It is the year 2965 of the Third Age. Twenty-four years since the events of the Hobbit and the Battle of the Five Armies ushered in a new era of prosperity for the Free Peoples. But now, rumors of strange things happening outside the borders of civilized lands are spreading with increasing regularity. Curious scholars, wayward wanderers and restless warriors have started recognizing these rumors for the sinister truths they are, a shadow that is lengthening from the dark corners of Middle-earth.