Shadow Confederacy

The Shadow Confederacy is a factional confederation which consists of almost every faction in evil. It was officially founded on June 10th 2020 with the intent to create an empire that acted under the wishes of the Dark Lord Sauron and the council of Mordor. This mission statement would ultimately change following the abdication of HarrMac on July 12th 2020 with the goal of the Shadow Confederacy instead being to strengthen and reunite evil.

## **History**

On March 22nd 2020 HarrMac, Sauron of Mordor, sent offers to both the Half-Trolls and Dol Guldur to merge with Mordor. This offer was accepted by Zesheir, the Torogost of the Half-Trolls, who at the time was facing a civil war. ERCJMan of Dol Guldur initially refused he was granted a position of Nazgul on the council. After seeing how Mordor developed the Half-Trolls, however, he changed his mind and agreed to form the confederation with the Half-Trolls and Mordor on June 10th 2020.

Angmar strongly valued its independence, at the time Dunland was a neutral faction, the former Shadow Pact factions had a poor relationship with Mordor, Near Harad, Khand, and Rhudel were all strong and independent, and Umbar was undergoing a period of isolation and civil conflict. The Confederacy's expansion thus stopped.

HarrMac abdicated as the ruler of Mordor on July 12th 2020 and Mordor's new rulers shifted the Confederacy away from being a super-faction to a close alliance. Following Mordor's withdrawal from Perdorogwaith on July 13th 2020 the Half-Trolls withdrew from the Confederacy and the Confederacy became a simple alliance of Mordor and Dol Guldur. This period ended when Angmar at last joined the alliance on September 1st 2020. On January 18th 2021, Dunland would once again become an evil faction under the leadership of Faylynn and Wolfking and they would go on to immediately join the Shadow Confederacy.

Throughout the early summer of 2021 tensions began rising between the Shadow Confederacy and the Alliance of the Rising Sun over Mordor's continued hold over the Half-Troll island of Tol Torog. On June 26th 2021 ERCjman, the former ruler of Dol Guldur and now an influential Near Haradrim, convinced Dol Guldur to leave the Confederacy and instead ally with the Rising Sun. On June 28th war officially broke out between the two groups, and in the end the Shadow Confederacy was victorious.

On July 18th 2021, the Easterlings joined the Shadow Confederacy after spooky0\_0, a former Nazgul of Mordor rose to power. On August 23rd 2021 Mordor went to war with Durin's Folk while on the same day Rhudel went to war against the Wind-Dwarves. While reinforcements from the Free Peoples saved Durin's Folk the war with the Wind-Dwarves is still ongoing.

On January 14th 2022 Isengard and the Astrasi Empire, the latter consisting of the Half-Trolls and Near Harad, both joined the Confederacy. The next day Umbar automatically became a Shadow Confederacy member after joining the Astrasi Empire, and on January 23rd Gundabad joined after seeing how many factions were pouring in to reunite evil. Dol Guldur followed suite by rejoining on January 31st, and the Limwaith followed Umbar's path by joining the Astrasi and the Confederacy on February 14th. Thus within a month 7 new factions had joined the Shadow Confederacy, unifying all of evil besides the semi-neutral Morwaith.

## **Factions**

* Mordor
* Angmar
* Dunland
* Rhudel
* Isengard
* Half-Trolls
* Near Harad
* Gundabad
* Dol Guldur
* Limwaith

## Constitution

The constitution of the Shadow Confederacy can be found here.