Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-28212640-20170219075139/@comment-25754873-20170223114005

Forten wrote: I think it must be considered that Alatar, one of the Blue Wizards, was a maia of Orome, and so these Gwaerim could have specialised hunting and riding skills. And imagine if some rare Gwaerim NPC's owned vanilla wolves, or some sort of hound that would fight for them. And consider this, from a letter by Tolkien: "''What success they had I do not know; but I fear that they failed, as Saruman did, though doubtless in different ways; and I suspect they were founders or beginners of secret cults and 'magic' traditions that outlasted the fall of Sauron." ''Either the Blue Wizards turned to evil, died, or failed to have any significant effect against Sauron. As Gandalf was sent back from 'death', but Sauruman wasn't, it could be assumed that if they did effectively die the Blue Wizards probably turned to evil first, coupling death and evil as an option.

Drawing from my own imagination, perhaps if both the Blue Wizards were to have no significant effect but one of them was to turn evil, probably Pallando (in lore, Alatar was personally selected by Orome, but Pallando merely happened to be Alatar's friend).

I propose two opposing factions in Harhudor, each of which holds one of the Blue Wizards in reverence. I think they should be not openly fighting each other but be in high tension, the evil faction supporting the Khaganate and the good faction living further south, by the sea. While both these factions might have the same technological capibilities as Rhudel (i.e. armour stats and health), they would have less territory and/or spawn with greater rarity than the Rhunaerim. Tolkien changed his mind in later letters, infact, without their Free Easterlings, all would have been lost.