Meren remains safely at Rhosgobel under the hedge’s protection, while Tuiwen and Radagast travel west along guarded woodland paths. The proclamations and uncertain map stay sealed between them.
They pass beneath golden boughs and enter Caras Galadhon, where the city’s living platforms rise around the still Mirror. Galadriel waits beside it, the silver veil undisturbed.
Galadriel
Welcome, Tuiwen, and welcome, Radagast. Bring me the record as it stands, with its uncertainties preserved. The Mirror must not be asked to make certainty where none exists.
Radagast lays the uncertain map beside the preserved proclamations, keeping each document separate. He marks the roads Meren witnessed, the names he only heard, and the dormant listening charm found near Rhosgobel.
Radagast the Brown
The herald’s testimony is divided from my conclusions. He saw the southern road and stream, but not the truth of every settlement named to him. The enemy may have chosen the map’s shape.
Galadriel
Then we shall examine the Mirror with the same discipline. Its vision may reveal a truth, or merely the truth the enemy wishes us to pursue.
Galadriel’s hand rests near the silver veil but does not lift it. Beneath the cloth, the Mirror’s surface stirs once, showing no image yet, only a pale ripple awaiting the question.
✓ Quest Accepted
Consult the Mirror of Galadriel about Sauron’s wider schemes
“Sauron scatters warnings to confuse and divide us, but he keeps his plans secret. I would know where he means to strike next.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Magic, rolled -1)
Tuiwen
Sauron scatters warnings to confuse and divide us, but keeps his plans secret. I would know where he means to strike next.
Galadriel lifts the silver veil, and Tuiwen reaches through the Mirror with careful magic. Eyes of the Unseen catches hidden currents beneath the shifting reflections.
The Mirror fills with roads and frightened settlements. Tuiwen separates false alarms from deliberate concealment, comparing each vision until one dark thread remains bright with hostile purpose.
Her Oath-Bound restraint refuses to force the vision beyond what it can prove. The image steadies: Dol Guldur’s next strike will target the eastern road at the Woodmen’s southern settlements, where the warning network is thinnest.
The revelation succeeds, but the casting leaves a silver brand across Tuiwen’s palm, cold and luminous. For a moment, every ward-light in the Mirror points back toward her.
Galadriel
You have found the intended blow. The vision names a target, not a certainty, but this is more than rumor, and we can warn them in time.
Radagast the Brown
A costly truth, Tuiwen. Keep that hand covered from unfriendly eyes. The shadow has learned that you are looking back.
Quest Complete
Consult the Mirror of Galadriel about Sauron’s wider schemes