Dunmen

The Dunmen are a people in Eriador in the early to mid-third Age.They are descendants or northern relatives of the Daen Coentis who had settled in southern Eriador, especially in Enedwaith but some tribes also had moved to Cardolan and Rhudaur.The Dunmen of Rhudaur assimilated to the Hillmen and the Vulseggi of the Egladil while the cardolanian Dunmen intermixed with the cardolanian northmen and rivermen and to a large degree contributed to the populance of saralainn.Other Dunmen settled in Calenardhon and became the ancestors of the later Dunlendings.The Term Dunmen is probably a corruption of Daen Lintis, the name they give to themselves although it may be understood as Men of the Duns (Men of the Hills or Men of the Hillforts) or Dark Men.

The Dunlendings in MERP
The People known to outsiders as the Dunlendings is split into two factions: the Daen Iontis ("Betrayed People"), a number of Clans who swore to take back their ancestral Lands and to drive out all Rohirrim and Dúnedain, and the Daen Coentis ("Skilled People"), a few clans who try to return to the ways of their ancient ancestors and who try to renew friendship with the Drûghu.

Priests of the Dunlendings are their Conjurers, also known as Mhaig, the Dunlendings follow a number of ancestral spirits and gods, most of them based on twisted memories of tales about the valar, chief gods are the Lord of Hunt, Turaigh (Orome) and the Earth-Mother (Yavanna) but the god of Smiths, Gobha (Aule), is also revered.The Dark Lord is known as Shoglic in dunnish myth.The dunlending language is called Dunael.

Appearance
The Dunlendings are relatively tall Daen, similar in height to the Rohan Commoners but smaller than the Rohan nobility which also has Dúnadan-blood.They have swarthy complexion and dark hair which they wear unkept or braided, men use to wear wild and stringy beards.

clothes
Dunlendings usually wear simple clothes made of wool and leather, usually tunics, leggings or stockings, hoods and plaids often combined with pelt (usually Goat but sometimes ´Bear or wolf).Some clans use distinct colours or patterns.Some clans wear dark war-paint or camouflage when they march into battle.

Weapons and Armour
Dunlendings usually wear boiled leather (Kurbul) or linen armour.Dunlending helmets are mostly leather caps.Iron helmets and mail are quite uncommon but are sometimes provided by the smithies of Isengard or the Westmarch or even the Dwarves of Dunland.Common weapons are dunnish broadswords, similar in design to the uruk Hanksar (which are may be derivates of the dunnish model),Baw- and Cabis-Axes, Wheebs and Derfels and similar Pole arms as well as hide-covered Roundshields.Dunnish Hunters are also skilled Archers.

The Clans of Dunfearan
In MERP there are 15 major clans of Dunfearan, some of whom have control over a number of smaller clans:


 * Arailt
 * Grun
 * Guerd
 * Semarg
 * Colgar
 * Dobac
 * Erastoc
 * Coinrach
 * Ealsaid
 * Eogbann
 * Ewen
 * Feargan
 * Baertin
 * Torbet
 * Nathlos
 * Leonn
 * Madoc
 * Ogaron
 * Cearn
 * Goirich
 * Roth
 * Trothel
 * Ruadh
 * Sonmar
 * Guemmelon
 * Mar Hogo
 * Tar Moid
 * Treforn
 * Marvan
 * Niald

The Arailt,Colgar, Dobac, Madoc, Ogaron and Sonmar are considered Daen Iontis while the Treforn, Roth and Ewen are the traditional Daen Coentis.

Other Clans Mentioned:


 * Faighoin
 * Freawul
 * Macha Mur
 * Siol Nûnaw

Dunmen of Renown
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