Suladan (Shadow of War)

Suladan is one of the nine Nazgul in the Lord of the Rings video game ''Middle-Earth: Shadow of War. As only two of the Nazgul in the books and movies are named, Suladan is not definitively known to be a Nazgul in either, and so is a character made for the continuity of the Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War ''games.

in life
Prior to becoming a Nazgul, Suladan was a noble king of the Southern lands of Middle-Earth. He once warred against Sauron, recognizing the danger he posed and determined to stop him. Unfortunately, when Sauron surrendered to Suladan, he duped the young monarch into thinking that he'd won. In reality, Sauron set himself up as Suladan's "advisor" and began steadily corrupting him, a corruption that was completed when Sauron gave Suladan a Ring of Power, which turned him into one of the nine Nazgul.

As a nazgul
After being turned into a Nazgul, Suladan was reduced to doing the bidding of the very man he'd once thought he'd conquered. Come Talion and Celebrimbor's forging of a new Ring of Power, Suladan was dispatched with the other Nazgul to deal with them, and ended up being the first major Nazgul Talion would do battle with.

Trivia

 * Coincidentally, Suladan shares a name with a minor character from the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game, Suladan the Serpent Lord. However, that character was a Haradrim vassal for Sauron in the Third Age and proudly loyal to him from the start, whereas the Suladan in this game was a king from an older time who was initially good before being suckered by Sauron into taking one of his Rings of Power. Since Monolith Studios has repeatedly stressed that Suladan is an original character on their part, the identical names should be taken as mere coincidence.
 * His being a king who was corrupted by a seemingly defeated and captured Sauron that had set himself up as an "advisor", brings to mind the similar story of the Numenorean king Ar-Pharazon, who suffered the same fate (though he did not become a Nazgul). This makes Suladan the second great king of men who Sauron corrupted after surrendering and becoming his prisoner and then "advisor".