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Argali1 wrote:

Aramirtheranger wrote:

Argali1 wrote: Dark dwarves 2 wrote: Argali1 wrote:

Dark dwarves 2 wrote:

Argali1 wrote:

Dark dwarves 2 wrote:

Argali1 wrote:

Dark dwarves 2 wrote: Awesome!

I'll just work on the more evil/neutral stuff like Ogres, half-orcs, and such. My other faction involves Núrn. If I remember correctly they were native men (And some slaves) put under the sway of mordor and forced to farm and such for the orcs, right? Yeah, but they were also pretty mixed because the slaves taken by Mordor are from all over. So what do you plan to do with them? Honestly I always thought the nobles of Nurn sold their people out in exchange for staying in power. The original people in Nûrn were tribal. I imagine them as being similar to pre-Indo-European Anatolian tribes. Then, when Mordor became the domain of Sauron, they were conquered and enslaved. As the Orcs brought back slaves from their victories from all over, the men of Nûrn became mixed with Middle-Men, Western Rhûnic men, Haradrim and to a lesser extent, Numenorean, Rohirric and Druedain. That can work too. I always wanted to say that is were the last vampires went... you know with all the fresh blood and rampant suffering. I'm thinking that after Sauron is defeated, they'll form their own nation, and I'll have them speaking Ubykh.

Lol. The Return of the King makes a Nurnic nation canonical.

"And to the slaves of Mordor, he gave all the lands around Lake Nurnen to call their own." And they'd have a very strong military, because many of them would be former gladiators and slave-soldiers, not mention that they'd be built out of the husk of Mordor. They'd have a very weak military, because they would be emaciated, crippled, and weak from service to Mordor.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lome) 14:50, March 11, 2017 (UTC)