Nalokha, the Dark Maiden

Background

The many names of Nalokha

Adunaic = Nalokha (Shadow Crow)

Quenya = Ihaldánessë (The Shadowed beauty)

Khuzdul = Barazkibil (Silver red)

Sindarin = Mornlamdîs (Daughter of the dark tounge)

Westernesse, the common tounge = The Dark Maiden, The Shadow Queen, Lady Red, Witch of the forest, Daughter of Lies, Mistress of the Dark etc.

The Hobbits of the Shire simply call her “The Beautiful Lady”

No matter what name used, they all refer to something in her nature or something that she has done.  For the tales of this woman are many and most of them have a gruesome end.

Tales and rumours

Little is known of her true past, but should rumours be true, she is though to hail from an ancient noble house. Who’s men and women were skilled in both the arts of battle as well as ancient lore. Some say she comes from the far southlands yet others claim to know for certain thath she is daughter of a terrible warlord of the north. What the truth is no one but Nalokha herself knows and those who have been foolish or brave enough to ask her, has been met with nothing else but a short answer. Recent tales that mention her speaks of her as a leader of warriors, a tactician relied upon the use of fear and terror rather then the martial skill on the battlefield.  She is said to once have led a great army of the north down into the lands of the Free People. Starting a war that only came to end because her own cousin turned agasint her and bereft her of victorys heart.

Writings of Nalokha speak of her as one with great skill and able to make use of terrible dark and ancient sorcery. Thought by many to be as powerful as time itself there are many brave men and women who have fallen to her skill in twisting the minds of lesser hearts. Turning them from the path of light and honour they walked upon and having them serve her dark and evil plans. She is claimed to have spillt the blood of many innocent men, women and even children. She does not seem ot care who it is that falls to the shadows as long as their deaths fill a purpose to her own agenda.

There are at least two known kinships that have fought against her and have had their victories, but at this hour all that is left of those brave souls who stood against her are memories. For her vengance was swift and hard, she struck without warning and within the course of a few months, both kinships met their doom and no longer exist.

To this day, men and women hunts her still, but no one has so far been successful in capturing her. For fear seem to thread the same paths as the Dark Queen of the North. Her return to the lands of Eriador is a dark omen and what is to come is hidden in the shadows and mysteries that surrounds this, beautiful yet treacherous woman.