Thread:Argali1/@comment-26210095-20160901215355/@comment-25975584-20160903041914

How about Umbar fell, but several remnants survived. Perhaps, like the Nicaean Empire, Empire of Trebizond, and Despotate of Epirus. They lived on, while the realm they were founded by became little more than a shallow, worthless husk ruled by men not of it. However, they thrived, rather than fell. Feeding off the primitive societies around them.