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 = The Blackmane Spire Fragments =
-The '''Blackmane Spire Fragments''' are documents recovered from the ruins of [[Blackmane Spire]], the northern fortress where [[Virilian Steadmane]] once lived with [[Ori of the Vale]] and where Ori, after his fall, became the lich known as '''Ori the Hollow King'''. The fragments are written in blood on aged parchment. They describe the return of a silver-haired woman to the Spire and her confrontation with the lich. No author is named; the script is hurried and in places illegible.
+== Fragment V — Aftermath ==
-== Discovery ==
+Two rings were placed upon the stone surface. The fragments do not state who placed them there. Their positioning is described as deliberate.
-== Contents ==
+The woman departed. No direction of travel is recorded.
-=== The Line of the Return ===
+The final line of the manuscript trails unevenly:
-: ''"The Dark Elf came to end what love began. The lich wept as he died."''
+“Thus ended the Hollow King.”
-The text does not name Virilian or Ori. It refers to "the Dark Elf" and "the lich." The image of the lich weeping at death has been taken to mean that Ori, in his last moments, recognised his beloved and perhaps the ruin his obsession had wrought.
+== Archival Notes ==
-=== Other Legible Passages ===
+The rings recovered from the chamber — one of black iron, one of silver — are preserved separately from the fragments. Their metallurgical composition has been verified as consistent with materials available during the late pre-TRA centuries.
-== Interpretation ==
+No independent witness account of the confrontation has ever surfaced.
-== Preservation ==
+The Spire has remained structurally unstable since the recorded event.
 == See Also ==

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= The Blackmane Spire Fragments =

The '''Blackmane Spire Fragments''' are documents recovered from the ruins of [[Blackmane Spire]], the northern fortress where [[Virilian Steadmane]] once lived with [[Ori of the Vale]] and where Ori, after his fall, became the lich known as '''Ori the Hollow King'''. The fragments are written in blood on aged parchment. They describe the return of a silver-haired woman to the Spire and her confrontation with the lich. No author is named; the script is hurried and in places illegible.

== Discovery ==
The fragments were found by adventurers who explored the Spire some centuries after the disappearance of Virilian and Elara. They lay among the debris of the collapsed throne room, near Ori's shattered phylactery. Two intertwined rings — one of black iron, one of silver — were resting upon the altar in the same chamber. The parchment had been partially damaged by time and exposure; only a few passages could be read with certainty.

== Contents ==

=== The Line of the Return ===
The best-known passage reads:

: ''"The Dark Elf came to end what love began. The lich wept as he died."''

The text does not name Virilian or Ori. It refers to "the Dark Elf" and "the lich." The image of the lich weeping at death has been taken to mean that Ori, in his last moments, recognised his beloved and perhaps the ruin his obsession had wrought.

=== Other Legible Passages ===
Other fragments speak of "a woman with silver in her hair," "the circle broken," and "the throne cast down." One line states that "no mortal witnessed the battle." Another mentions "the rings upon the stone" — perhaps the two rings found on the altar. The tone is terse and factual, as if a witness or participant had set down the outcome in haste.

== Interpretation ==
The fragments do not state when the confrontation occurred or how the writer came to be present. They record only that the Dark Elf came, that the lich died, and that the phylactery was shattered. The identification of the silver-haired woman with Virilian rests on her known history: the Spire was her home; Ori had once been her love and had become her hunter; and she had reason, in the eyes of many tellings, to return and end his undeath. The documents themselves remain anonymous and fragmentary.

== Preservation ==
The original fragments are held in a private collection; copies and transcriptions are held in the archives of [[Avaria]] and in the scriptorium at Norin. Quotations from the fragments appear in chronicles of the Spire and in accounts of Virilian's life and legacy.

== See Also ==
* [[Virilian Steadmane]]
* [[Blackmane Spire]]
* [[Ori the Hollow King]]

[[Category:Literature]]

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