Empire of Mordor


 * "One does not simply walk into Mordor. It's black gates are gaurded by more than just orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the power of Sauron is ever watchful. It is a barren wastland, riddled with fire and ash and dust. The very air you breathe is a nearly poisonous fume."


 * -Boromir at the council of Osgiliath

Mordor is a truly massive Empire that lies within the Mordor Mountain range and is the personal realm of the Dark Lord Sauron. It resides directly east of Gondor, and stretches as Northward as Westros, and as far east as the lands of Harad, and southward to the coasts due to its control of Umbar. The Realm is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the only entrance is through the Black Gate in the north and the dark city of Minus Morgal in the west. The capital of Barad-dur is located in central Mordor and is said to be the tallest tower in Europe, and one of the most massive fortresses within the continent. The Empire of Mordor is a center of evil in Europe, and is a source of much of the conflict for the Kingdoms and realms surrounding it. Its tendrils move eastward into Croatia, while also going as far south as Italy.

The absolute leader of Mordor, is the evil Sauron. He rules with an absolute fist, and any order he puts forth is brutally followed to the letter. Sauron is not questioned, and even if his orders are suicidal they are followed by his commanders to the letter lest they find themselves in the endless dungeons of Mordor.

Mordor was defended on three sides by two unassailable mountain ranges: the Ash Mountains in the North and the Shadowy Mountains in the West and South. Through these mountains, there appeared to only have been two passes: Cirith Ungol in the west and Cirith Gorgor in the North West. Besides the small circular plain called Udun inside Cirith Gorgor, Mordors two major regions where the plateau of Gorgoroth and the slave fields of Nurn. Gorgoroth was a vast dreary plateau of slag heaps and Orc pits always under the pal of smoke from the volcanic mountain of Ordoriun (or Mount Doom) near its centre. Here too: on the North East side of the plateau was a spur of the Ash Mountains, was Sauron's stronghold, the dark tower of Barad-Dur. Nurn, however, was a vast farmland populated by slave and slave drivers who suypplied the massive foods and basic materials for Saurons armies. Nurn was drained by four rivers, and each flowed into the inland sea of Nurnen.

Mordor was founded following the arrival of Sauron into its dark mountain range, and following this the once quiet and tranquil mountains burned with the fire of his malice. Orcs would be brought it and become a staple of the region due to their extreme numbers within Mordor where they would assist Sauron in construction the Empire of Mordor and its cities. Mordor would through espionage and menipulation destroy the Empire of Numeron from within, and they believed that without Numeron the rest of Europe would fall easily, but instead the humans dug in, and Mordor was forced to fight a fortified Gondor that held the only means out of Mordor other then in the north and east. Mordor would once again menipulate to their advantage when they turned Umbar, Dol Amroth, and Isengard into leaving the Kingdom of Gondor and instigating the massive Gondor Civil War. During this war they would lose huge numbers but also they would annihilate much of the population of Gondor. Following the Gondor Civil War the forces of mordor would prepare for many years to assault Gondor once again, but when they got to the point that they were ready they were attacked by the Arakhora of the Empire of Kandor. Mordor would become havily bogged down in a grueling and devestating conflict against the Arakhora that spilled into Harad and forced the forces of Mordor to ignore Gondor with most of their forces and deal with Kandor. Mordor would be heavily assaulted by a suprise attack by the forces of the kingdom of lucerne, High Forest, and Gondor which expelled the forces of Mordor from Gondor and closed the gap of mordor to them. During Westros the forces of Mordor are silently going to have to worry about Harad as the King's of Harad have become revealed as being no longer corupted by Sauron and have been working behind the scenes to get themselves independance and to damage Mordor for what they have done to them. In the first POV chapter in Harad we see the destruction of a truly massive Mordor army that is destroyed

Early History
Mordor was orginally a desolate mountain range. In its earliest days it was passed over by the Dwarves as a home because the heat was exhaustive, and the constant shaking of Mount Doom overwhelmed them For centuries it existed in nothing more then an empty wasteland, with large packs of spiders inhabiting the mountains. This changed when Sauron came upon it.



Coming of Sauron
With the knowledge of what he was, he now lost all traces of James, and became what his evil father wished him to become in a tool of Evil. Changing his name to Sauron he wandered Europe for centuries honing his abilities attempting to find a way to become greater then his father, and when this was taking too long Malekor sent his champion Morgoth down to Europe where he made Sauron understand that he needed to become greater now and to stop waiting for things. Finally Sauron discovered the fire wracked mountains of Mordor, and begin to set down roots in the land of which was controlled in part by the Empire of Numeron. Here he built himself a great gateway deep in the mountains of Mount Doom, and from here he teleported to the continent of Africanas. When he arrived in Africanas he saw much of what he saw in Europe, in that Africanas too had Growing Kingdom of Humans and small groupings of other races. It was in the southwest of Africanas that he would discover the Orcs and with them he would find his foot soilders.

Ancient_Orcs_of_Mordor.jpg
Main Article : Orcs

The Orcs at this point were not even close to becoming the massively powerful creatures they would one day become, and they were still all completely Ferel Orcs as the High Orcs had not yet risen and caused the expansion of the Orcish Race. In these mindless creatures Sauron saw something that he didn't think the humans would ever be able to show them in the Orcs lack of morals or ethics and their simple mindless ability to follow simple commands to the letter. So in this primitive state it was simple for Suaron to gain their loyalty through a series of kind acts and uplifting members of their tribes into positions of power and then causing these uplifted Orcs to become obsessed with him. As his control over these Orcs grew he begin moving many of these Sauron loyalist Orcs towards his great portal in Africanas and from here he told them of the greatness of his Empire and they fell in love with this idea. With their control now a done deal he was able to transport large numbers of these ancient Ferel Orcs back to Mordor where he hid them in the eastern canyons of the mountain range and slowly built them into his own personal army.

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With his army established Sauron begin setting them to work creating the massive fortress of Barad-Dur where he would create the centerpiece of the Empire he was building. The Mordor Orcs would grow quickly into a large army mainly in the canyons of the eastern parts of Mordor, and it was here that they begin to be noticed by the Empire of Numeron. Being noticed was exactly what Sauron wanted as he wanted to create a reason for the Numenorian expansion to stop moving eastward as he wanted time to grow, and at the same time he wanted to take control over Harad which would be difficult if they kept moving eastward. He used his massive powers and the untold thousands of Orcs now populating the Mordor region to quickly finish Barad-Dur and then with its creation he also created numerous fortresses, and towns throughout eastern Mordor which allowed for the creation of even more Mordor Orcs to the point that he knew he was ready for the Numenorians. He would begin by assaulting the Numenorian fortress of Tol-Durthang of which was the massive Numenorian fortress that was once meant to control the entire Mordor range but now simply blocked Sauron's advance westward. These attacks were shocking to the defenders but they held up to the forces of Mordor but were weaknened and thus called for assistence from the mainland.



Feanor
The Empire of Numeron would arrive with a large army nearly two years after the completetion of Barad-Dur and when they arrived it was the powerful Numenorian Feanor that would be leading the army of Numeron. Feanor massed his army at the fortress of Tol-Durthang and from here he was able to spy the edges of the giant fortress of Barad-Dur of which the creation of was the main reason for the arrival of he and his army. Feanor was an ancient Numenorian as he had been born on Atlantis so he was still a little arrogant about the power of the Numenorians and thus he was prepared to quickly beat this pathetic race that resisted them and then take control of Mordor for the Empire of Numeron. As his army moved towards Barad-Dur they underwent nearly constant assaults from large groups of a strange green skinned race they knew to be denizens of Africanas, and these attacks caused large casualties to his army and the closer they got the more numerous these forces became. Feanor would never reach Barad-Dur as his army would be wiped out when Sauron himself came to the front of the Numenorian army and thousands of Orcs surrounded his army and they proceeded to wipe them out. Two of Feanor's sons were killed during the Battle and only a few dozen Numenorians survived the Battle including Feanor, and his one remaining son. Feanaor would remain in Tol-Durthang for many years holding the fortress against the forces of Mordor, and during this time he would become competely discouraged by the turn of events as he would watch as Sauron destroyed the Empire of Numeron through the use of puppets and then a century late he watched as the successor Kingdom of Gondor abandoned Tol-Durthang for the more easily defended city of Minus Telif. With the abandonement of Tol-Durthang he would leave the Kingdom of Gondor and travel north where he created a farmstead in Denmark that he has lived in ever since.

Civil War in Gondor
Main Article : The Civil War in Gondor

The Civil War in Gondor was the perfect moment that Sauron had been waiting for to relaunch his attacks on Gondor. His armies were once again endless and he would not be fighting a Gondorian army that was split in its attention.



The End
The War would finally come to an end when the forces of Mordor and Umbar would team up to attack the Gondorian Fortress of Narvine. The forces of Mordor were reeling from the miraculous defence of Cair Andros, and before this the utter defeat of the Umbar forces attempting to destroy House Mason at Ethring. The Mordor forces begin to regroup around Minus Morgal and prepared to move once again into Gondor this time they were led by the Witch King and their force was massive along the lines of the original armies attacking throughout the land. The Gondor scouts were especially well alert during the early movements and because of this the Gondorian army was able to arrive in Narvine a day before the Mordor, and Umbar armies did, and this turned the battle into more of a siege.



Prelude
The fortress was the main backbone of the eastern Gondorian defences and for this reason it was especially well prepared for the attack that everyone knew was inevitable. Before the Battle had begun the fortress had its command handed over to the twin brother Tar-Arannoa, and Tar-Vislen Elessar of whome brought a large force of Tower gaurds of whome were not forseen by the forces of Mordor as they moved within. The forces of Mordor were at first moving against Minus Ithil but they discovered the fortress was heavily defended by two of the Numenorian commanders in the form of Halbaard, and Edrion Elessar thus the forces of Mordor used a large Orc force to besiege Minus Ithil while they moved the total force southwards towards Narvine in a move that would cut off the main Gondor force in the south from the rest of Gondor. As the force from Mordor moved south the main thrust of Umbar moved northward towards the main Gondor Force at Ethring which forced the main force to remain in place. King Arathorn Elessar understood that the forces of Gondor were completely surrounded in the south but with the army in the north in tatters following the defence of Cair Andros, and the central army still stuck fighting against the army of Sarauman in Osgiliath and besieged in Minus Ithil he had no choice but to attempt to defeat the Umbar force once and for all.



The Siege
The Army of Mordor moved quickly against the forces at Narvine as they were determined to take the fortress and quickly trap the rest of the Gondor Army around Ethring where they would be picked apart and destroyed. Led by the Witch King the army of nearly three hundred thousand attacked the fortress nestled into the hills which had a defence army of little over sixty thousand and was weakened from nearly two years of fighting. The seige begin quickly with the forces of Mordor swarming at the walls in huge numbers which had little hope of defeating the defenders but each night this continued which made the defenders weaker and weaker. After three days of fighting the forces of Mordor had lost almost seventy five thousand to the defenders but the defenders were down some ten thousand dead while another fifteen thousand were wounded. While the defenders awaited the fourth day and the coming of their eventual fall the situation in Ethring changed dramatically.



Massacre at Barfurd
Along the Umbar front the forces of Gondor were opposed by the massive army of Umbar of which was situated in the large city of Barfurd. The Umbar army was very large but at the same time they were led by the brother of Castamir Bedroog in Vastamir Bedroog of whome was a skilled but inexperianced leader. Arathorn saw that his Kingdom was going to fall unless he changed things dramatically and thus he created a plan where a large force of Gondor Cavalary would move eastward around the border with Umbar through the mountain passes there and move to the east of the Umbar army unaware. The sentries along the Umbar border were massive as Castamir had drilled his brother to death that he needed to be careful about ambushes, but the mountain path was so inaccesable and far away from the front that there were very few sentries there and what few were there were of little skill and even less prepared. The Cavalry moved quickly and was able to destroy the few scouts in the mountain pass and arrived on the eastern swamps of Barfurd four days after they had left. With their arrival Arathorn moved the entire Gondor force southward and provoked the Umbar army into action by massacring the scouts located along the border and thus at the same time bliding the Umbar forces to their movement. Vastamir sent word to his brother who told him that he would move a relief force to Barfurd and that Vastamir would not move until he arrived. Vastamir was prepared to follow this but Arathorn begin using scouts to taunt the defenders and Vastamir suffered insults from his commanders which forced him to make the rash decision to move the Umbar army north in order to defeat Arathorn.



Battle of Barfurd
The moment the Umbar army moved north Castamir got word and moved his force quicker to the location but he was a week away and had no real hope of arriving in time. Vastamir led the forces north and despite whispers from his commanders that they had little knowledge of what they were facing he continued north due to the fact that he was heavily influenced by several rash commanders within his retinue. As he moved north he was shadowed by the ten thousand cavalry of the Gondor force of whome moved in behind and to the eastern side of him in preperation for the coming Battle. As the two sides engaged in Battle the Gondorians did not make any attempt to be agressive and the Umbar forces assumed this was because they were so much more numerous and they doubled their attack. As the entire Umbar force was engaged the cavalry moved into the Battle and hit the unprepared Umbar forces in the rear and side. As Vastamir realized the mistake he made he charged forward in the hopes of defeating Arathorn before his forces were completely massacred. He would make his way to Arathorn who was heading for him and the two would duel and when the dust settled Vastamir lay dead along with the entire army of Umbar. Following this victory the forces of Gondor moved relatively undamaged northward towards the Battle of Narvine and the forces of Mordor were completely unaware of this movement.



Battle of Narvine Field
The fourth day of the Siege of Narvine would come and as was the case everyday the forces of Mordor moved against the city but this time they were in trouble as the main Gondor force was watching from the hills nearbye and was awaiting this attack. During the enseuing siege the Gondor Army under Arathorn moved north towards the seige and hit the rear of the attacking force. Isilmo was in the skies overhead and was the first to see the attackers, and this was followed shortly after by the Witch King of whome both attempted to shift there forces but realized quickly that the army was far to invested in the siege to turn completely and they watched as a massive melee ensued between the Gondor forces and the now completely surrounded Mordor army of which started to turn into a massacre. As this happened the Witch King and Isilmo landed at the heart of the Gondor army and begin to fight at the center. There presence caused great fear and nearly routed the Gondorians until Arathorn and his son Aragorn arrived on the scene and engaged them in battle. During this ensueing conflict Arathron would be struck down along with his second in command in Malvo Openias and all hope seemed lost until Aragorn stepped forward and fought him. While they fought his uncle was killed by Isilmo but was then forced to pull back after Tar-Vislan defeated him and nearly killed his Wraith. With the Mordor force nearly completely massacred the Witch King looked around and realized that he was completely surrounded and thus pulled back leaving the field completely in Gondor's hands. With the defeat of this force the forces of Mordor no longer had the forces capable of winning the conflict and Sauron watching his army in near defeat ordered the general retreat from Gondor's lands of which the final force to leave was Sarauman of whome was harried by Gandalf their entire time leaving.

Conflict with Kandor
Main Article : Jungle War

Following the Gondor Civil War the forces of mordor would prepare for many years to assault Gondor once again, but when they got to the point that they were ready they were attacked by the Arakhora of the Empire of Kandor. Mordor would become havily bogged down in a grueling and devestating conflict against the Arakhora that spilled into Harad and forced the forces of Mordor to ignore Gondor with most of their forces and deal with Kandor.



The Journey
Main Article : The Journey

Mordor would be heavily assaulted by a suprise attack by the forces of the kingdom of lucerne, High Forest, and Gondor which expelled the forces of Mordor from Gondor and closed the gap of mordor to them.

Modern Day
At present the dark empire of Mordor is engaged in a two front war with Gondor on one side and Kandor on the other. While the war against Gondor is going very well, the numberless hordes of the Kandor are a difficult opponent, and Kandor has the upper hand.

Dark Lord
The absolute leader of Mordor, is the evil Sauron. He rules with an absolute fist, and any order he puts forth is brutally followed to the letter. Sauron is not questioned, and even if his orders are suicidal they are followed by his commanders to the letter lest they find themselves in the endless dungeons of Mordor.

Main Article : Sauron

Sauron or "The Great Evil" is the Dark Lord of Mordor, and one of the principle Lords of the Dark Chaos Lord Malekor. He is responsible for much of the darkness that now spreads throughout the world through the different evil acts he has caused throughout his life. He caused the Downfall of Numeron which ended the largest and most influencial Human Kingdom in history, and through his guidence the Orcs are spreading at an alarming rate. He also is in a control position with two Human Kingdoms (Umbar, The Easterlings Kingdom of Rhun) who have fallen to darkness.

Sauron was created by the Dark Chaos God Malekor after he realized that in order for this plans on Earth to come to pass he would need someone with great strategic depth to his mind. The only son of the Evil God Malekor he was once a noble man, but Malekor would intervene and cause him to have terribly violent dreams which led to him seeing Malekor's other child in his sister Flemeth of whome told him of his birth. He slowly lost his mind as the knowledge of what he was began to become aware to him and this would lead to him leading a dark Mercenary army across the Empire of Numeron during their time on Atlantis. This evil was opened when Malekor once again entered his life and used his superior skills to intervene against Sauron and turned him completely to his way of thinking. Sauron would build the Empire of Mordor while at the same time converting many of the Numenorians into his alliance and causing the Downfall of Numeron. Following the Downfall of Numeron he would do many things of which his destruction of much of the Kingdom of Gondor would be the most well known but he was also responsible for the birth of his first and only son in Nagash of whome he gave commands to destroy the Man God Jesus of which would change the course of human history.

Sauron is not truly the ruler of his plans, and he is constantly given tasks by his true master in Malekor. Sauron is one of very few living men who knows what the final plan of Malekor is, and even he is probably been told lies, in order to follow the plan.

Commanders
See Also : Nazgul, Harad

He sends much of his commands, and trusts their implementation to his commanders. Since Mordor is split into two and perhaps three parts the commanders are taken from each of these areas. The first is Mordor itself, and the overall commanders here are the Nazgul, with the frontline commanders being members of the Mordor Orcs. The second element is the Easterlings, and the commanders here are taken from the Easterlings themselves, although they are watched like hawks by the Nazgul who exist in Dol Guldur.

There are two layers to Sauron's command hiarchy, and each is responsible for their sectors.

Nazguls
The Nazgul are far and away the most trusted of Saurons forces, and because of this to question the Nazgul is to question Sauron himself.

Harad
The region of Harad and its people the Easterlings were once a very industrious people that were competing with The Empire for control over Prussia, but this came to an end when their leaders were decieved by Sauron and many became members of the Nazgul. Since this time the commanders of the Easterlings are chosen from the most loyal members of the Easterlings.

Mordor


Mordor was defended on three sides by two unassailable mountain ranges: the Ash Mountains in the North and the Shadowy Mountains in the West and South. Through these mountains, there appeared to only have been two passes: Cirith Ungol in the west and Cirith Gorgor in the North West. Besides the small circular plain called Udun inside Cirith Gorgor, Mordors two major regions where the plateau of Gorgoroth and the slave fields of Nurn. Gorgoroth was a vast dreary plateau of slag heaps and Orc pits always under the pal of smoke from the volcanic mountain of Ordoriun (or Mount Doom) near its centre. Here too: on the North East side of the plateau was a spur of the Ash Mountains, was Sauron's stronghold, the dark tower of Barad-Dur. Nurn, however, was a vast farmland populated by slave and slave drivers who suypplied the massive foods and basic materials for Saurons armies. Nurn was drained by four rivers, and each flowed into the inland sea of Nurnen.

Easterling
Main Article : Harad

Harad is a region within the Empire of Mordor, that contains the Easterlings, and is a very important part of the Empire of Mordor. The region of Harad is the only homebase of the Easterlings or the Sueves and this makes it extremely unique in this regard.

Barad-Dur
See Also : Barad-Dur



Barad-Dur is the capital of the dark empire of Mordor, and the ruling seat of the evil wizard Sauron. Barad-Dur is a massive tower surrounded on the ground by a sprawling city. Located within range of an active mountain in the form of Mount Doom the city is constantly threatened with destruction, and only the magical protections set up by Sauron keep it from being wiped out.

Barad-Dur was founded as the first site of the growing darkness of Sauron, and its creation was done completely in secret, as Sauron feared greatly that the Numenorians would intervene in order to stop him. Following its creation it became flooded with Orcs of whom would expand outwards from Barad-Dur capturing in a short time the entirety of the Mordor Mountains outside of Minas Morgal. It would be from Barad-Dur that the forces of Mordor would heavily assault Gondor in an attempt to assist their allies in the Empire of Numeron during the Downfall of Numeron. Barad-Dur would become the site for Sauron's creations, and inside the depths of Barad-Dur would lay the massive dungeon where Sauron would place Fingolfin of whom is one of the ancient High Elves that was meant to be the role that the Man Gods played for the humans but he was captured by Sauron during the War of Vengeance. In the current story Sauron remains within the depths of Barad-Dur crafting, and plotting the destruction of his enemies.

Dol Guldur
See Also : Dol Guldur



Dol Guldur is a vast underground city in Mordor that has become one of the largest in all of Mordor. The home base of the Witch King the fortress city of Dol Guldur is second in importance to only Barad-Dur itself. It is from Dol Gulder that the Fell beasts of the Nazgul are created and raised to become the steeds of the commanders of the Nazgul. This means that in the manner that the Fell beasts are created the fortress is nearly constantly filled with the shrieks of the Fell Beasts as they are spawned in the diobolical manner that they are.

During the earliest days of the growth of Sauron in Mordor he needed more space to grow his army, and with the Numenorians controlling the fortress west of Barad-Dur he was forced to expand eastward. Located southeast of Barad-Dur, it was built to be a safe haven for the Witch King but the Orcs under his command quickly became so numerous that they burrowed deeper and deeper until eventually they had built quite the city. Dol Guldur's growth destroyed much of the resistence that might have come from Gondor, as the fortresses location meant that they could swiftly move to take apart any resistence force that arrived in the area, and thus eventually Dol Guldur aided in the fall of Mordor to the forces of Sauron. With Mordor under the control fo Sauron the city became the starting point for the attacks eastward against the enemies to the east of which the main broker became Kandor. Dol Guldur was actually attacked during the Rise of Lucerne by the forces of Kandor in what amounted to a massacre against the Arakhora but it was made as a sign to Mordor that they were no longer safe in their cities.

Minus Morgal
See Also : Minus Morgal



Minus Morgal is a city/fortress of Mordor, and stands as the center of everything that Mordor has ruined of Gondor. It was once called Minus Telif when it was a part of Gondor, but had its name changed when it fell to the forces of Mordor. It is situated in an upland vallet at the only western entrance to Mordor, making it a fortress filled with nearly unlimitted numbers of Orcs and other evil.

Minus Telif was originally built by the Numerons to act as a gaurdian against the movement of the Orcs of Mordor. The city itselft was once much larger during these times, as it had during the golden age of Numeron a population far in excess of 100,000. Following the madness of the Downfall of Numeron, the city was one of many that lost huge numbers during the war, and because of its extreme losses, it was decided to turn the city into a simple fort. Minus Telif was drained and left to ruin a bit during the Downdfall of the Numerons and this ruin was never completely repaired. Minus Telif was captured by the Forces of Mordor very early on in the beginning of the conflict with Mordor. The Gondorians were unprepared for the size and speed that the Mordor armies came with and were unable to hold the city.

Budapest
See Also : Budapest

Budapest is a very large city located within the land of Harad and forming the capital of the Sueve people and the Mordor province of Harad. Budapest is far and away the largest Sueve city in the world with nearly sixty thousand people living in the city, and with the second largest city having four thousand people it is Budapest that centers the administration of Harad.

Budapest was first founded by the Sueve as they entered the land of Harad, and they settled it as their capital. For their brief history before being corupted by Sauron the city of Budapest was a very wealthy city that traded heavily with The Empire to its north. This came to an end when Sauron corupted the leadership and Budapest was for many generations a city held hostage as it contained thousands of Orcs garrisoning the city in order to make sure of their loyalty. Over time these Orcs would leave but a Black Numenorian gaurd has replaced them, and trained in the marshes of Umbar these Black Numenorians, and Dark Atlantians have become hated by the population for their abuse of their power. Under the current King [http://lucerne.wikia.com/wiki/Emeric_Geza_I. Emeric Geza I.] the city would be expanded quite heavily, and he would become very bitter towards the effect that the control Mordor was having on Harad leading to the silent assasination of many of the Black Numenorians in the city. This would lead to a conflict called the Harad Silent War in which King Emeric Geza I. would supply and support secretly a rebellion movement inside Harad that aimed to free Harad from its Mordor masters. This conflict would be fought concurrently with their war against Kandor, and it would dominate many neighborhoods in Budapest.

Dol Hurden
See Also : Dol Hurden

Dol Hurden is the mighty fortress of the Nazgul Ramul, and from here the Empire of Mordor controls the land it surrounds in Harad. Dol Hurden is a tower that is held affloat by three massive bridges built into the side of the ruined mountain of Harad in Hartin. The tower is exactly the same hight as the Sky Towers in Lucerne, and this is due to John Lovie or Ramul turning the fortress into a cruel reminder of what he has become.

The fortress itself is the home of Ramul, and his elite Black Gaurd, while the surrounding valley is the encampment of the Mordor Orcs under the command of Ramul.

The fortress of Dol Hurden was constructed by the command of Ramul (John Lovie) under the guise of becoming the center of the Mordor control of Harad. This was seen as a positive move as Sauron wanted John Lovie away from the Kingdom of Lucerne of whom Sauron continued to believe could be brought into the fold in the same manner as Harad had been. Ramil took charge quickly and begin to terrorize the people of the surrounding mountains until they retreated into more fertile lands leaving him free to expand the holdings of his elite Black Gaurd. Since its construction the fortress of Dol Hurden has been the site of a growing mini empire controlled by Ramul, and in this way the mountains teem with the tunnels of the thousands of Black Orcs, and hundreds of thousands of Mordor Orcs living in them.



Black Gate
See Also : Black Gate



The Black Gate is one of three entrances to Mordor. The Black Gate defends Mordor from the largest gap on the northern side of the mountain range. The other openings, can be defended by a single fort, where as this entrance is nearly 3 miles wide.

The Black Gate was constructed by the forces of Mordor early in the history of Mordor, and its construction consisted of the use of hundreds of thousands of Mordor Orcs and hundreds of the giant Olag-Hai Trolls of Mordor. As it was constructed it was shielded from being noticed by the fact that Sauruman the Istari did not allow anyone to see it, and thus despite the massive number of workers and the scope it was never discovered until it neared completion. As it was months from being finished the Sindar Elves of High Forest would spy the construction through their eagles, and they warned the Gondorians who ignored them believing they were lying because Sauruman said it was untrue. Following its construction the Sindar Elves of High Forest warned the Humans of Gondor of what had been constructed but it was too late to stop the advancing Orcs from beginning to threaten the KIngdom of Gondor. The Black Gate since its construction has made the northern section of Mordor an absolute no go area as their is simply no conventional force capable of taking on the Black Gate.

Durthang
See Also : Durthang



Durthang is a major Mordor stronghold lying within the Kingdom of Mordor that protects the central western area and is the last line of defence in Mordor before Baradur. Durthang is the stronghold of Castamir and it is from here that he fashions his campaigns and makes his residence when he is not off at war.

Durthang was originally a stronghold of the Empire of Numeron that was constructed during the early expansion into Europe in order to control the mountain of Mordor. With the growth of power of Mordor under Sauron the fortress of Durthang would be the site of endless battles throughout the tail end of the Empire of Numeron. When the Empire of Numeron fell it would come into the Kingdom of Gondor of whome held the fortress very briefly before Durthang was eventually nearly abandoned. As Mordor became repopulated with Sauron’s servants, it became under threat and a massive army of Mordor but was defended by Feanor for centuries until the forces of Gondor retreated out of its defences to Minas Telif or Minas Morgal. With Mordor now in control of Durthang it became a twisted version of its ancient self, and despite the fact that it was meant to be a fortress it was left to ruin by the Mordor occupiers. Castamir the Nazgul would enter the fortress and make it his home and from here he would commit his twisted experiments and organize his forces for battle.