windymountaintop's Lair

At the end of the Third Age the Pillar was shattered. The Earthshaker pleaded with his kin to unite and face this tragedy unified, but one by one they left him behind as his body solidified into stones worn away by the howling wind into sand. Eventually he retreated into the earth's depths, a fortress of solitude and of sorrow in which he grieved. For each of his lost fellows, the Earthshaker carved a statue in their image, and his magic seeped into them, bringing them to life, avatars of gods.