Scarlet Swearers

The Scarlet Swearers (Kil."i-Nazrakhû") were the descendants of the original Black Númenórean Soldiery who had guarded and ruled Girt-by-the-Sea in the Second Age.By TA 1044 they had ceased to wear the royal purple, mostly to disadvantages the colouring gave them in ambushes by the Old Ones.However they retained much of their old attitude and language.