Before striking him down, however, Zog told them a necromancer was never truly dead. The Olog made multiple attempts to eliminate his former master, including baiting him into an outpost in Cirith Ungol where he held some of Talion and Celebrimbor's poisoned followers, with some of the Olog's own followers waiting there to kill the Bright Lord, and even captured Ratbag's companion Ranger to draw them to Seregost and into a cave to attempt to blow them up with a dummy made to look like Ratbag's friend and barrels of grog. Talion disagreed with this, believing they were meant to destroy Sauron, causing Celebrimbor to angrily yell about the impossibility of such a task, which Eltariel agreed with. Talion and Celebrimbor then proceeded to give a great speech to their Orc army about claiming Mordor for their own before they leaped into the fight against Sauron's army.

The vision she showed him revealed the general was the traitor within Minas Ithil, his seeming abduction by the Witch King's agents meant to deflect suspicion from himself. In the aftermath of the battle, Celebrimbor chided Talion, remarking that they could have gotten useful information out of the Hammer, to which Talion angrily retorted that their dead enemy had helped murder his entire family, and asked what Celebrimbor would have done in similar circumstances. Once the Witch-king learned of Talion, he began his pursuit. In combat, Isildur's style resembles Talion's ranger skills more than any other ringwraith.The Witch-king is the most powerful of the nine ringwraiths, having served Sauron as a Nazgûl for more than four thousand years. However, the Orcs proved no match for Talion, forcing the Hammer to enter the fray, but although he put up more of a fight than his underlings, he was still defeated by Talion. After defeating the two rogue Nazgûl sisters, Talion finally started to succumb to the ring's influence and pleaded with Eltariel that she take him to Gondor before taking his ring, as he did not want to die in Mordor. However, the power these Rings provide proved to be too much, and Sauron's influence eventually consumed them. In the aftermath, Talion warned Hirgon that this attack would only draw the ire of Sauron's minions, but Hirgon insisted it had been necessary to give his people some hope the Dark Lord could be resisted. Castamir is killed by the Witch-king and Talion is escaped thanks to the help of With the Ring back in his possession, Talion begins to use its power to dominate Orcs and build his army. Collecting and finding the gifts, he learns Celebrimbor was an Elf-Lord who had helped Sauron create the rings of power. However, Talion and Celebrimbor were able to over-power Zog and his legion of undead orcs and Acolytes, and after his defeat, Carnen's spirit appeared in the skies in her drake form.

Beaten, the Hammer taunted Talion, implying that the darkness he was fighting against had already begun to claim him, before Talion disarmed the Hammer, opened his throat with his sword and then killed him by driving Dirhael's blade through the Black Numenorean's heart.

Isildur was killed in the chase, and the Ring flew into the Anduin River, where it was found years later by Gollum. He remarked upon Eltariel's presence being in Mordor for a reason and offered her his Ring of Power, convincing the elven assassin that together they could bring Sauron to his knees and finish what their people started centuries ago. Meet Talion and Celebrimbor from 'Middle-Earth: Shadow of War' Ranger, Captain of the Watch, Ioreth's husband, Dirhael's father, The Bright Lord, Nazgûl, Lord of Minas MorgulThe One Wiki to Rule Them All has an article about: Bruz quickly launched an aggressive recruitment drive as the first to ever break free of Talion's control and towards this end captured Talion's former Overlord and two of his war chiefs and tied them up to posts to die. Ratbag assisted Talion in freeing his followers, and later sneaking back into the fortress through an emergency escape tunnel he had installed during his reign to confront the renegade Olog. When Talion next came to the Outcasts' camp, he found Hirgon and Talion then went to the ruins of the Gorthaur, where he watched the Whirling around at this challenge, the Hammer was amazed and delighted to discover the so-called Gravewalker was the Ranger he'd helped murder at the Black Gate, and taunted Talion, asking him where his courage had been when they'd killed his wife and son, before demanding the Orcs present kill Talion. Doom, before being struck down alongside his mount. Before Talion could move to stop the traitor general, several of the Ringwraiths descended into the chamber, keeping Idril and Talion at bay as the Witch King arrived, demanding Castamir hand over what he'd promised. Carnen merely responded it was the "cry of the forest. Celebrimbor turned on Talion, reminding him he was merely a vessel and turned to face Eltariel and stating there were others. Talion, using his army, proceeded to spend the next several decades holding back Mordor, keeping the region of Middle Earth locked in a constant state of war, preventing the Orcs from spreading beyond its borders and giving the Free Peoples of Middle Earth time to prepare for the War of the Ring, all the while trying to also keep the darkness of Isildur's Ring from corrupting him as well. Talion was stunned by this, but Eltariel urged him to fight, insisting that the wights were no longer men and could only be put out of their misery. Fighting off packs of In the aftermath of Helm's defeat however, Talion rounded on Celebrimbor, outraged by one thing he'd seen in the vision most of all; the elf lord standing side by side with Sauron as the Dark Lord presented Helm with the Ring of Power that had consumed him. Talion told her of its creation, the fact it was now in Shelob's possession and that the Witch King and likely now Sauron knew of that fact. She questioned him as to how he was capable of doing so, while behind her back, Celebrimbor urged Talion to take the artefact she wore at her wrist, which he referred to as the Talion then asked after the fate of Minas Ithil and the Palantir; Eltariel bluntly replied both were now possessions of Sauron, before turning the conversation onto the matter of the New Ring. Once the vision passed, the Black Hand snarled that Sauron had been willing to offer Celebrimbor a second chance to stand at his side, but if the elf would throw that offer back in the Dark Lord's face, then he would die.