I'm planning a one shot game using RM2 (minus several of the magic using classes,) set in Middle Earth. This is intended to convince my Pathfinder obsessed group that it might be sometimes a good idea to play a bit of Rolemaster also.
I'm setting the game in Third Age 1700 in Arnor and was curious to know, at this stage, were the people of Middle Earth aware of the Witch King's identity as a Nazgul? Or was he just a mysterious sorcerer whose origins were unknown?
Hi, I know it's been a while since this has been asked and there are already a numbver of answers, but you might find this supplementary info useful as well
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Issue 7 of Other Minds Magazine, there has been an article about the Angmarrim as a people,
Issue 9 has one on Religion in Angmar and
Issue 13 has a long treatise on population in Eriador (and Angmar).
In short, IMO there might be some suspicion that he is a Nazgûl, but by this time Angmar is not likely to pose as an overt "Evil Empire" like a Mordor-in-miniature, but more as an "alternative" for people disgruntled with the Dúnedain and carving its own "place in the sun" against the former. The real "evilness" of Angmar is likely to begin about 100-150 years later and then being finally revealed in full in the 20th century.
Cheers
Tolwen
P.S.: On the Other Minds website (see my signature) you may also find PDF versions of Chris Seeman's old 'Other Hands' magazine if you're looking for any of that stuff (I got full permission from him to do that BTW).