Fanfic / The Dreamer Gate

The eponymous gate

Thousands of Uruk-Hai are drawn to Remnant after a ritual gone wrong, and are more than capable of bringing their own taste of war to this new world. Now the people of Remnant must deal with this new and numerous threat. As the Tournament draws near, and the actions of the Uruk Leaders grow ever bolder, can peace truly be maintained?

The Dreamer Gate is a crossover fanfic between Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and RWBY that was written by Malignent.

The story begins in the land of Mordor, thousands of Uruk-Hai are gathered to witness a grand ritual conducted by the warchief Tugog the Dreamer, who has the power to see into the future through cryptic dreams. However, things don’t go exactly as expected and now they’re transported into the world of Remnant. What happens next is a series of destruction, carnage, and other antics.

WARNING: Contains unmarked spoilers until Chapter 18

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Tropes that the story provides:

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• Accent Slip-Up: Zog the Singer accidentally slips out his uruk voice during his fight with Miltia, which almost surprised her.
• Acrofatic: Krimp is large enough to dwarf Team RWBY, despite that, not only is he agile enough to keep up with them in direct combat, he’s also stealthy enough to literally sneak away from them without making a single noise.
• Action Girl: Of course, considering this is a crossover with RWBY.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Though Dove has always been a bully, here he’s also a snarky asshole that will actively goad, if not, antagonize his classmates for shits and giggles,
• A Fate Worse Than Death: The Shaman has the ability known as “The Shackle”, which subjugates and shackles the souls of those who he has killed or had died within his range. Not only are they barred from death, but are also effectively reduced into mindless slaves.
• All Your Base Are Belong to Us: During the Battle of Beacon, The Storm takes complete advantage of the chaos by causing a full-scale siege, killing off opposing Huntsmen and Huntresses and capturing the ‘’entire city’’. They’ve even taken over Ironwood’s Airship!
• Ambiguous Innocence: Krimp has a rather joyful and even childlike demeanor, despite that he’s still an Uruk and was raised in a place where violence is as common as air. Chapter 17 implies he’s smarter than he lets on.
• Ambiguous Situation: It’s still not clear whether Ratlug killed Qrow or not, while the former had his weapon and his bloody cape, his body isn’t actually shown.
• Ambition Is Evil: Pugrish is ambitious enough that he double-crossed the other warchiefs, took over the City of Vale, and had even planned on challenging Sauron himself once he’s secured Remnant firmly in his grasp.
• An Arm and a Leg: Hork loses both an arm And a leg after being curbstomped by Pugrish. Same could also be said for Cinder, though its actually both of her feet
• Angst? What Angst?: Even though Yang was abducted, enslaved, imprisoned, and almost murdered by otherworldly murderous monsters, she shows no signs of being affected at all. Blake even lampshades this.
• Anyone Can Die: When Coco is killed from getting her head crushed by Belfor..
• Ascended Extra:
  • Both Miltia and Melanie had their roles expanded, now acting as bodyguards to Banz and Rolo (aka Zog and Borgu in human disguises).
  • Team CVFY have more major roles, with them rescuing Velvet from the Uruk Slave Tournament. At the end of the volume, Velvet and Yatsuhashi joins up with Team RNJR on their journey to Mistral after Coco’s death and Fox’s departure.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership:
  • Pugrish, aka The Grand Shaman. Possessing enough strength and durability to tear through and kill the Grimm Wyvern, exceptional speed and combat prowess which is enough to match and defeat a Fall Maiden, and cunning intelligence is what made him the most fearsome Uruk, as well as the leader of The Storm.
  • Surprisingly, Uthug becomes this. After beating down every opposing enemies and captains in Arceus, he became the de-facto leader of the entire fleet.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Near the end of Chapter 18, the Grimm known as ‘Bruma’s Folly’ completely annihilates both the attacking Atlesian fleet AND the entire Garrison HQ.
• A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Zog, Borgu, and Ogthrak (Banz, Rolo, and Mr. Bigsby respectively) are disguised as humans so they could publish out genre-varied songs/music as well as run a trashy nightclub.
• Ax-Crazy: Bubol the Diseased literally takes pleasure in goring his foes.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: Ishga Blood-Storm and Skak Blood-Axe, whenever they get involved in a fight.
• Badass Boast: After conquering the City of Vale, Pugrish broadcasts a message stating he will send his armies to finish off the survivors in Patch, then declaring a full-blown WAR against everybody in Remnant.
• Badass in Distress: After Yang was kidnapped by Bubol, she spent half of the story being in captivity by Krosh to prepare for the Slave Tournament. Just as her teammates had arrived to the rescue, she is immediately whisked away to Vacuo to be delivered to Hork to be executed for aiding in murdering his youngest brother, Ashgarn.
• The Bad Guy Wins: By the end of Chapter 20, The Storm has conquered the entire City of Vale.
• Bald of Evil: Hork, Bubol and Ratlug are bald and definitely evil.
• Batter Up!: During the Slave Tournament, Velvet is forced to fight a White Fang captain named Courser who used a metal bat AND baseball as weapons.
• Beard of Evil: Ogthrak in his disguise has a wild beard that conceals most of his face.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: Banz/Zog is known throughout Vale for his songs, although this is mostly due to his Semblance.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: Uthug went from being a bit of a scavenging Dirty Coward who will flee when there’s danger to the fearsome juggernaut of the Arceus who carves his way through his foes.
• Berserk Button: Should Skak’s Blood-Axe be denied from gutting his enemies, he would enter a blood-crazed rage mode.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Krimp lives up to his title by befriending anybody he meets, nevertheless he’s still a walking tank that could brush off attacks without even aura, as well as being stronger than most Uruks.
• Big Bad: Pugrish Stormbringer
• Big Eater: Ashgarn the All-Eater is known for his insatiable appetite and a knack for cannibalizing his fellow Uruks, he had even claimed to have eaten solid stone.
• Big Good: Professor Ozpin.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: Ishga (Little Guy) and Skak (Big Guy)
• Big "NO!": Hork lets out one when Yang got rescued from him.
• Black Comedy: The story features a handful of this. An example:

Hork: You two exit this quarters immediately lest I have Dharg here scalp the both of you for intrusion.

Uruk Grunt: But our master said-

Hork: Make me repeat myself, worm, and your eyes will join your scalps

• Blatant Lies: A pretty humorous one when Tarz got caught red-handed as a traitor.

Uruk Grunt: BOSS! HELP ME!

Skak: Boss?

Tarz: I’ve never seen this bloke in my life

• Bloodier and Gorier: Should be expected considering what we're dealing with here.
• Blood Knight: Most Uruks really enjoy causing and inflicting violence wherever they go
  • Bubol grins and cackles maniacally whenever he gets into a fight and relishes butchering his enemies.
  • Pugrish is this as well despite being a Soft-Spoken Sadist, at one point he even broke his own arm just to give Roman and Neo an advantage and to prolong the battle just to thrill himself.
• Bodyguard Babes: Melanie and Miltia acts as this to Banz and Rolo.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: While Ogthrak is a behemoth himself, his master Pugrish is quite literally a monster among monsters.
• Body Horror:
  • Ashgarn after having his eye torn through by Weiss' Myrtenaster. The worst part is he was still alive despite having been not treated for weeks and was unconscious, eventually it would house maggots that are feasting on it!
  • Bubol the Diseased - a vile and perverted Uruk who has disgusting pus-filled boils growing over his face and body, with straps or stitches secured tightly on some of the boils to prevent it from spreading. Despite all that, it never stops him.from moving around and hinder him.
  • Mincemeat - Krosh’s female slave. Her arms were amputated and instead was replaced with fingers that wiggle around sporadically. Parts of her flesh are replaced with mismatched skin, appearing more like a Humanoid Abomination than a human. Her means of attack? Chowing down on her opponents with her bear-trap mouth.
• Boring, but Practical: The Uruks only ever use simple weaponry such as swords, crossbows, and spears. Subverted with The Storm, in which they use rifles that change into swords, metal greaves that are similar to Mercury's but with spikes, hell the Shaman himself uses a pogo-stick. The list goes on.
• Bright Is Not Good: The Storm all share a white and blue warpaint on their bodies to signify their allegiance. Pugrish Stormbringer’s eyes glow rather ominously as well.
• Brown Note: Whatever is written on The Shaman’s journal can send anybody who reads it into complete insanity, as demonstrated on poor Tuka.
• Brutal Honesty:
  • Krimp, despite his jolly attitude, tells Bebe how she and Uthug aren't so different, much to the Faunus' chagrin.
  • Hork unleashes one to Tugog.

Hork: You were always so weak-willed Dreamer, not even your clairvoyance could erase that, this is why your captains walk all over you. Why everyone's just waiting for the Shaman to make a play.

• Butt-Monkey: Bebe and Uthug are this, whenever Tuka’s plans horribly backfires, they usually receive the short-end of the stick. Although as of the Arceus, Uthug slowly drifts away from this role.
• Cast of Snowflakes:
• Character Development: A few of the Uruks get this, such as Uthug as seen above.
• Cloudcuckoolander:
  • Krimp comes across as this, being a bit childlike and naive as well getting distracted over simple things such as a bird. Although later chapters imply he’s smarter than he lets on.
  • Skak always talks to Blood-Axe as if it were a person, much to Ishga’s annoyance. Whether or not the axe is a cursed object or that Skak is just simply delirious is up for debate,
• Cold Ham: Pugrish is often this, especially at the end of Chapter 20 when he took over the City of Vale.
• Comedic Sociopathy: Expect plenty of this should you read the story.
• Comically Missing the Point: Krimp is this when Ogthrak threatens Bebe if he finds out that she's trying to gather evidence to rat him out to the police.

Oggie: If I catch you snooping around my possessions or setting up equipment or doing anything that might lead me to believe you're trying to get the evidence you so sorely lack... I'm gonna break all your limbs and toss you into the basement to starve to death.

Krimp: We have a basement?

• Companion Cube: Skak’s Blood-Axe
• Creepy Awesome: You’ll see a lot of this from Pugrish. Awesome how he stomped Hork and Cinder of all people with almost no effort at all, as well as being able to wield magic. Creepy because of his ominous appearance and even the way he talks.
• Creepy Blue Eyes: The Shaman’s eyes glow white and blue.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Krosh gives one to Yang, resulting in her shoulder being dislocated.
  • The Grand Shaman delivers a scary one to Hork in which he severed both of his arm and a leg and then obliterated a part of his lower jaw.
• Darker and Edgier
• Darkest Hour: Reaches this by the end. The Storm has conquered the City of Vale. Coco and Pyrrha are dead, though Qrow's fate is unknown. Hork and Tugog has just lost most, if not, all their loyal followers and are left with no base after Pugrish's betrayal, and the list of people that could stand up against him is dwindling. Not only that, but The Storm are also preparing to finish off everybody in Patch. Safe to say things aren't looking quite good for everybody.
• Dark Is Evil: Hork’s army all sport black-colored warpaint on their bodies.
• Death by Adaptation: Coco dies near the end of the story.
• The Dreaded:
  • Pugrish has the reputation of being one of, if not, the most powerful Uruk in the Dark Lord’s Army, and everybody is justifiably afraid of him.
  • The Uruks are considered to be the second most dangerous species in Remnant, following close behind to the Creatures of Grimm. Almost everybody in the world fears them because of their large numbers and the threat they pose, and also because nobody knows what their origins are, why they suddenly appeared one day out of the blue, and also why they’re so hostile to the people of Remnant.

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• Elite Mooks: The Storm’s soldiers are all skilled and strong enough to take on Huntsmen-in-Training, even managing to kill a few of them in Chapter 20.
• Establishing Character Moment:
  • In Chapter 1, the first we read of Tugog is him mumbling words of encouragement to himself despite being anxious at the thought of his ritual failing.
  • Uthug getting into a heated argument with an Uruk after getting accused of being a “fake” during a gathering with Ashgarn. The glutton gets pretty pissed, and Uthug immediately blames his opponent that the latter was the one who started it.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Hork really did loved his brother Ashgarn despite deeming him a failure, as seen when he reacts strongly to the latter's demise. Although Hork doesn’t care much for his brother Krimp, Krimp very much loves him.
• Evil vs. Evil:
  • The Uruks and the White Fang
  • Also with Pugrish and Cinder
• Eye Scream: Ashgarn gets his eye stabbed out by Weiss.
• Facial Horror: Krimp gets half of his face blown off after getting hit by Ratlug's battle-Vehicle during the train battle with Team RWBY, though somehow his face was able to heal itself without leaving any scars.
• Failed a Spot Check: When Team RWB were travelling to Vacuo, failing to notice a little scorpion that had been following them. Turns out it was actually Gundza who possessed the scorpion, and immediately ambushed the Huntresses-in-Training once they arrived near Hork’s Tower.
• Fantastic Racism: Bebe is this to both Humans and Uruks, although not quite the same as her fellow White Fang members.
• Foil: Uthug and Gundza. Uthug isn't really that skilled and mostly relies on strength to get around, while also being pretty reckless when it comes to fights. Gundza, on the other hand, is more intelligent and skilled, as well as being a tactical planner.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Uthug is this as seen above.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: Tuka after reading Pugrish’s journal.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Due to being partially responsible for the existence of the Uruk-Hai, Sauron is this, despite never appearing in the story.
• Humanoid Abomination: The Uruk-Hai are a different breed of orcs, only bigger, stronger, and more violent than them.
• I Call It "Vera": Pugrish’s pogo-stick is named “Drumenvok”, while Skak’s Blood-Axe is… well, Blood-Axe.
• I Can't Believe I'm Saying This: Uthug agrees with Bebe that bringing Ashgarn’s corpse to Hork has essentially doomed the three of them.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Well, Urukitarian in Ashgarn’s case.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: After getting dragged along by Tuka with his brilliant and wonderful plans, Uthug decides to go and get a drink.
• Invincible Villain: The Grand Shaman is this.
• It's All My Fault: Hork thinks this after failing to kill Team RWBY and having most of his base/forces destroyed.
• Jerkass: Dove Bronzewing is this.
• Just Friends: Coco politely turns down Velvet’s feelings for her.
• Karmic Death: Tarz and Tuka
• Large Ham: Banz gets pretty hammy before singing.
• Laughably Evil: Uruks, such as Ratlug and Bubol, can have pretty amusing moments.
• Lightning Bruiser: Should be expected from the characters in RWBY, with Uruks such as Ratlug, Krimp, and Pugrish being this.
• Mad Doctor: Ratlug and Tarz, the former is an engineer that loves to make all sorts of crazy contraptions (like turning an entire room into a giant music box} while the latter is the only competent Uruk medic but has a knack of cutting things up.
• Malevolent Masked Man: Pugrish dons the ‘Mask of Memories’, which is crafted from the faces of his fallen foes.
• Meaningful Name: “Pug-Bringer Studios”, the music studio Ogthrak/Bigsby runs, is short for “Pugrish Stormbringer”.
• Mood Whiplash: The chapters would always shift to different POVs, one minute it's calm and nothing much is happening, the next there is an intense battle that's going on.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Pugrish doesn’t have the title “Stormbringer” for no reason.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: The Shaman’s naturally tough and resilient body combined with his large Aura made him practically immune to most of Cinder’s attacks.
• No-Sell: Krimp essentially tanks through most of Team RWBY’s attacks like nothing during their fight.
• Not Quite Dead: Ashgarn was this for a while. After he’s presumably killed by Weiss, Tuka and the gang drag him to Hork’s Tower while unconscious. He wakes up, livid after realizing their ploy and assaults the crew. He gets crushed by falling rubble and once again only placed him unconscious. He was then Killed Off for Real after Tuka stabs him through the exact spot his eye was punctured.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Hork of The Black Gate, he’s a Warchief and one of the more powerful Uruks out there. So powerful that Yang was convinced that even with her entire team they couldn’t possibly take him on in combat. Pugrish also counts as this.