was rebuffed by King Fengel, who cast his own knife to her, ordered her to find her own food, and sent her away into the bitter night. Horrified, Fengel's men searched for the women when morning came, finding her body at the foot of a massive stone, with runes carved into it's face: the Curse of Wyrgende. It read:

"Feckless Fengel, fool I name thee, Grief shall be the get of thy greed. No lord of your line shall long live, upon thy seat no son shall settle. Kin and kingdom your craving hath killed, Until the might of the Mark is mended. - Wyrgende."

King Fengel was furious, and he ordered Wyrgende's body burned and the stone destroyed, but no man of his company could bear her, and every hammer and mattock they set to the stone shattered on contact. King Fengel himself assailed the stone with his sword until the blade shattered, and a shard pierced his thigh. The wound festered, and King Fengel died of blood poisoning on the first day of Spring, aged eighty-three. To this day, the Stone of Wyrgende remains, carved with the old crone's cursed runes, and there her frozen body remains even now.

Fengel's bloodline since was marred with the deaths of many young kin. The most recent of these is Prince Théodred, who would not live to receive his father's crown. There are worries that Wyrgende's curse may mark the extinction of the House of Eorl, unless Rohan regains it's glory.

Quest Involvement

• [75] Instance: A Journey by Boat (Vol. III. Book 7: A Fellowship Endangered - Chapter 6: A Journey by Boat)

Gallery

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  The Stone of Wyrgende
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  The preserved remains of Wyrgende, unmoved for sixty-six years