Sauron's rainment

[Manwe Sulimo]

The Istari was the Order of Wizards sent by the Valar to combat Sauron. Sauron did once look like the Istari, but before the Istari arrived in Middle-earth. He took a fair form to decieve the Noldor of Eregion and the Númenóreans, but he lost the ability to seem fair forever after Elenna sank beneath the waves and his fair body died.