Khamûl The Easterling

He was born in easternmost Endor in 1744, second age, Komûl was the eldest son of Mûl Tanûl, the high Lord of the Womaw. Khamôl appeared at Barad-Dûr in Mordor around year 2000, second age. He was known thereafter as Khamûl, in accordance witn the Black Speech pronunciation of his given name. While at the Dark Tower, he served Sauron as the Master of the hold, and his responsiobilites included administering the maintenance of the Citadel and its garrison. The wardship remained in his capable hands until SA 3350, when Ûrzahil of Umbar became the Mouth of Sauron and the Lieutenant of the Tower.

Khamûl fled Mordor when Sauron was captured in 3262 but returned in the year of 3400. The Easterling remained in Mordor during the war of the Last Alliance (SA 3429-3441). When the Dark tower fell in SA 3441, the Nazgûl met the vangard of the Elven host and fought a long, brutal melee. Unprotected, Sauron was forced to engage his foes in personal combat. This proved to be his undoing for, although he slew both Elendil the Tall and il-galad, the Evil one lost his One Ring (and his finger) in the fray, and his spirit passed into the Shadow World. The second age ended as the Nazgûl went into exile with Sauron, which lasted over a thousand years.

Khamûl briefly took up residence with Sauron at the citadel of Dol-Guldur in southen Mirkwood as they slowly rebuilded their strength. In the third age, Khamûl accompanied the other eight in the surprise assault against Minas Ithil. Two years later they took the surrounded city and captured the Palantír. Minas Ithil bacame the home of the Ringwraiths and was henceforth called Minas Morgul. During Saurons last stay at Dol-Guldur Khamûls warriors captured the Dwarf Lord Thraín II and took his Ring of power. During his last year of imprisonment he managed to give Gandalf the key to the side entry into Erebor ("Lonely Mountain") In 3017 the Hobbit Gollum was captured and Sauron came to know how the Ring was found. Later Gollum came in the hands of Aragon and was held by the elves in northen Mirkwood. Khamûl and Adûnaphel led the Orcs of Dol-Guldur in an attempt to crush the Silvan Elves and recapture Gollum, but the Elves inflicted heavy damage on Khamûls underlings and eventually Gollum escaped on his own.

Khamûl rode with the other eight Black Riders to Gladden Fields (where Gollum found the Ring in the river) hoping to find the Shire. But they only found deserted settlements of the Stoors, and quickly realized that it must be in Eriador. They skirted Loríen and rode through Rohan, up the Greenway, with took them to the land of the Hobbits. In the Green Hill Country, Khamûls keen sense of smell nearly uncovered Frodos hiding place below the road. Following the defeat at Rivendell, Khamûl and Adûnaphel retured to Dol-Guldur and prepared for the war.

Dwar of Waw

Dendra Dwar was born in the village Horm on Waw, the Isle of Dogs, is Second age 1949. In the year 1965 the evil K´prur from Hent landed on Waw and burt the village, killing most of the people, including Dwar´s father Dendra Wim. Dwar escaped and sailed north to Wõl, the warlike realm of the mainland Wõlim tribes. Dwar realized that his own people possessed neither skill nor the arms to defeat Hent, so Dwar learned the ways of the forest and the field, and became an able warrior. Dwar´s fascination with warcraft did not prevent him from seeking a more powerful means of exacting his revenge, and is 1969 he entered an school devoted to ancient magical arts. Studying under the priest Embra Slil, Dwar became a mage.

After the return and victory over Hent, the now called "Dog-king", established himself as the High-Lord of the Isles and refused to reconvene the Elder Councils. In order to satiate his desire for power and vengeance, Dwar proclaimed that he was heir to all surrounding islands and costal realms. All of the islands between Waw and mainland- as well as the great Avar Elven isle of Címóníemor to the south -were incorporated into Dwar´s Kingdom. The Lord of Dogs reached the height of his power and poised his minions for the assault on Hent.

Slowly Dendra Dwar vanished. His soul consumed by greed and hatred, Dwar of Waw accepted the offer of imortality and took a Ring of Power from Sauron of Mordor. In the time to come, war and pludering raged and peace came only after Dwar´s departure for Mordor in Second Age 2250.

From 2250 to 3262, Dwar lived at Barad-dûr in the Black Land where he bred the War-wolfes of Mordor. The offspring of his labour haunted Endor for centuries to come, but when the Númenóreans captured Sauron, Dwar fled back to Waw. Dwar returned to Mordor in 3320, a year after the Lord of the Rings returned to the Dark Tower. Dwar resumed his work, preparing for the oncoming struggle against the Dúnadan successor states of Arnor and Gondor. Dwar himself followed the fate of Sauron, so when Barad-dûr fell and the Evil One lost the ruling Ring, Dwar passed with his master to the shadows.

Dwar reformed and reawakened in Third age 1051. While briefly at the side of the Dark Lord in Dol Guldur, he flew east to Waw later the same year. There, he resided for the next five hundred and eighty-nine years. Sauron recalled Dwar to the west in 1640. His work done in the east, the Dog-Lord went into Mordor with the rest of the Úlari and began to prepare the realm for the Evil One´s eventual reemergence. Dwar remained in the Black Land until the year 2000, when he participated in the Nazgûls capture of Minas Morgul. He lodged in the captured capital of Ithilien until 2063.

Dwar returned to Mordor when Sauron abandoned Dol Guldur and reentered the Black Land. The Nazgûl joined in the rebuilding of Barad-dûr that began in 2951. When his work there ended, he returned to breeding wolves and hounds. Dwar´s next task, like those of the other Ringwraiths, focused on recovering the Ruling Ring. He accompained his fellow Black Riders into the Anduin Valley, through Rohan and on into Eriador. Dwar went north with the Which-King and four others through Andrath to Bree. Soon thereafter, Ûvatha departed to join Khamûl and the other Riders , but Dwar, the Which-King, Akhôrahil, Indûr and Ren attacked the company on Weathertop and succeeded in wounding Frodo.

The Nazgûl pursued the fleeing Ringbearer and his compatriots to the Bruinen Ford, but the enchanted floodwaters crushed their hopes. Dwar, the third to reach the river, felt the full force of the torrent, and lost his steed. Dwar returned to Mordor and resumed the search for the One Ring during the coming months. Assigned to the main army that gathered at Ûdun, he missed the Battle of Pelennor Fields that claimed the Lord of the Nazgûl. However, he took part in the aerial flight above the final Battle of Morannon, and the subsequent flight to intercept the Ringbearer on Mount Doom. But he finally came to an end, when the breaking of the Ruling Ring unmade his own Ring of Power, and robbed him of his only link to Eä.

Jí Indûr Dawndeath

Indûr Dawndeath was born Jí Indûr in the city of Korlan in S.A 1955. heir to the fortune of welthiest family in the Kiran republic, he was the youngest man ever elected govonor in any of the realms six districts.

He worked for the creation of a central government which could contest the growing might of Nûmenor. Indûr slowly accumulated support among the wealthy merchants and warriors , as well as among the nearby Elves. But after the realm was on the threshold of war and as riots began to burst out, Indûr fled east to Mûmakan.

Sauron´s agents had resied in the home of the Mûmakil since the mid-eighteenth century, S.A, and Jí Indûr´s cordial relations with the Dark Lords´s minions enabled him to find a refuge after his overthrow. The tall Kiran povided the Lord of the Rings an opportunity to further his sordid goals in the Far South, while Sauron offered the exiled king a new throne. This heinous pact doomed the Mûmakani. The Evil One gave Indûr a Ring of Power in S.A 2001, and later the same year the Ringwraith captured the throne of Mûmalan on behalf of his evil mentor.

Jí Indûr was crowned Jí Amaav II of Mûmakan. Ruling from the holy city of Amaru, Indûr united the semi-nomadic tribes and laid plans for further conquest. His reign lasted 1261 years, during which the Mûmakni became a corrupt people. Indûr returned to the Middle-earth around T.A 1050 and spent the next two centuries regaining his strength on the isle of E-Sorul Sare.

During the rest of the Third Age, he stayed at Mordor (1640-2000) or at Minas Morgul (2000-2460 and 2941-3019). He traveled with the Witch King in the search for the One Ring in T.A 3018, encountering the company on Weathertop and losing his mount during the confrontation at the Bruinen Ford. Later, he oversaw the preparations for the Mûmakil assault during the ill-fated campain against Minas Tirith. His end came after the skirmish with the great Eagles over the battle of Morannon, for as Indûr and the other Fell Riders flew to intercept the Hobbits at Mount Doom, they became engulfed in the destruction resulting from the unmaking of the One Ring. Thus, the shadow of the South disappeared from Eä.

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.