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Helm turned to Wulf, blood on his knuckles. “Leave. Your life is spared as a courtesy to your dead father’s name. If you return, I will crush you as I did him.”

Wulf said nothing. He bowed, collected his father’s body, and rode into the snow. But his eyes promised a winter of woe.

He never returned. Dunlending archers found him at the fords. They sent back his shield, pierced by a black arrow. Héra wept in silence, then went to the armory and sharpened her grandfather’s sword. She was no longer the Shield. She was the Blade.

One night, Helm ventured out and did not return. At dawn, Héra found him standing at the gate, frozen solid, still gripping a Dunlending chieftain he had strangled. The enemy saw him and fled in terror. But the legend of Helm Hammerhand ended there. The Lord of the Rings- The War of the Rohirrim ...

She devised a desperate plan. The Hornburg had a secret drain—a narrow culvert that led from the keep to the base of the ravine. While Wulf prepared a final assault, Héra led thirty riders through the icy water, emerging behind the enemy camp.

“Your father killed mine,” he snarled, swinging a spiked mace.

Two years passed. Wulf vanished into the Dunlending wilds, forging a secret alliance with the Corsairs of Umbar and the wild men of the White Mountains. Meanwhile, Héra grew close to a young noble, Léof, the son of a minor lord. But duty forbade love; her father saw her only as the “Shield of Edoras,” a warrior to be married for alliance. Helm turned to Wulf, blood on his knuckles

To the south, in the fortress of Dunharrow, resided Freca, a proud and wealthy Lord of mixed Rohirrim and Dunlending blood. Freca coveted the throne. At a great council, he arrived with his son, Wulf—a man whose charming smile masked a soul of black envy.

With Helm dead, the lords of Rohan despaired. But Héra took command. “My father is gone,” she told the starving garrison. “But his name is a wall. Today, we make it a sword.”

Wulf besieged the Hornburg. He had no siege towers, only time and ice. Winter came with a fury—blizzards that turned the ravine into a white tomb. Inside, they boiled leather for food. Outside, Wulf’s men froze in their tents. If you return, I will crush you as I did him

Insults flew. Freca drew a dagger. Helm, unarmed, stepped forward. One punch—a single, terrible blow from the Hammerhand—caved in Freca’s skull. He died on the council floor.

“Your father drew first blood,” she replied, parrying with her sword.