IC Story Thread: Ch.1,Ad.2 - The Far Reach

The morning comes and you all gather your things and each other and set off to Annodrun.

Turil knows there is no crossing between shores down at Annodrun. And so you all must cross over into Andrast (or as Turil knows it: Ras Morthil - the Long Dark Cape) here at Annulond, and make the trip along the west side of the banks. The trip is a relatively short one, 16 miles, but there is no road on the west bank and so it still takes a good 3 or 4 hours.

Traveling south, to your left lies the River Lefnui and it's rocky edge. It quickly turns from less of a river bank to an upland coastline, wooded and marshy. And off to your right lies a a rapidly rising plain the quickly turns into the wooded foothills of the Andrast Mountains. And by the time you reach Annodrun, there really is no river, and instead it's a brackish bay-water that sometimes flows out and sometimes in, depending on the tide.

Upon your approach to Annodrun, you can see three things on the Andrast side of the bay: one is a set of three great standing stones which sit perhaps a half-mile up land from the waters edge, next is a single long building constructed almost entirely of cobbles, mortared by sod, with a sod roof. It has a chimney, but no smoke rises from it (it is also surrounded by... dozens... of rectangular mounds of dirt, that must be foundations - however whatever structures once sat upon them are long gone). The other is a single ship moored perhaps 100 feet off shore.

Cirion and anyone else familiar with sailing ships can immediately see that it has lateen sails, of a sort very common in the Harad...

Turil has heard of this structure during his time here. But from Men rather than the Druedain.

Annodrun is all the further that large sea-faring ships can make it up the Lefnui. So they'll anchor out in it's bay when they have business up river, but they still need a place to house their crew and for that... there is this ruin.

There used to be a town here. But it was abandoned during the Kin-strife Wars, when the Corsairs used this area for a staging ground for raids on Gondor.

This structure is all that really remains, as everything else was raized or scavenged, and it was once a Greathall. But now is purported to be basically just be a hollow shell that sailors are welcome to use as shelter.