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The Original Umbaran peoples ,i.e., the people who lived on the peninsula before the Numenorean arrival, are an ethnic group known as the Falathmari. They are relatives to the Dunlendings and bear resembalence to the Haradrm, though have a vastly different culture. Theirs was a maritime culture, based on sea and seafaring. They worshiped a sea god, and their culture resembles the Greek's. Their traditional weapons and armor were made out of Angalun, a metal rarely found anywhere else. It was similar in all aspects to steel, although it gleamed a blue-green. They also extensivly used bronze. The fist King of the Umbaran peoples, Maltok the Old, was a cheftain who led the Umbaran peoples, once men of the house of Beor, to seek a Kingdom in the south. His Sea God, in a dream, told the Umbarans about a bay. In a area along the bay, they would find a silvar pillar, and there it was that they should erect their city. Maltok journeyed far and wide, until he found the bay of Annun (Bay of Umbar). He found a large shining pillar, made out of mithril. Maltok and his men began to build their city. Since there was very little wood, he and his men were forced to make it out of carven stone, a technology extremely new for the time. There were many kings in that time, most of little note. Umbar city was finishedin the reign of Mu'sab I, son of Maltok. Although it was, by Third Age standards, no more then a small city, to the folk of Harad and Umbar, it was a wonder to behold. In those days, the Umbarans controlled only the peninsula of Umbar, as they were contested by the Ha'ra'di, the predecessor to the Empire of Near Harad. The wars between the Umbarans and the Har'a'di were long, and mostly disastrous for both, although in the end a peace was made. The Umbarans would controll the areas west of the island of Hablar (now called Tol Haratir), and the Ha'ra'di would controll all east of that. The Umbarans were mostly unnafected by the major events in the North West of the world. It is important to note that, in this era a large group of Teleri, seeking for new lands, went to the south and found the Kingdom of Umbar. They found them to their liking, and became part of their people. That is the reason many ethnic Umbarans have strains of elvish blood. During the war of Wrath, the coastline of Umbar was shaken, and the original city was lost, although the silver pillar rose above the waves. The next years were relativly uneventful. Untim one day, they saw crimson ships on the horizon, and strange men poured out of their boats, speaking a strange tounge. The Numenoreans had come. 