Vanishing Sons & Daughters



The Vanishing Sons & Daughters, also known as the Vanishing Sellswords, Vanished Ones, Children of the Vanished, or the Sons and Daughters of the Vanished, is a very large company of Easterling, Haradrim, Variag, and Umbarim sellswords that operated in the region of Lithlad. Considered the finest and most powerful company in Middle-Earth, the Vanishing Sons & Daughters had never broken a contract when they are hired by rich leaders to fight for their cause. Formerly professional hunters, soldiers, and warriors from tribes or militaries in Rhûn, Khand, Harad, and Umbar, members of the Vanishing Sons & Daughters were known for their expertise in fighting.

Watchful Peace
During the Watchful Peace, a massive army of 2,060,000 Easterlings of the Sun Legion began to invade the Eastfold in the great kingdom of Rohan and battle was erupted in the grasslands between them and the Rohirrim. Facing a superior force of Rohirrim riders, many soldiers were slaughtered while the other half, some who were wounded, managed to retreat and chose not to return to Rhûn. Instead, they established a company called the "Vanishing Sons & Daughters". These soldiers became mercenaries and they would fight for the highest bidder, whether former allies or enemies.

From their earliest raids upon Haradrim villages, the Vanishing Sons & Daughters established its primary recruitment method, taking in many surviving children and instructing them in the ways of war, to the extent that the company transformed and grew over time. While Haradrim had joined the company, many former hunters, soldiers, and warriors from Khand, Harad, and Umbar joined the Vanishing Sons & Daughters. Armed with many different types of weapons they use in battle, the Vanishing Sellswords would spend their money in buying armor made out of gold. While the world's richest families couldn't hire them, many of the sellswords in the company would raid Mordor caravans.

The Vanishing Sons & Daughters eventually made their way to the deserts of Lithlad where they took up residence in the ruins of an ancient Númenórean fortress. Lithlad gave them a permanent home where they brokered a deal with the orcs of Shindrâm. The Vanishing Sons & Sons were left in peace and paid a monthly bounty for dealing with bandits that assaulted the marauder camps and their supply lines. The Vanishing Sons & Daughters dispatched the bandits quickly and sent the heads of warriors to the Mordorians. Lithlad grew quiet, until some months later when the mercenaries happened upon an idea that would guarantee as much work as they wanted. And so the bandit raids began again with some jobs working for Takra the Sandspider, Overlord of Shindrâm and warchief of the Marauder Tribe.

War of the Ring
During the War of the Ring, over 2,498,000 mercenaries of the Vanishing Sons & Daughters, including Oliphaunts, assembled and marched south where they fought in the battle of the Pelennor Fields to eliminate the mercenaries of Far Harad, who had been reinforcing Mordor's troops. In the aftermath of the war, King Aragorn gave Lithlad back to the company.