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erosofthepen · 4 years ago

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Adana, Daughter of Gerirun

Overview: Adana was born in the dwarrow kingdom of Nûrad, South of Rhûn, to her father Gerirun, who is a high-advisor to the King of Nûrad, and her mother Lestuiré, a famous warrior. She learned much about weaponry because of her mother, and her weapon of choice is throwing knives and the bow. Muscular and stocky, like a true dwarf, and she has an incredibly stunning beard. She stands at 4 foot eight, quite the impressive height for a dwarrow.

Backstory: Adana grew up around politics and has a good understanding of them, however she just isn’t that interested in them. She wasn’t interested in weapons either, and prefered cooking to any of that. Her parents were terrible cooks, but they sent her to the kitchens to train under the cooks there, and her skills flourished. Nûrad was a large participant in the spice trade, as the climate there permitted many rare plants to grow, and Adana knew from a young age that Rhûn had their sights set on taking over Nûrad for the spice monopoly. The day came when Adana was 80. The palace where she resided was put under siege, and when they could not hold the Rhûnic invaders off any longer, they took over the palace, murdered the king and his family, and many of the nobility. Her mother had fought valiantly, but was killed, and her father was put under lock-and-key for a few months before he too met his fate. Adana escaped and ran for days, until she decided to seek refuge in the western lands, traveling all the way to Rohan until she found a steady job in Edoras.

Personality: ISFP-A. She always has a joke at the ready, and is just joyful in general. She keeps any group she’s in lively and full of conversation, and makes friends quick. Great diplomacy skills, and with a wide range of knowledge. However, she gets annoyed when people don’t listen to what she’s trying to tell them.

Fun Facts:

-Adana is based off of my best friend.

-One time Adana made friends with a jaguar that was just chilling in the forest.

-She loves to dance.

-She tells really bad jokes, but the delivery of them always makes people laugh.

-She has one of the most impressive beards in her entire country, with the perfect texture and softness, and that is a source of envy for some.

-She enjoys singing quite a bit.

-Likes cats a lot.

-Every time she tries to grow a plant, it ends up dying. The only plant that didn’t die of hers was a cactus. She lost it. She doesn’t know how, but she lost a fucking cactus.

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enanoakd · 7 years ago

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Note: This map shows the regions inhabited by tribes descended from the Talatherim tribes of the First Age. In the Third Age, these lands were known under the name Rhûn, Khand, Palisor, and Gulf of Ûtum. All these regions are part of the great plateau of Central Middle-Earth. The names and their geography of this regions were developed by Iron Crown Enterprises for MERP and Loremaster, therefore, they are not part of the canon of the Tolkien Legendarium.

Who were the Talatherim?

The Talathaerim (Av. "Plains-people", S. "Talathrim") or simply Talath were a primitive Easterling-culture of the First Age. They were nomads from Hildorien who wandered throughout Palisor and became the indigenious population of the vast steppe-lands of Central Middle-earth. The Talatherim were not a unified people but a collection of many different peoples. Most were herders, often swarthy, relatively small and stocky and close relatives to the Bórians and Uldorians of Beleriand, though one of their groups, the Tyr, were noticed for being exceptionally tall and fair-haired and were often guessed to be lost eastern relatives of the Hadorians.

Near-Rhûn (S. "East") was a vast region of nearly 500,000 square miles. Most of it is open territory - covered grasslands of varying quality. Western Rhûn was dominated by mountains, rolling hills, and river vales near the Inland Sea of Rhûn (S. "Rhûnaer"). Numerous rivers - including (clockwise from the northwest) the Celduin, Kug, Sûrûbeki, and Warwater - fed this great sea, which was the largest inland body of water in all of Middle-earth. The Taur Rómen (S. "Eastern Forest") covered the entire Kug Valley. Nearly 200 miles across, it stretched over 100 miles northeast of the Nen Rhúnen.

Near-Rhûn was home to myriad peoples. Ulgathig-speaking tribes typically occupied over half the area, including the eastern and central reaches. Ioradja-speakers usually dominated the southern steppe-lands. A mix of groups, of which the Dorwinrim were predominate, lived along the northern and western shores of the Inland Sea.

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Khand (earlier "Kha-on") stretched between the southeastern flank of the Ephel Duath and the northwestern edge of the Ered Harmal. It occupied the semi-arid plateau bordering northeastern Harad and thus commanded the great Khand Gap, the 100-mile wide pass facing southern Rhûn and eastern Mordor. Nûrad lay in the hills to the northeast.

Hot, dry, and windy, Khand was an unforgiving locale. Its flat, lowland areas afforded few means for stable settlement. Scrub and desert abound throughout Lower Khand. Here, horse herders moved their lightly-encumbered bands around a circuit of periodic shelters and encampments, their routes dictated by the location of springs, seasonal pools, and intermittent streams. The only permanent settlements lay along the broad, shallow Knife River, a tributary of the Harnen.

Upper Khand, which comprised the eastern and northern quarters of the region, enjoyed a bit more rainfall and cooler temperatures. The more numerous tribes of the area were generally richer and more settled than their brethren to the west and south.

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Palisor (Primitive Quenya: "Flat Land") or The Great Plain was an ancient term for the vast Lands of central Middle-Earth. Palisor encompassed the far Lands between the Great Greenwood in the west and the Orocarni in the east and included the vast Inland Sea of Helcar, the Mountains of the Wind with the Land Hildorien and the Murmenalda and the Lands of Cuivienen.

In the second and third Age most knowledge about eastern Middle-earth was lost and when Gondor conquered the lands surrounding the Rhûnaer they were astonished by the beauty of the Sea of Flowers in the east, why they called the unknown lands east of the Rhûnaer Menelothriand.

Palisor was believed to have been the birthplace of Elves and Men (and probably Hobbits) and the place of the Awakening of the four eastern Dwarf-Tribes. It was still inhabited by the various Easterling peoples, Orcs, Trolls and scattered remnants of Dwarves, Avari and Giants.

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The Bay of Ûtum (or Bay of Utumno) was a hughe rift in the Far North of Middle-Earth which separated the Forodwaith of Mur Fostisyr from the great Northern Peninsula. It was created by the destruction of Utumno by the Valar.

Most of the Tyr Easterlings settled around the shores and plains surrounding this bay. Among all descendants of the Talath the Tyr were often noted for having fair hair and pale complexion, perhaps hinting towards a long forgotten relation to the Hadorians.

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enanoakd · 7 years ago

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InFamous Easterlings: Yûmruk, the Black Scorpion of Khand

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EARLY DAYS

Yumrûk was born in the city of Laôrki, in the land of Khand, in the year 2986 of the Third Age. His parents were wealthy merchants of Khand, owners of large lands, near the Gap of Khand, east of Nûrn. His father was a native Variag, so that he was considered one too, but actually his blood was mixed, as his mother was of Magriag offspring, descendant from the Pultai dynasty of Kýkuryan Kýn, at east of the Sea of Rhûn, and his bloodline to the ancient Balchoth was very strong.

His family enjoyed a high social status in Khand by trading with the tribes surrounding the South and East coasts of the Sea of Rhûn and east of the Ered Harmal and the River Talathrant, in Nûrad, Relmether and Chey Sart. Yumrûk spent more time with his mother than his father. She was the principal in charge of handling the family business since his father was an Ôsvoda; a member of the council of the Khudriag of Khand, which at that time was Ôvatha IX.

Several times these merchant caravans took him to Mistrand, the big city and capital of the Great Khaganate, on the southeastern shore of the Sea of Rhûn. There was a leather tanner named Ulzag, who was one of the best customers of his parents. Ulzag had a son named Margöz, who was descendant from the northern Logath tribe. The Variag and the Logath that was only 3 years older than him soon became good friends. They shared many things together, whether it was sailing in the sea, exchanging knowledge about their native languages, riding and hunting. They had a common ideal: that all the tribes east of the great river are united once again.

TRIBAL BLOOD

Yumrûk inherited a very different attitude, both from his mother and his father's. He hated bureaucracy and commerce, had little patience for things, while he was not of giving up easily. He rode away for weeks and returned only when he had no alternative. He was like one of the fiercest Balchoth and had little mercy for the weak, whether animal or human. At the age of 10 years he killed for first time. The victim was a Haradrim farmer from Chelkar who had been wounded by some other group of mercenaries from the south, and begged for water and a doctor to attend to his horrific injuries. "I'll be your best medicine" were the words of Yumrûk before his axe blew off the skull splinters of the farmer.

At the age of 13 his father tried to instruct him in bureaucracy and commerce, but refused to learn, saying he had better things to do than spend all day locked in a palace. After the discussion, he took his horse and rode westward; farther than he ever had been, reaching the limits of Harondor, a land disputed by the Haradrim and the Kingdom of Gondor. There he lived for a time in solitude, under the shadow of the Ephel Duath, but an unfortunate night heading north he was intercepted by Ithilien rangers. They wore embroidered a white tree in their doublet, and made a torture of the night of the young Variag: he was taken prisoner; they killed his horse, made him starve and get cold, only because he belonged to a different ethnicity. The wars between the West against the South and the East had never entirely ceased. Once bored of their prey, the rangers left him stranded in the middle of the steep land of Harondor to die of hunger. Luckily, a few miles south, was Haradrim camp where some soldiers gave him some food. Since that day, he hated Gondor with all his soul, and the very sight of the white tree, made him want to sow death.

He returned to Khand only to meet again with the scolding from his father, so he fled to Rhûn, to Mistrand. His friend Margöz had married a maid of Kugavod, a town in the north, called Markîz, beautiful and slender as a snake, she became pregnant soon after. Tigkîz, the daughter Margöz and Markîz was to Yumrûk the closest thing to a niece that he could ever had, because he had no siblings, and Tigkîz adopted him as an uncle with over the years. He instructed her in the art of riding and fighting with polearm, and archery.

REBLOODLUTION

In the year 3003 of the Third Age, died the Lôke-Khan of Rhûn, Borthand. Borthand was the second consecutive Lôke-Khan of the Logath tribe. The immediate past was the Lôke-Khan Zôr. Since the Logath tribe ruled the tribes of Rhûn, the Eastern Empire had done nothing but grow, something both the Lôke-Khan Yuktîr and the Lôke-Khan Bountîg "the golden", had also done, but in a lesser extent, with much more gore and less diplomacy. It was so, a new Lôke-Khan was elected; the fifth of them, and the third of the Logath tribe in instant succession: Margöz his friend, who was part of the Order of the Dragons since a few years. This enraged the Khudriag Ôvatha IX of Khand, who thought the Logath tribe had gone too far, taking three consecutive supreme rulers. The Khaganate of Rhûn, lost a powerful ally.

Margöz was reserved; preferring not to take hasty actions, because he just had assumed the throne and it would not be seen with good eyes the outbreak of a new war between tribes so soon. He tried to use diplomacy, but little did Ôvatha hear it. It was so that Yumrûk recalled that his father was a member of the council of the Khudriag. He traveled to Sturlurtza Khand, capital of the Khudriagate of Khand to meet him. For the first time, he and his father were in agreement: The disolution of Khand from the Khaganate would bring trouble between the tribes, and an enormous commercial damage. The riches that Yumrûk's father had achieved throughout his life would be greatly affected, and he could lose it all.

It was then that his father opposed the wishes of the Khudriag Ôvatha IX. He began to talk against all his decisions, and the Khudriag enraged and expelled him from the council. But Yumrûk’s father foresaw that his fortune would go to ruin if things not returned to be like before, so he hired an assassin from Nûrn to assassinate the Khudriag. The crush went wrong, as a mercenary is sold to the highest bidder, and once discovered, the assassin sold the intentions of Yumrûk's father to the Khudriag, and he went for his head. Thus Yumrûk's father died in his halls of Sturlutza Khand, and Yumrûk escaped with his mother to Laôrki, swearing revenge.

THE BLACK SCORPION

Just six months later, Yumruk’s mother accompanied her deceased husband to the grave, dying of grief committing suicide. Yumrûk then inherited all the land and wealth of his parents in the year 3004 of the Third Age, at the age of 18. Instead of investing their time and work on repairing the economy of his now non-existent family, he chose to sell everything and keep nothing. Big riches obtained Yumrûk for it, and led a wandering life, but he lived with bitterness, and every night his heart again reminded it to him. He vowed to kill the Khudriag of Khand even if it were the last thing he did. But for the moment he could not do anything, he needed allies, and Margöz could not be one of them. His steps led him to a logical place: The Emirate of Lurmsakûm in the South.

Lurmsakûm was one of the many Haruzani kingdoms (a branch of the Haradrim) from the so-called Near Harad. It was located south of Khand, bordered on the west with the Emirate of Pezarsan (another kingdom Haruzani), to the southeast with the Kingdom of Arysis, and southwest to the Great Desert. For centuries, especially in the elderly, when the Nazgul Ûvatha took the throne of Khand, Lurmsakûm was underwent to join Khand, as a province (Sâr-Khand) or as a tributary state. Many times, the Haruzani people of Lurmsakûm had revealed against the hostility of the Khudriags of Khand, returning to independence, to lose it again later. The Emir Shabadhis was now the governor of Lurmsakûm, who remained as a tributary state to Khand.

It was so, Yumrûk lived among the Haruzani for about 6 months. Hiring mercenaries to fight for his cause, thanks to the wealth he had inherited. Soon he was known under the myserious name of "The Black Scorpion" and posed a threat to the Khudriagate of Khand. These mercenaries were not only well paid but had an inflamed and poisoned heart by the multiple offenses that Khand commited over their ancestors, and it was very difficult to be dissuaded to desert or join the ranks of the Variags. It was so Yumrûk marched with a large army of mercenaries to Sturlurtza Khand. He arrived at night and without warning and his forces passed through the streets of the city, and civilians fled in terror. What was seen as an upcoming war in the southeast ended when the axe of Yumrûk severed the head of the Khudriag of Khand and he threw it off the balcony of the palace to the pigpen followed by a fierce cry of rage and anger. So Yumrûk got his revenge.

Upon hearing this, the Lôke-Khan Margöz traveled to the same Khand, and his arrival was greeted with more jubilation than boos among the Variags of Khand. He offered Yumrûk to be the new Khudriag but he responded: "My old friend, my hands were born to wield a weapon, not a scepter." It was so Yumrûk rejected the offer of Margöz, and the Khudriag Ûvatha IV was named Khudriag of Khand and the Great Khaganate could count again with the Variags in their ranks. But the people of Lurmsakûm were released from the embargo, and a business and powerful alliance was born between the two kingdoms.

THE WAR OF THE RING

The following year, again Yumrûk returned to his adventures as a nomad, aimlessly. Much of this time was spent in Mistrand with Margöz and especially with his daughter, Tigkîz, which he instructed as it was already told. In T.A. 3014 Yumrûk joined a group of Haradrim mercenaries with the single excuse to do all the damage he could to Gondor. His heart was still poisoned by that episode in Ithilien during his youth. Together with this group of mercenaries, they wreaked havoc on Harondor, culminating with the fall of Amon Eithel, principal stronghold of Gondor in the Southland. Later, on Third Age 3016, he joined the corsairs of Umbar in the assault on the Watchtower of Gobel Tolfalas, on the Isle of Anduin. Nothing gave him more pleasure than dye in red that white tree.

It was so, Ûvatha IV, the Khudriag of Khand, gathered the hosts of the Variags for war after the alliance between the Great Khaganate and the Dark Lord Sauron. About three-quarters of the army were sent north to serve the Lôke-Khan. One last host was sent to the Pelennor Fields, under the command of Gothmog, lieutenant of Minas Morgul. Yumrûk marched with his eternal friend north, and ravaged Dorwinion, and sprinkled fields with salt and made mountains with the scorched bones of the Dorwinrim. After that, Yumrûk marched to Dale, where took place the biggest of the battles that the north had seen since the days of Smaug the dragon, and once again, the Easterlings were victorious.

Then it began the siege of Erebor. There fell Dain II Ironfoot, King of Durin's Folk, by Margöz's hand, trying to defend the corpse of King Brand of Dale. But the news of the fall of Sauron reached the ears of the Easterlings in the north, and the morale of the Easterlings fell sharply. A lapse in the defense, and the Easterlings were rebuked in a combined attack of the survivors of Rhovanion and the folk of Durin. Thus ended the War of the Ring, and began a new age.

LATER DAYS

Yumrûk, now 33, returned to Khand. He was named captain of the Variags in war by the Khudriag of Khand. The wars against the subjugation of Gondor on the free peoples of the South and East still prevailed. But the ideals of Yumrûk were still intact. So now Yumrûk rides in the east with Tigkîz, who now is 19 years old, and is a slender maiden as her mother, visiting the rebel tribes and clans that have not yet joined to form part of the Lôke-Egleria; the doctrine of The Great Khaganate and the Khudriagate of Khand. If the people of Rhûn and Palisor wanted to remain free, they must unite under the same banner to confront their enemies in the West.

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