#lileyn

Well, the reason I don’t have an inquisitor yet is because I’m playing right now Inquisition in a full playthrough for the first time (I also did a 40% playthrough in december but that was at my cousin’s computer and I had to leave). Expect headcanons as soon as I delve deeper into it. As for the part about complaints, they are well deserved. 

Lileyn was alive and well during LOTR (thank the valar for that). She was born in Elthengels, a small town in the Norcrofts, very close to the Argonath. I like to imagine that this smol rohirric child would climb over the hills and the mountain range of the East Wall and just gaze with dreamy eyes in the distance at the Argonath. This is how she received her second name, “Aegdohtor” (daughter of water, in old english)

I remember while playing LOTRO and I got to Rohan that I liked Elthengels so much and the scenery around it, that when the idea of Lileyn came in my mind, it was set. Also, besides Ellen Fremedon in the Underharrow, Elthengles is the only rohirric settlement with a woman as thane (Mildrithd). (someone correct me if I’m wrong) 

You can observe on my oc page that near Lileyn is Bron of the Dunlendings. The story arc I had in mind for the two is that both in LOTR and LOTRO Easterling attacks are described in Rhovanion and in Eastern Rohan. Lileyn alongside with the remaining women and men who did not die at Helm’s Deep or went with Theoden south, defend Eastern Rohan against these attacks. (So no, she did not went at Pelennor, but she fought nonetheless)

In the same time Dunland is taken over by civil war. The clans of Dunland are torn apart, half of them follow Saruman’s promises and fight at Helm’s Deep (and that ends with the Rohirrim killing most of them and putting the survivors to rebuild the fortress), while half of them despise Saruman and seek to put order in their own country before anything else. Bron is the chief huntress of the Stag Clan, while her brother Hav prepared himself soon to take over the duties of Brenin duties (sorta king, sorta tribe-leader) of their father. Her story arc revolves around sorting the outright war in the shift of powers of the different clans, while becoming a voice for the Dunlendings for their hundred of years dispute over the land with the Rohirrim. (I want to thank LOTRO for the wonderful ideas it gave me). 

I haven’t sorted it all out yet, but Bron and Lileyn meet and learn to overcome their stigma and prejudices (like “straw-head” (what dunlendings call rohirrim) and become great friends.