Múranians from Harshandatt
The Múranians were a tribe of Haradrim along the western coastlands of the Bay of Ormal in Harshandatt and the borderlands of the Khyan Reach. They were Apysaic-speaking traders and fishermen.
The local Muranian people settled in this region around the banks for the Nuar River in the Second Age, farming rice and wheat. Their core realm was governed as a theocracy, ruled by the Nhazadh, both king and high priest, whose word was law. The Nhazadh and his priests served Sadeh (name of Morgoth), commanding absolute loyalty from the people. Nobles and priests held power over vast slave plantations, for the Múranians were a people whose wealth rested upon the toil of others. Slaves made up the majority of the population, considered the personal property of the Nhazadh and the priesthood. The Múranians' riches came from rice and wheat fields, fish from the Ormal waters, and the trade routes they controlled. Their ships, laden with goods, sailed far, and their treasuries swelled with gold and ivory. Yet their power was brittle, built on a foundation of suffering and fear. Over the long centuries, as Harad's unity faltered and trade shifted, the Múranians faded into obscurity.
| Boromir: "Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing!" - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring II:10 |