Thread:LTucker8801/@comment-86.87.202.114-20170221111851

Hello! This is my application for Witch King.

In game name: ShadowDerian

Experience: I really like roleplaying and I do it alot. I'm a Uruk Hai on The Second Age Server, I've seen all movies and read all books.

Lore: Some time after Sauron seized the Rings of Power in the Sack of Eregion, S.A. 1697 he gave nine of them to Mannish kings, sorcerers and other warriors. With the power of their rings, the Nine achieved glory and grew wealthy, but they eventually started hating life as they were slowly drawn under Sauron’s dominion. In the end, they all became the dreadful Ringwraiths.

The one later known as the Witch-king was one of these, likely one of the unnamed three lords of Númenor to take the rings. He first appeared in the histories as a Ringwraith in S.A. 2251. Being the most powerful of the Nazgûl, he became their chief and the most feared servant of his master Sauron.

When Mordor fell in S.A. 3441, the Nazgûl vanished into the shadows and were not heard of again for a long time.

More than a thousand years later, in c. 1050 of the Third Age, Sauron began to rebuild his power in Dol Guldur. In c. 1300 his Nazgûl also reappeared and the Witch-king established his realm, Angmar, in the north. His capital was Carn Dûm, on the northernmost peak of the Misty Mountains. He summoned men, orcs and other creatures of evil inclination to his banner. No one knew that he was actually a servant of the long-dormant Sauron and few that he was a wraith.

In the north, disunity plagued the Dúnedain of Arnor. They had divided into three kingdoms: Cardolan, Rhudaur and Arthedain, and were constantly at war with one another.The Witch-king saw the North-kingdom of Arnor as more vulnerable than the South-kingdom of Gondor. He played upon their opposition, sending in infiltrators and taking over the hearts of the men of that land. By 1349, the government of Rhudaur was controlled by men secretly in his service, and he secretly aided them in their wars against the other kingdoms. He then struck at a time of great hostility among the three, in 1409. Rhudaur in the east fell first, and most of the Dúnedain there were hunted down and slaughtered by sorcerers.Cardolan was ravaged and the Tower of Amon Sûl, held by the men of Arthedain, was placed under siege. King Arveleg I was slain and the tower was destroyed, but the coveted palantír escaped in the hands of the surviving men of Arthedain and was brought to Fornost.

The Witch-king continued to press the men of Arthedain, laying siege to Fornost, and he might have taken over all of Arnor in that one offensive. But Araphor, the 18-year-old son of Arveleg, came to leadership and, with the help of the ancient elf Círdan of Lindon, repelled the Witch-king’s forces at Fornost and the North Downs.Elrond brought an army of Elves from Rivendell and Lothlórien, and the Witch-king was pushed back and subdued.

The Witch-king sat silent in Carn Dûm, rebuilding his armies and preparing for a final assault on Arthedain, last of the Arnorian kingdoms. The Dark Plague came and went in 1636, taking with it the last of the Dúnedain of Cardolan. The Witch-king sent barrow-wights to inhabit the barrows in Tyrn Gorthad.In 1974, he felt that his power was sufficiently restored to begin the advance.

His attack was sudden, but not unexpected. King Arvedui sent a message to King Eärnil II of Gondor the year before, but help did not arrive in time. Fornost fell, and the Witch-king took up residence there in the palace.Arvedui held out as best as he might on the North Downs, but at last fled north with the treasured palantíri of Amon Sûl and Annúminas. He would not return, for he perished in a shipwreck in 1975. With him the palantíri were lost forever in the icy seas of Forod. The already-diminished North-kingdom ended, and Arnor fell.

Meanwhile, a coalition in the south had formed. Eärnil sent his son, Eärnur, north with a great fleet, all that Gondor could spare. They arrived at Lindon and joined with the folk of Círdan. Círdan summoned all that would come: surviving Dúnedain of Arnor and elves of Lindon. Even a company of hobbit archers went to their aide. The Witch-king had grown overconfident and, instead of staying behind his fortifications, initiated the attack. The Battle of Fornost was fought on the plain between Nenuial and the North Downs. The Witch-king may not have anticipated the strength brought against him, but for whatever reason the alliance gained the upper hand. His army began to fall back toward Fornost, but Eärnur’s magnificent horsemen struck from the north and the Witch-king was routed.

He decided to flee to Angmar and the safety of Carn Dûm, but the cavalry, with Eärnur himself in the lead, overtook him. Moreover, the ranks of the allies swelled, as an army of elves from Rivendell came led by the mighty hero of old, Glorfindel. Angmar was purged of men and orcs, and all seemed lost for the Witch-king in the face of such numbers. But the Witch-king himself came at the last, robed and masked in black and riding a black horse, and attempted to kill Eärnur with his own hands. But Eärnur’s horse shied away and fled, and the Witch-king laughed. But Glorfindel came on his white horse, and faced with such power the Witch-king fled. He vanished into the shadows and no-one marked where he had gone.[

Eärnur wanted to pursue, but Glorfindel held him back and made his famous prophecy.  