Mordor

Mauhoshat was hammered into a captain in the marshalling camps of Udun, where the legions of the Morannon are sorted and counted before the long march out. He took the Arki standard by goading three rivals into a knife-quarrel and walking out of the pit alone, a tale the muster-clerks of Lugburz are said to have written down. He covets the favour of the Great Eye above all, and trains his uruks to be noticed by the wraiths who ride down from the iron gate. The Ikhon under Maugrukh he names a company of pit-rats, for they reported his muster-count light at the last great gathering.

Gulnak stands at Mauhoshat's right hand in the Udun camps, and the clerks of Lugburz mark him as the sharper blade of the two. He has been passed over twice for a banner of his own, and the resentment of it sits behind his teeth like a second tongue. He waits for Mauhoshat to be summoned to the Black Gate or thinned in the Pelennor, and reckons the Arki muster will fall to him before the next great war-march. Until that day he flatters his captain and counts his rivals.

Durzan commands a Tower-guard company in the shadow of Barad-dur itself, chosen for cunning over bulk by an officer of the Mouth's household. Payback is the engine of him, for a Morgul-captain reported his company light at a muster three years past and his banner was nearly broken for it. That captain is dead now in a stair-quarrel none can quite explain, and Durzan has been seen at the Mouth's gate more than once since. He keeps a particular eye on the Cirith Ungol garrison, and on Maugrukh's accounting of the dead.

Maugrukh commands the watcher-tower of Cirith Ungol, that high paranoid roost above the Morgul Vale where Shelob lairs in the under-passes. He took the tower by cutting down the previous captain on the stair, an old quarrel about a shipment of mail looted from the tarks at Osgiliath. The Eye sees little of him there, and he likes it so, for a captain far from Lugburz may eat his own ghash and answer to none. He hates Mauhoshat of Udun, who once named his garrison a kennel of snaga.

Thulnar serves as Maugrukh's lieutenant on the Cirith Ungol stair, and he has counted every coin in the captain's strongbox twice. Loot is his drive and the tower his hunting-ground, for caravans bound from Minas Morgul up to the pass are easily skimmed by the orcs who watch the road. He pays his uruks in trinkets stolen from the men of Gondor, and keeps the heavier plunder for a day when Maugrukh slips on the stair. He nurses an old grudge against Kuragh of the Akheth, who once stole his share of a Morgul-train.

Uznash is an overseer-captain of the Nurn slave-pens, where the thralls of Harad and the East break their backs to feed the legions. He came up through the whip-gangs, and his hatred of Men is a cold practiced thing, learned on the fields and not in any battle. The horse-boys of the Mark have never heard of him, and that is a wound he means to repair when the great muster comes. He has an old quarrel with Gulnak of the Arki, who named his uruks farm-snaga at a Udun counting.

Thurak stands sentinel at the Morannon, the iron Black Gate where the legions of Lugburz pour out into the northern wastes. Fear of the Great Eye is the marrow of him, for he was once flogged on the gate-stones for letting a tark scout slip past in the dusk. Since that day he has not slept the whole night through, and his uruks know better than to be found drowsing on the wall. The Brughash of Durzan he watches with a particular dread, for they keep their own counsel in the south and do not answer the muster as swiftly as the Gate would like.

Comatasa is an Orc bred for war.

Elidilea serves in the dark hierarchy.

Gorbag, Captain of Minas Morgul, leads the garrison of the dead city. He is cunning even by Orc standards.

Valaria serves in the citadel of the dead.

Zachanis commands a regiment of orcs.

Zena serves the dark masters of Mordor.

Areliana serves in the borderlands.

Dorathila serves in the dark armies.

Mathmog is a powerful Uruk-hai war chief.

Megethia serves the dark powers.

Niphon commands a fortress on the borders of Mordor.

Casyrea is a servant of the Shadow.

Colambea dwells in the darkness of Mordor.

Goshank commands a regiment of Mordor orcs with cruel efficiency.

Maugrash is an Orc captain who has risen through sheer brutality and cunning.

Mina serves the dark powers of Mordor.

The Mouth of Sauron speaks with the Dark Lord's authority. Once a Black Numenorean, he has forgotten his own name after ages of service to evil. He commands the garrison of the Black Gate.

Throznak leads raiding parties into the western lands.

Ulbos is an Orc taskmaster, driving slaves in the forges of Mount Doom.

Vasilia serves the Dark Lord in the shadows.

Verina is a Black Numenorean sorceress in service to the Dark Tower.

Khamul the Easterling, second of the Nine, once ruled a great kingdom in Rhun before accepting a Ring of Power.

The Betrayer was once a king in the East before his corruption.

The Dark Marshall commands the Nazgul in battle, second only to the Witch-King.

The Knight of Umbar was once a lord of the Corsairs before taking the Ring.

The Shadow of the Northmen hunts in the cold lands.

The Shadow of Umbar haunts the southern coasts.

The Tainted spreads corruption wherever he rides.

The Undying was a sorcerer-king who sought immortality and found only eternal servitude.

The Witch-King of Angmar, Lord of the Nazgul, is Sauron's most terrible servant. He was once a great king of Men, corrupted by his Ring of Power into an undying wraith.

Constalia serves in the tower of Cirith Ungol.

Shagrat, Captain of Cirith Ungol, guards the pass into Mordor. He is known for his cruelty even among Orcs.

Silvina serves in the garrison of the spider's pass.

Tharos is an Orc captain serving in the pass.

Bolg is a powerful Orc chieftain, descended from Azog the Defiler.

An Orc bred in the pits of Mordor.

Viviana serves in the dark hierarchy.

Debana is a servant of the Shadow, skilled in dark arts.

Honoratus serves as an officer in the armies of Mordor.

Jathea serves in the dark hierarchy of Mordor.

Sanion is a Black Numenorean captain who commands a fortress.

Sauron the Great, Dark Lord of Mordor. This entry exists only to display his terrible armor.