Hub Helchaeraes

HUB HELCHARAES ( S . “B AY OF C RACKING I CE ” )The Lossoth dwell on both shores of this bay, tak-ing whales, seal, and fish from it when they can.Umli (Half-dwarves) dwell on the eastern shore,around the estuary of the Lókosir. Cardolani andRiverman whalers came here in the summer months before the Witch-king brought down cold from thenorth and made the voyages too dangerous. It is saidthat it was also the Witch-king who summoned theUidhrog (S. “Demon-whale”) to plague mortals, butthe Lossoth say that the Uidhrog is older than anymortal magic.The Lossoth of the northern shore of this gulf make their sod and snow huts close to its shores. Avillage of this people is immortalized by a parchmentkept in the collection of the Kings of Arthedain: Lateand sad it was that I learned this caution of the Hemoel Lossoth: no man is let out unguarded in snow weather inthis season. All of our company are now lost to the icewoman save my husband. I have seen them standing un-cloaked in the snow; pale, tormented, guarding their new mistress with her lace gowns and her fine white teeth. By the grace and guile of my ancestors, she will not haveThorluin while I breath. Ammerethiel Foros, theinscribcr of the parchment, seems to have brought it back to Arthedain in the 12th century, but no furtherdetails are recorded.