•Gwaihir, King of All Birds
Ally • Home 5 [LA] & 8 [LA] • Eagle
Strength: 11
Vitality: 4
Unhasty. Damage +1.
Each time the fellowship moves, add .
Assignment: Exert your Wizard or discard 3 cards from hand to allow Gwaihir to be assigned to a skirmish.
Maneuver: Exert Gwaihir twice (or once if you can spot a Nazgûl or 3 Orcs) to make all Eagles strength +1 until the regroup phase (limit twice per turn).
“The Lord of the Eagles of the Misty Mountains had eyes that could look at the sun unblinking, and could see a rabbit moving on the ground a mile below even in the moonlight.”
I wuv it

•Gwaihir, Lord of the Eagles
Companion • Eagle
Strength: 11
Vitality: 4
Signet: Gandalf
Damage +1. To play, discard 2 or cards from hand (or spot 3 or cards).
Gwaihir’s twilight cost is -1 for each Wizard companion and Eagle you can spot.
While at a battleground, forest, or mountain site, each minion skirmishing an Eagle loses fierce and cannot gain fierce until the regroup phase.
“‘What’s all this uproar in the forest tonight?’”

IMO overpowered. cut the twilight minusing text.

make it captured or rescued IMO

•Galion, King’s Butler
Ally • Home 7 [LA] • Elf
Strength: 4
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
To play, spot Thranduil or a Elf companion.
Fellowship: Exert Galion to play a possession from your draw deck. If that possession is Dorwinian Wine, you may place a token on it.
“‘You began your feasting early and muddled your wits! You have stacked some full casks here instead of the empty ones, if there is anything in weight.’”

•Dorwinian Wine
Possession • Support Area
When you play this possession, place a token here for each Elf you can spot (limit 3).
Response: If a companion is about to exert, you may add and remove a token from here to place no token for that exertion.
Regroup: Discard this possession to heal X companions, where X is the number of tokens on this possession.
“‘Now come with me and taste the new wine that has just come in. I shall be hard at work tonight clearing the cellars of the empty wood, so let us have a drink first to help the labour.’”

•Belówen, Elven Guard
Companion • Elf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Hunter 1.
Skirmish: If Belówen is not assigned to a skirmish, exert him to capture a wounded minion not assigned to a skirmish.
“Then the Wood-elves had come to him, and bound him, and carried him away.”

•Lianna, Mirkwood Adventurer
Companion • Elf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
Ranger.
While at a forest, river, or plains site, Lianna gains hunter 2.
While bearing a hand weapon, Lianna is strength +1.
While bearing a ranged weapon, Lianna is an archer.
She was a respected and feared warrior in the Elvenking’s army, noted for her independent streak.

Woodland Elf-Guard
Companion • Elf
Strength: 4
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Hunter 1.
This companion is strength +1 for each captured minion in your support area.
Response: If this companion wins a skirmish, exert him and another Elf to capture a minion in that skirmish.
“Then the elves put thongs on him, and shut him in one of the inmost caves with strong wooden doors, and left him.”

Mirkwood Guardian
Companion • Elf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Hunter 1. To play, spot a Elf.
While you can spot another ranger, this companion is a ranger.
While you can spot another hunter, this companion gains hunter 1.
While you can spot 2 other archers, this companion is an archer.
“If they have a fault it is distrust of strangers.”

Hospitality of the Elves
Condition • Support Area
To play, spot a Elf.
Regroup: Exert 2 Elves to heal a companion (or heal a companion twice if at a forest sanctuary or forest dwelling).
“They gave him food and drink, plenty of both, if not very fine; for Wood-elves were not goblins, and were reasonably well-behaved even to their worst enemies....”

Battle About To Be Joined
Event • Archery or Skirmish
Discard a weapon and a captured minion with X vitality in your support area to make X Elves strength +1 until the regroup phase (or, if you discarded a ranged weapon, make the fellowship archery total +X).
“‘Suddenly without a signal they sprang silently forward to attack. Bows twanged and arrows whistled....’”

•Legolas, Thranduilion
Companion • Elf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Signet: Frodo
Archer. Hunter 1.
Archery: Exert Legolas and discard a card from hand to exert a minion (or wound an archer minion and make the minion archery total -1); Legolas does not add to the fellowship archery total.
“Stringing the bow and fitting an arrow he turned, peering back over the River into the darkness....”

•Legolas’ Bow, Woodland Bow
Possession • Ranged Weapon
Strength +1
Bearer must be an Elf.
Bearer is an archer.
Archery: If bearer is Legolas, exert him and discard a or archery event with a twilight cost of [b](X) from hand to exert a minion X times; he does not add to the fellowship archery total.
“At that moment there was a sharp twang. Legolas had loosed his bow.”

•Gwaihir, King of All Birds
Ally • Home 5 [LA] & 8 [LA] • Eagle
Strength: 11
Vitality: 4
Unhasty. Damage +1.
Each time the fellowship moves, add .
Assignment: Exert your Wizard or discard 3 cards from hand to allow Gwaihir to be assigned to a skirmish.
Maneuver: Exert Gwaihir twice (or once if you can spot a Nazgûl or 3 Orcs) to make all Eagles strength +1 until the regroup phase (limit twice per turn).
“The Lord of the Eagles of the Misty Mountains had eyes that could look at the sun unblinking, and could see a rabbit moving on the ground a mile below even in the moonlight.”

•Gwaihir, Lord of the Eagles
Companion • Eagle
Strength: 11
Vitality: 4
Signet: Gandalf
Damage +1. To play, discard 2 or cards from hand (or spot 3 or cards).
Gwaihir’s twilight cost is -1 for each Wizard companion and Eagle you can spot.
While at a battleground, forest, or mountain site, each minion skirmishing an Eagle loses fierce and cannot gain fierce until the regroup phase.
“‘What’s all this uproar in the forest tonight?’”

•Aeglirnen, Misty Mountain Eagle
Ally • Home 5 [LA] • Eagle
Strength: 8
Vitality: 4
While you can spot another Eagle ally, Aeglirnen gains that ally’s home sites.
Response: If a minion is rescued, Aeglirnen is strength +4 and may be assigned to skirmishes until the end of the turn.
“He had just strength to wonder what the messenger had meant by ‘prisoners,’ and to begin to think of being torn up for supper like a rabbit, when his own turn came. The eagle came back, seized him in his talons by the back of his coat, and swooped off.”

•Reviaur, Eagle Escort
Companion • Eagle
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Signet: Gandalf
To play, spot a Wizard or 2 Eagles (or Gwaihir).
While at an underground site, Reviaur is unhasty.
Assignment: Exert Reviaur to prevent him from being assigned to a skirmish and make another unmounted companion strength +4 and considered to be mounted until the regroup phase.
“‘It is a fair morning with little wind. What is finer than flying?’”

•Aeglirnen, Misty Mountain Eagle
Ally • Home 5 [LA] • Eagle
Strength: 8
Vitality: 4
While you can spot another Eagle ally, Aeglirnen gains that ally’s home sites.
Response: If a minion is rescued, Aeglirnen is strength +4 and may be assigned to skirmishes until the end of the turn.
“He had just strength to wonder what the messenger had meant by ‘prisoners,’ and to begin to think of being torn up for supper like a rabbit, when his own turn came. The eagle came back, seized him in his talons by the back of his coat, and swooped off.”

•Reviaur, Eagle Escort
Companion • Eagle
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Signet: Gandalf
To play, spot a Wizard or 2 Eagles (or spot Gwaihir).
While the fellowship is at an underground site, Reviaur is unhasty.
Assignment: Exert Reviaur to prevent him from being assigned to a skirmish and make another unmounted companion strength +4 and considered to be mounted until the regroup phase.
“‘It is a fair morning with little wind. What is finer than flying?’”

Huge Black Shadows
Event • Skirmish
Make an Eagle strength +X, where X is the number of Eagles you can spot (limit +4).
“Over them swooped the eagles; the dark rush of their beating wings smote them to the floor or drove them far away; their talons tore at goblin faces.”

The Clouds Burst
Event • Skirmish
Make a non- companion strength +1 for each companion you can spot (limit +4).
“The clouds were torn by the wind, and a red sunset slashed the West. Seeing the sudden gleam in the gloom Bilbo looked round. He gave a great cry: he had seen a sight that made his heart leap, dark shapes small yet majestic against the distant glow.”

You need to change the response ability to:

Each time a minion is rescued, you may make Aeglirnen strength +4 and able to be assigned to skirmishes until the end of the turn.

Also, for the first ability, does he steal every Eagle’s home site? It seems like it could be interpreted either way.

That seems like a really powerful ability, since you can use it multiple times (although it has to be on multiple companions). You might want to say ’At the start of the assignment phase, you may exert Reviaur...".

Cool, I would just change the wording to "Make an Eagle strength +1 for each Eagle you spot (limit +4)" to follow in the line of cards like Roused.

That’s what it’s supposed to do, yes. Any suggestions on how to reword it?

Done. Question, though: should I exert the Eagle like Roused does to the Ent?

Made those recommended changes, MoS. Thanks!

Dáin’s DC Duos #87

Before we move on to the last couple Eagles, here’s a pair of strength pumps for the great birds...though admittedly, the second one is far from Eagle-specific. Enjoy!

Huge Black Shadows
Event • Skirmish
Make an Eagle strength +1 for each Eagle you spot (limit +4).
“Over them swooped the eagles; the dark rush of their beating wings smote them to the floor or drove them far away; their talons tore at goblin faces.”

Nice.

The Clouds Burst
Event • Skirmish
Make a non- companion strength +1 for each companion you can spot (limit +4).
“The clouds were torn by the wind, and a red sunset slashed the West. Seeing the sudden gleam in the gloom Bilbo looked round. He gave a great cry: he had seen a sight that made his heart leap, dark shapes small yet majestic against the distant glow.”

Eh? Basically perfect for the splash...Kinda powerful. I’d make it exert...at least.