Akhôrahil

Akhôrahil, the second of the fallen Númenórean Lords to fall under the enduring spell of Sauron´s Ruling Ring, was born at a manor overlooking the waters of Nísinen i S.A 1888. An obviously brilliant young man, Akhôrahil was spoiled at an early age, for his family enjoyed great wealth and reaped many of the benefits derived from Tar-Ciryatan´s aggressive overseas pludering.

In S.A 1904 the family sailed east to the haven of Hyarn in southwest Endor. Akhôrahil loved the new land and reveld in the virtually absolute power his father wielded over the subject peoples of the area. Unfortunately, the young man´s thirst for wealth and power spurred him to covet his father´s throne. Each year of waiting hurt more than the last. Then, in year S.A 1918, Akhôrahil acted upon his desires. Signing a perverse pact with an aged Haradan Preist, he exchanged his eyes for two great gems - the eyes of the well. These artifacts enabled him to cast deadly spells and to become the most powerful Sorcerer in the realm. Akhôrahil acquired control of his father´s mind and instilled such despair that King Ciryamir took his own life.

Physically blind, but capable of magically sensing things like a seeing man, Akhôrahil ascended the throne of Ciryatandor on the first day of S.A 1919. he proclaimed himself the Storm King and married his sister Akhôraphil within a week. Securely in control, the blind Sorcerer proceeded to arm his young kingdom and conquer the neighboring lands along the southern edge of Far Harad.

The campains waged by Akhôrahil incited the Lord of the Rings to move against Ciryatandor. A sage emissary journeyed south from Mordor, offering the black Númenórean a wealth of knowledge regarding magic and bearing the unlikely promise of immortality. Excited, the blind Sorcerer agreed to ascribe to the Dark Lord´s secretive treaty. The pact between Ciryatandor and Mordor was sealed when Akhôrahil accepted the Ring of Power from Sauron is S.A 2000. Thus the Storm King became the fifth Lord of Men to become a Nazgûl.

Akhôrahil took form again in Middle-earth around T.A 1050. Starting in T.A 1640, after slowly rebuilding the Dark Lord´s strongholds on the adjoining plateau of Nûrn, the Blind Lord recieved a visit from the Witch-king in T.A 1975. The Lord of the Nazgûl arrived in Mordor after the fall of his kingdom in Angmar earlier that year. He gathered the Úlari and plotted the final moves required to secure their master´s home. During the next twenty-five years, they assembled their forces and laid the plans to surprise the Dúnadan city at Minas Ithil.

The fell riders struck in T.A 2000, startling the valiant Gondorian garrison but failing to take the city. A two year siege ensued. Culminating with a tremendous melee before the shattered gates of the marble-walled town, the last battle claimed every remaining defender. Minas Ithil and its Palantír fell into the hands of the Ringwraiths in T.A 2002, therby ending any hold the South Kingdom retained over Mordor. From then onward, the moonlit city was called Minas Morgul. Akhôrahil stayed in Minas Morgul until the end of the Third Age. Although he frequently journeyed to both Luglûrak in Nûrn and Barad-dûr in Gorgoroth, the Storm King kept to the side of his captain, the Witch-king. Although only fifth in rank among the nine, Akhôrahil became the Witch-king´s most valued lieutenant.

In T.A 3018, the Storm-king took part in the search for the Ruling Ring and eventually rode with the Witch-king to the borders ofmthe elusive Shire in Eriador. Akhôrahil stayed close by the side of the Lord of Morgul throughout the search. He entered Bree and was one of the five Nazgûls to encounter the Company on Weathertop. When the Nine rendezvoused in the Lone Lands ant tried to cut off Frodo at the Ford of Bruinen, Akhôrahil and hid black mount was the last to be drawn int the turbulent floodwaters summoned by Elrond.

Forced to return to Minas Morgul, the Storm-king would never again encounter the ringbearer. The Storm-king was one of the four Úlari to take part in the epic battle of Pelennor Fields, and there he saw his Lord perish in single combat with Èowyn of Rohan. After the ensuing defeat and retreat, Akhôrahil flew to Ùdun and joined the other seven remaining Nazgûl for the cataclysmic strike against the Army of the free Peoples at Morannon. The Fell Riders attack out of the cloud sky and the subsequent melee with the Great Eagles was cut short, however, for Sauron realized that his end was sealed unless the Ringwraiths could stop Frodo and Sam from casting the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom. All the eight surviving Nazgûls flew southward, but they never arrived. The Ruling Ring, and all that was tied to it, perished in the wake of its fiery unmaking. Thus, Akhôrahil passed out of Eä.