Eglain Settlements Battle of Five Armies & The Third Age of Middle-Earth The current year for our Middle-Earth campaign is set during the year of 2946 of the Third Age. Inspired By J.R.R. Tolkien

The Eglain, known in the Common Tongue as the Forsaken, represent a resilient but dwindling society of "ruin-wanderers" who have made the desolate expanses of the Lone-lands their home. Descended from ancient Eriadorian people who long ago shunned the "civilized" towns of Bree and the fallen cities of Arnor, they live as a solitary and wary culture of scavengers and hunters . Rather than building new towns, they establish temporary "ruin-holds" within the crumbling shells of Arnorian fortresses, where they sift through the dust of the past for relics and trinkets to trade for essential supplies. In the current era, the Eglain have been driven from many of their former dwellings by the encroachment of orcs and dark forces from the north. Their primary and most formidable settlement is Ost Guruth, a massive Rhudaurian ruin that serves as their cultural heart and a rare beacon of safety in the wilderness. Here, under the quiet protection of figures like Radagast the Brown, they maintain a meager existence, guarding their independence with a fierce silence and viewing all outsiders with deep suspicion until their trust is hard-won through acts of service.