Dunadas, in his Causeries, relates how, in 1843, he went boating in the Sea of Middle-earth with the Marquis Thierry-Broucques de Pippesquique, and chanced upon a peculiar gangrel creture with a hissing accent. The creature led them to a mysterious island named Monte Fato, where trolls abounded and made for good hunting. Regrettably, the Marquis went insane upon landing on the island and went about calling himself Viceregent of Melcor, and crying that Barad-dour must rise again, twice as high as before, or the Jacobins have won! In the end, he jumpd into a volcano, saying, "Pierre-Jacques, we meet before Érou!" This sad loss inspired Dunadas to explore the history of the island, and eventually to produce a tome entitled L'Ouestmarcheillaise, ou Le comte de Monte-Fato. This work was immediately banned as savouring of le sauronisme, and has only recently been recovered by the present writer through sinister arts, and translated to the best of his ability.
Within minutes of his arrival at the abode of the Viscount de Pérégrin, the Count of Monte Fato subjugated all those brilliant young people who thitherto had been ironising so acerbically in his regard. Have a care, reader, lest his Ring subjugate you.
