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And now, Nevazar bad guy :

9.1 Nevazar

9.1.1 Appearance and personality

In is appearance, Nevazar has nothing spectacular. He is quite short for someone with some Númenórean blood (1.74 m) but seems tall for Chyans. He has the black hair and eyes and the rather fair complexion of both his parents. He is neither ugly nor handsome, but has some charm and is very good at making friends and convincing people. His most typical feature is his slightly atrophied right hand, which makes impossible for him to carry a heavy load or a sword with this hand. It also makes him ineligible to any Vaysha charge, following the Chyan custom. He favours Asrûta priest robes (with some irony), which allow him to hide his infirmity in large sleeves.
From his early studies to become a priest of Asrûta, he has gained a large knowledge of Chyan religion and beliefs as well as their ancient lore and traditions. His mother taught him a lot of her healing arts that he ‘improved’ later, in Mordor, with sorcery and necromancy skills. His capacity to charm people is strengthened by the ring he found in Ost-in-Edhil and that has the power to influence minds (beginning with his own).
He is consumed by his desire of vengeance, which is now completely irrational and with now measure of his original grief. His original dream of destroying the Chyans has been cunningly turned into the desire to impose them his own will by the Dark Lord.

9.1.2 Biography

Nevazar’s father was the only son of the Arshan of Samarth and was sent in embassy in a Númenórean outpost of Olyas Kriis to learn their customs. There, he became friend with a young Númenórean of his age from Umbar and sail with him to this northern haven. In Umbar, he fall in love with his friend’s sister and, fearing her father wrath, they flee together back to Samarth. Nevazar was born soon later, in 1915. Mother and son were nearly to die during the birth. Nevazar survived, but his right hand was atrophied, at the disappointment of his grandfather, as this malformation made him ineligible to inherit the title of Arshan following Chyan customs.
At 8, when he was no longer considered as a child, Nevazar was sent to the temple school to study to become a priest. During all these years, Nevazar’s grandfather tried to persuade his son to have other wives or at least concubines to give him heirs, but he refused. Nevazar’s grandfather progressively began to believe that his son was under the influence of this Númenórean witch he has brought back from foreign lands. Indeed, she had great knowledge in healing, that she taught to her son, and spent time to cure people of Samarth of the recurrent diseases from the marshes and this contact with sick people was unacceptable for noble Chyans. Eventually, Nevazar’s grandfather decided to poison his mother during one such epidemic to free his son from her influence. She died in terrible sufferings, but Nevazar’s father mourned her long and did not want another wife. During an especially rude dispute with his son, Nevazar’s grandfather revealed everything to his son. Nevazar’s father ordered then a loyal servitor to fetch his son at the temple school and to flee with him to Umbar, before to kill himself.
At Umbar, Nevazar’s uncle was furious when he learnt he was the son of the man who betrayed his faith by seducing his sister, kidnapped her and later caused her death. He rushed towards him with a sword and Nevazar’s servitor jumped between them and was killed in place of Nevazar. After, Nevazar had just time to flee and to jump in the first ship. The ship stopped at Lond Daer where Nevazar learnt of the Elvish Kingdom of Eregion, destroyed 200 years ago by the Dark Lord who swore to destroy Elves and Númenóreans. In awe before someone who had the will and power to defy Númenórean power he decided to visit the ruins.
After a long and difficult expedition, as many feared the ruins, he eventually managed to reach the vestiges of the great elven city in spring 1935. His guides, who refused to stay longer in "these haunted ruins", soon abandoned him. Nevazar spent then a lot of time in the ruins of Ost-in-Edhil, dreaming of powerful armies of old, fighting there and wondering at the power required to destroy such a great city. He spent days without eating or drinking, nearly in a trance state, wandering about the ruins. By chance he found a golden ring with a black stone and, attracted by its beauty, he lost for hours his sight in the stone. It is not sure whether this ring, forged by Sauron, was lost by one of his lieutenant during the battle of Ost-in-Edhil or it was laid there at purpose to lure and trap any unwary visitor of the ruins. But what is certain, it is that the ring, which has the power to influence mind, found an easy prey with Nevazar, whose mind was already weakened by sorrows and disappointments.
He became convinced that the Dark Lord who destroyed the elven kingdom was the messenger of the True God and that elves and númeroreans have not understood his true nature and have rejected and fought him as he himself was rejected by both his father's and mother's families. When he came to himself, his decision was made: he will dedicate his life to the service of the Lord of Gifts who was sent by the True God to save the Men and lead them to the way of immortality, to the Paradise. He will go back to the Chyan lands, where he thought he would have more chances to be listened to.
Unfortunately his ship was badly damaged by a storm and forced to anchor in an island where the passengers were captured and killed by savage people. Nevazar then discovered that his ring had power to influence mind, which saved his life. Unable to leave the island, he stayed there with the savages for years, becoming their healer and spiritual guide, developing a cult of the Lord of Gifts. In 1943, a ship from Ciryatandor anchored in the island, with an embassy in search for allies for the Storm King. Nevazar went back with them and was instantly remarked by Herundil when the captain of the ship made his report. Nevazar became one of Herundil man of confidence, he told him about his visions and the great power of the Lord of Gifts and found an open hear. Herundil sent him in numerous missions in the eastern regions, to look for allies in the everlasting war of the Storm King or to destabilised potental enemies. Everywhere Nevazar told about the Lord of Gifts, sowed seeds of dark cults or reactivated long forgotten ones. It was during such embassy in the east that, in 1956, he was contacted by envoys of Sauron and proposed him to follow them in the dark land of Mordor to meet the object of all his hopes, the Lord of Gifts.
During 8 years, Nevazar was taught in the lore of the Lord of Gifts. He was revealed how elves are trying to deprive Men from the benediction of the True God by lies and deceptions and how many númenoreans, allied with the elves, have corrupted the religion of the Chyans to make them leave the ways of their fathers. He was also taught in the arts of true magic, illusion and healing to help him in his future works. When news that the old Great King Uvaxshtra II was dying reached the Mordor, Nevazar was sent back to the Chyan Empire to accomplish the wishes of the Dark Lord, to offer the Chyans a Great King that would be open to the teachings of the Lord of Gifts and lead his people to the True Faith, whatever sacrifices would be necessary. In 1965, Nevazar managed to replace one of the Seven Prophets just before the coronation ceremony of Vishtâspa (he killed the old prophet and convinced by magic the others to elect him, thus delaying for 6 hours the arrival of the Prophets in Chajapûn).
By prophesying a glorious reign to Vishtâspa whereas the other prophets were warning him, he managed to become the main advisor of the Great King and began his undermining work.
He first gathered around him some young and ambitious priests that would, in the first years of the Artaxshâsan dynasty become nicknamed Kharpani (Ch. greedy throng of priests) and feared by the people. But now they were still secret agents of Nevazar, sent in Bulchyades to provoke uprising (1973), to poison well to trigger epidemics or to push poor people or Arshan to revolt. In 1984 Vishtâspa was forced to abdicate and go in exile in Anarikê while the Arshans argued for the succession. Nevazar, who went with Vishtâspa, deploying treasures of diplomacy convinced Anarikê potentates to intervene in the Chyan affairs and to re-establish Vishtâspa in 1988 in exchange of colonies in costal towns. This increased distrust and even hate against Númenóreans and Vishtâspa was considered as a puppet in foreign hands.
In 1998 Nevazar took advantage of the Great Plague to disappear for a wile from the Chyan Empire (to make forget his role in the recovery of the power by Vishtâspa). He went to Chey Sart where he cured many people. One of them was Ren, to whom he instilled dreams of power and conquest. But the resistance of Ren was stronger he imagined and the fight that resulted left Ren quite unstable, if not wholly insane.
In 2005 he took back his advisor position in the Apatân and in 2007 he received in secret emissaries of Herundil (who lurked on the Chyan Empire after his conquest of Harshandatt in 1999). They decided of a common and hidden action plan against the Chyan Empire that was still too strong for a direct military strike.
In 2013, Vishtâspa was assassinated in Samarth while he was preparing a war against Herundil to reconquer Harshandatt. Nevazar accused the Aca general Kopotos of the murder and managed to raise the people against the Aca. A great massacre of them followed in all the Chyan Empire and the surviving mercenaries fled to Acaana thus ending the fruitful Aca alliance and starting the disintegration of the Chyan imperial army. The Arshans, whose forces were mobilised the war against Herundil quickly changed their arguments for the succession into real war.
During the Succession War, Nevazar was in Harshandatt, meeting several times Herundil and sending emissaries to kill too powerful Arshan or provoke popular revolts. Eventually, he decided that Artaxshâsa of Jorash would be the easiest Arshan to control and around 2030, Nevazar went at Jorash and manage to become the councillor of the Arshan.
In 2039, Nevazar considered the situation was ripe: Arshans were exhausted by war and the people wanted peace. With help of Herundil troops and the advices of Nevazar, Artaxshâsa easily defeated his main rivals, seized Chajapûn and Pelepelplû and was crowned Great King. During the following years, the Wars of Unification took place, with the resistance of Cly nomads and the persecution of Vishtâspa supporters who fled in great number to Codya. Nevazar travelled around Chyan lands to recruit new Kharpani and place men in the key posts in Asrûta priesthood, taking advantage of the disorganisation of the empire and the unrests.
In 2043 Artaxshâsa prepared a war against Codya to punish its insolence and refusal to give back the rebels. In hast Nevazar went back to Chajapûn to convince Artaxshâsa to delay his invasion planes and to concentrate rather in Cly lands. Artaxshâsa revealed harder to convince that Nevazar expected and he finally resolved to have him assassinated and replaced by his brother Dârayavahu. The murder of Artaxshâsa was a good occasion to divert Chyan wrath against the Clyans and to launch a war against the highlands nomads.
In Urui 2045 Nevazar was rewarded of his successes and the subversion of the Chyan Empire: Sauron called him to have him the new Mouth of Sauron. A trusted Kharpani replaced him as councillor of the Great King with the order to reinforce the power of the Kharpani in the priesthood to ultimately replace Asrûta cult by a dark cult of the Strom King Herundil. Nevazar kept secret contacts with the successive leaders of the Kharpani who succeed as councillor of the Great Kings.
In 2294, in the hardest moment of the war between the Chyan Empire and Anarikê, Nevazar obtained to go back to the Chyan Empire to try to save the situation. He arrived just in time to save the Great King Azarnuzeth from an assassination attempt and to become his chief councillor. The following year, after the fall of Samarth, when the situation became more and more despaired, Nevazar advised to build seven fortresses to protect the Chyan core land against Anarikanî and Tenolkachyn invaders and sent Kharpani to Anarikê to foment troubles and uprisings. Nevazar died of disease in Hithui just after prophesying that one day a successor of the Artaxshâsan dynasty will come back to restore the glory and grandeur of the Chyan Empire.


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