Yulya Marcatio

Julia Marcartio was a woman of Galgorin ans sister to Silvi Marcatio. The sisters were very close, having lived together for more than twenty years after the deaths of their husbands. Julia and Silvi also were accomplished Mages. Their husbands had both been warriors in the Guards, stationed on various outposts on the shores of the Sea of Rhûn. Over the years, the men brought home magical oddments and texts they thought were valuable. Their wives, intelligent and inquisitive, came to pass their time while their husbands were away in magical research and harmless spell casting. Over the years they got good at it.Especially Julia was more powerful than anyone guessed. Twenty years ago, both men had been killed in an attack on the island fortress of Tol Buruth. Julia and Silvi, to the consternation of their neighbors and the commanders of the Guard detachment, hired a ship and crew to investigate the incident. Scandalously, the sisters went along in person to command the expedition. It turned out that the island was a citadel for a Ringwight, the one called Din Ohtar. Amongst other horrors, one plague of this island was a race of people infected with the shapechanger's disease. Two of them had killed the Marcartio men. Julia and Silvi barely escaped with their lives, but vowed to avenge the death of their husbands by putting an end to this vile perversion. In twenty years, they learned more about the Necromancer's disease than anyone in Middle-earth. In particular they knew that the curse they witnessed first-hand on Tol Buruth was loose on the mainland, and propagated from the dark heart of Mirkwood forest.