Rhúdel

The Easterlings of Rhûdel are a faction founded on February 14th 2016 by Joetatoe. They are currently led by \_Wraith\_ and Vasirius jointly.

### Population

Approximately 30

Rhûdel was founded on February 14th 2016 by three admins: Joetatoe, who was the ruler of Isengard, Aidensebastian, who was the former ruler of the Grey Mountains and Mordor, and TheOneGoran, who had briefly led Lothlorien. Joe became Khan and they were soon joined by SirWilsonGS, the former ruler of Gundabad, creating a formidable force. Construction of the city of Mistrand started, and after its construction began, tchri006, a veteran Isengard player joined as well. The Easterlings soon grew to become the center of the mighty Khagagate.

**The Age of Failure:**

Over time both Rhûdel and the Khagagate collapsed and on March 9th 2018 Joetatoe took a break from the server and left tchri006, the last remaining Easterling, as acting Khan. While he initially had some success with recruiting, tchri eventually went inactive, leaving the Easterlings leaderless. A year later on March 28th 2019, Jag\_sic was named the new acting leader. Under Jag, Rhûdel joined the Shadow Pact and established non-aggression treaties with numerous factions in the East, but he departed the faction on June 23rd 2018, and tchri was reappointed as acting leader.

**The Gilded Age of Rhûdel:**

A group of well know players joined the faction of the east late December. The group included RHVT, Joxu\_, LlianB, HighTea\_, Razgull and urfavlesbsox. This gave the faction a huge activity spike, and they immediately started working on building and reforming the faction. tchri stepped down in favor of LlianB on March 18th 2020.

On April 8th 2020, Rhûdel became a founding member of the Alliance of the East. LlianB later decided to share leadership with RHVT on July 6th 2020 and LlianB resigned on the 10th of October giving RHVT complete leadership over the Easterlings. RHVT requested building permission for the waypoint Taragal, designed by urfavlesbsox, on the 25th of October. Taragal got accepted on the 26th of October.

**The Age of War:**

On the 26th of October RHVT declared war on Rivendell, with faction leader Rumil. The siege on Rivendell took place on Saturday 7 November. It was a quick fight with a grand victory for the Easterlings. Footage of the siege can be found here: https://youtu.be/dNK6k5tfigA. The victory was the fastest known siege on TOS. The fighters of the siege were as followed: *Commanders:* RHVT & LilNail. *Fighters*: Joxu\_, urfavlesbsox, Razgull, xMicMic and \_Wraith\_.

Mordor, a member of the Alliance of the East, declared war on the Kingdom of Dorwinion on the 3th of November.. After the swift victory on Rivendell Rhûdel joined Mordor in the war on the 9th of November. The World War between Free Peoples and Evil got cancelled because of a unlicensed declaration of war. Dorwinion only had 5 actives while the rules state having 6 actives in a faction is the minimum amount of players a faction needs to declare war on.

On the 18th of November, urfavlesbsox, released his first DLC for the waypoint Taragal. Hereby expending the original build. On 5th of December Rhûdel requested building permission for a new waypoint: Ashen Ford. Designed by Arrex, urfavlesbox, RHVT and Luqz\_. The build got approved a month later on the first of January in 2021.

**The Age of Change:**

The Alliance of the East was dismantled on the 29th of December. A week later Rhûdel and Khand decided to form a private union under the name: "The Eastern Empire" on the 7th of January, in which they would be effectively one faction under the rulerships of Auke123 and RHVT. The EE decided to declare an open war on Gondor on the 18th of January, which ended in a victory. On the 10th of February 2021, RHVT was permanently banned from the server , due to having knowingly played with another player who was using an alt account to get around a ban, so the Crown Prince, Joxu\_, became the next Khan of Rhûdel. On March 23rd 2021 he abdicated for LilNail, who quickly abdicated for Erurehto on June 3rd. After Eru was banned on June 16th LilNail once again rose to power.

On June 18th 2021 the famed Eastern Empire cheating incident took place in which it was discovered that the EE members had frequently x-rayed, duplicated, alted, and used alts to infiltrate other factions. Almost the entire leadership apparatus was banned and the most senior remaining leader, AltHenry, was offered leadership by the faction's now banned leadership. He didn't want to rule after all that had happened and there was effectively three candidates to take up leadership: spooky0\_0, MysteryFTW, and Vasirius. MysteryFTW left for Mordor shortly after the leading members were banned. On June 24th 2021 Spooky was proclaimed leader with the support of Rhûdel's Players, allies, Henry, and the old banned players.

Under spooky Rhûdel officially merged with Khand on July 15th 2021, and on July 18th joined the Shadow Confederacy. As a Shadow Confederacy member Rhûdel took part in both the Taurethrim-Mordor War and the Mordor-Durins Folk War, Spooky then declared war on the Wind Dwarves seeking glory and an increase of activity within the faction, this war would remain stagnant for a long period of time while both Rhun's players and the Wind Dwarves players began getting busy with real life and loss of interest in the server. Olgierd was later given leadership after spooky had lost interest and was not able to dedicate the time.

The first two months of Olgierd\_'s rule were completely stagnant, and not long after this the server went down for many months, but upon its return there was some new life within Rhun. The faction began to regain its strength, recruiting several active players to bolster their ranks, beginning to do weekly Utumno runs and encouraging members to donate valuable resources in attempt to increase the wealth of the faction treasury. Vasirius, TN0N, \_Wraith\_ and \_Katman, the members of the Council of Emirs, helped. On August 3rd 2022, Olgierd\_ abdicated in favour of \_Wraith\_, who appointed Vasirius as co-leader of the faction soon afterwards.

## **Ranks**

#### **Main** **Ranks:**

2. Khan - The faction leader, in charge of general faction affairs and inter faction relations.
3. Crown Prince - Second in command to the Khan, has the final say on faction matters if the Khan is unavailable.
4. Noyan- A long term and trusted member of the faction and part of the Golden Court.
5. Rhûdel Clansman - A recruit who has met the minimum requirements to join the faction; a citizen of Rhûdel.
6. Recruit - A player who wishes to join but has not yet met the requirements to do so.

#### **Additional Ranks:**

* Architect, a member who is above average skilled in designing builds.
* Rhunate Skirmisher, a member who is a trained warrior and wishes to participate in PVP for the faction.
* Employee, a member who helps the faction out with collecting resources and the construction of builds.
* Advisor, a member who has not met the requirements for becoming an Emir, but can still provide useful insight in the Council.
* Variag of Khand, a member who wishes to be part of the subfaction Khand, formerly an independent faction that has been absorbed by Rhûdel.

## **Diplomacy**

**Allies:**

* Imperial Federation
	+ Isengard
	+ Gundabad