So this is my suggestion for an overhaul for the Taurethrim faction. I'll eventually be getting to the other two but this is focused on just the Taurethrim. It's quite detailed and fairly long.
So this is my suggestion for an overhaul for the Taurethrim faction. I'll eventually be getting to the other two but this is focused on just the Taurethrim. It's quite detailed and fairly long.
I like it!!!
There are arguments against this statement:
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These creatures had wiped out any Morwaith tribes living in the lands that became known as Perdorogwaith, and by the time of Kimen Kâh they were beginning to raid further and further westwards. The attacks of these Grey Demons intensified over the next few years, until finally, in SA 2161, the mighty city fell to the Half-Trolls. The Half-Trolls completely burned all that remained of the original Taurethrim civilization, and slaughtered the entire population of the city. It is for this reason that the site became called Kimen Kâh - the City of the Dead. The fall of Kimen Kâh marked the end of Taurethrim attempts to settle the Far Harad Forest, as well as the end of the pureblooded Taurethrim. The last branch of the original Taurethrim Empire was completely destroyed, and with the city was lost grievous amounts of artifacts and texts from the old Empire. The river at which Kimen Kâh was built turned red with blood during the massacre, and so forever after it became known as the River of Blood, the Seregduin. | ” |
–The Lost Chronicles of Middle-earth |
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I meant to prove that the Taurethrim still know that they came from Chunha. And a few families could have stayed behind. Maybe the empire resettled Chunha and its inhabitants were killed by the Morwaith. In any case, there would be no Taurethrim there now.
Nonetheless they are also called Taurethrim, even if they gave this name to themselves. I'd like to point out that prior to the revenge of the Morwaith, the Taurethrim fought among themselves. If they ever resettled Chunha (after migrating from it due to flooding), they still would have died out, because the only Taurethrin city evading Morwaith attacks was Mûmakâh, due to its location in the deep jungle.
The most important point was, imo, that their ancestors migrated from it. Meaning they didn't or couldn't stay there. The forest people then split off into the pre-Taurethrim and Limwaith. The Limwaith went to the eastern swamplands, living the traditional way of life of the Forest People. The pre-Taurethrim, meanwhile, went to the jungles, assimilated/drove off the inhabitants, and completely changed their culture and way of life. At some point they came into contact with the Númenóreans, who taught them metalwork and masonry. Therefore, when the Taurethrim expanded their empire and rediscovered Chunha, I think they are not likely to have resettled it, because the terrain was fit fore a lifestyle similar to that of the Limwaith, who were looked down upon by the Taurethrim.
In the suggestion, I am disscussing the natives who were left behind. There is no need for them to have resettled as they could just conquer the people who already lived there and then just take tribute and such. The more standard Taurethrim in the zone I specify are Taurethim-ized natives, as in they are natives who have become more like the Taurethrim over time, not neccessarily Taurethrim themselves.
Those who were left behind would be no more than a few families, like the Hobbits in the Gladden Fields.