Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27200931-20160428032004

Like Mouth of Sauron, there could be a greater number of Black Númenóreans who followed Sauron into Mordor. We also saw many non-canon BNs appearing in other games, like the Black Hand from Shadow of Mordor and Agandaur from War in the North. And we all know that next update will be centered around Rohan and Gondor, but why not stretch the threshold a bit to Mordor? Here is my suggestion:

The Black Númenóreans are NPCs from the Mordor faction, that given their few numbers, they only spawn around their rare towers, similar to other Mordor towers. In those places, an evil aligned player may recruit Black Númenóreans from a Black Captain.

Now, should the Black Númenóreans of Mordor have their own faction, or should they be integrated with Mordor?

NPCs

Rare as they are, the player won't find many different types of Black Númenóreans to hire. Because of their involvement in dark sorcery, they have increased health, maybe 30 HP or more. They look like normal humans, but with vampiric snow white skins and yellow eyes.

Black Númenórean Warrior: Wielding wicked swords and axes, they are equipped with heavy armor and they hide their twisted faces behind steel masks. To hire them, a player needs +500 alignment with Mordor and 50 silver coins. Think of them as the Black Uruk older brother.

Black Númenórean Cavalry: Same as the Warrior version, but this horseman mounts a fast horse that rivals those of the Rohirrim. They also wield large lances into combat. The player can hire this NPC if he has +600 with Mordor and 65 coins.

From the Black Captain, a player can also buy a Horn of Conquest if he has +1500 Mordor alignment and 2000 silver coins. Normally, the Black Númenóreans can call their own invasions, but it should be rare, and they occasionally appear among the orcs of a normal Mordor invasion.

Gear

They wear Black Steel Armor, crafted with Black Steel ingots. These ingots can be acquired by alloying coal with naurite or gulduril crystals, resulting in Enriched Coal. Then the player must use the coal together with Morgul Iron Ore in a forge, resulting in a piece of Black Steel Ingot.

Their weapons consists of a dagger, a sword, a battle axe and a lance, all made with Black Steel Ingots and Sticks. I'm not sure about the stats of this equipment, but I think they should be overall stronger than Black Uruk equipment, but with less durability. I took the opportunity to draw a BN sword (I'm not really pleased with the result, by the way):

Spawn

They can only be found around their towers, period (or maybe not, depending on what everyone thinks). Those towers can be found more commonly in Udûn, uncommonly in the Morgul Vale and Mordor Mountains and rarely in Nurn. Also, since some people manifested their feedback regarding the weakness of the Dol Guldur faction, it would be interesting to see Black Númenórean towers spawning in Dol Guldur.

Black Draughts

With they connection with dark sorcery, it would be interesting to see Black Draughts, because it is nearly impossible for an evil aligned player to put their hands into Ent Draughts, then this could be the evil variant. To make them, the player needs a jar filled with water (like the ent jar) and different types of plants and other items to give different effects, but to collect them the player uses a glass bottle instead of a bowl (because we will not drink them, we will throw them!):

> Dead Marsh Plant: Weakens the enemy.

> Morgul-shroom: Makes the enemy nauseous.

> Whitered Moss: Gives withered effect to the target.

> Naurite gem: Sets the enemy on fire for some seconds.

> Stabbing Thorns: Makes the enemy blind.

> String: The enemy becomes slower.

PS: I'm deeply sorry for murdering the English language. 