The Master

Transcribed from:   Copy of Lost Lore: Prisons of Naerband

The Master

Before the Mountain raged, I was called Thraknûl. I was the warden of Naerband, the greatest of Lord Sauron's prisons. By His command, I devised pains and torments unequalled in any of the Ages of the world.

Before the Mountain raged, I was the master of all that transpired within the iron walls of the Direhold. I was the greatest of the Dark Lord's torturers. But on the day that the Mountain was rent asunder and its fires cascaded, when the iron walls of Naerband became not just a prison, but an oven. When the screams of the roasting doomed filled the air, I beheld that savage masterwork and knew that Sauron, even in death and ruin, was truly the master.

I have much to learn if I am to become Shakh Thraknûl, and surpass the Dark Lord in the arts of pain. I need some new captives.