Middle Earth at War is a LOTR singleplayer sandbox Mod for Warband. It is mostly a visual overhaul of Native and includes entire middle earth with the main factions.
Nazgul Items
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Description
Redesigning the Nazgul, the dreaded Ring-wraiths.
Some explanation about these and the rest of the Nazgul equipment:
For the mod, I am mainly following Tolkien's descriptions and intend to be as book-accurate as I can. In the instance of the Nazgul, only 2 are named in his works, the Witch King and Khamul the Easterling. Now, I didn't want to have the rest as Nazgul #3, #4 etc.
So, for armours, I followed the film aesthetic. I think they did a very good job with those characters' design. As for the weapons, I followed the design of the Middle Earth Role-Playing Game, with some influence from the Games Workshop Miniatures.
They identified each Ringwraith, giving them lore-friendly names and identities, along with custom weapons for each (I didn't like to have a generic "Nazgul sword" for everyone). So, the items have been selected according to this list:
The Witch-king of Angmar "wields a brutal sword." - Er-Mûrazôr
The Dark Marshall
The Slayer of Men "holds an enormous wood and iron spear, taller than each Nazgûl." - Ren the Unclean
Khamûl the Easterling "clutches a mace."
The Dark Headsman "clutches an executioner’s axe with a wicked curved point." - Ji Indûr Dawndeath
The Slayer of Men "wields an enormous, brutal barbed spear." - Ûvatha the horseman
The Lingering Shadow "holds not 1 but 2 swords." - Adûnaphel the quiet
The Forsaken, "who holds a bizarrely-shaped trident." - Akhôrahil the blind Sorcerer
The remaining two are simply "2 Abyssal Knights" - Dwar of Waw and Hoarmûrath of Dir
The only difference is I gave the Dark Marshall, whom I couldn't find using a weapon, a morningstar.
Also, Tolkien describes the Witch King using a huge spiked mace, iirc. I included such a weapon too, but I also really like his film sword.
At first I saw the weapons and thought: How do these fit to the Nazgul? Afterwards, I read your description and I really like the idea. Great job!
Thank you, glad you like it. And yeah, at first, I had them all as "generic Nazgul #x". But that was really uninspired and lazy. This way, I feel it's better, while still being lore-friendly. The inspiration for this "system" is this article: Lotr.fandom.com
Awesome of you to take the time and further develop something you could have overlooked. Love the work you are putting into your project and I'm sure many others really appreciate it as well!
Thank you! I do hope I'll make a lore-friendly and realistic (yes, even fantasy can be realistic, to a degree) experience!