The Lays of Alentë - Scripts

Bendalf Heogard, the Hero of the Oath

Bendalf Heogard was born in the year 223 of the First Era, in the city of Cargian, in the great lands of Bargmagian.

From his childhood years, Bendalf was always a great friend of his friends, with a great sense of companionship, and highly skilled in the physical arts.

His friends always considered him trustworthy, and Bendalf was loyal to those he loved, and he always sought the happiness of others.

But, treason could mean his everlasting enmity.

When the Ruin of Helrriard occurred in year 232, the Nordmar looked with pity to the firmament, but such was their pride and self-confidence that they were not afraid, for they considered it foolish to attack them.

In the year 234, the Shadow Lieutenants rose, and Morgatald of the Blood Hands emerged in Norgdgian.

Aldard of Cargian was a foolish Nordmar who mocked the Lieutenant as a fool, and Bendalf, even at his young age, knew that he was being very reckless.

Aldard chased Morgatald with the intention of finishing him, but he only found death.

When his followers found him, he was lying on the ground, with a hole in the place of his stomach, as if it had been pierced with a fist, and on his face, he had the symbol of the Red Hand, drawn with his own blood.

This is how Morgatald the Fool came to be known as Morgatald of the Blood Hands.

After the death of Aldard, the Nordmar sent more and more warriors in search of the Lieutenant, but they always ended up finding them dead with the Red Hand symbol.

Meanwhile, Bendalf trained to become a great warrior.

From year 236, the war became more intense.

The Corrupts began to emerge in the different cities of the world, and in Norgian it was especially terrible, because that year, the city fell.

In 237 a Nordmar Alliance was formed, and all ended in the Great Battle of Norgmagian, where the city of Norgian could be reconquered, and there a statue of a Lion was raised in honor to victory.

Time passed, and Bendalf joined the Kinship of Beast Hunters.

At year 244, Bendalf was the second best warrior of the kinship, only surpassed by Marlida Vaneda, which he ended up winning, becoming the best.

The Corrupts attacked Cargian that year, but Bendalf managed to defeat them along with his kin mates, and from then on, he became known as Bendalf the Victorious.

Bendalf seemed invincible, and the city of Cargian was peaceful for a long time.

However, all this glory overwhelmed him.

In the year 245, Bendalf said goodbye to his friends and went to the Norgdir Forest to rest and enjoy a time of solitude.

But he promised them that if they needed help, they could go to him, and he would go to help them, as a good friend he was.

In that forest, the Nordmar used to go hunting to have their meat reserves.

The great beasts were things from ancient tales, for since Aldard killed the Great Bear of Morgdir, there have been no other great beasts in the world.

Many years passed in which Bendalf lived a quiet life in his wooden house in Norgdir, until the misfortune occurred.

In the year 254, the Corrupts attacked Norgian, and the battle was so terrible that there were no victors.

The members of the Kinship of Beast Hunters came to the aid of Norgian, and there all found death, except Marlida.

She rode quickly to Norgdir, looking for Bendalf.

When Marlida told Bendalf what had happened, Bendalf felt he had failed in his promise.

Marlida told him that it was not his fault, that the attack had been unexpected, but Bendalf could not stop thinking that if he had been there to help, everything would have been very different.

Pain, rage and impotence ran through his body, and it was at this moment that he pronounced the Oath.

Bendalf Heogard swore not to rest until he had killed Morgatald, and only death could free him from such an oath.

The next day, they both left Norgdir and went to Cargian.

There was a battle against the Corrupts in Cargian after the return of Bendalf, and thanks to him, they obtained a great victory.

The Corrupts trembled at the presence of Bendalf the Victorious.

Bendalf planned the reconquest of Norgian, and for a year, he devoted himself to training the Nordmar.

Among them, a select few had a more intense training, becoming elite warriors for Bendalf's personal battalion, whose task was to kill Morgatald.

In 255 they set out for Norgian, and the ruined city was abandoned.

There they stood guard, and a short time later, an army of Corrupts led by Morgatald himself approached the city.

But the army was not there to fight, since Morgatald wanted to speak to the hero.

Morgatald proposed to join him, and many were the lies he told about his leadership over the Corrupts.

Bendalf refused to join him, and due to this, Morgatald pronounced his sentence: the hunter would be the hunted.

Who is the hunter, and who is the prey?

Morgatald and his army turned around, and for a time, there was relative peace.

For several years Bendalf planned to lay siege to Morgagian, the fortress of Morgatald, but the year 257 came, and what the Lieutenant sentenced, happened.

There were rumors that a horrible beast was dwelling in the Norgdir Forest, a terrible Wild Boar.

It was a danger to the Nordmar, and Bendalf offered to finish off the beast.

He would go alone, and his elite warriors would continue the preparations for the Siege of Morgagian in his absence.

But Marlida believed this was a trap, for she remembered the words of Morgatald.

And so it was.

Bendalf was missing for weeks, until Marlida led an expedition to search for him in Norgdir.

There in Norgdir, they found Bendalf's corpse impaled, with the spear stuck in a tree, and the lifeless body of the Great Boar at his side.

It had been a decoy, because they knew that Morgatald of the Blood Hands had been the murderer of Bendalf, because in his face, they found the Red Hand.

Everyone mourned the death of Bendalf Heogard, and the Nordmar went to Norgdir to bid him farewell.

There he was incinerated, and his ashes were scattered by the wind among the trees of the forest.

A wooden statue was raised in his honor at Cargian, pointing towards the horizon and with a sheathed sword.

The plans to besiege Morgagian would have to wait, but the Oath of Bendalf was not forgotten.

He swore to put an end to Morgatald, and only death could free him from such an oath.

But even though he died, the Nordmar took that oath and promised to keep it.

They would not rest until Morgatald perished, and the Lieutenant would forever remember Bendalf, for the Nordmar would take care to remind him of the great hero who dared to confront him.