#wraithposting

Zimraphel and her (wraith)husband, who she knows she's losing, she just doesn't know why or to what.

I've never drawn any of them before. Obviously not complete cast, but these are the women and the men(wraiths) they’re associated with. All the guys here will be wraiths.

Couple little notes: Near Harad/Khand and Far Harad/Umbar get an Egyptian-style second age unification crown, Sunrise crown for Near/Khand and the Ivory headdress for Far/Umbar, worn by the high king of Harad, who comes from Near Harad. Near Harad/Khand uses a sunrise motif in a lot of their jewellery. Harad is very big and only recently unified, so while Hiram, Hazâl, Imane, and Afzal are all Haradrim, the former two are from Near Harad and the latter from the coasts of Far Harad, and from two very different cultural groups.

Izdahâr is the high queen of Harad, but she is from Rhûn, political marriages and all that. She styles herself vaguely Harad with her own homeland's flavour. Sahâr her twin sister remains a ruler in her home city, married to a prince from Harad. The immediate royal family of Rhûn (also a unified collection of city-states, but unified earlier than Harad) claim descent from their legendary king Khamûl the Deathless, who is still around. So 1: none of the royalty of Rhûn intermarry, because traditionally they are all siblings/cousins/etc., and 2: the royal men and women get very fancy with their face coverings, because their forebear Khamûl covers his face (some say it's to hide that it's actually not the original Khamûl at all and just an inherited persona, but his family swears by his immortality. It's actually because he no longer has a face, but they don't know that)

Imâruzir is wearing stolen Haradrim jewellery, incorrectly might I add (this is kind of on purpose, like "look how little these trinkets mean to me"), to spite the coastal Haradrim. He is probably the most brutal Númenorian general to take part in the occupation of Harad and actually could be considered the original Black Númenorian. He's a piece of shit by the way. He didn't even need Sauron to persuade him to evil, Sauron just sat back and let him turn himself.

Sahâr and Ûrenithil are turned away because they die first.

The Númenorians have super boring designs rn but that's because I'm still figuring out the garment culture. But they also are very elven, obviously. And they all have Elven names as well, other than Ûrenithil. That's her only name.

Them in their respective pairs. Note that Imane and Afzal are not a couple, they are just old old friends and allies

hoo hoo hoo wraithed some Númenorians. Second age outfits, still wearing their own armour, more or less. For intimidation.

Like my adaptation of this absolutely ludicrous (/affectionate) Númenorian helm design from the author himself? Yeah me too, thank you, I think I did very well with them, very little I would go back and change.