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| “ | The Witch-king has taken possession of this city. Now he will take possession of you! | „ |
| ~ Suladân to Talion at Minas Morgul. |
| “ | You cannot defeat the Nine. You will join them! | „ |
| ~ Suladân upon his defeat. |
Suladân is one of the nine Nazgûl in the Lord of the Rings video game Middle-earth: Shadow of War. As only two of the Nazgûl in the books and movies are named, Suladân is not definitively known to be a Nazgûl in either, and so is a character made for the continuity of the Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War games.
He was voiced by Gideon Emery, who also voiced Brûz the Chopper in the same game, Orca in Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Poseidon in the God of War series, Jorhan Stahl in Killzone: Shadow Fall, Krampus in the titular 2015 film, and also played Deucalion in Teen Wolf.
History[]
In Life[]
Prior to becoming a Nazgûl, Suladân 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 Suladân, he duped the young monarch into thinking that he'd won. In reality, Sauron set himself up as Suladân's "advisor" and began steadily corrupting him, a corruption that was completed when Sauron gave Suladân a Ring of Power, which turned him into one of the nine Nazgûl.
As a Nazgûl[]
After being turned into a Nazgûl, Suladân was reduced to doing the bidding of the very entity he'd once thought he'd conquered. Come Talion and Celebrimbor's forging of a new Ring of Power, Suladân was dispatched with the other Nazgûl to deal with them, and ended up being the first major Nazgûl Talion would do battle with. When Talion returns to Minas Ithil, now named Minas Morgul, Eltariel comes to his aid to track down Suladân.
The two make it to the gates of Minas Morgul, and Suladân teleports to them, warning Talion that the Witch-king will take possession of him. Upon his defeat, Suladân tells Talion that he will join the Nine, and Talion learns of Suladân's past.
After the One Ring was destroyed in Mount Doom, Suladân and the other Nazgul met their final deaths alongside Sauron.
Quotes[]
| “ | Kneel before your king. | „ |
| ~ An elderly Suladân to his followers, corrupted by the ring. |
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Trivia[]
- Coincidentally, Suladân shares a name with a minor character from the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game, Suladân 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 Suladân 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 Suladân is an original character on their part, the identical names should be taken as mere coincidence.
- It is possible that Suladân, just like in the strategy game, is a Haradrim, except he is a Haradrim monarch turned Ringwraith, unlike a simple vassal.
- 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 Númenórean king Ar-Pharazôn, who suffered the same fate (though he did not become a Nazgûl). This makes Suladân the second great king of men who Sauron corrupted after surrendering and becoming his prisoner and then "advisor".
