[Mr. Mechanical]

Shadow of Mordor is a story about an Uruk called Ûthûg. He was just another nameless Uruk, wandering the muddy plains of Mordor, but everything changed for Ûthûg when, during a huge running battle, he delivered a fluke deathblow to feared Ranger, Talion.

Talion had recently become some kind of half-wraith being after some fairly contrived chain of events, but this did mean that he could do awesome stuff from the very second he started strutting around Mordor with little or no explanation. He was feared and he could cheat death itself.

Ûthûg’s victory against the Ranger won him a promotion within the Uruk army. He became a captain, but his tenure almost ended swiftly as he stumbled across Talion during a routine patrol. An arrow nearly ended his life, but after some ‘field surgery’, he survived the attack, albeit with a giant scrap of metal holding his head together. Ûthûg wanted vengeance.
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