Atwarven Sage

The stuff of pure legend.

The First Atwarven Sage
In the 75th year of The Second Age by Mannish Reckoning, it was revealed that an Atwarven Sage had been born - someone with an Atwarven father and a Sage mother. Now the problem wasn't the Atwarven father (Half man, half Dwarf) - there had been many of these (most notably Deor) - and had been accepted into Mannish culture. However Sages were a problem, especially at this time. A Sage (or Half-Elf) is someone with Elvish and Mannish parents. Sages had been common in the days on Edorlund, but relations between Men and Elves were not what they used to be. Sages were now looked on as abominations. Sages had to hide their identity for fear of being shamed or even killed. Every Man was suspicious of every other, and looking for a chance to call his enemy a Sage to get him tried. ((Think of it like witch-hunting in mediaeval England.))

An Atwarven Sage was both dangerous and un-Mannish. A mixture between the most great Atwarven race and the evil Sages? When the people of Ysimazar found of the child (of unknown father) they hanged his mother from a tree, and paraded the 14-year old boy through the streets (by this time he was about 7 feet tall and stronger than 2 grown Men). They would have hanged him too, but escaped in the commotion. He, and a small party of sympathisers gathered supplies and headed where they knew they would not be found. The Great North.