[CENTER][B][COLOR=Black]Work in Progress[/COLOR][/B] [hider=New CS] Character's Full Name: Al'Homam bin Nimr Al Wah'Shey (Meaning: Al'Homam Son of Nimr the Savage/Wild/Brutal/Cruel/Feral/Vicious//Fierce/Bloodthirsty/Diabolic/Diabolical) (Note that "Al'Wahshey" is his fathers title and DOES mean all those things...) Character's Date of Birth: The First Day of the Sixth Month Character's Age: Three and a Half Decades Character's Gender: Male Character's Nationality: Saeron Character's Skin Colour: Golden Bronze Eye Colour: Hazel Hair Colour: Light Brown/Dark Red/Auburn Hair Length: Shoulder Length. Tucked Away in Head Dress Body Markings: Scars...Everywhere Occupation: Head Vizier to the Sultan Interests: Style of Dress: Prefers to wear long flowing clothes. He wears the traditional [URL=http://i44.servimg.com/u/f44/09/04/29/14/00310.jpg]sirwal[/URL], preferring one which is black in colour, and a light black shirt made of the same material. Over it he wears the traditional thawb, tied at the waist with a few thick pieces of cloth which also act as the holster to tuck away the scimitar and sheath. Over the thawb and "belt" he wears the heavy reddish brown cloak, it's colour is a sign of his high rank in the Sultans court, and the white head dress also speaks of his importance, as only high ranked officers and elite soldiers in the army ever wear it. This speaks of his military background. Likes: Dislikes: Fears: Prominent weaknesses: Personality: [Hider=Appearance] [img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs37/f/2008/250/4/d/Janissary_2_by_erenarik.jpg[/img] [/hider] Brief History:[/Hider][/CENTER] [hider=My Hider] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/oQnKfmR.jpg[/img] [i][color=a0410d]'He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare/ And he who has one enemy will find him everywhere.'[/color][/i] [i]On casual occasions, Al'Homam tends to wear the traditional light clothes of a desert dweller, a turban with a tail, protecting from the desert sands, as well as a sirwal, over which is long, light tunic-like robe. On his feet, he wears a good pair of riding boots. (see picture above for turban, tunic-like robe and boots. In battle, or more appropriately, when on campaign, he wears a [url=https://histoireislamique.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/kulah_khud_iran_19th_c_1-iran-casque-19eme.jpg]eteel helm with a nose-guard and aventail.[/url] [url=https://www.screenused.com/images/prince/9323_4.jpg]A turban with a tail is wrapped around the helmet.[/url] The tail is generally [url=https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/cd/ce/09/cdce093e21e9b9b00ab5506515a808f5.jpg]wrapped around face and neck[/url] which, along with the aventail, acts as protection from winds carrying sand. Over his casual attire, he wears a chain mail hauberk (pictured), over which is a simple cuirass consisting of a single, square metal piece over his torso area, attached by leather straps to another, similar one at the back (see picture). He also wields a round shield made of a tight weave of wicker covered in animal hide with leather strips woven into the wickerwork so that, when dried, it makes for a tough shield overall - soldiers of the ibn Wahad Sultanate generally do not have metal shields at all, preferring these lighter wickerwork ones. Into battle, he wields his prized [url=http://files.thecobbs.com/a19_lot94_0-max.jpg]wootz steel shamshir[/url] and [url=http://i.imgur.com/7aliTZo.jpg]dagger[/url] which hang from a baldric around his torso. These wootz shamshirs, otherwise known as Fairozan steel blades (after the small city of Fairozan , are famous all over the known world for their [url=http://www.castlegunmakers.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/350px-Watered_pattern_on_sword_blade1.Iran_.jpg]strange pattern[/url] and extraordinary toughness and sharpness.[/i][/center] [indent]【[U]Full Name[/U]】 [indent][I]Al'Homam bin Nimr Al Wah'Shey of the Banu Harith[/I][/indent] 【[U]Aliases[/U]】 [indent][I]'The Vizier', 'The Emir', 'Abul'Harb' (Father of War)[/I][/indent] 【[U]Age[/U]】 [indent][I]35 Years[/I][/indent] 【[U]Sex[/U]】 [indent][I]Male[/I][/indent] 【[U]Sexuality[/U]】 [indent][I]Heterosexual[/I][/indent] 【[U]Religion[/U]】 [indent][i]Sawarim[/i][/indent] 【[U]Family[/U]】 [indent][i]Nimr Al Wah'Shey bin Abd'Manaf of the Banu Harith [Father - deceased] Zainab bint Zubair of the Banu Zufair [Mother - deceased] Abd'Manaf bin Zaid of the Banu Harith [Grandfather - alive] Many uncles, aunts and cousins, and all members of the Banu Harith Tribe. Has relations to the Banu Zufair Tribe too, through his mother.[/i][/indent] 【[U]Birthplace[/U]】 [indent][i]The Ibn-Wahad Sultanate, Banu Harith castle of Al'Jabal, near the town of Qardara[/i][/indent] 【[U]Societal standing[/U]】 [indent][i]Highborn[/i][/indent] 【[U]Former employment[/U]】 [indent][i]N/A[/i][/indent] 【[U]Rank and role[/U]】 [indent][i]Sayyid (Chief) of the Banu Harith, Vizier to the Sultan, Emir of Al'Jabal Castle and the town of Qardara[/i] His position as Sayyid makes him the highest figure within his tribe as well as respected and influential among the nomadic desert tribes. As one of many Viziers to the Sultan, he advises the Sultan and is a close ally to him. As an Emir he is expected to run his estate on behalf of the sultan, raise up zealous recruit to go wage religious warfare, and personally lead armies on campaign should the need arise (which also goes hand-in-hand with his duties as a Vizier and leading authority on all matters related to war.)[/indent] 【[U]Personality[/U]】 [indent][i]An intelligent and ambitious man, Al'Homam knows his way about the Sultan's court and understands its politics, his shrewd mind unravelling all the affairs happening behind the scenes (though the many courtiers whose loyalty he has help in that regard too). His strategic and tactical mind approaches the court in much the same way he approaches the battlefield - with readiness and a calculation of how to react to the actions of rivals or potential rivals. In his years, he saw very well the fate of those who were not ready - even the most senior and influential courtiers - and thus he is a man always on the ready. His tendrils spread far and wide within the royal court and the people in his pockets are everywhere. He has, it would seem, sizable pockets. His ambition has carried him to the top, and his wit and intelligence plans on ensuring he stay there. However, Al'Homam is not merely a very skilled courtier and tactician, he is a man very concerned with the condition of the nation. Certainly, recent years have seen some well-earned victories against the southerners, but the nation is still weak and the sultan does not seem to care too much for the condition of the normal tribesman or peasant. Al'Homam saw the condition of his tribe when he returned to Al'Jabal, and he saw the condition of the villagers and slaves of Qardara. Something must be done about the horrendous conditions which are far worse in the capital and just as bade elsewhere Al'Homam has been. Al'Homam, as one of the most influential Viziers and senior courtiers, thinks he is just the man to do something about all this. However, nothing he can do within the existing system will create a permanent change. That will require far more radical action... As a man, Al'Homam is a man fond of poetry and reading, usually spending his free moments reading an interesting tome or translated piece, or writing up a poem which had come to him. While there are many women who would jump at the opportunity to win his affections, he has refrained from all sexual relations and remains a virgin to this day. Some wonder if he has taken a pledge of celibacy, while still others wonder if there is not a darker side to the Vizier's seemingly modest private life. A skilled rider and lover of horses, Al'Homam jumps at the opportunity to journey somewhere, just for the thrill and joy of the ride. Indeed, many find the journey somewhere the dullest part (what is there to see but sand?) but for Al'Homam, it is by far the most thrilling.[/i][/indent] 【[U]History[/U]】 [indent][i]Born in the castle of Al'Jabal, Al'Homam's birth killed his sickly mother. Even the advanced (relative to Broacien) medicines of the Sultanate could not save her, and his father despised him for it. She had been a woman he loved and who eased his burdens, and this impudent child had taken her away from him. Indeed, Nimr of the Banu Harith, known as 'Al Wah'Shey' (meaning the 'Wild' or 'Savage'), had many burdens which required easing. He was a warrior renown all over the Sultanate, and his feats probably reached beyond its borders, but it was his unnerving, diabolic nature which won him his title. As the Sultan's right hand man and destroyer of his foes, it did well for him to have such a fearsome reputation. He had earned this reputation mainly due to his many victories against the Sultanate's southern foes and the cruelty with which he treated them. Al'Homam was born into the world the son of this man, heir to the Banu Harith tribe. He had very little contact with his father and spent most of his youth with his elderly grandfather, cousins and a group of tribals, herding sheep across the Sultanate's deserts. His grandfather, heavily religious and a skilled poet, taught Al'Homam the faith and poetry, while his older cousins instilled within him the love for horses and riding which any desert dweller ought to have. He would often duel with them too, but it was horse riding that he gave his efforts to, and his swordsmanship suffered as a result. At the age of eleven, his father summoned him back to the family estate where he set about civilising the little brute. He was his only son after all, and whether he liked him or not, he would inherit his positions and titles one day. He had to be capable and he had to be worthy. His father focused his Al'Homam's education around tactics and strategy. He initially had tutors teach him how to read and write, and once he was capable enough, he personally took up the boy's education. Nimr was a tough teacher and his methods were unorthodox at best. Once Al'Homam would finish studying a particular battle or strategic concept, he would have him apply it to various hypothetical situations before having the villagers ready themselves in the fields and carry out mock battles. Of course, Nimr was also cruel and any lack of cooperation from Al'Homam saw him fly into furious fits. He was often found bruised and beaten. In later years, when his body had grown more accustomed to his father's beatings, he was often found whipped, and his back is marred with whip marks even to this day. At the age of nineteen, Nimr had his son join one of the latest campaigns against the enemy in the south and he spent a good three years as a soldier. He was a rather average soldier and received no great acknowledgement - his skill with a sword was nothing noteworthy and he was not particularly charismatic. His only skill, as far as his superiors could see, was horse-riding, and he did a good job following commands and charging into the enemy's flanks when ordered - he certainly did not seem to fear death too much. When he returned, his father could see that his son had become a man on the battlefield. It was where children grew, after all. It was why the desert dwellers had survived. They honed their skill in battle and they ensured that one generation after the other did not grow soft and weak. When they grew weak, then they would be conquered, but so long as they passed on the lust and desire for battle, they would remain eternally free. For the next five years, Al'Homam served at the royal court where his intelligence and wit and knack for strategic thinking and tactics drew him to the Sultan's eye very quickly. He rose in the ranks and did his fair bit of traveling all over the country carrying out the Sultan's wishes. In 121 P.B., with the Sultanate reeling from a defeat in the north against the Broacienian enemy, a few senior Viziers were executed for the humiliating defeat and the twenty seven year old Al'Homam rose to the rank of Vizier. His advice came in vital with war stirring in the south once more. The Sultan sent Al'Homam to personally lead the war effort, commanding him to make the southern rats pay dearly for breaching the peace. And Al'Homam did just that, inflicting devastating defeat after devastating defeat upon the southerners. It was a shame to be killing those who were also desert dwellers and brothers of the Sawarim faith, but they were a cowardly and oath-breaking nation and deserved the divine punishment they now earned. Peace was reached within the year and the Sultanate gained a good amount of disputed territory from the southerners. Al'Homam returned victorious and with his reputation sealed, and continued to serve the Sultan as a Vizier for another four years, which was when Al'Homam's father passed away. Now an Emir and a Sayyid, as well as an influential Vizier, Al'Homam found himself approached by many for alliances, favours and requests. Still unmarried, many jumped at the opportunity of giving their daughters to this powerful man. But Al'Homam was not interested and went about dealing with the last of his father's debts and the affairs of the estate. The town of Qardar was built upon, the church there expanded and the market invested in - it was, after all, in a rather strategic position in the southern Sultanate, very close to the recently conquered lands and thus a definite way station for any travelers and merchants. The town grew larger and revenues from it increased. The castle of Al'Jabal, with approval from the Sultan, was also heavily modified and fortified. As the main fortress standing against the southerners, it was important that it was kept in good order. The last thing the Sultanate needed was to lose more land to their foes, as they had lost Jawai al-Qasar to the Broacienians not five years before. He oversaw the estate for three years before his services as Vizier were required once more. Now thirty-five and one of the most important figures in the Sultanate, Al'Homam cannot help but find that the way the Sultanate is run is terribly inefficient. The Sultan has grown complacent and spend most his days in the harem while the royal family are among the most decadent and ignorant people in existence. Surely if the likes of the heir were to become Sultan the nation would go to the dogs! Something must be done...[/i][/indent] 【[U]Dreams, short term goals, and fears.[/U]】 [indent][i]Al'Homam hopes to wake up one day to find that the Sultanate has taken its rightful place at the top of the civilised world having subjugated the southerners completely and taken vengeance upon the Broacienian foe. He wishes to see the Sultanate grow more powerful, its people prosper and the religion of Sawarim supreme over all other false and deviant beliefs. For this, the Sultanate's ailing military must be rejuvenated and soldiers must be much better trained - something which should have been easy with the already militant nature of the desert dwellers. But incompetent leadership, it would seem, creates difficulty in even the most simple of tasks. In the short term, Al'Homam wishes to gather around him an ardently loyal group of comrades who are skilled and capable people with influence. As a man of great influence, it will be very difficult to find those who truly wish to follow him towards a greater Sultanate, or simply want to hang on to him for their own gain. Al'Homam fears being out-witted in court and on the battlefield. He takes great pride in his capabilities and defeat would injure his self-esteem and confidence greatly. Moreover, Al'Homam fears leading an unfulfilled life, leaving the world just as miserable a place as it was when he entered it. He is a man with purpose and a man of destiny. For better or worse, he must leave his print.[/i][/indent] 【[U]Skills[/U]】 [indent][i]As would be expected of man of his standing, Al'Homam is a masterful horse-rider and knows his way around a shamshir and bow, though his skill with sword and bow are rather lacking. Al'Homam's forte is in strategy and tactics. He may not be the most inspiring or charismatic of leaders, but he certainly has a knack for leading men to victory with his understanding of these things. In the tradition of any proud tribesman, Al'Homam is a capable poet, able to regale guests with poems he has memorised and with those of his own creation. Al'Homam is a capable reader, his training in strategy and tactics saw him read many books by desert dweller scholars of the past, as well as translated works. His writing was initially rather adequate and he preferred to employ a scribe for any official documents or letters. However, years as a Vizier have ensured that he has had a great amount of time to write many documents and letters better left unknown to any scribe, and along with his habit of writing poetry, his writing has naturally improved.[/i][/indent] 【[U]Martial prowess[/U]】 [indent][i]Al'Homam has very limited martial prowess. Certainly, he knows how to lift a shield and swing a sword and has pretty good strength and speed, but he has very little training and cannot take on anyone with an ounce of training and skill in a one-to-one duel for any extended period of time. Luckily, battles are generally a mess of stabbing anyone in your way, and more recently, he has not needed to get into battle at all - he leads from the back, for he is an Emir![/i][/indent] 【[U]Combat style[/U]】 [indent][i]Stay behind your shield, swing your sword and keep swinging it, and eventually it will hit somewhere critical. Probably.[/i][/indent] 【[U]Weaponry[/U]】 [indent][i]See appearance description.[/i][/indent] 【[U]Armor[/U]】 [indent][i]See appearance description.[/i][/indent][/indent] [/hider]