Gondor's Vengeance
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The founding charter for the Gondor's Vengeance guild
On the 26th of February, as Boromir lay dying on the foothills of Amon Hen, he gave one last, final blast to the great horn he carried always at his side. The horn, now cloven, is sent down the river, and brought to Denethor around the beginning of March. Denethor consults the secret Palantir (which he has been using for a while now, although Sauron has been slowly corrupting his mind, and his visions) to see if his fears that Boromir is dead are really true. Sauron, having no love of the hobbits, showed Denethor a skewed version of Boromir's death, placing the guilt squarely upon the hobbits. The hobbits might be only a part of a bigger plot, though. We need to investigate other members of the Fellowship, too. Denethor has secretly had fears about this Aragorn whom people have said could 'steal' the throne of Gondor. Denethor becomes enraged, and is seeking vengeance. He dispatches some of his most loyal and well-trained guards on the Second of March under orders to travel to Amon Hen, investigate the area, and find the halflings who were responsible for the death of his beloved Boromir. The group leaves for Amon Hen, and arrives around the 10th of March. After surveying the the area, and finding proof that Boromir has indeed been slain, the trackers of the group pick up the trail of Frodo and Sam after a couple days of searching, and have arrived at their current site on March 15th, the present day. They have set up a small encampment of wagons and tents close to the Dead Marshes, where it is suspected the hobbits have gone in to meet with contacts from Sauron. With each step closer to Mordor, tracking the halflings, the Men only become more convinced that what their Lord Denethor told them was true, these killers of Boromir are working for Sauron. By the time Pippen arrives with Gandalf at MT, Denethor is no longer wholly sane or thinking clearly. Denethor's unstable mental state combined with his fear of Gandalf hold back any evil intentions he carries towards Pippen because of his experiences with the palantir. Denethor instead decides to keep Pippen close, knighting him...Denethor's eventual suicide gets in the way of any future ill plans he may have had for Pippen.
