I am aware of the power and glory that will come to any Uruk brave enough to slay the Gravewalker in battle. Should one of you scrubs encounter the Gravewalker in battle, do not kill him instead, bring him to your Warchief alive.The following new policies will be made effective immediately: That said, there’s going to be some changes around here. Normally, my response to such incompetence would be to mercilessly slay all of you shrakh and let the Black Númenóreans handle this, but the Dark Lord tends to frown upon the wholesale slaughter of his own forces, so unfortunately I have no choice but to spare the lot of you.

I’m sure it can be arranged (and probably will be when you least expect it.) And besides that, do you realize just how annoying it is when I try to go out for my morning walk and find the severed head of Lûgdash the Humiliator sitting on my front porch? Perhaps you too would wish to find out what it’s like to wake up to an entire pack of Caragors snarling outside your window. Naturally, these types of results are unacceptable if we intend to overthrow the Kingdoms of Men and bring forth the reign of the Dark Lord upon all the land. Over the past week the Gravewalker has slain fifteen captains (in particular, it seems that Muzglob Deathbringer met his end a mere three minutes after being promoted to Captain), four Warchiefs and the Hammer of Sauron. Well, whichever one of you miserable rats happens to still be alive to read this, pay attention. I’d say that I hope this letter finds you well, but given recent events, there’s a good chance this letter will find you dead. Eventually you gain a power that allows you to mind-control the Uruks and make them fight on your side.Īll in all, it’s pretty fun to play, but it occurs to me as I go about my business decimating the Uruk hordes that they tend to plan things out very well, and make a number of strategic blunders along the way. The Uruks are far from a united force though, and they frequently get into power struggles among themselves and seek to gain power and advance within their own ranks, and by killing you (Celebrimbor’s presence makes you technically immortal, but you can still be killed by the enemy, which they’ll definitely brag about if they see you again afterward) can earn them promotions and cause them to gain power. Based in the Tolkien Legendarium but sharing only the most tenuous of connections with anything in the Lord of the Rings books or movies (basically a cameo appearance by Gollum and that’s pretty much it,) you play as Talion, a Ranger of Gondor whose family was murdered by the Black Hand of Sauron, aided by the wraith Celebrimbor, an undead Elven prince with a bone to pick with Sauron, and you wander around Mordor causing all sorts of chaos among the local Uruk population as you seek your revenge.

A quick note of explanation: Lately I’ve been spending quite a bit of time playing Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, a recently released open-world hack-and-slash game.

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