The LotRO forums saw a new post today enti­tled Amarthiel’s Attacks. I fig­ured this was just a lit­tle bit of infor­ma­tion to read, con­sid­er­ing Town Criers have been yelling about her in-game for a cou­ple weeks now with no real effect.

Turns out that Amarthiel is actu­ally on the loose in the game itself and can appear in quite a few high-level zones. There’s a thread on this in the forums detail­ing where play­ers have ran into her along with some pretty cool screen­shots. She’s basi­cally been run­ning around assist­ing creeps and attack­ing play­ers left and right.

Although Tur­bine hasn’t com­mented on it, Amarthiel is clearly a GM/player con­trolled char­ac­ter and not sim­ply yet another AI enemy. She has some pretty dev­as­tat­ing debuffs and trav­els with two Angmarim her­alds. Appar­ently she can also sum­mon addi­tional attack­ers .… I guess tech­ni­cally she could do almost any­thing she pleases haha.

Pretty awe­some con­cept. I hope this goes on for a while.