Ringlin left his sheltered Linadan home early in life to seek ou the answers to his frightening and mysterious parentage. His mother was mute and unable to interact with the world about her, and his father was a man unknown. What Ringlin would discover was even more terrifying that he could have imagined. In the meantime, however, he became embroiled in a power struggle between young heirs to power in the eastern realms and several other factions, all Dark Powers which threatened to plunge all Middle-earth into anarchy. The Unholy Sars (Morgoth's Blood Pools) had been opened again, and the Power of the Black Enemy was being felt (albeit indirectly).Arxdukanga, the high-priest of a Dark Cult in the Orocarni, was the key to the Sars' power, and to Ringlin's past — for he was in fact Luingurt