Morgamir Akhôrahil
The Fifth of the Nine (Q."Úlaire Lemenya), the Blind Sorcerer, the Undying, the Gloom of Núrn, the Storm-King, Ice-Blade of the Iron Crown, Tazinain, First of the King's Men, Lieutenant of Carn Dûm
Morgamir Akhôrahil is one of the most powerful servants in the
service of the The Witch-King. Morgamir is a sorcerer, utterly evil and
completely loyal to Sauron and the Witch-king. His great
power confers on him a high degree of immunity to the
spell of dread which the Úlair cast over mortal Men, and
his long association with them has artificially lengthened
his life span a thousand fold. He has served Sauron in many capacities over the
centuries. Morgamir Akhôrahil is a master of persuasion, and his
silver tongue has won the Dark Lord many friends and
allies. At times, he works as Sauron's assassin, using his
magic to murder the Necromancer's enemies. Capable of
greater independent thought than eight of the Nazgûl, the
Angûlion's intelligence, experience, and deviousness have
produced many evil schemes carried out on Sauron's
behalf. Morgamir Akhôrahil played a major role in the corruption
and downfall of Rhudaur.
All of the Morgamir Akhôrahil's attention is currently focused on the destruction of Arthedain, although he longs to crush Lindon and Rivendell in revenge for Angmar's defeat in T.A. 1409. Much of his energy is devoted to planning the slow, deadly campaign against the Dúnedain. He holds the Mor-sereg in perpetual readiness to strike at the king of Arthedain, awaiting only the command of the Witchking.
All of the Morgamir Akhôrahil's attention is currently focused on the destruction of Arthedain, although he longs to crush Lindon and Rivendell in revenge for Angmar's defeat in T.A. 1409. Much of his energy is devoted to planning the slow, deadly campaign against the Dúnedain. He holds the Mor-sereg in perpetual readiness to strike at the king of Arthedain, awaiting only the command of the Witchking.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
The Nazgûl typically wear black, hooded, cloaks and blackened hauberks. Underneath this garb, however, they are
insubstantial spirits, their bodies long ago faded with the passage of time and the corrupting influence of Sauron.
Akhôrahil stood strong and straight; at 6’3” tall, he was a physically powerful figure, albeit graceless. His blindness
added to his already aloof air, conveying the image of haughtiness. Still, he was proud of his handsome face and (in life) took care to never have it obscured. White garb and grey armor remained his favorite trappings, even after he became a Ringwraith. They went well with his silvery mithril-inlaid helm, which served as the Crown of Ciryatandor.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Akhôrahil, the second of the fallen Númenorean lords to fall under the enduring spell of Sauron’s Ruling Ring, was born at a manor overlooking the waters of Nisinen in Númenor in S.A. 1888. His father was Ciryamir, the Tar-Ciryatan’s brother Ciryatir (making him a cousin of Mûrazôr, the future Witch-king). 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 plundering. Ciryamir was awarded the license to create and administer a Númenorean kingdom in Middle-Earth on the very day his son reached the age of fifteen, and the next year (S.A. 1904) the family sailed east to the haven of Hyarn in southwest Endor. They landed at Midyears and journeyed up the river Aronduin to the newly built citadel of Marath Carnadúnê (Q. Tower of the Red Sunset; S. Barad Carannûn).
There, Ciryamar founded the Kingdom of Ciryatandor along the northern flank of Ered Laranor (S. “Yellow Mountains;” Q. “Orolanari”), becoming a client-king of Númenor. Akhôrahil loved the new land and reveled in the virtually absolute power his father wielded over the subject peoples of the area. There Akhôrahil’s wife Akhôraphil gave birth to seven children, but only three (Lôkhazôr, Arkhahil, Ûndaphel) survived infancy. Like most of Ciryamir’s Adan followers, he assumed himself be superior and grew proud of his own name – as if it were a title. The Friend of the Lord became rich in his own right and began to experiment with the enchantments and incantations. 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 the year S.A. 1918, Akhôrahil acted upon his desires. Signing a perverse pact with an aged Haradan Priest, he began the study of dark and sorcerous arts. During his studies, an accident while performing an incantation causes the young Prince to lose his eyesight and his handsome face is scarred. Over time, Akhôrahil became mightier than his teacher – becoming 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 about him, 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. Then, he levied a huge tax in order to placate the Númenorean court. Securely in control, the Blind Sorcerer proceeded to arm his young kingdom and conquer the neighboring lands along the southern edge of Far Harad: taking Chennacatt in S.A. 1929, Isra in S.A. 1933, and Kirmlesra in S.A. 1979. By S.A. 1999, his armies conquered Harshandt and claimed the western shores of the wide Bay of Ormal.
The campaigns waged by Akhôrahil’s captains incited the Lord of the Rings to move against Ciryatandor. A sage emissary journeyed south from Mordor, offering the Black Númenorean 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, thereby betraying his own King Tar-Ciryatan. The pact between Ciryatandor and Mordor was sealed when Akhôrahil accepted the Ring of Power from Sauron in S.A. 2000. Thus, the Storm King became the fifth Lord of Men to become a Nazgûl. Akhôrahil the Ringwraith Akhôrahil’s greed led to the quick transformation of his position in the court at Barad Carannûn. Although he had always been considered bizarre, and while both his retainers and his immediate family feared him, the Storm King still interacted with his aides and household. This all changed after S.A. 2000. Akhôrahil became a virtual recluse and his wife eventually fled the kingdom with her children, taking them to the Númenorean haven at Elorna. A purge ensued, and the men closest to the Númenorean King perished alongside the couriers that the Ringwraith considered too bold or independent. New governors assumed control of Ciryatandor’s five provinces. Behind the scenes, Akhôrahil Dírected the careful metamorphosis of his realm, staying wary of upsetting the Adan monarch in Númenor. Tribute continued to flow westward over the sea to Armenelos, and no open relations with Mordor occurred during the next two hundred and fifty years.
By S.A. 2250, the Storm King presided over a client kingdom that was ostensibly Dúnadan but was in fact Black Númenorean. Akhôrahil ruled a domain that stretched from the Great Sea (Belegaer) to the huge Bay of Ormal on behalf of the Lord of the Rings. These strategic lands straddled all the routes across the Yellow Mountains and into southernmost Middle-Earth. Sauron’s hopes of keeping the Men of the West out of Far Harad rested with his Wraith-servant and preparations for the conquest of Harad and he regions along the northern and eastern coasts of the Ormal Sea neared completion when Akhôrahil declared himself independent of Númenor.
Tar-Atanamir the Great of Númenor died in S.A. 2221, the first King of Westernesse to pass without first relinquishing the scepter. His death brought Tar-Ancalimon to the throne and fostered a renewal of the programs that Tar-Atanamir had abandoned during the infirm years preceding his demise. After reordering Númenor, the new King turned to his colonies in Endor and sought a reaffirmation of their loyalty. His special envoy to Ciryatandor arrived in the spring of S.A. 2250. Akhôrahil realized that Númenor’s desire for conquest remained unabated, and that Tar-Ancalimon planned to crush pretenders who sought to rule in his stead in the lands claimed by Númenor. The Nazgûl ordered the Númenorean emissary held as a hostage and renounced his ties to his island birthplace. Ciryatandor became an official ally of the Black Land.
Tar-Ancalimon ransomed his messenger and proceeded to plan the reconquest of the territory held in thrall by the Storm King. In S.A. 2280, the same armada that reinforced Umbar brought a fleet that landed in Tulwang, only two hundred miles to the northwest of the Ringwraith’s citadel. Akhôrahil sent an army to contest the debarkment, but they arrived too late. Scouts reported the landfall and the Nazgûl’s warlord ordered a retreat to the foothills of the kingdom. Unfortunately for Akhôrahil’s host, the Númenoreans force-marched and caught them in arid lowlands near the Oasis of Fult. The Men of the West crushed the Endorians, leaving Ciryatandor’s western borders virtually defenseless. Akhôrahil fled his kingdom and went north to join his master in Mordor before suffering the embarrassment of seeing his own capital razed. His flight ended the brief era of Ciryatandor’s independence and preserved the prospects for further Adan exploitation in Far Harad and the lands to the north. Akhôrahil oversaw Nûrn in Mordor for the next nine hundred and eighty-one years.
The slave-state served as the Black Land’s breadbasket and the Storm King exacted torment from any subject who threatened Sauron’s plans. His ruthless rule insured the supply of precious food for Sauron’s burgeoning armies. Vast herds of wild beasts fed the vast Orc hordes, while grain from the fields around Nûrnen nourished the Men of Mordor. Ar-Pharazôn’s invasion in S.A. 3261 precluded the completion of Sauron’s armament, and the Evil One was forced to surrender in the face of the superior Adan arms (S.A. 3262). The Evil One journeyed out of the Black Land in order to avert the destruction of his kingdom at the hands of the Númenorean invaders, enabling the Nazgûl to flee into hiding. While Sauron went to Westernesse in bondage, the Ringwraith’s patiently awaited his return. After the downfall of Númenor in S.A. 3319 and the reappearance of the Dark Lord in Middle-Earth, Akhôrahil returned to his castle of Luglûrak on the southern shores of Nûrnen. He remained there until S.A. 3429, when he led the host of Nûrn in the army that assailed Ithilien in Gondor. Although the invasion proved successful, the Last Alliance under Gil-galad and Elendil eventually crushed Mordor’s mightiest forces and laid siege to the Dark Tower. Barad-dûr’s defenses yielded in 3441, and both Sauron and his Nine Ringwraiths passed into The Shadow as the Second Age ended. Akhôrahil took form again in Middle-Earth around T.A. 1050, first residing in the Far South at Ny Chennacatt in the northern cliffs of the Yellow mountains. Sauron called him north in T.A. 1350 and ordered the Storm-king to first aid the Witch-King in his plots in Angmar. Following his time despoiling the lands of Arnor as Morgimir he returned to Nûrn and quietly began the replenishment of strength in the black fief in anticipation for the Dark Lord’s reopening of Mordor.
There, Ciryamar founded the Kingdom of Ciryatandor along the northern flank of Ered Laranor (S. “Yellow Mountains;” Q. “Orolanari”), becoming a client-king of Númenor. Akhôrahil loved the new land and reveled in the virtually absolute power his father wielded over the subject peoples of the area. There Akhôrahil’s wife Akhôraphil gave birth to seven children, but only three (Lôkhazôr, Arkhahil, Ûndaphel) survived infancy. Like most of Ciryamir’s Adan followers, he assumed himself be superior and grew proud of his own name – as if it were a title. The Friend of the Lord became rich in his own right and began to experiment with the enchantments and incantations. 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 the year S.A. 1918, Akhôrahil acted upon his desires. Signing a perverse pact with an aged Haradan Priest, he began the study of dark and sorcerous arts. During his studies, an accident while performing an incantation causes the young Prince to lose his eyesight and his handsome face is scarred. Over time, Akhôrahil became mightier than his teacher – becoming 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 about him, 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. Then, he levied a huge tax in order to placate the Númenorean court. Securely in control, the Blind Sorcerer proceeded to arm his young kingdom and conquer the neighboring lands along the southern edge of Far Harad: taking Chennacatt in S.A. 1929, Isra in S.A. 1933, and Kirmlesra in S.A. 1979. By S.A. 1999, his armies conquered Harshandt and claimed the western shores of the wide Bay of Ormal.
The campaigns waged by Akhôrahil’s captains incited the Lord of the Rings to move against Ciryatandor. A sage emissary journeyed south from Mordor, offering the Black Númenorean 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, thereby betraying his own King Tar-Ciryatan. The pact between Ciryatandor and Mordor was sealed when Akhôrahil accepted the Ring of Power from Sauron in S.A. 2000. Thus, the Storm King became the fifth Lord of Men to become a Nazgûl. Akhôrahil the Ringwraith Akhôrahil’s greed led to the quick transformation of his position in the court at Barad Carannûn. Although he had always been considered bizarre, and while both his retainers and his immediate family feared him, the Storm King still interacted with his aides and household. This all changed after S.A. 2000. Akhôrahil became a virtual recluse and his wife eventually fled the kingdom with her children, taking them to the Númenorean haven at Elorna. A purge ensued, and the men closest to the Númenorean King perished alongside the couriers that the Ringwraith considered too bold or independent. New governors assumed control of Ciryatandor’s five provinces. Behind the scenes, Akhôrahil Dírected the careful metamorphosis of his realm, staying wary of upsetting the Adan monarch in Númenor. Tribute continued to flow westward over the sea to Armenelos, and no open relations with Mordor occurred during the next two hundred and fifty years.
By S.A. 2250, the Storm King presided over a client kingdom that was ostensibly Dúnadan but was in fact Black Númenorean. Akhôrahil ruled a domain that stretched from the Great Sea (Belegaer) to the huge Bay of Ormal on behalf of the Lord of the Rings. These strategic lands straddled all the routes across the Yellow Mountains and into southernmost Middle-Earth. Sauron’s hopes of keeping the Men of the West out of Far Harad rested with his Wraith-servant and preparations for the conquest of Harad and he regions along the northern and eastern coasts of the Ormal Sea neared completion when Akhôrahil declared himself independent of Númenor.
Tar-Atanamir the Great of Númenor died in S.A. 2221, the first King of Westernesse to pass without first relinquishing the scepter. His death brought Tar-Ancalimon to the throne and fostered a renewal of the programs that Tar-Atanamir had abandoned during the infirm years preceding his demise. After reordering Númenor, the new King turned to his colonies in Endor and sought a reaffirmation of their loyalty. His special envoy to Ciryatandor arrived in the spring of S.A. 2250. Akhôrahil realized that Númenor’s desire for conquest remained unabated, and that Tar-Ancalimon planned to crush pretenders who sought to rule in his stead in the lands claimed by Númenor. The Nazgûl ordered the Númenorean emissary held as a hostage and renounced his ties to his island birthplace. Ciryatandor became an official ally of the Black Land.
Tar-Ancalimon ransomed his messenger and proceeded to plan the reconquest of the territory held in thrall by the Storm King. In S.A. 2280, the same armada that reinforced Umbar brought a fleet that landed in Tulwang, only two hundred miles to the northwest of the Ringwraith’s citadel. Akhôrahil sent an army to contest the debarkment, but they arrived too late. Scouts reported the landfall and the Nazgûl’s warlord ordered a retreat to the foothills of the kingdom. Unfortunately for Akhôrahil’s host, the Númenoreans force-marched and caught them in arid lowlands near the Oasis of Fult. The Men of the West crushed the Endorians, leaving Ciryatandor’s western borders virtually defenseless. Akhôrahil fled his kingdom and went north to join his master in Mordor before suffering the embarrassment of seeing his own capital razed. His flight ended the brief era of Ciryatandor’s independence and preserved the prospects for further Adan exploitation in Far Harad and the lands to the north. Akhôrahil oversaw Nûrn in Mordor for the next nine hundred and eighty-one years.
The slave-state served as the Black Land’s breadbasket and the Storm King exacted torment from any subject who threatened Sauron’s plans. His ruthless rule insured the supply of precious food for Sauron’s burgeoning armies. Vast herds of wild beasts fed the vast Orc hordes, while grain from the fields around Nûrnen nourished the Men of Mordor. Ar-Pharazôn’s invasion in S.A. 3261 precluded the completion of Sauron’s armament, and the Evil One was forced to surrender in the face of the superior Adan arms (S.A. 3262). The Evil One journeyed out of the Black Land in order to avert the destruction of his kingdom at the hands of the Númenorean invaders, enabling the Nazgûl to flee into hiding. While Sauron went to Westernesse in bondage, the Ringwraith’s patiently awaited his return. After the downfall of Númenor in S.A. 3319 and the reappearance of the Dark Lord in Middle-Earth, Akhôrahil returned to his castle of Luglûrak on the southern shores of Nûrnen. He remained there until S.A. 3429, when he led the host of Nûrn in the army that assailed Ithilien in Gondor. Although the invasion proved successful, the Last Alliance under Gil-galad and Elendil eventually crushed Mordor’s mightiest forces and laid siege to the Dark Tower. Barad-dûr’s defenses yielded in 3441, and both Sauron and his Nine Ringwraiths passed into The Shadow as the Second Age ended. Akhôrahil took form again in Middle-Earth around T.A. 1050, first residing in the Far South at Ny Chennacatt in the northern cliffs of the Yellow mountains. Sauron called him north in T.A. 1350 and ordered the Storm-king to first aid the Witch-King in his plots in Angmar. Following his time despoiling the lands of Arnor as Morgimir he returned to Nûrn and quietly began the replenishment of strength in the black fief in anticipation for the Dark Lord’s reopening of Mordor.
Current Location
Angmar
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Ethnicity
Other Ethnicities/Cultures
Age
2985
Date of Birth
1888 S.A.
Family
Children
Eyes
Blue
Hair
Long Shaggy White
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Pale Blue Translucent
Height
7'8''
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