It is said the one now named Naernith hails from Gondolin, back from when it still stood proud as she, Elennúmene, the daughter of Nórimion and Quildoloriel, of the House of the Swallow.
Many a battle she fought among her kinsmen, a foot soldier in many wars including The Last Alliance of Elves and Men. It is then she retreated to Rivendell to heal as her mother once did, only to turn her attention back to the renown of battle she so craved.

Her desires lead her to Gondor, where she would fall alongside the city of Minas Ithil, now known as Minas Morgul. Mourned briefly, then forgotten, was the archer of Gondolin, her tale ended.

Yet in Minas Morgul, and eventually Mordor, another was written. A monster rose from the dead; its feä corrupted until only a wraith remained. For years this creature - named Zubardhari by its masters - would do the bidding of Evil, taking many forms as it gathered intel in preparation for its ultimate mission. But before any of it could come to fruition, it yanked its leash from its master's hand and fled into the wide open world. A terror it unleashed upon the peoples of Gondor and Rohan, gorging on any living in its path as populations of both Free Peoples and Sauron's minions dwindled under its insatiable hunger.

The Elves of Lothlorien stepped in to help rid it of the evil which had overtaken its mind, which it repaid with kinslaying in turn. An enemy of all of Middle Earth it became, commonly named Naernith, the Horrible Sister.

In the lands of Men it would dwell for many years, receiving coin for its deeds in the name of Girakun, amassing a hoard of wealth in a now lost treasury. It, or she, was mostly known in Breeland, where she was simply Naernith the rude, alcoholic elf, her other life hidden in plain sight.

Until one day she vanished, and one can only wonder whether someone had taken up her leash, or ended the nightmare once and for all by cutting the head off with the collar.


Present day
Naernith / Girakun / Zubardhari can be found wandering from Ered Luin to Gondor, though rarely if ever in Old Anorien or Ithilien.
She refuses to come near to Angmar, Mordor, the Morgul Vale, or places filled with the Undead or Unseen (eg. The Barrow Downs).
She seems to have no coin, work, or home, supposedly having chosen a vagabonds life.
Recently she has resumed her effort to strengthen her fell powers by consuming the living, starting with the goblins in the Midgewater Marsh.

you gotta see the artistry
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