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Éowyn (/ ˈ eɪ oʊ w ɪ n /) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.She is a noblewoman of Rohan who describes herself as a shieldmaiden.. With the hobbit Merry Brandybuck, she rides into battle and kills the Witch-King of Angmar, Lord of the Nazgûl, in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
Demonsbane (2000, ISBN 0743418999) is an e-novella written by Robert B. Marks.It appears in print in the Diablo Archive (2008, ISBN 9781416576990).. In the book, Siggard, the only survivor of the battle of Blackmarch, unable to remember the battle's final hours—is driven to avenge those slain by the army of darkness.
Staircase in the Brinvilliers home. The Marquise was born in 1630 to the relatively wealthy and influential household of d'Aubray. [1] Her father, Antoine Dreux d'Aubray (1600–1666), held multiple important governmental and high-ranking positions such as the Seigneur of Offémont and Villiers, councillor of State, Master of Requests, the Civil Lieutenant and prévôt of the city of Paris ...
Rose O'Neill (Irish: Róisín Dubh Ní Néill; fl. 1587–1607) was a Gaelic Irish noblewoman and queen consort of Tyrconnell.She was the daughter of Hugh O'Neill and wife of "Red" Hugh Roe O'Donnell, the two leaders of the Irish confederacy during the Nine Years' War.
The husband of the noblewoman and a doctor step out of the calèche, but the noblewoman refuses to leave her carriage. As the husband and the doctor discuss privately the noblewoman's unfavorable outlook, the posting-master's daughter, Masha, and her friend, Aksusha, run out to look at the Lady Shirkinskaya, vocally noting her sickly appearance.
Marguerite de La Rocque de Roberval (fl 1515–1542) was a French noblewoman who spent some years marooned on the Île des Démons while on her way to New France (Quebec). She became well known after her subsequent rescue and return to France; her story was recounted in the Heptaméron by Queen Marguerite of Navarre, and in later histories by François de Belleforest and André Thévet.
Phillip Hessel reviewed Daughters of Darkness in White Wolf #43 (May, 1994), rating it a 3 out of 5 and stated that "This book is useful as a source of ideas to integrate into an established campaign. If your players' characters never stay in one place long enough to get familiar with the locals, you may find this book less rewarding." [1]
She was a concubine of Emperor Go-Fukakusa from 1271 to 1283, and later became a Buddhist nun. [1] After years of travelling, around 1304–07 she wrote a memoir, Towazugatari ("An Unasked-For Tale", commonly translated into English as The Confessions of Lady Nijō ), the work for which she is known today, and which is also the only substantial ...