House Caldur

House Caldur is a very large Black Numenorian Household located within the Empire of Umbar, and making their home within the vast port of Umbar.

House Caldur was one of the first starters of the Umbar independant movement, and their lord at the time would move quickly behind the leadership of Castamir Bedroog and was rewarded following for his excellent loyalty.

Early History
House Caldur was one of the first starters of the Umbar independant movement, and their lord at the time would move quickly behind the leadership of Castamir Bedroog and was rewarded following for his excellent loyalty.

Rise of Castamir Bedroog
See Also : Castamir Bedroog



Before he came to rule of Umbar he was the son of the Gondor loyalist mayor Fastiv Bedroog of Umbar of whome was a man that he held a very high level of respect for. Castamir and his father were so close that only the relationship that Fastiv had with Castamir's brother Aravir would be close to the bond that the two shared. This bond led to Castamir travelling with his father to Gondor with his brothers and sisters, and during this trip he would for the first time listen to his brother Vastamir as he whispered to him about the way the Gondorians looked down on them as a people. Despite the growing influence of his brother Vastamir the relationship between Castamir and Fastiv remained resolute throughout the trip, but cracks continued to grow through his brother Vastamir and as well due to a growing jelousy over the favortism of their brother Aravir. This high regard would slow for him a bit as Castamir became closer with his brother Vastamir of whome had a great obsession with the Umbar people and the way in which they lived. Together the two of them would come to explore the darker parts of the great port city, and this continued for many years. Eventually they came to discover certain elements of the city that they had known little of in the richer quarter that they were born and spent their youth in, and it was here that the two would be changed for the worse. While they travelled about the poorer sections they discovered the extreme poverty that existed and while this made Vastamir nearly immediatly join a small group of wealthy nobles who were said to be fighting to uplift the Umbar people it had the effect of causing Castamir to bring this issue to his father's attention in the hopes his father would do something about it.

Growing Hate


Castamir arrived at his father's keep and they told him that his father was at the home estate so he went there immediatly to meet with his father. When he arrived he saw that his father was sitting at a desk reading a book of which he could not identify as it was in Numenorian and his knowledge of the language was weak. What he did notice was Melavia standing against a wall in the corner of the room staring at him with discust as he walked in. He ran through his problems with his father, and his father responded kindly but didn't give the anwser that Castamir had wanted and before he had left Melavia would throw her insults at Castamir and where once his father might have defended him, this women now had a hold of him and Fastiv just sat motionless as Melavia threw insults at him. Castamir and this High Gondorian noblewomen would continue to insult back and forth, and it was only when Melavia let loose with a torrent of insults against the people of Umbar that Fastiv stepped in. Castamir left that room with only one thought in his mind, and that was the knowledge that he was now going to change this place so that he and his people would never live this way again. The way that Melavia the Gondorian high noble looked at him was the final straw in the coffin for Castamir Bedroog.

The Movement


Returning now to the side of his brother Vastamir the deal between the two was simple in that moment. They would decide that they would take control of the Umbar Indpendance movement and lead it to the point that they could finally be free of the rotten influence of Gondorians over them, and they also agreed that the two would share rulership once they had rid the lands of Gondor. As Castamir, and his brother Vastamir attempted to move into the underground rebellion they discovered that his brother was already quite grown in the movement and thus it took little effort to actualy get in. As he grew within the outside he came to meet a man named Adumir Dortexia of whom was the heir to the very powerful House Dortexia family but had joined the movement after his brothers death while travelling northward into Gondor. Once he was inside he became discusted by the amount of effort the movement placed into expanding their own personal wealth, and how little they cared about improving the city as a whole. He even watched as his brother of whom he placed the utmost repsect watched on as the corupted elements of the movement used the ideals of the movement to enrich themselves instead of trying to gain actual independance. He remained quiet with these beliefs and decided that he would take control of the movement himself, and in order to do this he needed to make a name for himself that was such that when he started to rise he could point to his reputation as a loyalist to Umbar. He decided to go about doing this by assasinating a high level Gondor loyalist using his name within the rebellion of which he was nicknamed Tar-Castamir. He would search for the perfect person and eventually find him in Tar-Ellesia Valia of House Valia of whome was a merchant leader of whome controlled a large portion of the wealth of the town and was using this in a pro-Gondorian way.

Murder of an heir


Before Castamir went about killing Tar-Ellesia he went about making sure that this man's wealth would become his once he was dead and he did this by finding his heir and proceeding to over the course of several weeks to indoctrinate him into his way of thinking. The heir in the form of Tar-Jaxone Valia would become a dire hard loyalist of Castamir and swore and oath to Castamir. Castamir would take a small group of men that were dire hard loyal to him and he would break into Tar-Ellesia's house and he along with his men would kill all the occupants inside except for Tar-Ellesia of whome they dragged into the merchant square while they all were wearing their unique Umbar armor that consieled who they were. Castamir would listen to the begging of this man the entire way there as he threatened Castamir and warned him of how powerful he was, and then finally begin attempting to bribe the man. All this was for nothing as in front of a massive crowd Castamir took him to the top of the paviolion and in front of everyone he sliced his head off and threw it to the ground before making sure everyone knew this was the cost of being loyal to Gondor.



Following this action he now controlled the vast wealth of House Valia, and had created a reputation that was something his oponents in the rebellion could not hope to resist. His rise following this was something nearly meterioc in that he joined the council of the rebellion alongside his brother and together the two slowly destroyed the old rebellion leadership and put in place people that were loyal to them and the direction that they wanted to go. After two years of this growth he had created a position for himself at the top that was basically a kingly position in that they no longer voted on things, he simply held a council and took their ideas and then decided what direction they were going to go. Over this two years he created a support amongst the people that grew from obscurity under the old rulers towards the vast majority of the population under him. He did this through systematically taking control over the wealthy members of Umbar and making them understand that the old greedy way of living was gone.



After killing several of these men and taking control of their empires for himself the others fell in line, and this created a building boom and a economic explosion that brought huge amounts of money into the city, and into the rebelion. He used this wealth to distribute food to those who were going hungry, and he built huge contruction works within Umbar that gave jobs to thousands, and housed the homeless. On top of this he financed the creation of two large and permenent areas of the future Empire of Umbar. The first was the Antheon Gaurd of whome would be an extremely elite portion of the Umbar Army which would serve a purpose similar to the Order of the Golden Dragon inside the Kingdom of Lucerne. The second was the actual standing army of Umbar which unlike the usual Umbar forces which were just randomly recruited these solders would be professional solders and thus they would be better equipped and trained then most.