Thread:The Second Age Server/@comment-26571002-20161209175400/@comment-29095449-20161209182528

At SA 1600, if you read up the timeline of the Second Age, Númenor was not divided yet. SA 1600 is the year when Annatar is revealed to be Sauron and Sauron began forging the One Ring to control all the other greater rings he had given out to various leaders. Númenor's army at this time was fairly small, as it was mainly a sea-adventuring nation. Númenor had not militarized yet in SA 1600. Things like King's Men and the Faithful did not exist until a hundreds of years later than our timeline. Again, we're at the time when Sauron had just officially returned since his disappearence in the First Age, Eregion still existed, the majority of all Mannish nations (even Harad, Rhún etc.) weren't under evil influence, save their own and so on. That's why we picked SA 1600 as a starting age, because this is when things starts to get exciting again in the timline of Arda. This is when the Second Age goes from a fairly peaceful time in history, to a time when a great evil has just returned and everyone starts fearing the work of Melkor again. Orcs hadn't been in more than larger bands at this time, but suddenly - after Sauron revealed himself - the orcs were starting to form up large armies, trolls and other evil creatures came out of their hiding spots and so on. To quote Fish, SA 1600 is the year when "shit is about to go down".

Do note, SA 1600 is only our starting age. It does not mean that Mordor has to wait 97 years before they may destroy Eregion. As soon as the server opens, things can change as they happen, we will only assume that everything before SA 1600, happened as described in lore.

I hope you understand what we mean. For further info regarding SA 1600, check this link:

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Second_Age

Best regards, The Second Age Server