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rohirric-hunter · 3 months

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I'm actually so concerned for the safety of all the non-Azagath-or-Nakasi members of the Kindred of the Coins, especially Belondor, since he was right there with them when everything went down. But Azagath clearly knows that Kholtekh and Harmelak have turned against him and Rothog seems really close with Harmelak so he's probably incriminated by association. Tathata might not be in hot water with Azagath but we did accidentally-on-purpose set an assassin on her. And come to think of it the PC is kind of indirectly responsible for Azagath realizing that most of the others don't like him too well either. LotRO's masterful writing struck once again, hinting throughout Umbar that most of the Kindred are not actually bad people but only fully explaining everything just in time for the player to realize how royally they've fucked them all over, whoops.

You bet my business in Umbar isn't done, I have to clean up this hot mess I've made. I will feel so guilty if they get hurt because of this.

#lotro #spoilers of umbar #like yeah throughout basically all of umbar the people are like 'the kindred of the coins are the Best'#but i mean idk for me at least the devs didnt even have to write in the doubts. they just naturally occurred #i was like 'okay but there werent many places to go that werent up from your previous situation'#and 'but theyre trying to start a war. they kidnapped a child. what is the song of waves and wind.'#but as various quests in the city proper played out i was like okay there has to be something else going on like #these people are not bad people. theres no way #the one member of the kindred that we knew for sure was a bad person was nakasi #and people didnt even talk about her that much. mostly they talked about tumuldo #which #huh #i mean obviously tumuldo was the more level headed of the two of them #and nakasi was driven by grief and a need for revenge after he died #but like. okay hear me out #did azagath set tumuldo up to be killed #like did he arrange that #or at least send him off to gondor in the hopes that he would be attacked there #because he knew an unhinged vengeful nakasi would be an ally he sorely needed when he unveiled his plan #for that matter how long had he been in contact with them? IDK if harmelak said anything about his history with them #but like. its very possible that he was grooming her for that specific reaction #not the kidnapping a child part. he clearly did not want the child #but the part where she wanted gondor destroyed and was willing to do anything to get it?#like he needed someone who would be okay with umbar going to war immediately after finally kicking all the haradrim out #idk wild theory but very plausible imo

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