"Why do I get the feeling this Aragorn is coming straight for us?" Adolf Heinrich traced a route across the sand-table map, then discovered in surprise that the bastard was heading directly for the Lagrange Kingdom!
"Mm!" Roland nodded without a care. It was hardly strange that Aragorn had come; it would have been strange if he had not! After learning his true identity in history, the kid had traveled through the two southern kingdoms, serving respectively under the Steward of Gondor and the King of Rohan. Rather than immediately raising his banner and returning to claim the throne, he had wisely gone to gain practical experience and temper himself in both kingdoms, thoroughly making up for his lack of governing ability and military experience!
It was precisely the experience he accumulated in those two kingdoms, along with decades of tempering, that gave Aragorn that resilient character and so-called personal charisma. When the old man took the stage, he was already eighty-seven! But for a Dúnedain like Aragorn, he had only lived through a third of his life. Mm! Eighty-seven was exactly the age to head out and make a name for himself!
At this time, Aragorn was extremely young, with little experience of life. On March 1, Third Age 2931, Aragorn, son of Arathorn II, chieftain of the Dúnedain, was born. Legend said that the wizard Gandalf had brought an Elven jewel from Valinor. He gave this jewel, called Elessar, to Lady Galadriel and prophesied that she would one day bestow it upon another person also called Elessar. This Elessar would be a healer and a restorer. That person was Aragorn. When he became king in the future, he would thus be known as king Elessar.
Unfortunately, when Aragorn was two years old, his father Arathorn was shot through