Bodraan

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Bodraan, the Twilit Knight, knighted by Monarch Issa Halzhaan and bane of the Frost Hag, is a legendary figure of the Third Age.

Lore

It is known that he met Issa Halzhaan before the Cobalt Eclipse - the calamity brought by the Frost Hag - but circumstances of their introduction are unknown. Bodraan is also known to have had a sister, who contracted the Frost Hag’s curse, but how that happened is also lost to history.

There is, curiously, no documented mention of Bodraan and his sister after the fall of the Frost Hag – no grave to mark his possible demise to the Hag, and no mention of an honoured knight remaining at court following the end of the Cobalt Eclipse. The legend of Bodraan lives on, but one cannot help but note that that legend seems somewhat cut short.

Mentions

Bodraan, the legendary Twilit Knight that vanquished the calamitous Frost Hag is an enigma. We know that he met Issa Halzhaan before the Cobalt Eclipse descended on the Braided Shore, but the circumstances of their meeting is unknown. We know he had a sister who is rumoured to have contracted the Frost Hag's cursed touch but how this happened has not been discovered. What's even more curious is that there is no official mention of Bodraan or his sister after the fall of the Frost Hag. One would assume that he would stay at Issa's side when she formed her empire but, alas, there is no mention of him being there. One would think that perhaps he lost his life in the battle against the Hag like so many others did, but no grave has ever been found. Such a hero would have undoubtedly been given a magnificent tomb, so where is it?

Geva Kha, historian.



When the hour was darkest and the Cobalt Eclipse of the Frost Hag blocked out the sun, Halzhaan I sent her most loyal knight, Bodraan, to battle the monster. Clad in his midnight armor, the Twilit Knight, together with Halzhaan, clashed with the Hag in a final decisive battle. The Frost Hag sustained many wounds in the fight and where her unnatural blood touched the ground, cobalt grass sprouted. The grass was harvested and heated over a fire, where the cobalt strands turned into a deep cinnabar and was made into tea. When drunk by Bodraan's sister Nesef, who had been cursed by the Hag's frostbitten touch, the tea filled her soul with warmth and cured her of her affliction. The Frost Hag was never seen in Braided Shore again, but there are still spots of cobalt moss with strands of Nesef grass in areas where the battle took place.