The Tantûraki ,people of the land which bore their name, were the proud (indeed, often over-proud) descendants of the mighty mariners of Númenor and the indigenous Ûsakani, a people related to the Mûmakani. The nation of Tantûrak was founded as a Númenórean colony in about S.A. 1800 as the most southerly such colony on the continent of Endor proper. It was ruled by a Númenórean royal Bar for 1200 years, until the arrival of the "Magician of Tantûrak" who became the governor's adviser in 3000 S.A. (He was actually one of the Elven Lords of the Court of Ardor.) Forty years later the royal governor declared independence for Tantûrak and proclaimed himself it's first king. Since that time the government of Tantûrak under the influence of the Magician had suffered a steady decline into corrupti