#calmacil

[coralfishster]

i forgot half of their designs and they’re my own ocs. except for the one with the white ponytail.

katryaa belongs to @chuu-samu

[arofili]

the line of elros ♚ royalty of gondor ♚ headcanon disclaimer

         Calmacil was the younger brother of Narmacil I, and like him had little interest in political matters. In his youth he was caught up in a whirlwind romance with Lady Aistárë, the young wife of one of his father’s counselors, and their scandalous affair was the gossip of all the court until Aistárë’s first husband was killed in a hunting accident and the couple were free to wed. Aistárë bore Calmacil two sons, Minalcar and Calimehtar, but when their children were grown, their parents grew apart and Aistárë returned to her father’s house. She died a few years before Calmacil would ascend to the throne, and was thus never a Queen of Gondor.          When Narmacil died without heirs, Calmacil succeeded him and became the eighteenth King of Gondor. However, he was already an old man and had never had any interest in ruling, so he continued to allow his elder son, Minalcar, function as Regent of Gondor as he had during Narmacil’s reign. Calmacil nominally ruled for ten years before he passed on to receive the Gift of Men.

[arofili]

the line of elros ♚ royalty of gondor ♚ headcanon disclaimer

          Atanatar II was the only child of Hyarmendacil I. He lived in such ease and splendour that he became known as Alcarin, “the Glorious,” through no doing of his own: the wealth of his kingdom was enough. Atanatar replaced the original crown of Gondor with a jeweled helm, thinking only of his own glory and power, and not the battles his fathers had fought to achieve such magnificence. Under his reign, the watch upon Mordor was neglected, and the army his mother Rilyasicil had worked so hard to perfect fell into disrepair.           The wife of Atanatar was Míriën, daughter of the jewelsmith who crafted the new Helm of Kings. She popularized the style of facial piercings among the people of Gondor, though her own sons took no liking to this practice.           The children of Atanatar and Míriën were Narmacil and Calmacil, whose names glittered with the promise of war despite their own indolence. Narmacil inherited his father’s throne, spending most of his time absorbed in grand feasts and parties. He showed no interest in taking a spouse, and was indeed relieved when his brother Calmacil produced two sons of his own.           Narmacil named his nephew Minalcar the Regent of Gondor and sent him out to fight when the tribes of the East grew restless and thought to attack the South-kingdom while its kings neglected their borders. With the aid of the Woodsmen of Rhovanion, Minalcar defeated the invaders, and after this success he returned to Gondor having taken the name Rómendacil, after King Rómendacil I, another warrior who had defeated the Easterlings.           Worried that his nephew might seize the crown before his time, Narmacil sent him back to Rhovanion as an ambassador, using the Northmen’s history of disloyalty as an excuse for negotiation. Eventually this would lead to Rómendacil’s son marrying a princess of Rhovanion, and Narmacil achieved his purpose of occupying Rómendacil’s time so thoroughly that the thought of usurping his uncle did not even occur to him.

[suspected-spinozist]

spontaneous expanded headcanons for the previous generation of the best aduna royal family: 

Ardamin - Gimilzagar at this point - has a complicated relationship with his father. Earcalo, his older brother, is charismatic, popular, talented, strong-willed - and very Faithful. He uses the Quenya name intentionally. Gimilzagar is quiet, awkward, likes drawing and staying out of trouble. But he is a King's Man, ideologically speaking, and Calmacil would much rather that he take the throne and continue his legacy. He'll have more competent advisors, after all. And Gimilzagar wants to please him, but really resents that he only matters to his father as long as he can fulfill a role he hates. 

Earcalo is engaged to Calairë, the oldest daughter of the lord of Andúnië. Calmacil's plan was probably to force the Andustalië to restructure their succesion in accordance with Aldarion's laws, which would force Earcalo to become lord-consort of Andúnië with some clever legal maneuvering, leaving the throne empty. Earcalo figure out what's going on and tries to have Gimilzagar disinherited preemptively on grounds of attempted treason, Zôrzimril has Earcalo assassinated, you already know this bit. 

Calmacil is one of those people who seems very fatherly and warm in person, to everyone except his actual kids. And he's incredibly calculating. Used to be more of a hothead as a young man, grew out of it over multiple military campaigns. The plan comes first, always. He's actually a very good grandfather to Ardamin's kids, he doesn't have the same baggage with them as he does with their father and is just this sweet old guy with the cool sword collection who happens to be king. 

Zôrzimril outmaneuvers his loyalists and throws his plans out the window as soon as he's dead, but that goes without saying. And Ardamin really hates politics. 

[anghraine]

Quenya name of the day: Calmacil

shh it's still Sunday on the West Coast

Calmacil: sword of light

cal-, stem of cálë, light, used commonly in names (Calion, Ancalimë, Anducal, etc). 

macil, sword

Calmacil is a masculine name used twice; it would be more frequent if we included Calimmacil, but that has a (slightly) different meaning. The two proper examples are:

Tar-Calmacil, son of Tar-Alcarin (himself son of Tar-Vanimeldë), known in Adûnaic as Ar-Belzagar. His name seems to be a reference to his conquest along the shores of Middle-earth.

Calmacil, son of Atanatar II, King of Gondor. Calmacil, though a younger son, eventually became king in turn. Both he and his brother largely delegated responsibility to his son Minalcar.