Elnaril

Elnaril
also known as Broodkiller
Role	Field leader
Race / kind	Elf
Class	Ranger (Hunter)
Affiliation	Heralds of the Cycle
Status	Alive
GM canon
first cited: [heralds-a#7]

Elnaril is an elf and field leader of the party known as the Heralds of the Cycle ^{[heralds-b#27 · heralds-b#446]}, called the Broodkiller by the goblins for killing many of their people in the past. ^{[heralds-a#13 · heralds-a#11]} He is one of the party's members and is alive. ^{[owner-form-2026-09-17]}

Overview

Elnaril does not currently seek to kill goblins; he earned the Broodkiller name through actions he took in the past, not through any present campaign against them. ^{[heralds-a#15]} Long ago, his childhood friend was killed by Grizzleflame, who became his enemy from that day on. ^{[heralds-a#7]}

The Broodkiller name

While the party hunted Grizzleflame down after he escaped them three times, close to seventy goblins of his following were killed; the goblins fixed that killing on Elnaril's name and now call him the Broodkiller. ^{[heralds-a#11 · heralds-a#13]}

Witness of Rosereach

Elnaril was present at Rosereach's gates on the day the enemy first stood before the city, and years later returned to confront Naevys Duskbloom with that memory. ^{[heralds-a#118 · heralds-a#120 · heralds-a#121]} Naevys regards him as a witness to that day and to the choices she made then; on learning that his group had reached the city, she invited them to her tower. ^{[heralds-a#119 · heralds-a#120]} He traveled to the tower together with Lucerion. Both had died and returned to life at some point in the past — a fact Naevys does not know. ^{[heralds-a#120]} Before the siege, Autumn Elves once served at a post Elnaril protected; the sources do not say what he protected there. When ritual-charmed party members later returned to that place, the Autumn Elves let them through. ^{[heralds-a#107]}

The fall of Deadreach

In the same battle where the Reminder was slain beneath the city, Elnaril shattered his own necklace. ^{[heralds-a#146]} The power inside him did not destroy him. Instead he turned into what the record calls a "snowy dread," and released the cold, high-realm air he carried inside rather than let it consume him. ^{[heralds-a#146 · heralds-a#149]} That cold did not destroy Deadreach — it settled over the city as a standing cold cloud instead. ^{[heralds-a#146 · heralds-a#147]}

In play

At Snake Cross, when Bella Worthmore reached Elnaril by magic, she attempted to invade his mind; he answered her that all the blood of Rosereach was in her hands, and that his fate would not be decided by a Winter Elf. ^{[heralds-b#446]} In an artificial tunnel north of Snake Cross, Elnaril judged the cut marks in the stone to be smooth, evenly spaced, and repeating, with no trace of magic in them. ^{[heralds-b#446]} In the fight against a six-armed creature during that same expedition, Elnaril was hit hard enough that, without the Saint's holy light, the mission would have ended in failure. ^{[heralds-b#446]}

A separate danger is closing in on Elnaril in present-day Rosereach.

Players, stop here. What is hidden behind this point is game-master material. The full detail is on GM:Elnaril.

Related pages

• Naevys Duskbloom — invited him to her tower and sees him as a witness to the day Rosereach fell
• Lucerion — travels with him; both died and returned to life in the past
• Grizzleflame — killed his childhood friend and hunts him as his true enemy
• Bella Worthmore — tried to invade his mind when she reached him by magic at Snake Cross
• Deadreach — the city now capped by the cold cloud he released
• Broodkiller — the epithet the goblins gave him
• Autumn Elves — once served at a post he protected before the siege
• Ursa Assassination Team — a threat against him detailed on the GM page

Unconfirmed ideas

The source conversations contain proposals for Elnaril that the campaign owner never confirmed. They are collected on Idea:Elnaril so they cannot be mistaken for canon.