====== Númenórean Fleet ======

At [[sauron|Sauron]]'s urging, [[ar_pharazon|Ar Pharazon]] raised the mightiest fleet (probably of Spell Jammers) ever seen on [[arda:start|Arda]] and assaulted Valinor.  The Valar cried out, and Valinor was separated from [[arda:start|Arda]]'s sphere, and the Westward Road was sundered: the only major known edit performed directly by [[church_of_eru|Eru Ilùvatar]] since [[arda:start|Arda]]'s creation. Valinor was no longer reachable, and the Island of Numenor sunk beneath the sea.

This corruption founded the line of [[black_numenoreans|Black Númenóreans]]; high men bent to evil ends.  The fleet and its crew were mothballed in burial mounds on the beach of the island of the gods, and prophesied to return for [[dagor_dagorath|Dagor Dagorath]].  Meanwhile the scattered [[black_numenoreans|Black Númenóreans]] who had not sailed with the fleet or died in the flooding kept their heads down, but re-emerged from time to time to plague [[arda:start|Arda]].  Notable historical locations include Umbar, haven of the Corsairs, and Angamar.  Many of the Eastern nations such as Khand and Harad and parts of Rhun remained under the sway of [[sauron|Sauron]] through the Third Age, and had their own scions of the [[black_numenoreans|Black Númenórean]] line, including some of the nine Kings of men who became the [[nazgul|Nazgûl]].

Recently [[church_of_eru|Eru]] told [[eltan|Thalion Paurgiliath Arch Duke of Eltán]] that the [[black_numenoreans|Black Númenóreans]] are awake and returning, and that we must prepare.