The fact that it took SO long for him to even waver is really more of a personal victory against Sauron and anyone has claimed since? Isildur? The sheer power of Denethor’s bloody minded focus is enough to mind duel an evil angel. Contending with Sauron might have aged him well beyond his years but Denethor still managed to wring vital information out of that stone and divide falsehood from fact for all that time. Like Denethor is a human man who has been dead-eyeing sauron on the DAILY for fifty!! years!! And Saruman too! Saruman tried to spy on him, tried to manipulate him and Denethor wasn’t even phased. He’s been doing this for as long as he’s been the Steward. ![]() People keep talking about him using the Palantir like it’s a really bad thing and he’s overestimated himself like. I am very very invested in narratives about action and beauty despite hopeless circumstances.Īnd then it’s just like? Not to be very basic but. POWERFUL about it, it gives me this push of energy, this surge of will and desire to do. There is just something so viscerally ahh…. It’s also seen in Boromir’s ‘Gondor wanes, but Gondor stands and even at the end of it’s strength, it is still very strong’ and then later in Denethor’s ‘ In what is left, let all who fight the Enemy in their fashion be at one, and keep hope while they may, and after hope still the hardihood to die free.‘ But that touches on another theme that is a BIG favourite of mine which is ‘make them bleed for every inch, rage against the dying of the light’. The thing about Denethor is he really has no hope left, he hasn’t believed they will win this war for many years. Somewhere in the book he’s called ‘Dauntless’ and it really does define him so well. Despite everything the war has cost him, it’s not until he has lost the very last thing he’s living for that his resolution breaks. Denethor is having to send his sons to war without him for the past 20 years and YET?ĭenethor’s DEFINING characteristic is his unwavering determination to protect his people. Denethor lost the single dearest love of his life to this war. ![]() Boromir might have won back Osgiliath in recent memory but Denethor has been winning and re-winning that outpost back and forth for decades before him. This man is 90! Denethor’s been at war since he was 30! Denethor had a father who completely dismissed him in favour of a charismatic stranger. It’s always a staple of my humour and Denethor’s weary kind of bitten determined resignation to the situation he has been given is something I find DEEP joy in, it’s a favourite trope. I mean I personally for a basic start have a very dear fondness for sardonic wit. The depth of him that comes across despite his relatively brief appearance. With a larger card pool it is relatively easy to build without it.URGH what a question!!! ffsfshh This Ask is a good read to start off with but damn my favourite parts of Denethor? Is just like. ![]() I think that we barely got any viable alternatives until the fourth cycle, so you either had to play with the overpowered Steward or pass up on resource generation in general. My main gripe with Steward of Gondor is that its existence seems to have hampered the inclusion of more balanced resource generation options in the early cycles. In early design, the card gave only one resource and was non-unique, which would be a much more reasonable rate IMO. The designers were aware of how powerful the card is but chose to include it anyway to give newer players a better fighting chance. Since this is a coop game you are free to omit these cards if you think that they make it too easy. This isn't different from how Sneak Attack + Gandalf can be game-breaking, or how insanely efficient A Test for Will is. Many quests will put you at a huge disadvantage, so having cards that are significantly above curve allows you to combat that without being a deck building genius. but the game is sort of build around that. Short answer: It is insanely overpowered. RiddermarkLord Alt Art Cards (250+ cards) Unofficial Alternative Art (Fan creations) Quest Guide w/ FAQ & Errata (All Releases): Full list of Player Errata Cards, including pre-errata text. ![]()
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