#foinelen

Beleriand's worst best family unit 🫶

a bitch mom, a bastard dad and a shitling son (no blood relations) 🎀

𝔞 𝔴𝔞𝔯 𝔠𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔫𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔬 𝔥𝔢𝔯…

His name is Foinelen Astalórë, in Aman he was one of the Wild Hunt oath-sworn to Oromë; he follows Celegorm to Beleriand, is knigthed by Fëanor, and quickly becomes the chief officer in charge of reconnaissance and intelligence among Celegorm's army. He remains loyal to him throughout ages until dying in the War of Wrath.

Foinelen is one of the oldest Huntsmen in Celegorm's immediate close circle, being closer in age to Maedhros than the younger cohort, and although technically nobility himself (his father traces his descent to Tata) he did not engage particularly gladly with political & high society life in Tirion. He's an individual with very little empathy for over-sensitivity and frivolity, and breaks his vow to Oromë because, like others, he thinks the Vala's refusal to pursue Morgoth and go to war with him is a betrayal of the core principle for which the Hunt as a whole exists; he leaves for Beleriand almost gladly. Henceforth he almost immediately establishes himself as a leading figure in the study of orcs and as such also valuable intelligence gathering -- he had studied biology and anatomy of both animals and elves prior to this, and is fascinated by the mystery of the origin of orcs and monsters (some say that some of the anatomical knowledge of elves made available to those in Aman came from Melkor; if this is so, Foinelen certainly doesn't speak of it).

He's one of the less outwardly raucous Huntsmen, but don't be misled by a stony and sarcastic exterior and definitely do not take any alcohol he will innocently offer to you, he's in charge of preparing his group's entheogens and it might be laced with datura.

Over the centuries, he amasses one of the largest if not the largest body of work on the bodies, lives and societies of orcs and other evil beasts, while simultaneously furthering knowledge of elven biology through autopsies of soldiers and thralls; not all of it is acquired through humane means by far (Celegorm's castle in Himlad has dungeons, though they are little spoken of by those that haven't become acquainted with them already), but being Celegorm's close confidante and in the upper echelons of the army, Foinelen has complete legal immunity to any accusations deeming the interrogation and torture of orcs impermissible. He's also the individual responsible for keeping tabs on their political concurrency, a job he is by no means poor at, so this is a liberty not awarded for nothing. The continuous effort, thousands of corpses and thousands of instances of interrogating orcs via ósanwë to get a complete, comprehensive idea of their lives and otherwise-inaccessible intelligence leaves a mark on him, but Foinelen has faith in its importance in the fight against Morgoth, so he's not going to stop regardless of how many nights he wakes up thinking about orcs cannibalising each other just to get out of the pits of Angband. He loses his eye in the Dagor Aglareb, though he isn't particularly bothered by this and over time amasses a collection of glass eyes to wear during his formal appearances.