CHARACTER NAME:  Melkor Bauglir aka Morgoth
CHARACTER AGE: Ageless (Was made before Time Existed)
DESCRIPTION: As a Valar, he harbors unearthly beauty.  However, the corruption of his soul in ages past had done a number on him.  Tall, with long black hair, and a muscular physique, he carries many scars, and walks with a slight limp.  While he uses illusions to cover them, his face is raked with Eagle Talon Scars.  When he is most seen, he wears a black suit of plate armor, and carries a huge hammer, Grond.  When not in battle, he wears fine Robes of Black and Gold, made from the Etherium itself from before time came.

SKILLS:
Hammer Skills
Forging
Genetics
Diplomacy
Singing

POWERS:
Dark Magics
Geomancy
Curses

FACTION: Evil

CHARACTER'S BRIEF BACKGROUND: The First Lord of Darkness, he was the Greatest of the Valar.  However, even his might, cunning, and will were unable to overcome all his siblings.  However, he always had a way out, always a plan for escape. Even when he was sent to the Dreaded Timeless Void.  The Door of Night, he found a way to escape, and return to the world, his power greatly weakened.  But, his will, and his creations still lived, and he had returned to once again, Rule Middle Earth, as was his Right.

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It had taken time.  Effort... Ages.  But, he had done it.  He slipped through the Angainor, and was freed to wander the Void, as he's done as a child so long ago.  The next part, would hurt, but he WOULD be in the world again, and having been watching, and listening to the Void, he knew this time, the Valar would not intervene.  They left Arda, for Men had tried to come and take Valinor from them.  It was his time, once more.

As he moved, he saw it. The Gate of Morning!  He just had to wait, till the Sun came.  Then… he had to get close, so that he could enter the world, without Eärendil seeing from his place in the sky.  It would be a long swim, but… he could do it.  The waters would hide him.  He would not be contained.  His minions would be his again, and this world WILL be under his rule.

It felt forever, but nowhere near as much as the Void felt.  But he was here.  As he stepped out of the Ocean, and unto the lands of Middle Earth, he smiled.  He snapped the crown around his neck, and tossed it to the ground.  He was a prisoner no longer!  His mighty cunning, and indomitable Will, had again, bested those of his siblings.  He was so happy, that the pain in his body didn't seem so bad, and he limped onward, ready to forever make this world his own.

ALIASES:

    Melkor (originally)
    Arun (in the old tales of the Númenóreans)
    Moringotto
    Bauglir
    The Enemy
    The Marrer
    The Corrupter
    The Black Hand
    Black Foe of the World

RACE: Ainur

APPEARANCE & CHARACTERISTICS

The Ainu Melkor could initially take any shape, but his first recorded form was "...as a mountain that wades in the sea and has its head above the clouds and is clad in ice and crowned with smoke and fire; and the light of the eyes of Melkor was like a flame that withers with heat and pierces with a deadly cold". At the time he destroyed the Two Trees and stole the Silmarils, he took to himself the shape of a great "Dark Lord, tall and terrible". The diminution of his power in this time and his own desire for lordship destroyed his ability to freely change shape, and he became bound to this one terrible form. His hands were burned by the theft of the Silmarils, from which they never healed, and he carried evermore the burden of burning pain. In his fight with High King Fingolfin, he suffered several wounds; his foot was hewn by Fingolfin's Sword of Ice Crystal, Ringil. At the end of this battle, Thorondor, the great Eagle, swooped down and scarred Morgoth's face with his talons, a wound that also never healed. In battle, he wore black armor and wielded Grond, the Hammer of the Underworld. The great battering ram of Mordor was named for this weapon. He also wields a black spear, and a poison sword.

Melkor's powers were originally immense, greater than those of any other single Ainu. He shared a part of the powers of every other Vala, but unlike them used it for domination of the whole of Arda. To accomplish this Morgoth dispersed his being throughout Arda, tainting its very fabric, and only Aman was free of it. His person thus became ever more diminished and restricted.

Pity was beyond Morgoth's understanding, as is courage. As he alone of the Valar bound himself to a physical (and therefore vulnerable) body, he alone of the Valar knows fear.

FOLLOWERS:

Because Morgoth was the most powerful being in Arda, many "flocked to his banner". Morgoth's chief servants were Maiar he corrupted or monsters he created: Sauron, later the Dark Lord of Mordor and his chief servant; the Balrogs, including Gothmog, the Lord of Balrogs and High-Captain of Angband; Glaring, the Father of Dragons; Ancalagon "the Black", the first and greatest of the Winged Fire-Dragons; Carcharoth, the mightiest wolf that ever lived; Draugluin, the Sire of Werewolves; and Thuringwethil, Sauron's vampire messenger.

Ungoliant, a demon in spider form, helped Melkor destroy the Two Trees. This alliance was temporary, however; when Melkor refused to yield the Silmarils to Ungoliant, she attacked him. He had spread his power and malice too thin, and had weakened himself too much to fight back; he escaped only through the arrival of the Balrogs.

When the race of Men awoke, Morgoth temporarily left Angband to live among them. Some men worshiped him, banning Ilúvatar from their hearts.

Morgoth was known to betray his own servants. After the Noldor were defeated, he confined all Men in his service to the lands of Hithlum, their only prize the pillage of that land, though they had fought to win richer lands in Beleriand. Since he could never fully dominate Men, he could never really trust them, and therefore feared them.