Thread:The Second Age Server/@comment-26949898-20170318142002

Character: Atallah, Prophet of the Serpent and Caliph of Near Harad

Experience: I roleplayed a lot on SA and am Lord of Anfalas on TOS







Early Life

Atallah was born in Ain Al-Harad to his mother, a member of the Black Serpent clan and a Numenorean travelling merchant, with the name "Hassan". The man his mother was married to was an important member of the Harad religion so he taught Hassan all about it. One night Hassan heard something strange. He got up from his bed and there he saw him. The Great Serpent. He spoke to Hassan about what he must do. He was told he most walk around Middle Earth and learn. Soon after that, without telling his parents, he got on a camel and headed south.



Adventures

He went travelling south into the land of the Moredain. He met with many of the their chieftains and saw their poor conditions. Some didn’t even have roofs over their heads or food when they were hungry. He gave the Moredain village food and tools to help them survive. This was his first time he ever truly saw suffering, as he grew up rich. He continued to head south and found the Forest-men: the Tauredain. After meeting them he saw they were no poor people. They were rich and had some temples made of solid gold! He asked them why they were so rich but the Moredain weren’t, and they didn’t answer. Unlike the Moredain, however, they had a bad military…

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.656;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">He went back up north to the sunlands and told the Moredain chieftain what he saw. He told him he should send soldiers down as soon as they were ready, and they could be rich, but the chieftain did not listen. He did not believe Hassan. Hassan cursed the Moredain to someday fall under the control of Near Harad, and went back north. When he made it back to Ain Al-Harad he saw the Serpent again. He told him to travel more, and how he would achieve greatness. Hassan put on his dark red robes and got back on his camel.

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.656;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">He rode north for many hour and met Eregnir. Eregnir was a Woodland Elf who thought very highly of himself, probably to highly. He was a lord of Eryn Galen. He was rich and he let Hassan stay in his hall for quite some time before Hassan continued his journey. Hassan could not stay, he had to continue his journey, but before he left, Eregnir gave him an Elvish blade of the Sindar of old, he said he would need it. He got on his camel and continued riding.

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.656;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">He soon met a group of peculiar folk along the great river. They were shorter than Dwarves but beardless. Stoors they were called. They were very fat and greedy. They always wanted food. He did not want to stay in their lands for long, for he did not like them at all! He continued going north in search of what the Serpent wanted him to find. Soon he came upon a village of men. The men spoke of a creature, large and black, winged and terrifying. Hassan did not believe them because he thought nothing could be as great as that. The village had no food so Hassan could not be fed. Hassan went days without eating in this village. Then one day he was woken up by a loud scream.

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.656;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">“The Dragon has come,” people cried as the ran, Hassan fled for his life, clutching his mace in his hand. It began flying at Hassan, but he ducked and ran into the woods. The Dragon was destroying the whole town! Hassan kept running, fearing for his life. He camped in a clearing for 3 days, before he went back to the village. He found it destroyed, all that was left was dead or dying. The great tower in the center had burned. He saw the dragon flying away, back towards the grey towers in the north. He turned and saw an old man, dying on the ground. He regretting running, he thought he should have fought it with his great mace or Elven blade, but he ran. He knew that him not killing it was almost as evil as if he burned the town.

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.656;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">He left the town and began walking around randomly. He crossed the Misty Mountains and entered Eriador. He regretted everything. He felt terrible, then it happened. The Serpent told him to stop being self-indulgent, and help others. He shouldn’t be obsessed with his past, but how he will do good in the future. He went from town to town and helped everyone he met. He became a great man.

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.656;text-indent:36pt;text-align:center;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Becoming a Prophet

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.656;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">He began riding south again, singing as he went, about his greatness. Then, in the vales of the Anduin, he met the Serpent again. He told him he should not sing of his own greatness, but help other achieve greatness. He should help the people of Harad. He had suffered and felt pain, but he had not suffered nearly as much as the others he met. Now Hassan was no mere imam or priest of the Serpent, he was the messenger of the Serpent. He was a prophet, a prophet of the Serpent.

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.656;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">The Serpent told him to make a sacrifice, and a great one, so he boarded a ship to Numenor, hiding as a worker. He landed on Numenor and stole a horse from the cavalry. He rode towards their capital city to find something to sacrifice. He entered the city pretending to be a merchant from Eriador. He went to the courtyard were Nimloth was kept He snuck in. He walked up to the tree and pulled a leaf. The guards attacked him but he fought them off, cutting one of their hands off and killing another with his Gondolinian blade.

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.656;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">He ran out of the city as fast as he could and boarded an illegal slave trade ship, pretending to be an slave. Once he made it to Umbar he stabbed a guard and ran. He walked all the way to Ain Al-Harad and to the great temple. He walked into the temple with the leaf in hand. He placed it on the altar and took a match. The leaf turned from white to red to black as the fire burned it. It smoked up the entire temple.

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.656;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">He took the name “Atallah” meaning “Gift of God,” to show his holiness, but continued to refere to himself as Hassan in informal conversations.

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.656;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">He then travelled around Harad and taught people what he learned. He was followed by almost all of Harad and he blessed the Sultan, Saladin, with the power and strength to govern Near Harad. He opened many temples across Haradwaith, to teach young people of the Serpent.

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<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;text-align:center;"><span style="font-weight:700;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Becoming the Caliph

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">After the Sultan fled from Near Harad, it was left leaderless. The Sultan’s family fled with him so he had no one to become the new leader. Atallah, seeing an opportunity to spread the will of the Serpent, gathered his soldiers in the Red Desert, all arrayed in red robes and gilded iron armor. He marched to the Harad Crossroads, and began marching west.

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">At Ajtiaz al-Harad, more soldiers followed him, knowing he was the holy prophet. His army grew and grew, so by the the time he reached the Gardens of Beruthiel, no one could stop his force if they wanted to. His forces marched towards Ain al-Harad with no resistances, as loyalists to Saladin had already left with him. The great gates of Ain al-Harad opened, and there was no opposition. He marched towards the palace of the once great Sultan Saladin, and opened the gate, with thousands of Southrons behind him. The royal guard of Saladin still remained, and would not let Atallah through. Atallah and his army charged the guard and they fled their posts. He walked up to Saladin’s old throne. As he walked towards the throne he saw the Serpent, he knew he was doing the right thing.

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">He stepped up, and sat on the throne of the Sultanate. He called for a feast and declared himself Caliph of the South! New leader of the new formed Caliphate of Near Harad. A feast was brought by his new servants and they feasted! Him and his loyal army ate kebab and bread and anything they wanted!

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">The next day he began his changes to the Caliphate. He outlawed the worship of anything besides the Serpent. He made strict laws about religion, forcing everyone to worship the Serpent, and pray every day. He appointed his best soldiers as his new palace guard. He appointed his bests guard as Kaymakam, and Padishah of the Red Desert, which will forever be the holy land of the Caliphate.

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">He then went to the prison, and freed the people unrightfully jailed under the rule of Saladin. He build a great temple of red and yellow to worship the Serpent. He began readying his army, to raid Umbar. 6 great Mumakil and 2000 Southrons on horseback he readied. Behind him, thousands of infantry soldiers, armed with the holy pikes, spears, and scimitars of Atallah.

<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-size:14px;line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">He will conquer the Dunedain, Atallah told himself. His army was giant! Harad had never before been so powerful before Atallah took power. <ac_metadata title="Application for leader of Harad that no one saw"> </ac_metadata>