The Black Númenóreans were the descendants of the Kingsmen among the Númenóreans. They called themselves Ârûwânai (A."King's Men") or Adûnaim (A."Western Men"). The true Black Númenóreans were a dying bloodline in the late third age, but despite the Kingsmen´s disdain of what they considered "lesser men", there had been several mixed-blooded successor cultures in Harad claiming to be heirs of Númenórean superiority. Among these were the Amazôn, Anbalukkhôri, Bellakarani, Gimilthânians, Kharadûnaim, Pharazâin, Tantûraki and Zimrathânians. In many of these former Númenórean Colonies caste systems prevailed, in which classes of population claiming to be of high Númenórean blood held the highest social status. Classes of indigenous lineage held the lowest social status (For example the People