Middle Earth Role Playing Game/Rolemaster RPG
Umbar: Haven of the Corsairs
This is an Iron Crown Enterprises MERP2400 Umbar: Haven of the Corsairs adventure for use with the Middle Earth Roleplaying Game. Umbar contains: 5 B&W maps 6 major floor plans Wildlife, plants, climate, cultures, & politics A 16" x 20" full-color detachable mapsheet, side #1 of which depicts the Adventure in a land of warships, traders, thieves and plunderers, ominous towers, dark wizards and scheming overlords. GENERAL HISTORY In the Second Age, the island kingdom Númenor began establishing colonies on the coast. Destined to be the greatest of these was the fortress Um-bar. She was built strongly and richly by Númenor and great was her pride, perhaps too great. In S.A. 3261, Ar-Pharazôn, having seized the throne of Númenor some six years before, assembled a great army and marched forth to challenge Sauron, Lord of the Dark and chief wielder of the Power of he who forged the Dark, Morgoth. He disembarked his army at the great fortress city of The Dunedain of Umbar also fell to the influence of Sauron and became known as the Black Númenoreans. The realms of Gondor and Arnor, who were to be the main opponents of Umbar, were founded in S.A. 3320 by the Faithful of Númenor who had not followed Ar-Pharazôn and were un-touched by Sauron. Their fleet had sailed just before the seas rose over Númenor. In Although the fortress of Umbar was taken, the area about it was still under the hand of the Black Númenoreans, and from 933 to 1030 they laid siege to Umbar. During the siege King Ciryandil of Gondor was killed, but Umbar was not re-taken by the Black Númenoreans owing to Gondor's seapower. There were other factors rising against Gondor and Arnor in the next 500 years that were to lead to the establishing of the The men of Harad who roamed the deserts behind the fertile strip of farm land dominated by Umbar were firm allies of the Corsairs. In 1540 their alliance warred with Gondor, and killed King Aldamir. Later Hyramen-dacil II of Gondor defeated the Harad, but less than 100 years afterwards the Corsairs burned Pelargir and killed King Minardil. The Great Plague of 1636 hampered Gondor's attacks against Umbar, but in 1810, almost 400 years after the rebels took Umbar, King Telumehtar re-captured the city for Gondor. Yet, as Sauron rose again in power the Men of Harad fell fully under his sway. They retook Umbar and destroyed the monument built to his defeat. By T.A. 2710, Umbar was again actively warring against Gondor, this time as a city of the Haradrim. During the reign of Ecthelian II, Thorongil at-tacked the fleets of Umbar and burned many ships, but Umbar was not taken, Umbar remained at war with Gondor and under the influence of Sauron until after the War of the Ring. In T.A. 3019, Aragorn II defeated the Corsair Fleet attacking Pelargir with the aid of the Army of the Dead, who came at Aragorn's call to fulfill an old oath. In the Fourth Age Aragorn II, ruling as King Elessar, established Umbar again as a hold of Gondor. |