Post by sauron on May 8, 2012 22:54:42 GMT -5
Sauron
One Ring to Rule Them All,
One Ring to Find Them,
One Ring to Bring Them All,
and in the Darkness Bind Them
full name, Sauron
nicknames, Mairon, Annatar, The Enemy, The Dark Power, The Great Eye, Necromancer, Dark Lord, Lord of Mordor, Lord of Gifts, Lord of Barad-dûr and The Lord of the Rings.
age, Ageless
class/profession, Dark Lord
marital status, Single
race, Ainur
alliance, himself obviously…
hair, immaterial, previously long straight and black
eyes, basically a giant lidless fiery eye, previously almond shaped cunning brown eyes
build and body, immaterial, previously tall and well built. He used to stand at 8''11' and wear a bulky armor during the First and Second Ages, though he took on other forms as well
anything else, nope
face claim, giant fiery eye? LOL.
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likes,
- Submission: There is nothing else Sauron likes more than the feeling of being the master of another being's fate. His greatest goal in existence is to bring all to his rule and submit all living things to his sole will.
- Power: The second thing Sauron likes the most is the power he possesses to this day and even more the one he has lost when his ring was taken by Isildur. That is the reason why he relentlessly seeks for the ring. He wants his full power back. Legend says Sauron is among the mightiest of the Maiar and originally being of Aulë's people, he acquired great knowledge of the world: of its substances and how to use them, reason why he is so dangerous an enemy.
- Fire: A flaming lidless eye is often used as a representation of Sauron's will. His ability to tap into the fires in the earth are priceless to his conquest goals. It seems reasonable to suggest that the forges of Angband had Sauron to thank, at least in part, for their effectiveness. This also means that his "magic" is intimately related to fire and that is the element Sauron has more affinity with to use in order to enforce his will on the world.
- Vengeance: Sauron never leaves unavenged the impudence of lower beings towards his might. That is one of the reasons why he hates all the Elves with a passion. He sees them as inferior to him, but he has not yet been able to rule or dominate them. He feels similarly towards Dwarves for the same reason. Due to such when faced with members of either race Sauron shows them just how sadistic he can be. It is to make them see that it is preferable to submit to him than to cross his will.
- Learning: Sauron dedicates all his time to two things: domination of Middle Earth and increasing his own power. So being he is all about learning new ways to use his natural "magic" and his acquired knowledge. Using his intelligence and skill to adapt, he has overcome all hardships and defeats he has suffered so far to try again another day.
dislikes,
- Freedom: There is nothing Sauron hates the most than beings that do not owe allegiance solely to him.
- Other Ainurs: Sauron despises them all, especially the five Istari or Wizards, amongst such being Gandalf, due to them repeatedly getting in his way of reaching his ultimate goal of total submission of all life. Sauron no longer despises Saruman, also one of the Istari, due to him switching sides recently and pledging his loyalty to the Dark Lord.
- Elves: Sauron really loathes this race due to them, even only at the eleventh hour, seeing through his ring ploy and escaping the destiny that was rightfully theirs in his point of view.
- Dwarves: Basically the same as with the Elves.
- The absence of his ring of power: Much of his power, will and malice were transferred and embodied in the one ring and without it he is weaker than he once was and that is not something Sauron likes at all.
strengths,
- Deception: Sauron is highly capable to deceive all but the most wary, even the wiser of beings, by making them think certain untruths are truths. Saruman is a good example of this.
- Persistence: Sauron is nothing but persistent and will keep coming back until his goals are achieved and his vengeance is made. Nothing stands in his way, what tries is generally washed away soon enough.
- Inability to care: Sauron's complete inability to attach himself or care about others in a compassionate way is to him a strength as such attachments would naturally decrease his will to achieve his particular goals if they existed.
- Power: It is undeniable that Sauron is a very powerful being even in his weakened current state. Few would have the courage to cross paths with him directly and amongst those even fewer would be able to survive such encounter.
- Age: Sauron is a clever old being who has been around for a very long time and due to such has learned much about Middle Earth and how to assert his will over it.
weaknesses,
- Arrogance: Certainly that is Sauron's greatest weakness. He believes himself to be undefeatable due to the many times others have tried to make him disappear for good without success and that it is just a question of time until he obtains his ring and his full degree of power again.
- Intangibility: The Dark Lord cannot regain a tangible physical form due to the current weakened state of his powers. The forms he takes on are all ghostly and intangible. They tend to be made of fire or a kind of black cloudish fog with the shape seeming to contain it within itself. The fiery all seeing eye is his preferred form right now, though he can also gain a form close in appearance to that of the one he had when defeated by Isildur, including the missing finger. That is the ghostly shape he uses to torture his guests, like he did with Gollum during his stint as a prisoner at Barad-dûr. It is his will or mind that does the torture as he cannot touch anything at any time right now.
- Delegation: Due to his current inability to regain a tangible form, Sauron must delegate the control and leadership of his armies to the Witch-King and the other Nazgul, who are under his direct command due to their rings. This though is not akin to having the Dark Lord himself in the battlefield like in the days of old and his war effort certainly suffers due to this.
- Decreased Power: The eye of Sauron can see everything, yes, but it cannot see everything at the same time. His focus has to be targeted in a region in order for all that is happening there to be revealed to him. While his eye is on point A, what happens in point B is completely unknown to him. That is the reason why the eye keeps sweeping all around.
- Megalomania: His determination to make all do his bidding generated determination of equal power in those who were able to escape his crafty ploys and thus created a force that now contends with him.
fears, Sauron is not afraid of many things, actually the only thing he fears is not being able to regain his ring and full power.
dreams, Sauron's sole dream is to dominate all life forms of Middle Earth, pure and simple.
personality, Mairon was a clever and powerful Maia before being corrupted by Morgoth and turning evil still during the First Age of the world. As Sauron, the Dark Lord, in the two subsequent Ages, he has lost all ability to repent himself of his actions and is an evil force to be reckoned with. He is also unable to form connections to other people and does not care about the fates of others, just that they must serve him. If they die serving him, he does not mind at all. Sauron is certainly the definition of the control freak and what he wants the most is to extinguish freedom on Middle Earth.
Sauron is also crafty and the greatest proof of his manipulative nature was the ploy he had come up with in order to easily conquer the Elves, the Dwarves and Men through rings of power. He promised them everything, so he could later just take it all and their will as his own. His deceitful scheme nearly worked completely and could've endangered freedom on Middle Earth forever without any war whatsoever. That tells something about Sauron, he once preferred to use ploys and deception other than direct war. That has now changed since he can no longer take on a fair form and thus deceiving others has become harder to accomplish, but not impossible as he has achieved it again over the Istari Saruman.
Sauron is extremely smart, knowledgeable of the things concerning the earth and capable of careful plotting and a precise attack. He is a great strategist, but his arrogance is his undoing most of the time. Now separate from his ring, his powers have diminished greatly not allowing him to take on a tangible physical form. Most would see this as a hindrance, but Sauron has used his skilled mindset to adapt to his current condition and exert as much influence on the world as he is currently capable of. He taunts and challenges his opponents just like always in order to try to brake their spirits before they can go forward.
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father, Unknown
mother, Unknown
siblings, Unknown
other figures, none
lineage, Maiar of Aulë
history, Originally known as Mairon and belonging to the Maiar of Aulë, the Smith, a Vala, he acquired great knowledge of the world: of its substances and how to use them. Corrupted by Morgoth, an evil Vala and Dark Enemy of Arda, during the First Age of the world, he took for himself the name Sauron by which he is known to this day. Although he has served his master faithfully, they had differing objectives. Morgoth aimed to control or destroy the very matter of the world, while Sauron wished to dominate the minds and wills of its creatures, ruling as sole master of all life forms. During such times, he was known and feared by his sorcery and as a master of illusions, who was able to change his physical form.
After the War of Wrath, in which Morgoth was finally defeated, Sauron repented of his actions and then pleaded for mercy. Even though his plea was, by then, genuine, his arrogance wouldn't allow him to admit to be placed through judgment and so he fled and hid himself on Middle Earth at an unknown location. Odd centuries later, he was known to have stablished himself at Mordor when the construction of the dreaded fortress of Barad-dûr near Mount Doom began. Concurrently, Sauron undertook other endeavors, such as raising vast armies of Orcs, Trolls and other foul creatures and the inception of his new campaign to corrupt the hearts of Men, chiefly the Easterlings and the Southrons.
Though he has always known that Men were much more easily swayed, Sauron sought to bring the Elves into his service due to them possessing greater power. Due to such will, already during the Second Age of the world, the Dark Lord took on a fair visage and calling himself Annatar, the Lord of Gifts, he befriended the smiths of Eregion, teaching them about arts and magic. However, not all Elves believed in his seemingly good intentions towards their people, amongst those who didn't trust him were Lady Galadriel and Gil-galad, High King of the Ñoldor. Most though payed no heed to their warnings.
This lead to the Elven smiths doing exactly what Sauron expected of them as he encouraged and assisted in the forging of the rings of power. Three of such rings were given to the Elves of Eregion, seven to the Dwarf Lords and nine to the great Kings of Men. As part of his crafty ploy, Sauron forged in secret, at the fiery depths of Mount Doom, the One Ring to control all the other ones and make the bearers of all other rings his slaves. This plan, though well thought out, did not succeed to his expectations. The Elves, even at the eleventh hour, saw through his facade and relinquished their rings by hiding them after Celebrimbor's rebellion, thus saving themselves. Sauron also could not submit the Dwarves to his will who due to this also escaped unharmed. However, the nine kings did not find means or the strength to resist thus falling prey to Sauron's will. They became his ring-bound slaves and later on his lieutenants, the dreaded Nazgul.
Some time later, Sauron, now known as the Lord of Mordor, already commanded great armies and his fortress of Barad-dûr was completed. Marshaling his armies against the free peoples of Middle Earth, his forces were met by the Last Alliance of Men and Elves, lead by Elendil, his sons and the Elven King Gil-galad. That was a long war, which ended with Sauron's defeat at the battle of Dagorlad. Even though both Elendil and Gil-galad had been slain by Sauron himself at the slope of Mount Doom, Isildur took his father's broken sword and used it to force the Dark Lord to part with his most prized possession, the One Ring, which was done when his finger was cut by a shard of the blade of Narsil. Drained of his power, Sauron's spirit fled his ruined body. Isildur took the ring as his own but was betrayed by it and killed by Orcs shortly after. The One Ring becoming lost and forgotten for centuries to come.
Not having given up on his goals, Sauron resurfaced during the Third Age at a stronghold called Dol Guldur, the Hill of Sorcery, in southern Mirkwood. At first, the Elves from the forest did not realize that the dark sorcerer known as the Necromancer was actually Sauron returned. Gandalf was the one who discovered his true identity after stealing into Dol Guldur. Once they were aware of his presence, the White Council put forth its might and drove him out. Sauron simply returned to Mordor and rebuilt his fortress. There he prepared himself for the final war, raising another vast army of foul creatures. It was by this time that he began to take on the symbol of the all seeing fiery eye. The Eye of Sauron since then became known as a symbol of power and fear across Middle Earth. Even possessing a physical form, albeit an intangible one, being weakened by the loss of his ring, he remained hidden, directing his armies from afar.
Not long ago, the creature Gollum, previous owner of the One Ring for long decades, was captured and taken to Mordor and to Sauron's presence. After being tortured by the Dark Lord himself, Gollum revealed what he wanted to know. His ring was located at a place called the Shire under the possession of a Hobbit known as Baggins. Immediately, he sent his nine ring-bound slaves, the Nazgul, to the Shire with the mission of finding the Hobbit and retrieving the One Ring. Concurrently, Sauron ordered his puppet Saruman, now ensnared into his service by one of the Dark Lord's deceptive ploys, to start to raise an army worthy of Mordor in order to wipe out Rohan swiftly. Saruman then began breeding his new army of Uruk-hai super-soldiers.
alias, Marbys
age, 29
experience, about 17 years
other characters, This is my first one here
rp sample,The lidless fiery eye at the top of Barad-dûr was, as always, searching. Looking for the very thing that Sauron wanted the most. His powers, his ring. He remembered the information extracted from that feeble creature called Gollum. How could such lower creatures happen upon his ring? It was an irony of destiny, but one he was intent to soon correct once and for all. The all seeing eye then turned its gaze towards the Shire. It was, to Sauron, an expressionless place. Nothing of worth lived there or was located there but for his ring. The Hobbits were just some weak creatures who would crumble fast under him and his armies. Probably they would make lousy slaves in the near future. They'd certainly be left for last as an afterthought in his war effort just to cover all the pieces of land and all life forms of Middle Earth.
The eye accompanied the journey of his Nazgul into the Shire for a while, but knowing that his slaves could do nothing else but his bidding Sauron didn't have any reasons to believe that they would do anything but take it from the feeble Halflings and bring the ring back to Mordor. Turning his gaze towards Rohan, Sauron investigated the lands of the Rohirrim. They would not be allowed to become a nuisance to his plans and his puppet, the former Istari Saruman, was seeing to it. His new army of Uruk-Hai was really impressive and worthy of Mordor. Yes, the Dark Lord was pleased and would allow Saruman to live as a reward for his nicely done work.
If he had a physical mouth, he'd certainly be smiling at seeing the cunningness with which Saruman was using Grima to trap the mind of the feeble king Théoden. It brought nice memories of the past and his own deceitful ploys. The stakes he went for though were always higher. It was all or nothing most of the time. This time it was no different. Sauron was aiming for everything as usual. Saruman was a good puppet, yes, but he had a long way to go to master Sauron's greatest art, deception.
credit to phips, don't steal!
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