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He never returned. Dunlending archers found him at the fords. They sent back his shield, pierced by a black arrow. Héra wept in silence, then went to the armory and sharpened her grandfather’s sword. She was no longer the Shield. She was the Blade.

To the south, in the fortress of Dunharrow, resided Freca, a proud and wealthy Lord of mixed Rohirrim and Dunlending blood. Freca coveted the throne. At a great council, he arrived with his son, Wulf—a man whose charming smile masked a soul of black envy. The Lord of the Rings- The War of the Rohirrim ...

She crowned Fréaláf, Helm’s nephew, as the first king of the new line. Then she took a simple horse, her father’s old shield, and rode south. Some say she went to find Léof’s body. Others say she went to slay the Corsairs who had armed Wulf. He never returned

One night, Helm ventured out and did not return. At dawn, Héra found him standing at the gate, frozen solid, still gripping a Dunlending chieftain he had strangled. The enemy saw him and fled in terror. But the legend of Helm Hammerhand ended there. Héra wept in silence, then went to the