#oc arphazel

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the line of elros ♚ royalty of númenor ♚ headcanon disclaimer

          Following his bloody ascension to the throne, Tar-Ardamin abandoned the use of Quenya as the state language of Númenor and declared himself Ar-Abattârik, nineteenth King of Anadûnê. He was an adept politician, skilled at shifting blame and keeping his enemies quiet, and though on the surface the Faithful received a reprieve from his father’s harsh policies, Ar-Abattârik’s subtler laws would come back to harm them in the future.           Abattârik married the dancer Lómindillë, a soft-hearted woman who was happy to enjoy the luxury of royalty without examining its cost. He named her Arî-Lôminzil, and they lived in contentment with their son Adûnakhôr, feeding his ambition with lyrical promises of exaltation beyond what the Valar could offer.           Before he died taking the fall for his brother, Elenmacil Gimilzagar wed Isilwendë, a painter who saw him as her muse. Known as Nilûphêr when she moved to Armenelos with her husband, she bore him one daughter, Arphazêl, but soon their happiness was cut short when Gimilzagar slew his father the king at Abattârik’s request and was in turn slain himself.           This dreadful series of events left Nilûphêr and Arphazêl deeply shaken, and they removed themselves to the west of Elenna to mourn in privacy. There they turned to the ways of the Faithful, blaming the King’s Men for Gimilzagar’s death. Eventually Arphazêl took the Quenya name Aranel and wed the thirteenth Lord of Andúnië, becoming an ancestor of the future queen Inzilbêth.

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the line of elros ☼ house of andúnië ☼ headcanon disclaimer

           Vóromir was the thirteenth Lord of Andúnië, named for his ancestor Boromir of Ladros, and was the first of his line forced to take an Adûnaic name, Abrazimir, or else be expelled from the Council of the Scepter. He ruled Andúnië in the time of Ar-Adûnakhôr, and as there was little he could do to sway the king from his wicked ways, Vóromir instead worked quietly to make his city a safe haven for the Faithful.           Vóromir was young when Adûnakhôr’s father seized the throne through violence and framed his brother Gimilzagar for his crimes, and was deeply impacted by these horrific events. Thus he was sympathetic to Gimilzagar’s widow and daughter, Nilûphêr and Arphazêl, even when others among the Faithful distrusted them, and allowed them to take refuge in Andúnië.           In time, Vóromir grew to love Arphazêl, and gave her the Quenya name Aranel. They were wed, and tried to raise their children in peace and happiness, shielding them from the darkness of the world as long as they could. Thus their eldest son, Aulendur, had the leisure to become a smith despite being his father’s heir.           When Aulendur inherited, he continued his father’s policy of subtle resistance against the King’s Men rather than confronting them in the Council of the Scepter. He accepted his Adûnaic name Tamrubên, appearing as nonthreatening as possible to Ar-Zimrathôn and his supporters. His wife was Istimiel Sapthaphêl, a scholar, and together they had two children, Lindórië and Eärendur.